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List of workshops in chronological order...
Healing from Codependency: A Journey Home to the Self
Friday November 1, 2019
9:00am - 12:15pm
3 contact hours total:
- 3 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS)
Codependency is referred to as the "core addiction of all addictions", therefore, it is not something you just heal from in an instant and are forever done with. You can, however, learn to recover and create a new relationship with yourself and others that empowers and honors the authentic YOU. One of the keys to overcoming codependency is learning where to let go and when to step into your power. Come find out more ways to love YOU and help your clients.
Objectives:
- Participants will understand what codependency is, its history and methods of treatment to free our clients and ourselves from this debilitating dis-ease.
- How codependency affects relationships plus a healthy relationship model will be covered.
- Ways to get to the core wounds and create a healthy sense of self are addressed.
- A psycho-spiritual model will be shared that gets to the core issues such as shame, fear, empowerment and self-love (or lack of these) and how to work with these in clients.
- Pathways to identifying and healing ourselves and our clients from this “compulsive behavior” will be explored and participants will leave with ideas on how to do this with their clients.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Dr. Shannon South
Recommended reading: Melody Beattie: The Language of Letting Go
HIV and Hepatitis C Counseling for Substance Use
Tuesday November 12, 2019
9:00am-12:15pm
3 credit hours total:
- 3 NBCC approved credit hours
- 3 NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and blood borne pathogens (HIV)
HIV and Hepatitis C Counseling in Substance Use will cover the basics of understanding how both communicable diseases present, their symptoms, prevention, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, treatment, and referral.
Objectives:
- Understand the basics of HIV and Hep C as communicable diseases, how they are transmitted and how they are linked to substance use.
- Develop an understanding and applicable skills for prevention, screening, pre- and post-test counseling, treatment, and referral.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: The Book of Hepatitis C: 7 Simple Strategies to Shift From Surviving to Thriving
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling
Tuesday November 12, 2019
1:00pm -5:15pm
4 credit hours total:
- 4 NBCC approved credit hours
- 4 NCSAPPB approved credit hours of substance use specific (SS) & evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Motivational Interviewing and Enhancement Counseling will identify, define, and develop skills based on the 4 principle skills of OARS: open-ended questions, affirmation, reflection, and summarizing. We’ll then move to learn skills for supporting self-efficacy, rolling with the resistance, developing discrepancy, and expressing empathy. Lastly, we’ll learn and utilize the skills of scaling to identify barriers to accomplishing This workshop will cover both addiction and mental health case studies.
OBJECTIVES:
- Participants will learn and practice OARS, Scaling, and basic skills of MI.
- Participants will learn and practice expressing empathy, developing discrepancy, rolling with client resistance, and avoiding direct confrontation
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change, 3rd Edition
Understanding Attachment and Using Trauma Informed Interventions to Treat Mental Health and Substance Use
Tuesday December 10, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 credit hours total:
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
This training will draw from the bestseller book by Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC, Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan. If you want to quickly learn, understand, and treat attachment disorders, of clients at any age, this is the book to learn from! We'll begin with defining attachment and how brain science helps us understand the importance of attachment, attachment styles, the role trauma plays in attachment, and how to begin healing it.
Dr. Reese begins with "Attachment in Utero" and moves to "Attachment in Infancy" and on to childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle life, later life, and death and dying. We will look at attachment and diagnosis, including discussion of adoption and foster care. Lastly, we'll explore attachment and the therapeutic relationship, "role model and cheerleader". Dr Reese's book is filled with case studies to bring attachment and it's healing treatment to therapeutic life.
PURCHASE this book ahead of time for use in the workshop and bring it to the training as we will not have a powerpoint handout!
Attachment: 60 Trauma-Informed Assessment and Treatment Interventions Across the Lifespan
Peter Levine states, "Trauma is not who you are, it is what happened to you without an empathic witness." Having a secure attachment with a safe person is that empathic witness. You as a counselor may become that empathic witness as well as others in the client's life.
Objectives:
1. Develop and understanding of attachment across the lifespan through social and neuroscience and how it may be treated if healthy attachment was absent or lacking.
2. Identify symptoms of poor or no healthy attachment and how to treat it both as a counselor, in the client's family, and community.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
2020
Advanced Trauma Informed Care Skills
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence-based treatment (EBT)
Description:
Advanced Trauma Informed Care Skills will begin with learning and understanding the neuroscience of trauma and how it affects the brain and the body using the 3 part brain psycho-ed skills and explanation of the stored trauma responses of fight, flight, and freeze. We will move to learning and practicing 8-10 emotional regulation skills to teach and utilize with clients. Emotional regulation is essential in supporting both the client struggling with trauma in mental illness and substance use.
Objectives:
- Develop and working knowledge of the neuroscience behind trauma and how to impart the 3 part brain model and the immediate and ongoing responses to trauma of fight, flight, and freeze.
- Learn and integrate 8-10 emotional regulation skills
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: The Body Keeps the Score
Ethics in Mental Health and Substance Use Treatment
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
1:00pm - 5:30pm
4 credit hours total:
- 4 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved credit hours of substance use specific (SS) & ethics (ETHICS)
Description:
If you’ve had “Ethics” workshops before, you know how boring they can be…. Well, this one is definitely far from boring! Ethics will be specific to both mental health and substance use. Participants will explore the gray areas of ethics and submit their own past and present ethical dilemmas for the group to examine and share their feedback. Case studies will support developing a clear and concise strategy for holding professional ethics and confidentiality as well as making decisions about how to address infractions. We will draw from NCSAPPB, NASW, and ACA ethical standards and how licenses in more than one discipline will impact your practice. We’ll look at current trends in ethics violations and where ethics meet NC Mental Health Law.
Objectives:
- Identify most commonly breached ethics.
- Share and resolve real-time ethical concerns as brought forth by workshop participants.
- Learn and develop a plan for addressing ethical concerns you may encounter as well as how to support fellow co-workers and supervisees in addressing them.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended Reading: Counseling Ethics for the 21st Century
The Gifts of Giving: Forms of Compassion Fatigue and Alternative Outcomes for Helpers
Friday February 28, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- 6 hours NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and psychopathology (PSY)
We all know burnout…probably a bit too well. What we may not know are its many faces, or the numerous factors contributing to its onset. Caregiving professionals are vulnerable to a spectrum of burnout syndromes including vicarious traumatization, compassion fatigue, and secondary traumatic stress. Outcomes can be pretty dire: substance use, PTSD, impairment, stigma, loss of career, isolation, unethical decision-making, and hopelessness.
Mental health professionals could be regarded as an underserved population, if we weren’t so busy caring for highly vulnerable people! Considering the lack of research and prevention resources available, and the low priority employers sometimes place on staff wellness, the potential for suffering is great among human service professionals.
When serving individuals who have addictions, watching one more relapse can be disheartening. It can make us feel like our work is going nowhere. It’s hard to show up for clients and families in their most vulnerable state, when we often do not get to see how the story ends.
Yet we are resilient and powerful! Our experience of the helping professions doesn’t have to be this way. This talk will outline symptoms of four burnout syndromes, provide reflection time with prompts for self-exploration, and a collaborative brainstorm session to apply as individuals and organizations. Finally, a discussion of compassion satisfaction and post-traumatic growth will foster hope, positivity, and a sense of community. Come take some space for yourself and the workplaces that make your amazing work possible.
The objectives of this workshop:
- Practitioners will gain knowledge of four types of caregiver burnout.
- Practitioners will increase awareness of burnout syndromes in themselves, their coworkers, and the organizations in which they work.
- Practitioners will collaborate with colleagues to innovate ideas for individual and organizational caretaking.
- Practitioners will reconnect to their professional motivations and empowerment to enact positive initiatives in the workplace.
Snacks, coffee, tea, and water served!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Ginelle Krummey, MA, LPCA, NCC
Recommended reading: Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Clinical Supervision I
Tuesday April 14, 2020
7.5 contact hours total:
8:30am - 5:00pm
- 7.5 NBCC credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and clinical supervision specific (CSS)
Description:
We will focus on SAMHSA's "TIP 52: Clinical Supervision and Professional Development of the Substance Use Counselor." We’ll cover both substance use and general mental health clinical supervision and move directly into forms offered in the TIP such as Informed Consent, Sample Policy on Substance Use in in the Workplace, Supervision Contract, Initial Supervision Session Checklist, Risk Management Review for Supervisees, Counselor Evaluation of Supervisor, Counselor Competency Assessment, Individual Counselor Development Plan, Outline for Case Presentation/Conceptualization, and Consent for Audio/Video Recording.
We’ll explore some basic skills, sensitizing us to the beginning substance use counselor all the way to challenging the more experienced counselor. We’ll be following David Powell’s “Blended Model of Clinical Supervision” that draws on evidenced based supervision as well as a more advanced clinical supervision called “Contemplative Clinical Supervision”.
We will spend a full 7.5 hours of face to face (1/2 of the requirement for NCSAPPB CCS Renewal) with interactive exploration of your personal style as well as the “nuts and bolts” of enhancing your existing supervision practice or begin a new practice. We’ll complete the workshop with a look at the benefits of “Contemplative Clinical Supervision”. Lots of practice time so you leave with integrated skills.
***If you are seeking your LCAS, the new NCSAPPB requirement of 6 CEUs for clinical supervision hours will be met by this workshop. Case studies will include both substance use and mental health.
Objectives:
- Participants will develop basic and advanced skills in clinical supervision substance use and mental health.
- Participants will develop a user friendly relationship with the basic forms needed to support a new or existing clinical supervision practice.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Clinical Supervision Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling by David Powell
Clinical Supervision II
Tuesday May 12, 2020
8:30am - 5:00pm
7.5 contact hours total:
- NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved 7.5 hours, clinical supervision specific (CSS), including 3 hours of (ETHICS).
Description:
We’ll look at ethics of clinical supervision more closely as defined by the American Counseling Association, National Association of Social Workers, and NCSAPPB. In small groups, we’ll identify ethical dilemmas participants have experienced as both a counselor and as a clinical supervisor.
This training will re-examine the use of case presentation and case study, targeting the barriers to treatment and working with client “resistance”. We’ll also examine the difference between the roles of administrative supervision vs. clinical supervision and if a participant has responsibility for both, how to provide a true informed consent when in each role.
This advanced clin sup training will also redefine the old authoritative role of clinical supervision with a new role of collaboration and mutual support leading to a co-vision of shared responsibility for the guidance of the counselor-client relationship.
Last but not least, we’ll define David Powell’s model of contemplative clinical supervision in SA and MH, discussing and integrating those skills.
Objectives:
- Explore ethics in relationship to clinical supervision.
- Revive the skills of case presentation and study to support the in-depth look at targeting barriers to client treatment and client “resistance”.
- Redefine authoritative roles of the clinical supervisor, moving to the development of a co-vision of shared responsibility for the guidance of the counselor-client relationship.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison, LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Clinical Supervision Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling by David Powell
Seeking Safety: A Treatment for PTSD and Substance Use
Tuesday, June 9, 2020
9:00am - 4:30pm
6 contact hours total:
- 6 NBCC approved credit hours
- NCSAPPB approved substance use specific (SS) and evidence based practice (EBP)
Description:
Seeking Safety is an evidenced based treatment curriculum that addresses both PTSD (trauma) and substance use disorder. It may be utilized in both individual and group therapy. Seeking Safety is a very user-friendly curriculum that supports the development of skills for emotional regulation, life skills, and recovery from trauma and substance use disorder. Come join us as we learn the foundational theory, curriculum structure, and how to facilitate a Seeking Safety group. We encourage purchasing the Seeking Safety book ahead of time to bring with you if you plan on facilitating the group in your agency. It has a limited copyright, allowing the facilitator to make copies of class materials for clients.
Objective:
- Develop an understanding of how PTSD contributes to substance abuse and how basic CBT can support emotional regulation, better decision-making, and more positive outcomes in the clients you treat with Seeking Safety.
- Participate in the facilitation of a mock Seeking Safety group to learn and develop a comfort with the group structure and process.
Lunch, snacks, coffee, water, and tea are all included!
We look forward to seeing you there!
Presented by Linda Harrison LPCS, CCS, MAC
Recommended reading: Seeking Safety: A Treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse
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"Linda Harrison is a phenomenal trainer. She is real and engaging. I can't wait to learn more from her. John Sanders and the FIRST team provided an excellent environment for workshops. What a great opportunity to learn and to network with other WNC providers." - Attendee 10/13/15
100% refunds are available up to 48 hours before a workshop. 50% refund in the two days prior to the workshop. No refund for cancellations on the day of the workshop or for no-shows.
