Mental + Behavioral Health: 12 Live Events To Keep You On Track
With the new year coming up, now is the time to start planning your 2026 event schedule. And to give you an easy jump on the matter, here are the upcoming live events for the first yearly quarter in an easy to read, simple format. Start utilizing the value of your membership today and check out our upcoming programming — All standard live events are included with our Ignite Membership! Premium content and multi-day events is not included with membership.
Supervising for Sustainability
Thursday, February 5th, 2026 | 12:00pm - 3:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Amie Bryant, LCSW, CAS
Mental health professionals are increasingly asked to provide trauma-informed care in the face of escalating demands, complex client needs, and systemic challenges. Clinical supervisors hold a unique responsibility: to ensure supervisees develop competence in trauma-informed practice while also fostering resilience and sustainability in their professional lives. Without intentional attention to trauma stewardship, both supervisees and supervisors risk compassion fatigue, secondary traumatic stress, and burnout. This training integrates trauma-informed supervision with the principles of trauma stewardship to equip supervisors with strategies to sustain themselves and those they guide. Participants will explore how to engage in reflective supervision, address vicarious trauma, and cultivate a supervisory culture that emphasizes sustainability, growth, and ethical care. Using case examples, interactive discussion, and applied strategies, attendees will leave with concrete tools to strengthen their supervision practice while stewarding their own well-being.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Lifelong Impact of Early Adversity and How to Buffer That Impact
Friday, February 6th, 2026 | 12:00pm - 3:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Donna Lucero, MA, LPCC, NCC
This workshop will explore and define trauma and the impact of childhood trauma/adversity. We will explore the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study and how the research originated as well as the finding of the study and the linkage between adversity in childhood and the range of vulnerabilities into adulthood to include physical health, behavioral health, academic success, and overall wellbeing. Research data also shows that, although ACEs cross all economic and racial categories, there is a higher prevalence of ACEs in communities of color, underrepresented communities and people with lower economic resources. Participants will explore possible connections between adversity compensatory behaviors to relieve the stress which create health vulnerabilities.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Tools
Thursday, February 12th, 2026 | 1:00pm - 4:15pmUS Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Daphne Fatter, PhD
Learning how to navigate clients’ emotional window of tolerance to support stabilization are key factors in responding to clients in acute distress. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the impact of traumatic stress on the brain in tangible ways to help clinicians better conceptualize how trauma alters the body’s arousal system. Factors that support resilience will be reviewed. Dr. Fatter will discuss in detail symptoms of hyper-arousal, and hypo-arousal states of the autonomic nervous system. This will help clinicians know signs of what state clients are in and help clinicians be able to educate clients about their nervous system. Coping skills for hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal will be demonstrated to provide clinicians with practical tools to serve their clients. This webinar will also address adjunctive therapies to help support stabilization. There will be opportunities for participants to experience and practice some of these tools themselves. This presentation will be interactive and experiential. Clinicians at any stage of their career will benefit from this webinar.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Reclaiming the Body: Nervous System Informed Somatic Healing for Sexual Compulsivity
Friday, February 13th, 2026 | 10:00am - 5:00pm US Eastern Time | Up to 6 CE Credit Hours Available
Presenter: Christine Baker, PhD, LPC-S, CSAT
Delivered as two consecutive sessions, the training provides foundational education on the nervous system’s role in trauma and sexual compulsivity, alongside practical skills for nervous system regulation. Participants will learn grounding, orienting, and tracking techniques to help clients reduce time spent in hyper- or hypoarousal and restore a sense of safety in the body.
Building on this foundation, the training applies advanced somatic processing techniques—including pendulation and titration—directly to sex addiction treatment and the CSAT task model. Through experiential practice, clinicians will explore how sexually compulsive behaviors reflect stuck protective responses and learn strategies for supporting both client regulation and their own nervous system sustainability. Participants will leave with immediately applicable tools to integrate nervous system–informed care into their clinical work.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Conference for Clinical Foundations: Ethics, Risk, & Duty of Care in 2026
February 18 – 20, 2026 | 11 Sessions | Up to 17 CE Credit Hours Available
Presenters: Frederic G. Reamer, PhD, Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W., Livia Adia Budrys, AM, LCSW, C-IAYT, SEP, Lauren Dennelly, PhD. LCSW, Pamela Harmell, PhD, Brandon Jones, MA, Meagan Jones PhD, Francisca F. Mix, MA, LPC, ACS, BC-DMT, Brittany Nwachuku, LCSW, LISW-S, Sophie Nathenson, Ph.D.
Each session is designed to meet you where you are combining ethical frameworks, legal awareness, and practical guidance you can apply immediately. You’ll leave better equipped to protect your clients, your practice, and yourself, while earning meaningful continuing education credits. If you’re looking for continuing education that goes beyond checking a box and actually strengthens your practice, the Conference for Clinical Foundations delivers the confidence and clarity you need to move forward.
Featured keynote:
A centerpiece of the conference is the keynote “Confidentiality & the Duty to Protect” presented by Kathryn Krase, PhD, JD, MSW, an expert in ethics, confidentiality, and mandated reporting. Her insight brings clarity to some of the most challenging and high risk decisions clinicians face today.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Motivational Interviewing: Intermediate Skills
Saturday, February 21st, 2026 | 11:00am - 2:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Christie Turner, NCC, LCADC, LPCC-S, CCS
How can we help our clients make positive changes in their behaviors--without nagging, shaming, persuading, or arguing? Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an evidence-based therapeutic approach that can help individuals change behaviors they might feel ambivalent about, such as quitting or reducing alcohol and drug use, adopting safer sex practices, taking medications, using new coping skills, and so much more! In this presentation, participants will build upon their existing Motivational Interviewing skills through revisiting and exploring 12 MI strategies and techniques that are used to help clients change. In addition, participants will learn how to effectively handle client discord and MI roadblocks they may encounter. Learners will also be given an MI self-assessment tool they can use to ensure they are practicing with fidelity to the model.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Making the Decision to Report Suspected Child Maltreatment: Updated NYS Mandated Reporter Training 2026
Wednesday, February 25, 2026 | 11:00am - 1:00pm US Eastern Time | 2 CE Credit Hours
Alternate date: Thursday, March 19, 2026 | 7:00pm - 9:00pm US Eastern Time | 2 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W.
Many professionals throughout the United States are mandated reporters of suspected child maltreatment. However, the legal requirement to report is often confusing to navigate in relation to our other professional and ethical responsibilities. This workshop provides profession-based context to the role of mandated reporter where professionals are charged with knowing how to support their clients and when they are required to report a concern to child protective services. Mandated reporters will learn a framework to guide the decision to make this “tough call” using research findings and practical advice based on real case examples.
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) has amended Section 413 of the Social Services Law to require training on recognizing abuse or neglect in children with intellectual or developmental disabilities. As a result, all mandated reporters are now required to complete an updated training workshop by November 17, 2026. This training meets the updated New York State standards.
This educational activity is intended for an interprofessional audience of healthcare providers, including psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT's, dentists, nurses, medical doctors, optometrists, and athletic trainers.
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Simultaneous Treatment of Eating Disorders and Substance Use Disorders
Friday, February 27th, 2026 | 11:00am - 1:00pm US Eastern Time | 2 CE Credit Hours
Presenters: Samantha Kavaliunas, LCSW, CADC, CCTP, Camille Williams, LCPC, CEDS-C
Eating disorders and substance use disorders are often treated in silos. Providers, treatment centers, and treatment modalities are often separated for these two types of disorders. For many clients who struggle with both, this can result in a very frustrating experience of seeing improvement in goals with one disorder while getting significantly worse with the other. This presentation will provide an overview of eating disorders and substance use disorders. Additionally, the presentation will address the need to assess for and treat these disorders simultaneously rather than separately. It may feel like a big task and we hope this presentation will help clinicians feel more empowered and competent in working with all aspects of a client's experience.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
MISSdiagnosed MISSunderstood: Navigating the Complexities and Ethics of Supporting Women With ADHD
Saturday, February 28, 2026 | 11:00am - 2:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Christina Marsack-Topolewski, Ph.D., LMSW
The number of women diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder ADHD continues to increase. Living with ADHD can impact all facets of life, including employment, finances, education, motherhood, and other relationships. In addition, for women navigating life with ADHD this can be further challenged by the presence of other co-occurring conditions. This webinar training will discuss a framework to understand the unique complexities and journeys that women with ADHD often encounter. Ethical considerations, interventions, strategies, and resources to support women with ADHD and their loved ones will be discussed.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2026 | 12:00pm - 3:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: LCSW, RDDP, CADC
In a time of unprecedented crises—climate grief, economic uncertainty, political division, and spiritual disconnection—psychotherapy must do more than deliver techniques. It must become a space for collective unlearning.
This highly experiential gathering invites clinicians to shed the inherited norms of clinical detachment, performance, and premature certainty. Instead of adding more tools to an already overcrowded toolbox, we will explore what it means to release what no longer serves us in psychotherapy: the need to fix, the illusion of objectivity, and the pressure to know.
Through an integrative, experiential framework grounded in developmental psychology, somatic healing, embodied cultural awareness, and expanded models of consciousness, participants will engage in practices that challenge dominant norms, foster relational integrity, and support their own evolution alongside their clients.
This is not a seminar to help you do more. It’s an invitation to integrate our humanity back into our therapy practice: present, curious, and alive in the face of a rapidly changing world. Together we will make space for uncertainty, complexity, and the kind of healing that emerges when we stop pretending to already know.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
CBT Foundations Series (3/4, 3/11, 3/18 & 3/25)
Wednesdays in March, 2026 | 11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time | Up to 12 CE Credit Hours Available
Presenter: John Ludgate, Ph.D.
The CBT Foundations Series is a four-part training designed to strengthen clinicians’ understanding and application of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy from the ground up. Rather than focusing solely on techniques, this series emphasizes the theoretical model, core competencies, and clinical decision-making processes that support effective CBT practice across settings and populations.
Beginning with the historical development and evidence base of CBT, participants will gain a clear understanding of the model and its key principles. The series then explores the essential therapist competencies—such as collaboration, session structure, and guided discovery—that research has shown to significantly impact treatment outcomes. Building on this foundation, learners will develop skills in CBT case conceptualization and treatment planning, with attention to client motivation for change and the thoughtful introduction of interventions. The final session focuses on the practical application of well-established CBT strategies, addressing common challenges in implementation and offering solutions to support effective clinical use.
Together, these sessions provide a cohesive learning experience that integrates theory, research, and practice. By the end of the series, participants will be better equipped to apply CBT in a structured, intentional, and clinically effective manner.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.
Welcome to the 21st Century: Ethical Integration of AI Technologies Into Professional Mental Health Practice
Friday, March 27, 2026 | 11:00am - 2:15pm US Eastern Time | 3 CE Credit Hours
Presenter: Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., M.S.W.
For skeptics and believers alike, this session will uncover artificial intelligence tools for use in support of professional mental health practice. Systems designed for administrative support, record management, diagnostic recommendations, treatment provision, and more will be explored. Special attention will be paid to evaluating the ethical implication of the use of AI into different aspects of mental health practice.
This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.