- Presenter: Bryn Bamber
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
If you want to increase your effectiveness as a therapist by adding advanced somatic techniques to your skill set, join us!
You’ll learn somatic techniques:
- For anxious clients
- For working with burnout
- That helping clients creating healthier boundaries
Bryn Bamber lived for years as a sensitive perfectionist with anxiety coursing through her veins and through finding the somatic work of Core Energetics she began to find the root cause of why she’s so anxious and take steps to drastically reduce her suffering.
She works with artists, healers and entrepreneurs in her private Core Energetics practice and runs the Advanced Somatics Certification for therapists and other mental health professionals and is a member of the faculty of the Montreal Institute of Core Energetics.
- Presenter: Lisa Feinberg & Jordan Stone
- Language: english
- Location: online
As a follow-up to the highly interactive webinar on your professional obligations when opening a new practice, we will be hosting another webinar on the topic, this time in a Q&A format. This session should be attended by those who missed the first webinar, as well as by those who attended the webinar but want to dive deeper into the issues raised. In this live Q&A webinar, professional regulation and workplace lawyers Lisa Feinberg and Jordan Stone will answer audience members’ questions on how to handle professional and ethical challenges that may arise when deciding to open up your own practice.
Questions may pertain to a range of professional issues, including those relating to licensing, conflict of interest, confidentiality, transfer of clients and files, advertising, insurance, and billing.
Lisa Feinberg is a professional regulation and workplace lawyer with GlickLaw. She acts as an advisor and advocate for professionals, drawing upon her wide-ranging experiences as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and adjudicator. She regularly appears before administrative tribunals and courts on professional discipline, human rights, and employment matters.
Jordan Stone is a lawyer at GlickLaw with a practice focused on professional regulation. Jordan helps professionals navigate legal issues with their regulator, such as complaints, discipline, and registration. Jordan is routinely retained by regulators and uses this knowledge and experience to help his professional clients maintain and protect their professional license.
- Presenter: Stephen Schettini
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
It seems we’re all overwhelmed these days. It’s not just a feeling—it’s a torrent of feelings. It’s also a triggered reaction that can be understood and changed. In this session Stephen will explain how to see your reactivity with detachment & self-compassion, how to understand the forces that have shaped you and how to live with greater joy and purpose.
Stephen Schettini is a former Buddhist monk known for his extraordinary spiritual journey and the timeless teachings he developed following eight years of the monastic practice with the Dalai Lama and his monks. Schettini’s insights and experiences continue to inspire, and he shares his insights through his writings, his three-times-a-week classes, Mindfulness Live, and his public talks. Stephen is a TEDx speaker, author, mentor and teacher of forty years.
Publications/Books:
1. The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I quit & What I learned (ISBN: 978-1608320059)
2. It Begins with Silence: The Art of Mindful Reflection (ISBN: 979-8507202096)
3. The Naked Monk: Beyond Buddhism (BLOG: thenakedmonk.com)
- Presenter: Prof. Dr. Karina Ochis Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Chances are Gen Z baffles you. Whether you are their therapist, supervisor or parent or whether you need to better support the parents of Gen Z-ers, this generation presents a unique set of needs for which most of us were not prepared.
The webinar takes a more in-depth look at your relationship with Gen Z individuals in 3 main parts:
1. Gen Z clients
2. Gen Z supervises
3. Parenting Gen Z
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will learn:
• The characteristics of Gen Z
• Tools to use with Gen Z clients
• Mechanisms for integrative therapy to engage the multiple senses of Gen Z.
• The pillars of building a strong relationship with Gen Z supervisees.
• Power dynamics when parenting Gen Z.
The webinar will include case studies. It will advocate a shift from
Prof. Dr. Karina Ochis Ph.D., is the foremost authority on intergenerational relations and Gen Z expert. Karina Ochis is Professor of Leadership and Researcher, Best-selling Author, International Speaker, Executive Consultant, Coach and Trainer. Clients in five continents trust Dr. Ochis for Coaching, Speaking and Education services! Prof. Dr. Ochis is an Official Member of Forbes Coaches Council.
- Presenter: Sue Genest
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Have you always wondered what EMDR is about? Do clients ask you if you offer EMDR? Come learn about EMDR and what it has to offer in this 1 hour lunch and learn.
This program will offer you an overview of EMDR and how you can learn more. It will answer some of your key questions and help you understand how it is similar and different from the therapy you already provide. A website link will be provided in the workshop to learn more about EMDR research and resources.
Sue Genest, MSc., provides EMDRIA approved EMDR Basic training and involved in EMDR since 2004. Sue has 34 years of experience in the mental health field; Indigenous education; Federal and Provincial corrections; health educator; child worker (Community; hospital); disability care provider; research in mental health and medical faculty. Genest has won numerous awards for her academic work.
- Presenter: Laura Cohen
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
For counsellors who want to integrate nature and mental health, this webinar provides an overview of the benefits of exposure to the natural world as a healing method for various psychological issues and how to implement nature-informed therapy (NIT) into one’s practice.
Many mental health professionals are seeing the benefits of incorporating nature into their practices. Yet, many therapists feel unsure of the logistics around taking clients outside, limiting opportunities for the client. Using proven methods that Nature-Informed Therapy is clinically shown to benefit human physical and emotional well-being, these emerging methods are now being used for treatment of burnout, depression, anxiety, grief and ADHD. NIT is a form of transpersonal psychology that offers creative resources to a wide range of clients including adults and children.
This half-day workshop will be broken down into 3 parts : Firstly, an overview of significant research findings and how to assess a client for NIT as an appropriate approach. Secondly, Laura will guide the audience through a few experiential exercises in nature. Participants are encouraged to step outside for this workshop while Laura guides from a virtual space. Lastly, participants will receive a toolkit of therapeutic interventions to use in their own practice and will get a chance to ask questions at the end.
Feel restored by the benefits that this practice provides you, the clinician, as well as your clients.
Laura Cohen, MA, RCT, CCC (she/her/elle) – As a bilingual Registered Counselling Therapist in Nova Scotia, Laura is a certified Nature-Informed Therapist and partners with nature to help her clients process burnout, cope with stress, anxiety, and career identity. Through her 1-on-1 counselling and group hikes and retreats, she champions the science as well as the intuitive wisdom that creates a foundation for Nature-Informed Therapy. She is also a Parks Prescriptions (PaRX) prescriber and loves sharing the research and psychospiritual aspects of this approach.
Originally from Montreal, she holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Psychology from Concordia University. On her down time, Laura does yoga, ecotherapy retreats and reads tarot.
- Presenter: Lisa Feinberg
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Like all service providers, mental health professionals are required to meet their obligations under human rights legislation when offering services to clients. Generally, mental health professionals are trained to put clients first and are able to adapt their service to their clients’ needs. However, challenging scenarios can come up that may be more difficult to navigate. For example, what do you do if your clinic is not physically accessible for all clients? Are you able to advertise your services to one gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, nationality and so forth? Are you able to refuse clients based on gender, sexual orientation, race, religion, nationality and so forth? What do you do if your client’s mental health issues interferes with their ability to diarize appointments and they repeatedly cancel on you? What about if your client is verbally or even physically abusive to you due to their mental health issue?
In this session, professional regulation and workplace lawyer Lisa Feinberg will review basic human rights principles, including your obligation to accommodate client’s human rights related needs to the point of undue hardship. Ms. Feinberg will then facilitate a discussion about several fact scenarios, applying human rights principles to these scenarios.
Lisa Feinberg is a professional regulation and workplace lawyer with GlickLaw. She acts as an advisor and advocates for professionals, drawing upon her wide-ranging experiences as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and adjudicator. She regularly appears before administrative tribunals and courts on professional discipline, human rights, and employment matters.
- Presenter: Lawrence Murphy
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3.5
This half-day webinar will explore the ethical, practical and clinical considerations in using video with groups and families. Particular attention will be given to strategies and techniques for enhancing engagement and group cohesion.
Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, established in 1994. He received his MA in Counselling Psychology from UBC in 1995. Lawrence delivered 140 webinars to more than 15,000 mental health professionals nationwide during the pandemic. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto.
- Presenter: Jenna Quint
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This program will help improve understanding of intergenerational trauma through a combination of personal narratives and by providing a summary of the latest scientific information pertaining to intergenerational trauma. The program looks at three main topics: background, mechanisms of transmission and healing. Background includes the presenter’s personal connection to intergenerational trauma, the history of the study of intergenerational trauma and animal studies.Mechanisms of transmission discusses epigenetics and learned behaviors in families. Healing discusses modalities that are typically utilized in the healing process, for example IFS and the core language approach.
Jenna Quint is a RSW. She has completed a certi cation in DBT and is a candidate for EMDRIA and IFS Certi cation. Jenna specializes in addictions, mental health, trauma and intergenerational trauma.
- Presenter: Lisa Feinberg
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
INTRODUCTORY – You decide to start your own counselling practice or work as an independent contractor. What do you say to your existing clients? Can you self refer clients? How much notice do you have to give your current employer? What do you do with your records for your clients from your previous practice? How can (and can’t) you advertise your services? What fees can (and can’t) you charge to your clients? What records do you need to keep of your sessions? What do you do if ethical issues arise in your independent private practice? In this interactive presentation, professional regulation and workplace lawyer Lisa Feinberg will engage audience members in a lively discussion on how to handle these and other challenges.
Lisa Feinberg is a professional regulation and workplace lawyer with GlickLaw. She acts as an advisor and advocate for professionals, drawing upon her wide-ranging experiences as a prosecutor, defense counsel, and adjudicator. She regularly appears before administrative tribunals and courts on professional discipline, human rights, and employment matters.
- Presenter: Lori Brown
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Lori Brown has been a teacher, counsellor, and consultant in the public school system for 30 years. She has written dozens of individualized academic and behavior plans for her students using the results of standardized assessments in conjunction with parents, teachers, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists. She spent two years living on the Gwi’chin and Inuvialuit Lands of the Beaufort-Delta while providing trauma-informed consultation to 9 schools from kindergarten to grade 12. The Systematic Research Review used for this presentation was done while a Psy.D. student at CalSouthern University, Irvine, California, USA.
- Presenter: Emily Wasylenko
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will provide an introductory understanding of alternative sex practices (BDSM, Kink,etc.) and alternative relationship structures (polyamory, swinging, open relationships, etc.) as they relate to the counselling setting. We will explore the systemic factors that influence our ideas of sex and relationships, common biases towards these practices, terminology, and how to work with clients who bring these practices and identities to the table, whether it’s what they want to focus on in counselling or simply a part of their identity. You will also learn common pitfalls and traps that therapists unknowingly fall into when addressing these topics with clients. You will walk away feeling more confident in working with clients who engage in these practices as well as knowing when it is appropriate to refer to another professional.
Emily Wasylenko is a practicing Counselling Psychologist and status-quo disruptor. She views the human experience through attachment and systems-oriented lenses. She uses a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, person-centered approach and draws from various intervention modalities in her work with clients. In addition to direct client work, she finds fulfillment in educating.
- Presenter: Dr. Scott Friedman
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 6
The webinar will explore foundational principles of contemporary interpersonal psychodynamic theory and therapy, the role of personality traits in psychodynamic case conceptualization, transference and countertransference, the role of the corrective emotional experience in the therapeutic encounter, and working psychodynamically with difficulties including perfectionism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and the psychotic disorders. The psychodynamic-interpersonal model, the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT), will be discussed as well as client material will be presented to illustrate the model.
Dr. Scott Friedman received his Doctor of Psychology from Hahnemann University. His primary training is in psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has published about transference and the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) method. He serves as academic program coordinator for Walden University’s clinical psychology program and a member of the core faculty.
- Presenter: Doug Allen
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
This half-day workshop will provide the mechanical understanding of somatic work; from breathing to vomiting, freezing to rage to collapse. It will orient the learner toward their own felt sense which will in turn attune them to more accurately identifying what they are seeing in their client. It will provide real and effective techniques for using their somatic knowledge to better understand their clients and facilitate faster and more accurate clinical processing.
1- Mechanics of somatic work and honing your felt sense.
2- Techniques to incorporate somatic work into your practice.
3- How to compliment and amplify success of the most popular conventional approaches with somatic skills.
Doug Allen is 20-year combat Veteran and Founder of the Atlantic Group and Trauma Training Center. He combines his experience with his expertise in the nervous system to deliver training for clinicians and operators working with stress and trauma.
He will soon be publishing “A practitioner’s guide to Nervous System Recalibration” in 2023.
- Presenter: Prof. Dr. Karina Ochis
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Gen Z, the generational group born after 1996, is presently entering the counseling and psychotherapy profession. The Gen Z population is the least engaged in their interpersonal and workforce relationships when compared to the other generational groups. They are also the population that struggles the most with their mental health.
If you have a supervising relationship with a Gen Z, if you want to work with Gen Z clients, or if you are a Gen Z, then this webinar is for you!
The first part of the webinar introduces Gen Z. The second part addresses intergenerational relationships between Gen Z supervisees and their more experienced supervisors. The latter develops a new way of considering roles that eschews the conflictual cycle and enhances fruitful collaboration.
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will learn:
• The characteristics, triggers, dilemmas, expectations, and behaviors of Gen Z.
• The sources of Gen Z disengagement and engagement dimensions.
• Practical mechanisms to best supervise Gen Z and improve the supervisor-supervisee dynamics.
Prof. Dr. Karina Ochis Ph.D., is the foremost authority on intergenerational relations and Gen Z expert. Karina Ochis is Associate Dean, Professor of Leadership and Researcher, Best-selling Author, International Speaker, Executive Consultant, Coach and Trainer. Clients in five continents trust Dr. Ochis for Coaching, Speaking and Education services!
- Presenter: Nancy Blair
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar is designed as an introduction to Pet Loss and Bereavement Counselling. We
start with a brief discussion of the animal-human bond, a recognition of the importance of
beloved pets and a reflection on how much a loss may affect an individual. We touch on the
following topics: the grieving process, shock, denial and disbelief, anger, alienation and
distancing, guilt, depression and resolution (closure), quality of life, euthanasia, final
arrangements, children and the death of a pet, etc. You may be interested in preparing for
this webinar by reading “The Loss of a Pet: A Guide to Coping with the Grieving Process when
a Pet Dies” by Wallace Sife, Ph.D, the Founder of the APLB.
Nancy Blair has been a Pet Loss and Bereavement Counsellor since 2016. She was trained and
certified by the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement Counselling (APLB) https://
www.aplb.org Nancy was the Founding President of the CCPA Animal Assisted Therapy in
Counselling Chapter and had worked with her canine companions, Tyson and now Taurus.
Nancy is presently developing her Climate Psychotherapy Practice.
- Presenter: Marlee Harendorf-Gold
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Sex and love addiction unfortunately continues to be understood stigmatized within our society. Yet, as many struggle with compulsive sexual behaviours and unhealthy relationships, it is imperative to begin breaking down barriers preventing individuals from seeking treatment. Understanding Sex & Love Addiction 101 is an informative and interactive webinar, providing an overview of what sex addiction is, what it is not, how to identify what determines sex addiction, and the difference between sex addiction and sex offending. In addition, this webinar provides an understanding of the etiology of how sex addiction is influenced by trauma, intimacy, and attachment disorders. Lastly, this webinar includes an overview on the role of cybersex and pornography addiction, love and relationship addiction, and betrayal trauma.
Marlee Harendorf-Gold is a registered social worker, certified sex addictions therapist and certified partners trauma therapist with the International Institute for Trauma and Addictions Professionals. Marlee specializes in addictions, mental health and trauma. She is currently working at JACS Toronto as the Behavioural Therapy Manager and is the lead facilitator for the Restoring Intimacy out-patient sex addiction treatment program.
- Presenter: Sivan Tumarkin & James Fireman
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Patients suffering from mental health issues often encounter difficulties with their long-term disability claims. This is an opportunity for you, as mental health professionals, to learn from some of the top disability lawyers in the country on how you can support your patients with their disability claims, and how to deal with requests from insurance companies regarding your patients’ claims.
Some of the topics that will be covered include:
• The current state of the law with respect to mental health issues and long-term disability law
• How disability insurers view and treat mental health claims
• What is the meaning of “total disability” in the context of long-term disability claims
• What, as treating mental health professionals, can you do to support and help your patients with their long-term disability claims
• What documentation and information insurers need (and ask for) from mental health professionals
• What should you do and not do when corresponding with disability insurers on behalf of your patients
• What treatment issues can arise in mental health related disability claims
Sivan Tumarkin is Co-Founder and Co-Managing Partner of Samfiru Tumarkin LLP. James Fireman is National Practice Leader at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP. Both posses significant experience advocating for the rights of individuals with disabilities, especially those with mental health claims. Sivan and James regularly host the Disability Law Show, syndicated on TV and radio across Ontario, BC and Alberta.
- Presenter: Lori Brown
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 4
This webinar provides powerful and insightful information for school counsellors and professionals who work with educators, students, and families in a supportive role.
The objective is to provide an understanding of the effects of trauma on developing children while learning the skills and strategies that lead to student resilience and academic success for students. Specifically, the webinar includes:
1. The basics of the neurobiology of trauma: the brain, neurotransmitters, HPA axis, triggers, mirror neurons.
2. The causes and effects of trauma: statistics, individual differences, changes in brain functions and structure (in terms of teaching and learning).
4. The power of mirror neurons and attachment in the classroom.
5. The concept of emotional tolerance and reframing traumatic events.
6. Peripheral nervous system emotional regulation and cognitive-behavioural strategies.
The presentation is approached with assessments and activities that recognize the unique cultural and school climate features that frame the needs of specific environments.
Lori M. Brown, B.Sc., B.Ed., M.Ed. (Counselling), M.Ed. (Diverse Learners), Psy.D. Lori Brown has been a teacher, counsellor, and consultant in the public school system for 30 years. She has written dozens of individualized academic and behavior plans for her students using the results of standardized assessments in conjunction with parents, teachers, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists. She spent two years living on the Gwi’chin and Inuvialuit Lands of the Beaufort-Delta while providing trauma-informed consultation to 9 schools from kindergarten to grade 12. The Systematic Research Review used for this presentation was done while a Psy.D. student at CalSouthern University, Irvine, California, USA.
- Presenter: Jacqueline Chan
- Language: english
- Location: online
This is a one-hour webinar training with a focus on key concepts and basic practical knowledge for therapists who are exploring online marketing tactics to acquire new customers.
The primary focus will be on paid search (Search Engine Marketing), the most effective and intent-driven media channel. We’ll be discussing key elements when setting up a successful campaign according to your objectives.
- overview of the online marketing funnel
- campaign set-up structure
- keyword traffic estimates
- terminology
- refining targeting
- landing page relevance
Jacqueline Chan – Jacqueline is a founder at Healthily Match and she’s creating a platform to empower therapists to do their best work and get new client referrals.
She has an eight-year career in online advertising, with a specific focus on paid search and paid social media strategies. She has significantly grown Fortune500 client campaigns and is known for testing creative, innovative tactics on client campaigns.
Jacqueline has written for The Toronto Globalist, a student-run international affairs magazine, KevinMD, a top physician-led blog, and The Startup Publication on Medium.
- Presenter: Lauren Van Ewyk
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1.5
This webinar is designed for those who have a range of experience (including no experience working with the rural Canadian population
Farmers experience significant distress as they are navigating an ever changing world that requires increased resiliency. Yet, they are less likely to participate in help-seeking behaviours and are at an increased risk to complete suicide (Sturgeon & Morrisette, 2010). The National Farmer Mental Health Alliance introduces the work of agriculture, the barriers for farmers and their families to accessing mental healthcare, and how to work toward building a therapeutic relationship.
Lauren Van Ewyk is an engaging speaker, registered social worker, foster mom and agricultural mental health advocate. She is a founding partner of the National Farmer Mental Health Alliance (www.nfmha.ca) which was developed after a team of experienced psychotherapists with lived agriculture experience, discussed the unique needs facing the agriculture industry. The challenges of farming and the importance of having access to mental health services and supports tailored to farmers, farm families, and veterinarians was conceptualized into the services that are offered. We seek to help all those involved in the agriculture community thrive.
- Presenter: Doug Allen
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
This workshop will cover the mechanics of the nervous systems, the impact of trauma on communication, the impact of operational training on the nervous systems and the first three Sessions for Success.
Doug Allen is a trauma specialist who other practitioners send their clients to for his specific Nervous System Recalibration techniques. He is a lead facilitator for the Veterans Transition Network, and the Founder of the Atlantic Group and Trauma Training Center, where he offers training in trauma and group process facilitation.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Learn about the impact of grief when you experience it as part of your work. This can include the death of a client or colleague, or a community death that you are involved in through your work. Explore a variety of ways that you can prepare for the possibility that you will experience grief on the job, and identify strategies to help you care for yourself when it happens.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Crystel Figaro
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
This event is not approved for Continuing Education Credits
Today, business owners appreciate the potential of social media to drive awareness, grow an engaged following, promote and grow their businesses. But social media, if not done correctly, becomes a time-consuming liability in terms of the human capital and opportunity cost. This webinar will present 4 very practical steps that you can take today to tap into the power of social media to convert it into a powerful marketing tool that drives real value and grows your client base.
Learnings:
1. Which is better for your business – Facebook or Instagram?
2. 4 Practical steps you can take today to leverage the power of social media including:
a. Optimizing your account to become more visible and discoverable
b. Building an engaged following
c. Leveling up your professional profile
d. Content is king
i. What to post, including hashtags
ii. How often to post
iii. When to post
iv. Differentiating yourself
3. What results should you expect from your social media?
Crystel Figaro opened her own marketing agency, Marketing Made Easy in 2021. Crystel’s mission is to leverage her 20+ years of marketing experience, leading teams within such organizations as Air Canada Vacations and Audiobooks.com, second only to Audible, to provide microbusinesses with practical, free and low-cost marketing resources to drive real growth for their businesses.
- Presenter: Laura Cohen
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
For counsellors who want to integrate nature and mental health, this webinar provides an overview of the healing benefits of exposure to the natural world as a healing method for various psychological issues and how to implement nature-informed therapy (NIT) into one’s practice.
Many mental health professionals are seeing the benefits of incorporating the nature into their practices. Yet, many therapists feel unsure of the logistics around taking clients outside, limiting opportunities for the client. Using proven methods that Nature-Informed Therapy is clinically shown to benefit human physical and emotional well-being, these emerging methods are now being used for treatment of burnout, depression, anxiety, grief and ADHD. NIT is also a resource for helping clients navigate career identity and life purpose. This workshop will introduce NIT practices for clinicians and demonstrate techniques for offering these to a wide range of clients. Participants will receive an overview of significant research findings, learn elements of decolonizing nature therapy and how to assess a client for NIT as an appropriate approach. Furthermore, participants will receive therapeutic interventions to download and use in their own practice. Feel restored by the benefits that these practices provide for you, the clinician, as well as your clients.
.As a bilingual Registered Counselling Therapist in Nova Scotia, Laura is a certified Nature-Informed Therapist with the Centre for Nature Informed Therapy and partners with nature to help her clients process burnout, cope with anxiety, grief, and career identity. Through her 1-on-1 counselling and group hikes and retreats, she champions the science and the earth-based wisdom the create the foundation for Nature-Informed Therapy. She is also a Parks Prescriptions (PaRX) prescriber and loves sharing the benefits and practical tools associated with a nature-based practice.
Originally from Montreal, she holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from McGill University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Communications with a minor in Psychology from Concordia University. In addition to her work as a counsellor, she does training and education for organizations on wellness in the workplace and nature-based counselling for therapists.
- Presenter: David Fraser
- Language: english
- Location: online
Join us at this TISC webinar event!
This webinar will cover:
- New CPPA Laws and what that has to do with counselling
- Relationship between Security, Confidentiality, and Data Privacy
- Potential steps we should all be considering to protect ourselves and our clients
Purchase goes to TISC
David Fraser is well-known as one of Canada’s leading internet, technology and privacy lawyers. He regularly advises a range of clients – from startups to Fortune 100 companies – on all aspects of technology and privacy laws.
- Presenter: Julia Smith
- Language: english
- Location: online
This event is not approved for Continuing Education Credits
In this webinar, you’ll learn about growing our Canadian private practice.
Julia will discuss:
1. Creating a video for your website
2. Hiring a virtual assistant
3. Raising your rates
4. Starting a group private practic
Julia started a private practice in Halifax in 2016 and since 2020, she has transitioned her entire private practice online. She started a private practice because she wanted to be able to counsel clients with therapy approaches that she was passionate about, set her own hours, to be able to support herself financially, and to have a choice on who she counselled. Julia also wanted to provide quality counselling and not work 40 hours plus per week, seeing a lot of clients, and getting burnt out! In 2021, Julia grew her online private practice into a group practice.
She now helps other Canadian therapists who need support and guidance as they start their
own private practices through consulting and her popular Fearless Practice podcast.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Part 1: Reflect on your personal values and goals as you consider how to choose where you will work after graduation. Learn strategies to develop a career focus that is the right fit for you.
Part 2: Reflect on your personal values and goals as you consider how you will stay healthy, energized and centred throughout your career. Learn strategies to develop a personalized self care plan that ensures self-preservation in the earliest days of your career and beyond.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Trevor Lehmann
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Concerned about the climate crisis? So are our clients! Explore how mental health and ecological change impact career decision-making and how we can respond effectively. Learn how to help clients motivated or resistant towards to ecological change through times of transition and towards a more equitable and socially just future. Leave with clear resources to connect clients with career development resources to help them find their place on a changing planet.
Trevor Lehmann (CCC) focuses on helping clients with life transitions including grief and loss, career change, and climate-crisis related emotions. His current work includes:
• Career Consultant (University of Manitoba)
• Co-chair of Advocacy & Community Engagement Committee (CERIC)
• Bereavement Counsellor (Palliative Manitoba)
- Presenter: Wendy Kramer
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Donor conception is becoming substantially more common with the exponential advancements being made in the field of reproductive medicine, and with the wider acceptance in recent decades of LGBTQ families, single-parent families, and women in later reproductive years utilizing donor gametes. The accessibility of commercial DNA testing is also helping to expand these families as many people are finding out by surprise that they are part of a sometimes quite large donor family. Given the greatly increased probability of encountering a client connected to a donor family in their practices accross settings, clinicians must be well-informed about all perspectives in order to best serve people in the donor family constellation. Clinicians will explore in this webinar the unique issues that donor family members might present with regarding their families of origin and with their new donor family relationships. This webinar is intended to be a resource for mental health and medical professionals in any setting, especially for those who are unfamiliar with donor conception. It’s a presentation of evolving ideas, recommendations, and talking points that can be used when counselling anyone in the donor family. Because each stakeholder is deeply connected to the others, understanding all viewpoints is important for a succcessful counselling experience with any parent, egg and sperm donor, or donor-conceived person.
Wendy has co-authored many published papers on donor-conception, has reviewed abstracts for the American Society of Reproductive Medicine and has also been a peer reviewer for the journals Human Reproduction, Reproductive BioMedicine Online, Frontiers in Global Women’s Health, and the Journal of Comparative Effectiveness Research. She was Associate Producer on the Style Network’s 2011 Emmy-nominated show Sperm Donor and on MTV News & Docs 2013 docu-series Generation Cryo.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Learn about the patterns of behaviour that can challenge families during end of life care and in grief, as well as the factors that contribute to these challenges. Explore opportunities to support family members, individually and as a unit, to improve communication, identify patterns and overcome these challenges where possible, or to adjust to the reality when the challenges remain..
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Alice Curitz MA, RCC, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Do you struggle to have difficult conversations in your practice? Do you feel like you have no idea how to address tough topics with colleagues, peers, and clients? Does the thought of having these tough interactions cause you to freeze up and avoid conflict at all costs, even if those costs are your own wellbeing, mental health, and professional integrity?
Join Alice for a one hour lunch and learn workshop as she helps you to learn to navigate these challenging interactions with ease and grace, honouring your own needs and empowering you to tackle these tough conversations head on in ways that reinforce your boundaries, maintain your professionalism and ethical practices, and improve your professional relationships.
Alice Curitz (she/her, MA, RCC CCC) is the Founder and Clinical Director of Our Landing Place Therapy Collective, a collective of LGBTQ2IA+ identified counsellors working with LGBTQ2IA+, Polyamorous and Neurodiverse clients across Canada. Alice has designed and facilitated diversity, equity and inclusivity (DEI) training programs worldwide for almost 15 years. She provides case consultation services to counsellors and other mental health professionals, and offers inclusivity consulting services to practitioners, professionals, educators and organizations worldwide. Alice is grateful to live, work and play on the unceded traditional Epekwitk Mi’kmaq territory.
- Presenter: Jessie Smith
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1.5
Do you have clients who suffer with prolonged concussion symptoms? Do you struggle to
support them? Let me help you help your clients. I am a concussion survivor and a qualified
mindfulness teacher. I found mindfulness to be the balm my injured brain and discombobulated
nervous system so needed. I also found that many traditional mindfulness practices sent me
into overwhelm. Let me share with you the core lessons of the Mindful Concussion approach so
that you can help your clients more skillfully meet the stressors that come with brain injury.
Learn about my Merging Map of Nervous System Concepts, as well as concrete modifications to
mindfulness that can help your clients learn how to Pause, Pivot, and Proceed with what they
need to get themselves back into their window of tolerance, and into some calm clarity.
Jessie Smith is a brain injury survivor and mindfulness teacher. Through a range of educational offerings Jessie helps fellow survivors cultivate calm clarity. Praise from Rick Hanson, renowned psychologist and meditation teacher:”You’re a deep person, Jessie, and I’m really happy you are blossoming into a teaching role yourself.”
- Presenter: Elsa Brais-Dussault D.Psy
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Cette formation offre l’opportunité d’en apprendre davantage sur les concepts de ludification et de ludicisation, et sur leurs applications en éducation psychologique, en évaluation et en intervention clinique. Seront également présentés les concepts de styles de jeux (notamment les jeux vidéo et les jeux de société), l’apprentissage des impacts cliniques de l’utilisation des jeux en intervention, des pistes concrètes d’interventions par les jeux et des suggestions de jeux adaptés pour diverses clientèles (enfants, adolescents, couples, familles, personnes âgées).
Objectifs : Comprendre le concept de ludification et son utilisation dans l’intervention clinique individuelle et de groupes. Connaître les impacts de l’utilisation des jeux sur la santé mentale et sur le bien-être. Explorer des pistes d’évaluations par le jeu pour l’observation clinique et la création de l’alliance thérapeutique. Explorer des pistes d’interventions par le jeu pour l’apprentissage des fonctions exécutives.
Psychologue et “joueuse” impliquée dans la conception et l’évaluation de jeux, Dre Elsa Brais-Dussault D.Psy est fondatrice de LudiPsy; une plateforme offrant des ressources en santé mentale et gamification pour les professionnels de la santé et les utilisateurs de jeux. Ses intérêts portent sur l’intégration des jeux en évaluation et intervention clinique.
- Presenter: Nancy Blair
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Ecological anxiety is not a mental disorder; it is a sign that an individual is aware of and empathetic toward the state of the world. This is a sign of ecological hope in this time of climate crisis. However, mental health challenges may develop when ecological anxiety is not recognized, validated, and dealt with. As we grow in our understanding of ecological anxiety, we may use different terms for this experience – trauma, distress. We will look at research being done in this developing area. During the webinar, there will be time to share what participants are seeing in their clinical work and to discuss clinical approaches to this work
Nancy Blair is a CCC and a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT) in Nova Scotia. She is also an environmentalist and an activist. She was the Founder of the Animal Assisted Therapy in Counselling Chapter of the CCPA. She works within an Ecopsychological Framework and is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA) https://www.climatepsychologyalliance.org
- Presenter: Natalia Braun
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Interconnectedness between dance and Gestalt therapy could be traced back to one of its founders, Laura Perls, and her practice of modern dance, eurhythmics and expressionist dance. This has influenced Gestalt therapy: embodiment plays a great role in it. Equally important are presence, awareness, creativity, improvisation, relationship, and flow: all features Gestalt and dance have in common. In the research at the University of Derby, UK, which was dedicated to the exploration of the influence of dance on embodied self-awareness and well-being using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, Gestalt and its analogies to dance came to light. On the basis of this research, creative interventions rooted in embodiment and indigenous dance practices were developed. In this interactive workshop, we will explore Gestalt therapy, hermeneutic phenomenology, decolonization of clinical work, and dance as an approach for well-being, creative adjustment to stress, depression, loneliness, and the collective desensitizing trauma of the pandemic.
Natalia Braun, MSc, has spent years in the corporate world prior to transitioning into psychology and counselling. She has a Masters in psychology and trained in Gestalt therapy, expressive arts and contemporary psychoanalysis. Natalia is multilingual and works with individuals internationally in her private practice in Switzerland.
- Presenter: Lawrence Murphy
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
We will start the afternoon by talking about the differences between burnout, compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. Next we talk about the brain. There are some things that are hard wired into us. We don’t get a choice. Then we take a break so folks can ask questions. Next we will talk about why being in a pandemic makes things harder for us as helpers. And we will talk about why being online does the same thing. We have another break for questions and then we finish up talking about looking after ourselves. That means ideas for self-care, ways to cope with technology and how to set boundaries in our work lives. We finish with a final question period.
Lawrence Murphy is the founder of Worldwide Therapy Online, the world’s first online clinical practice, which he established in 1994. In collaboration with the National Board for Certified Counselors, he authored the first ethical code for online counselling. Through Therapy Online’s Research Institute, Lawrence and his colleagues publish regularly in the academic literature, including their seminal 1998 work When Writing Helps to Heal: Email as Therapy, which has been cited more than 350 times in the academic literature. Therapy Online delivers two levels of post-graduate training in cybercounselling and licenses software to individuals, agencies and institutions keen to deliver services online. And, since the pandemic began, Mr. Murphy has delivered more than 120 half-day trainings to a total of more than 13,000 mental health professionals across Canada. He is a sought after presenter for conferences and congresses around the globe.
Lawrence received his MA in Counselling Psychology from the University of British Columbia in 1995. He teaches in the Department of Psychology at Wilfrid Laurier University and in the School of Continuing Studies at the University of Toronto.
- Presenter: Maureen McEvoy, M.A., RCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
In this 3-hour webinar, organized by the Quebec Counselling Association and presented by Maureen McEvoy, M.A., RCC, we are going to take a deep dive into dissociation as it is a frequently overlooked and misunderstood responses created as a way to survive traumatic experiences.
We will discuss the neuroscience and the physical response of dissociation, the common indicators and explore some measures to help identify dissociation. We will also focus on in-session interventions when our clients dissociates. Finally, we will look at the manner in which self injurious behaviour is linked to dissociative responses.
Handouts available upon request to [email protected] or [email protected]
Maureen is a Registered Clinical Counsellor and a long standing instructor with the justice institute of BC, where she teaches counsellors’ skills regarding complex trauma. She has written articles and provides clinical consultations for counsellors and counselling agencies. Maureen also has robust training in EMDR including other modalities and focuses on using Imago Relationship Therapy in her practice working with individuals, couples and groups.
- Presenter: Stephanie Larrue
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Comment soutenir les familles recomposées avec les défis d’aujourd’hui ? Les familles recomposées font face à de nombreux défis auxquelles les familles non recomposées ne font pas face et elles éclatent plus souvent que ces dernières. Ce wébinaire décrira les caractéristiques et les défis des familles recomposées, ainsi que leur cycle de vie unique. Les facteurs de risque qui leur sont particuliers seront présentés ainsi que comment soutenir ces familles pour les transcender. Les besoins primordiaux pour ces familles seront expliqués ainsi que les pièges les plus courants. Le rôle de la belle-mère ainsi que celui du couple recomposé seront particulièrement examinés concernant la résilience de la famille recomposée. Finalement, les meilleures pratiques thérapeutiques seront proposées pour soutenir les membres d’une famille recomposée. Il y aura 15 minutes réservées à la fin pour les questions.
Stéphanie Larrue est une psychothérapeute spécialisée en familles recomposées et en psychologie transpersonnelle. Elle enseigne actuellement à l’Université Saint-Paul à Ottawa à l’École de counselling, de psychothérapie, et de spiritualité. Elle y complète sa recherche doctorale, sous la supervision de Dr Laura Armstrong, C.Psych., sur la thérapie pour les familles recomposées et comment la spiritualité et le bien-être jouent un rôle dans la thérapie avec les familles recomposées.
- Presenter: Michelle Greenwell
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 4
Part 1 – BioEnergetic Essentials is a self-care book that is an introduction to simple self-care tools to create ease and calm in our world. With this first gathering we will explore how ease and flow in our personal world can easily be derailed by situations and people who are a part of our web of influence. Together we will explore bioenergetic tools that aid with transforming these encounters. We will explore the power of awareness techniques combined with acupressure points that can create calm, deep breathing, and centering. These tools work well for ourselves, as well as for “homework” for our clients after a session.
Part 2 – Exploring more deeply the tips and tools in BioEnergetic Essentials, we will compare tension and mobility through auditory enhancers, visual connections, foot sensors and simple movement techniques. Our body language can tell us a lot about how we are feeling and where the tension is being held. With these simple techniques we can release the tension and bring awareness to how that makes our thoughts and feelings change.
Part 3 – Color, sound and the 5 Element Wheel from Traditional Chinese Medicine will be explored in this session of exploring BioEnergetic Essentials. Reflections from the topics will include how color in your office and on you can affect both your ability to create atmosphere, and how clients can use color at home to create support for themselves between sessions.
Part 4 – This will be a joy-filled day of playing with the Choose Love Formula: Compassion in Action, Gratitude, Forgiveness and Courage. We will expand our opportunities with color, sound and movement, and introduce the idea of biofeedback with awareness and the body sway. We will finish off the series with time for observations from the experiences over the four weeks of exploring.
***Please note that though touch is discussed, touch between client and a therapist will not be discussed or encouraged, see pages 19-20 of our Standards of Practice for more information on Touch in Counselling***
Michelle’s passion for empowering others with bioenergetic wellness tools are a part of her programs in Tai Chi, Dance and Healing programs. With over 30 years in the wellness industry she has a wealth of knowledge and experience to share in her specialty programs, protocols and community outreach.
***BioEnergetic Essentials is a FREE pdf to share with clients and colleagues. For anyone wishing to have hardcopies available, there is a distributor program available, just reach out to Michelle at [email protected]. To learn more about Michelle you can check out her program information and resources through the links at https://linktr.ee/dancedebut***
- Presenter: Michelle Neustaedter
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Week 1: Good Leaders ask Great Questions. The most powerful way to influence another
person is to ask questions, a certain kind of question and this event is going to bring you a
powerful understanding and skill set to take your coaching conversations to a whole new level
Week 2: Everyone Communicates Few Connect: This event focuses on powerful and proven
techniques that will transform your ability to influence others. If you want to succeed, you must
learn how to connect with people. And while it may seem like some folks are just born with it, the
fact is anyone can learn how to make every communication an opportunity for a powerful
connection.
Week 3: This event is focused on two more of the major components of counselling. What I
would describe as the “fundamentals” for building rapport and creating influence.
Since 2010, I have worked with clients to achieve goals and experience real lasting success.
The success has been built on the ability to really understanding each client’s unique culture,
situation, opportunities, and challenges. I hold a master’s degree in Psychology and am certified
as a counsellor (CCPA), coach (JMT), and trainer (JMT). I have faced many trials in life. Grew a
business from 0 – Thriving and desire to share that with you.
- Presenter: Stephanie Larrue
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
How to support blended families with today’s challenges? Blended families face multilayered issues not faced by non-blended families and their rate of dissolution is higher than that of first time families. This webinar will describe the unique characteristics and challenges of blended families as well as their lifecycle. Particular risk factors to be aware of will be presented and how to support family blended family members in transcending these. Overarching needs to be addressed with these types of families will be explained as well as how to work with common pitfalls. The role of the stepmother and that of the stepcouple in supporting resilience in the blended family will also be examined. And finally, best practices in therapy to help blended families will complete this webinar. 15 minutes at the end will be reserved for questions.
Stephanie Larrue is a practicing psychotherapist specialised in blended families and transpersonal psychology. She currently teaches at Saint-Paul University in the School of Counselling, Psychotherapy and Spirituality and is currently finishing her PhD. research, under the supervision of Dr. Laura Armstrong, C.Psych., on therapy for blended families and on how spirituality and wellbeing play a role in blended family therapy.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Participants will explore and understand different types of challenging behaviours in session. Strategies will be introduced for holding difficult conversations, de-escalating anxiety, reducing aggressive behaviour, managing passive-aggression and navigating resolution in such situations
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Participants will learn the basics about suicide prevention and intervention, including definitions and current theory. Strategies for supporting people who are thinking about suicide will be introduced, with the opportunity to explore practical applications through experiential activities.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Amanda Lamb
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Understanding behaviours, child development and how caregivers can help keep
kids on track. Using a developmental model to understand why youth struggle with mental
health and addictive behaviours, this webinar offers a new perspective on what is going on for
our kids and how the adults in their lives can best support their mental wellness.
This webinar is relevant for parents, educators and anyone who works with children and/or their
families.
Amanda Lamb began her career at Pine River in 2010 and brought with her a strong passion for working with youth and their families to support positive communication and relationships. Through her time at Pine River, she has worked with countless families that struggle with mental health and addictions, first as a Youth Counsellor and then as the Aftercare Coordinator.
As the new Director of the Centre for Family Initiatives, Amanda brings a deep commitment to the well-being of youth and their families through empathy, acceptance and compassion. She is experienced in working with families who find themselves in crisis as well as with those that are just starting to explore the field of mental health. Amanda hopes that by educating and supporting families early on, they can foster greater resilience and sustain their mental wellness through difficult life transitions and the challenges we all face.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Participants will learn the basics about using writing as a tool for processing grief and trauma, including current theory. Information about the risks of writing to heal grief and trauma as well as how to mitigate the risks will be introduced. Participants will be invited to engage in experiential activities to explore some specific techniques everyone can use.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Nancy Blair
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Nancy presents an overview of what ecological grief is and also provides suggestions on how to
work with clients experiencing this type of grief. The following topics are covered: recognizing
ecological grief and how ecological grief is similar to and differs from other types of grief; the
language of ecological grief; the need to mourn; the transformation energy of ecological grief;
nature as ally; working with clients who have struggled with finding a safe place to talk about
their ecological grief; finding and growing hope.
We look at the advantages and challenges of individual counselling and support groups in this
work and there is opportunity to share experiences. Individuals suffering ecological grief can
easily fall in despair; they may experience anxiety, depression, and/or fear. This workshop is the
first of Nancy’s “Ecological Hope” series.
Nancy Blair is a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) and a Registered Counselling Therapist (RCT)
in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, She is a long-time environmentalist and activist. She works within a
Ecopsychological framework and is a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (International).
Nancy founded the Animal Assisted Therapy in Counselling Chapter of the CCPA and is a certified
Pet Loss and Bereavement Counsellor
- Presenter: Eileen Bona
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will help professional mental health therapists understand all facets to consider when asked to write letters for people to have their pet as an emotional support animal. It will discuss the tenets to be considered from the perspective of the client, the animal and the public.
Owner and founder of Dreamcatcher Nature Assisted Therapy, practicing therapist for more than 20 years, specialize in working with people with complex needs and utilize a variety of mediums of therapy including animal and nature assisted therapy. Designed and taught the first English speaking College course in Canada in animal assisted interventions (AAI) and developed courses and certification process in Animal Assisted Wellness (AAW) in partnership with Lakeland College, the first college-accredited certification in AAW in English in Canada.
- Presenter: Dr. Pavna K. Sodhi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Now more than ever, Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities are experiencing diverse forms of racism and trauma within our society. As practitioners shift from being culturally competent to antiracist and trauma-informed practitioners, how can we help BIPOC clients navigate oppressive systems? How can we be more intentional with our clients, validate their emotions, and hold space for their lived experiences? This webinar offers insight concerning decolonizing psychotherapeutic practices. Additionally, a framework about antiracist and trauma-informed approaches specifically for BIPOC clients will be discussed.
With over 20 years of psychotherapeutic and research experience, Pavna K. Sodhi, EdD, has interacted with a multitude of populations in both clinical and academic spaces. Her professional background and personal narrative offer a unique research perspective regarding Black, Indigenous, and People of Colour (BIPOC) communities, culturally responsive trauma work, and immigrant mental health concerns. In 2017, she wrote, Exploring Immigrant and Sexual Minority Mental Health: Reconsidering Multiculturalism (Routledge). Content of her book is supported by first- and second-generation narratives, who share their experiences of migration, trauma, overt/covert racism, identity formation, and mental health concerns. She is currently authoring a book regarding culturally responsive trauma-informed practices.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Participants will learn about the experience of suicide loss, including definitions and current theory. Strategies for supporting people bereaved by suicide will be introduced, with the opportunity to explore practical applications when working with grievers.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Meg Kapil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Part One: Adult Regulation First
Part Two: Collaborative Recovery and Healthy Habits Over Time
This interactive presentation will explore an integrative clinical framework that supports children as well as the adults in their lives to regulate stress and anxiety. This framework incorporates current neuroscience, interpersonal neurobiology, developmental information, and a combination of cognitive, emotional, relational and physiological regulation strategies. The presentation will explore three main points of focus for addressing the regulation of stress and anxiety in the context of a system such as a family or school. The three main points of focus are (1) attend to your own regulation first, (2) focus on collaborative recovery (short term focus), and (3) provide support for healthier habits and reaction over time (long term focus). Examples of this approach in practice include groups offered in a school setting, training for teachers, and support for families. Participants will have the opportunity to apply this approach to case examples and consider how this approach fits with their current practice. Examples of workbooks for children, youth, and adults, and samples of summative stories that were co-created in a therapeutic setting will be available for review. Woven throughout this approach are threads of connection, compassion, and courage all resting on a foundation of awareness.
Meg Kapil is passionate about increasing access to mental health and wellness for individuals, groups, and families. She has been able to provide group support for children and their families as a volunteer and trauma counselling for refugees, also as a volunteer counsellor. She has worked in postsecondary settings as an instructor, practicum coordinator, clinical supervisor, and counsellor as well as being a current PhD student. She is also a counsellor in private practice and supports children, youth, adults. A key area of clinical interest has been supporting clients across a range of ages and presenting challenges to achieve better regulation and to explore how mental health challenges interact with learning and performance in an educational setting. The integrative approach shared in this presentation emerged from Meg’s clinical practice with individuals and groups and has been applied in group and individual counselling settings in private practice, elementary school, middle school, high school, postsecondary, and community agency settings to support wellness amongst a range of clients.
Meg is passionate about increasing access to mental health. She draws from her experience supporting individuals, groups, and families as well as providing workshops and training for teachers in her relational approach.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Participants will learn about the experience of pregnancy and infant loss, including definitions and current theory. Strategies for supporting bereaved parents who have experienced infertility, early miscarriage, mid-term loss, still birth and early infant death will be introduced, with the opportunity to explore practical applications when working with grievers.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Sue Cook
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Sue Cook is the owner and operator of Family TLC. She started working in this profession in the early 1980’s and has had the opportunity and privilege of assisting thousands of people reach their mental health and wellness goals. She has experience in the public sector working in education, non-profit and government agencies.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Participants will learn about types of grief and loss, including definitions, current theory about the experience of grief. Strategies for supporting someone who is grieving will be introduced, with the opportunity to explore practical applications when working with grievers.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Kelly Jorgenson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Social media influence, globalization, and technological platforms (for example, e-schooling and telecommuting) and issues of adversity may lead to human disconnection, a lack of structure and consistency in human relationships, and a decreased level of emotional intimacy. While animal friendships provide both a deeper sense of well-being and happiness, research has suggested that animal relationships provide a much greater scale of assistance to humans. Animal friendships offer mental health benefits that may not be obtained through human friendships. It is suggested that people who have animal friendships benefit greatly through the extended development of key human qualities such as compassion, empathy, and attachment. This session will explore the: (1) definition and (2) stages of developing animal friendships, and (3) a reflection of how these stages can provide an outcome of unconditional love and extended development of human qualities.
Kelly Jorgenson is a Counselling Therapist, a Certified Canadian Counsellor and a member of the Association of Counselling Therapy of Alberta. She works in private practice and as a child support worker for the Alberta provincial government. She holds a MSc. in Behavioural Health in marital and family therapy from Loma Linda University. Kelly is passionate about working with animals and how they can benefit our mental health, relationships, and daily lives.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Participants will learn 10 evidence-based factors in personal resilience. Throughout the session there will be opportunities to participate in hands-on exercises designed to support the development of a dynamic personalized resilience strategy using these 10 factors. Tools and resources will be provided to create individual action plans that are flexible and workable even with a hectic schedule.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation explores the lived experience of a client experiencing Panic Disorder from a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy perspective. Panic Disorder is characterized primarily by a fear of bodily sensations. The content of the presentation will cover a real client’s experience accessing therapy to manage their fear of sensations and losing control, from assessment to termination and relapse prevention. Participants will learn how to guide clients when exploring underlying fears and their connections to anxious behaviours, and the techniques necessary to help clients face their fears, reduce panic and return to a healthy lifestyle.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist and runs her own business, Momentum Mindset. Her work is a mix of individual psychotherapy, clinical supervision and providing mental health education publicly and privately. She is a certified member of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and specializes in this mode of treatment. She has received over 300 hours of clinical training focusing on mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to CBT, Lindsey combines a perspective of acceptance and self-compassion based work.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, the presenter guides participants through the various considerations of working with interoceptive exposure from a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy perspective. This presentation will focus on the stages of introducing the purpose and benefits and getting the client on board, setting it up, conducting the exposure and debriefing with the client thereafter. Examples of interoceptive exposure will be provided for 2 different case conceptualizations to explore how to individualize the skill based on client’s needs. Participants will be provided with examples of scripts that they can use when introducing the topic of imaginal exposure to help clients face their fears.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist and runs her own business, Momentum Mindset. Her work is a mix of individual psychotherapy, clinical supervision and providing mental health education publicly and privately. She is a certified member of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and specializes in this mode of treatment. She has received over 300 hours of clinical training focusing on mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to CBT, Lindsey combines a perspective of acceptance and self-compassion based work.
- Presenter: Alejandra Castro
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
After Covid 19 started in Wuhan China, the whole country went into compulsory quarantine. Quarantine started on most of the cities on January 23, 2020. This was the week of Chinese New year celebration and during the second mayor school holidays for Chinese students. Students weren’t able to return to presencial classes until June 2020. And they were required to attend online classes with other 50/60 classmates using an online platform that didn’t allow interactions with teacher or classmates. So they were passive listening classes during a school day of 8 or more hours. Many open the online platform but they did others things during classes. The use of cellphone and computer games increased, their sleep time was altered, and after they were required to go back to school many showed depression symptoms, sleep problem, social anxiety and school avoidance. A group therapy and family approach was developed to provide psychological care and decrease the symptoms. this approach is still being used at Shanxi province and had been showing good results decreasing symptoms and reducing the school avoidance.
My Name is Alejandra Castro I am Argentinean and I had live and work in China as a counselor for 13 years. I study at Venezuelan Rafael Urdaneta University graduating from Clinical Psychology in 1995, Gestalt group therapist from Venezuelan Gestalt Institute graduated 1998, M.A Counseling from Palo Alto University graduating 2016. Trust Based Relational Intervention Practitioner from Texas Christian University graduating on 2017. I practice in Chinese language seeing kids and teenagers at the clinical psychology department in Jin Zhong First hospital at Shanxi Province, we do individual and group therapy, training to doctors and nurses and parents support group, I also train psychiatric and counseling master students of Shanxi University and lead a parents support group for parents and caregivers of children with Cerebral Palsy. I am adoptive mom and I have a son with cerebral palsy so I have a passion to help parents with kids with disabilities especially in China where there isn’t too many resources for kids with special needs. China counseling is underdeveloped so I love to partnership with Chinese colleagues to serve as a counselor and provide ways for their profesional formation.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Research demonstrates that sleep is one of the most important pillars of physical and mental wellness, yet so many of us experience significant sleep disturbance. Sleep impacts our energy levels, our resilience, and therefore our mood and perception of the world. In this webinar participants will learn behavioural activation techniques taken from CBT to help improve their own sleep quality and that of their clients. Participants will learn what it takes to help their clients make a slow and lasting improvement to their sleep schedule. This presentation will include education on the sleep cycle and the specific details of how to help a client make changes to their lifestyle for improved sleep. Consideration will also be given to managing nightmares.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist and runs her own business, Momentum Mindset. Her work is a mix of individual psychotherapy, clinical supervision and providing mental health education publicly and privately. She is a certified member of the Canadian Association of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and specializes in this mode of treatment. She has received over 300 hours of clinical training focusing on mood and anxiety disorders. In addition to CBT, Lindsey combines a perspective of acceptance and self-compassion based work.
- Presenter: Maureen Pollard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Participants will be introduced to definitions and theory about the experience of compassion fatigue, burnout and depletion that can occur in situations of on-going stress and change. Practical strategies will be identified, with information about how to implement strategies for self-care, self-compassion and resilience during difficult times.
Maureen Pollard is a social worker with 30 years experience working with individuals, families and groups. In private practice, Maureen specializes in grief, trauma, and resilience. With certificates in adult education and culturally inclusive education, Maureen develops and delivers custom seminars and experiential workshops to professionals, volunteers and community groups.
- Presenter: Dr. Christopher Ashton
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 3
Findings in neuroscience over the past 15 years have clearly shown that addiction is a brain disorder, with similar findings characteristic to all those who suffer from it. Nonetheless, clinicians working in addiction treatment rarely incorporate neuroscience-informed approaches into their practice. We describe a novel residential program design employing rigorous sources from the academic literature, based on a framework of robust neuroscience matched with behavioral science, presented and tailored to individual life experience.
Part One: The Fundamentals of the Neuroscience of Substance Use Disorder
Part Two: Characteristic Client Presentations on Admission and Changes We See Through the Program from a Neuroscience Perspective
Part Three: The Science of Recovery, Expected Neuroadaptation Milestones and Challenges
Dr. Ashton has many years of experience in health and social services, clinical counselling and research practice. He has proven skills in mixed methods research, developing, implementing, and evaluating services, policies, and programs, from a health economics perspective. Chris holds in-depth expertise in mental health and addictions program research and development.
- Presenter: Tanya Levy
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Students with a trauma history can struggle to focus on their learning and be successful. This webinar looks at relationship building strategies to support students to believe they matter. Often students can do well and then be triggered and need support to re-engage and reset their nervous system. This webinar will focus on the mind body emotion connection and how students being in touch with their bodies and their breath can support their learning journey. In addition, the focus will be on simple, accessible and practical strategies in grounding, centering and nervous system regulation to support their healing journey and build their self-regulation toolkit.
Tanya has worked in the social services field for over 30 years. For the last 20 years, she has worked as a Counsellor at a Community College supporting students in their individual learning and healing journeys. In her spare time, she enjoys tai chi, gardening, writing and creating digital art.
- Presenter: Jillian Mannella, PhD, RP, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will focus on the fundamentals of clinical supervision, particularly for those clinicians supervising the novice therapist/student intern.
This webinar will focus on a variety of supervisory concepts, including: the supervisory relationship, supervision needs of the novice therapist/intern, reflective practice techniques, and important considerations for supervisors. It will benefit both novice and advanced supervisors alike, as they consider their own experiences with supervision and interact with other supervisors throughout the webinar. It is anticipated that participants will leave with ideas to improve their supervisory experience –for both supervisee and supervisor.
Presenter: Jillian Mannella
Jillian Mannella is a Clinical Manager and Registered Psychotherapist. She completed her Doctoral studies with a research focus in clinical supervision. Her research investigated the developmental needs of the novice clinical supervisor. She has written an introductory guidebook on clinical supervision currently used in agency settings in Ottawa.
- Presenter: Heidi Bornstein and Angela Ventrice
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
•What is Mindfulness in an educational context?
•What are the benefits?
•How can it be practiced?
•How Stress and Trauma Affect the Brain
•Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness Modifications
HEIDI BORNSTEIN: Mindfulness Facilitator, the co-founder and acting executive director of Mindfulness Everyday, a registered Canadian charity. She has an extensive background in mindfulness, yoga and meditation. Heidi is trained as a Hatha yoga and meditation teacher, and received intensive training at the International Meditation Institute while living in India. She is a certified MBSR (Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction) Level 1 teacher, Hatha Yoga Teacher, Meditation and Level 2 SMARTeducation – Stress Managements and Resiliency Techniques for Educators (SMART) Facilitator and an Instructor for University of Toronto, School of Continuing Studies.
ANGELA VENTRICE, B.A., B.Ed., Mindfulness Facilitator, has been an Ontario certified educator with the York Region District School Board for over 28 years, with the last 19 years being in Guidance and Career Education. She is also an instructor with the Ontario School Counsellor’s Association where she teaches continuing education courses for certified teachers. Angela has seen the positive results of mindfulness in the school community and is dedicated to bringing mindfulness to educators, children, youth and their families
- Presenter: Tracy Whitmore
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Taking Action is part three, of a three part series. (attendance of all three sessions will be beneficial, though not required)
In this webinar we’ll cover, how to create safe, welcoming and inclusive counselling spaces, offices and organisations. We’ll look at what can be achieved within the physical spaces, forms, processes and interpersonal interactions. What is important for counsellors to consider before and during the first appointment, and then proceeding appointments.
There will also be opportunity to begin to plan how you will implement relevant changes in your practice and organisation. Bring along your questions and scenarios to explore solutions and strategies together.
Tracy Whitmore is a social worker with over 12 years experience providing therapy to LGBTQIA+ young people and their families. Her aim is to share the skills and knowledge she has acquired, with professionals to ensure LGBTQIA+ people have the best opportunities for a safe, healthy and celebrated existence in the world.
- Presenter: Tracy Whitmore
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Trans Awareness is part two, of a three part series. (attendance of all three sessions will be beneficial, though not required)
As a counsellor and/or health professional it is important not to rely on transgender individuals to be your educators. We will explore gender identity and how it interacts with sexuality, roles, expression, behaviours and stereotypes. Gender as a social construction and terminology.
The importance of names and pronouns, how to get it right. Social and medical affirmation/transition journeys and the role counsellors and therapists have in this process. Age and stages of life for affirmation and the needs of trans and gender diverse individuals.
Tracy Whitmore is a social worker with over 12 years experience providing therapy to LGBTQIA+ young people and their families. Her aim is to share the skills and knowledge she has acquired, with professionals to ensure LGBTQIA+ people have the best opportunities for a safe, healthy and celebrated existence in the world.
- Presenter: Tracy Whitmore
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
LGBTQIA+ Foundations is part one, of a three part series. (attendance of all three sessions will be beneficial, though not required)
You will learn about sexuality, gender and sex, the language, labels and terminology used when talking with and about the LGBTQIA+ community. We’ll take a look at some history, statistics, risk and protective factors, and an introduction to developing a safe and inclusive practice and/or workplace.
You will walk away from this webinar with clarity and confidence in understanding LGBTQIA+ people and their experiences, what they need and how to begin creating a practice that is not only safe but is welcoming to them.
Tracy Whitmore is a social worker with over 12 years experience providing therapy to LGBTQIA+ young people and their families. Her aim is to share the skills and knowledge she has acquired, with professionals to ensure LGBTQIA+ people have the best opportunities for a safe, healthy and celebrated existence in the world.
- Presenter: Julia Smith
- Language: english
- Location: online
THIS WEBINAR IS NOT ELLIGIBLE FOR CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS (CEC)
In this Webinar, you will learn how to:
- Set up your Canadian online private practice
- Promote your Canadian online private practice
Webinar will be 30 minutes with an additional 20 minutes left for discussion
Julia started a part-time private practice in Halifax in 2016. She started a private practice
because she wanted to be able to counsel clients with therapy approaches that she was
passionate about, set her own hours, to be able to support herself financially, and to have a
choice on who she counselled. Julia also wanted to provide quality counselling and not work 40
hours plus per week, seeing a lot of clients, and getting burnt out!
Julia now helps other Canadian therapists who need support and guidance as they start their
own private practice. With her experience, she will lead you through the process, support you
through the stress, and give you expert Canadian advice on how to build a private practice.
Starting a private practice is overwhelming but also very rewarding.
- Presenter: Blythe Shepard, Dawn Schell, Jeff Landine, Liette Goyer,
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
The webinar will be delivered in English with slides available to participants in English and French and questions fielded in both languages.
Ce webinaire sera délivré en anglais avec les diapos disponibles pour les participants en anglais et en français et les questions répondues dans les deux langues.
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for counselling supervisors to provide options to face-to-face supervision in order to continue to support their supervisees during these challenging times. Providing distance supervision using technology can be useful in many contexts. An example, its value is amplified for counsellors working in rural and remote areas where access to supervisors within the local work environment is often diminished and for practicum students who want to select from a more diverse group of practicum locations that provide a beneficial learning experience but face travel and distance barriers. As a clinical supervisor you are responsible for knowing both the inherent risks and benefits from practicing telephone delivered supervision and videoconferencing supervision. This webinar will provide clinical supervisors with practical overview of current developments in using technology-assisted supervision including ethical and legal issues related to technology-assisted supervision; the supervisory contract; security, encryption, and confidentiality; and building and maintaining a positive supervisory relationship.
La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis en évidence la nécessité pour les superviseurs en counseling et en psychothérapie de fournir des options de supervision en face à face afin de continuer à soutenir leurs supervisés en ces temps difficiles. La supervision à distance à l’aide de la technologie peut être utile dans de nombreux contextes. Par exemple, sa valeur est amplifiée pour les conseillers compte tenu des défis relatifs à la distance des déplacements. En tant que superviseur clinique, vous êtes responsable de connaître à la fois les risques et les avantages inhérents à la pratique de la supervision par téléphone et de la vidéoconférence. Ce webinaire fournira aux superviseurs cliniques un aperçu pratique des développements actuels dans l’utilisation de la supervision assistée par la technologie, y compris les questions éthiques et juridiques liées à la supervision assistée par la technologie; le contrat de surveillance; sécurité, cryptage et confidentialité; et établir et maintenir une relation positive de supervision.
Blythe Shepard, Ph.D. is of British and Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) ancestry and a professor at the University of Lethbridge. She is currently the AB/NT Director having previously served on the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) Board and Executive for 10 years. She is now President Emerita. She is a member of the BC Task Group/FACT-BC responsible for the creation and revision of entry to practice competencies for counsellors. In 2018, she co-chaired the CCPA Clinical Supervision Competency Framework project. She is co-editor of the CCPA published book, Clinical Supervision of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Profession.
Dawn Schell has been a counsellor for over thirty years and has been doing online counselling for the past 15 years. Dawn does online clinical supervision and has participated in the National Symposium on Supervision. She was the project consultant for the Guidelines for the Uses of Technology and Psychotherapy and serves on the Career Counsellors & Technology and Innovative Solutions Chapter Boards.
Jeff Landine, Ph.D. is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick and a Licensed Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of New Brunswick. He has worked as a counsellor in the public school system, with UNB’s Counselling Services and in private practice for a combined 20 years. Among other courses, he teaches the Professional Ethics course in the Counselling program at UNB and serves as a resource for ethical practice for past students and psychologists. He also serves as the Chair of CCPA’s Certification Committee.
Liette Goyer, Ph.D. est professeure titulaire à la Faculté d’éducation de l’Université Laval. Elle est conseillère en orientation et membre de l’Ordre des conseillers et des conseillères en orientation du Québec. Elle est aussi psychothérapeute et superviseure au Québec. Elle enseigne les théories en counseling ainsi que les modèles et les dispositifs d’intervention auprès des jeunes et des adultes. Depuis près de 10 ans, elle assure l’édition des articles francophones soumis au Journal canadien en counseling et psychothérapie / Canadian Journal of counseling and psychotherapy. De plus, elle a obtenu le Prix du mérite professionnel pour sa contribution remarquable au développement de la profession décerné par le Conseil Interprofessionnel du Québec (CIQ)., 3 juin 2017. Enfin, Liette Goyer a coordonné en 2017, le numéro spécial de la revue Carriérologie, intitulé : La supervision professionnelle en counseling et orientation : un «lieu» à s’approprier.
- Presenter: Natasha Sharma
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Teenagers/adolescents have long been the most challenging types of clients to counselling therapists. Their unique internal push-pull world, combined with significant biological and social changes they won’t experience as intensely again until age 50, make working with them. This webinar will teach listeners how to establish a connection with teens in order to effect positive influence and change. Using her signature here-and-now, problem/solution, and self-empowering approach, Dr. Natasha will teach attendees:
- Connecting with the unconnectable: Top strategies for building trust and a therapeutic bond with teens
- Understanding and reframing adolescent social needs, reactance (i.e. as natural resistance – NOT therapeutic resistance) and inherent loneliness as context for positive gains in treatment process
- How to differentiate (and help parents differentiate) between “normal healthy teenage behaviour” and concerning/at-risk behaviour.
- How to balance privacy between counselling teens and working/consulting with their parents on their progress
Dr. Natasha Sharma is a leading authority on the science of relationships, parenting, and happiness. Creator of The Kindness Journal, founder of NKS Therapy, and co-founder of The 8-Hour Therapist, Dr. Natasha is also a Covid-19 media correspondent on managing emotional/mental fitness extensively during the Pandemic. Her TEDx Talk “Why What We Feel Matters More Than What We Think” has over a Quarter Million views on Youtube.
- Presenter: Natasha Sharma
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Long before the current situation, the world already had a mental health crisis on its hands. Now, long periods of physical isolation, the loss of loved ones, the loss of jobs, financial insecurity, and the daily stress of our new “normal” are accelerating feelings of distress, fear, and anxiety. For those with the good fortune and access to even see a private counsellor, frequency and duration will more limited than ever. This webinar will teach listeners how to tailor and implement SFT during and in a post-pandemic world. Using her signature here-and-now, problem/solution, and self-empowering approach, Dr. Natasha will teach attendees:
- How to effect positive change in clients in a single session
- The top questions to ask clients to swiftly discover their deepest needs and desires (and therefore strongest motivators)
- How to help clients discover their strongest values – the building blocks of designing their ideal/dream life
- Key factors therapists will need to learn and integrate in counselling in a post-pandemic world
Dr. Natasha Sharma is a leading authority on the science of relationships, parenting, and happiness. Creator of The Kindness Journal, founder of NKS Therapy, and co-founder of The 8-Hour Therapist, Dr. Natasha is also a Covid-19 media correspondent on managing emotional/mental fitness extensively during the Pandemic. Her TEDx Talk “Why What We Feel Matters More Than What We Think” has over a Quarter Million views on Youtube.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
As a taboo topic that can be uncomfortable for both client and therapist to discuss, this presentation delves into working with an excessive fear of incontinence. Participants will be prompted to reflect on the sensitivities of discussing fears, maintaining factors and anxious behaviours of an incontinence phobia. Within the framework of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, participants will learn about the different techniques to use with a specific phobia, which can be implemented regardless of therapeutic orientation. The presentation will provide therapists with the scripts and questions needed to assist clients in decreasing their overall fears.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist working at Family Services Ottawa in the Increasing Access to Structured Psychotherapy Program. Lindsey specializes in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and has received over 300 hours of training and consultation. She enjoys working with the CBT framework as it combines her love for teaching and psychotherapy. She has worked with over 60 clients purely working with CBT for a course of 12 treatment sessions. In addition to this, Lindsey is passionate about supporting fellow psychotherapists and counsellors in developing their professional development.
- Presenter: Theresa Fraser
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Sandtray, sandplay or sand therapy are all forms of an intervention that begin over 100 years ago in England with Dr. Margaret Lowenfeld who worked with children.
This modality is currently being used worldwide with individuals across the developmental lifespan and integrated with other modalities such as CBT, DBT, motivational interviewing etc. Come engage in a 1 hr introductory discussion. After this webinar participants will:
- Review the history of this Play Therapy intervention
- Examine the applicability of this model with individuals across the lifespan
- Consider if this is an expressive arts model that they wish to gain more learning/experience in.
Theresa has moved to NS from Ontario and has opened the Maritime Play Therapy Training Centre there were Masters Level Clinicians are engaging in the Canadian Play Therapy Certification process. Theresa teaches across Canada and internationally on topics related to trauma, foster care, adoption sand therapy and Play Therapy. She is the current President of the Canadian Association for Play Therapy and the Vice President of the World Association of Sand Therapy professionals.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, the presenter guides participants through the various considerations of working with in-vivo (situational) exposure from a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy perspective. This presentation will focus on the stages of introducing in-vivo exposure and getting the client on board, setting it up, conducting the exposure and debriefing with the client thereafter. Examples of this type of exposure will be provided for 2 different case conceptualizations to explore how to individualize the skill based on client’s needs. Participants will be provided with examples of scripts that they can use when introducing the topic of in-vivo exposure to help clients face their fears.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist working at Family Services Ottawa in the Increasing Access to Structured Psychotherapy Program. Lindsey specializes in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and has received over 300 hours of training and consultation. She enjoys working with the CBT framework as it combines her love for teaching and psychotherapy. She has worked with over 60 clients purely working with CBT for a course of 12 treatment sessions. In addition to this, Lindsey is passionate about supporting fellow psychotherapists and counsellors in developing their professional development.
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Cathy will draw from her Indigenous-centered practices related to group facilitation. She talks about the storytelling methodology, circle practice, witnessing groups and the process of developing rituals together. This workshop is inspired by Indigenous pedagogy and writers such as Vicky Boldo, Fyre Jean Graveline, Jeannine Carriere.
Cathy Richardson is a Metis counsellor and educator who holds the position of Director of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She was formerly a professor in social work at the University of Montreal. Cathy is a researcher investigating violence against women, including the MMIWG in Canada. She is a team member of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations. Cathy integrates counselling, healing work, participatory action research and on-the-land experience with urban Indigenous youth. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based practice and provides clinical supervision for therapists and social workers.
- Presenter: Melissa Jay and Amy Rubin
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Do you want to learn ways to embody presence in your work?
Are you curious how to integrate body awareness practices into your sessions?
Not sure how to transition from talk therapy to body awareness?
If so, this workshop is for you!
In this session, we will explore:
- Current research findings on yoga, meditation, and mindfulness for mental health.
- Trauma-informed considerations for yoga, meditation, and mindfulness, including contraindications and scope of practice.
Ways to embody presence and integrate yoga, meditation, and mindfulness into session and your life.
Melissa Jay is a registered psychologist and director of Canmore Counselling Inc. and the Trauma-Informed Yoga Psychology School. From an attachment-based trauma-informed lens, she is passionate about supporting growth through connection, mindfulness, and self-awareness.
Amy Rubin is a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) who has helped hundreds of individuals in their healing from substance misuse, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, trauma, and PTSD. She lives in Nova Scotia, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling Psychology (MA).
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Cathy will draw from her Indigenous-centered practices such as perspectives on healing, safety planning in the context of family and community and support for grief and loss. She will provide a background to some of the current issues around the Missing and Murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. She will share information from her research studies and recent work in British Columbia developing an anxiety-support program for Indigenous families.
Cathy Richardson is a Metis counsellor and educator who holds the position of Director of First Peoples Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She was formerly a professor in social work at the University of Montreal. Cathy is a researcher investigating violence against women, including the MMIWG in Canada. She is a team member of the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations. Cathy integrates counselling, healing work, participatory action research and on-the-land experience with urban Indigenous youth. She is a co-founder of the Centre for Response-Based practice and provides clinical supervision for therapists and social workers.
- Presenter: Jen Davies
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The purposes of this webinar are twofold: The title “career counsellor” is used inconsistently across settings where career development services are provided. It is perhaps easiest to understand what career counselling is – and what services are not career counselling – by comparing the various kinds of career development services out there. (See Burwell, Kalbfleish, & Woodside, 2010, CJCD.) Once we have some clarity around what the various career development services are, we will move on to some thoughts and discussion on how best to provide appropriate supervision to career counsellors (and all client-facing staff) in settings where various services are being provided by variously qualified individuals, which is common in post-secondary career centres.
Jen currently serves as the Manager, Career Development Services at the Academic Advising & Career Centre at UTSC. She recently completed her dissertation, titled Learning Experiences and Career Successes of Immigrant Professionals in Canada, to earn her Doctor of Education in Counselling Psychology at OISE. She has worked in career services since 2007.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Clients who experience generalized anxiety have a certain level of intolerance to uncertainty. In this presentation, participants will learn about how to work with GAD from the perspective of increasing tolerance to uncertainty with the theoretical orientation of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Participants will be introduced to the concept of how positive beliefs about worry, and beliefs about uncertainty increase and maintain worry and sensations of anxiety. The presentation format will be an overview of a course of treatment (12 sessions) for working with generalized anxiety, regardless of diagnosis.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist working at Family Services Ottawa in the Increasing Access to Structured Psychotherapy Program. Lindsey specializes in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and has received over 300 hours of training and consultation. She enjoys working with the CBT framework as it combines her love for teaching and psychotherapy. She has worked with over 60 clients purely working with CBT for a course of 12 treatment sessions. In addition to this, Lindsey is passionate about supporting fellow psychotherapists and counsellors in developing their professional development.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation explores the lived experience of a client experiencing health anxiety from a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy perspective. The content of the presentation will cover a real client’s experience accessing therapy to manage his health anxiety, from assessment to termination and relapse prevention. Participants will learn the how to use guided discovery to understand the underlying fears of health anxiety, and the techniques of cognitive flexibility and exposure leading to the elimination of a client’s health anxiety and return to an active and healthy lifestyle.
Lindsey Thomson is a Registered Psychotherapist working at Family Services Ottawa in the Increasing Access to Structured Psychotherapy Program. Lindsey specializes in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and has received over 300 hours of training and consultation. She enjoys working with the CBT framework as it combines her love for teaching and psychotherapy. She has worked with over 60 clients purely working with CBT for a course of 12 treatment sessions. In addition to this, Lindsey is passionate about supporting fellow psychotherapists and counsellors in developing their professional development.
- Presenter: Krystyna Laycraft
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the presentation, I’ll discuss the role of values in the decision-making process. According to Shalom Schwartz, a social psychologist and creator of Theory of Basic Human Values, values are desirable, trans-situational goals that vary in importance and serve as guiding principles in people lives. He also postulated the ten distinct, broad and basic values that arise from essential conditions necessary for human survival as biological organisms and social beings. I’ll introduce them and discuss in detail. I’ll also show that values linking with meaning motivate our decisions and guide our actions. This link is created by experienced emotions. The stronger our emotions, the more meaningful our lives are. Our decisions can be understood as successful solutions to a conflict between opposing values. The higher priority values win this conflict and become the motivating factors for our choices and decisions.
Krystyna C. Laycraft, Ph.D. brings both practical and academic knowledge to her counselling. She is the author of many articles and five books on emotions and psychological development. Krystyna offers assistance to troubled and gifted adolescents and young adults. She delivers seminars and workshops that include topics related to their emotional needs and psychological development.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar focuses on the research and trainings of Dr. Kristin Neff. This presentation focuses on learning the foundational skills of self-compassion in one hour so that you can start using it with your client next session. Components include understanding what self-compassion is, how it is helpful, the pillars of Dr. Neff’s work and related concrete skills for clients. The format of this presentation will follow the flow of a session and present questions and scripts to use with your client to orient them to self-compassion and kick start their self-reflection so they can start using the skills in their daily lives.
Lindsey Thomson, RP(Qualifying) works as a therapist specializing in CBT in the Increasing Access to Structured Psychotherapy Program through Family Services Ottawa. In addition to this she also has her own business on the side. Lindsey’s original focus of her business was private practice and she has since shifted her focus to supporting other therapists as they grow their careers whether through starting their own private practice, developing therapeutic skills or increasing awareness of deliberate practice.
- Presenter: Amy Rubin
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This Webinar is based on the presentation given at the 2019 CCPA Conference in Moncton, NB.
Participants will be given an overview of two key yoga principles: the Pancha Kosha model of self, and theories of human suffering and healing as presented in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. These frameworks serve as a taking off point for examining chronic pain, substance misuse, anxiety, and depression. Moving beyond yoga postures, this presentation encourages participants to honour the full spectrum of wisdom offered by classical yoga theories and techniques.
Yoga Therapy is a growing field that uses yoga techniques to encourage healing and wholeness. While yoga therapists are highly trained, there are many safe, accessible techniques that counsellors can integrate into their sessions ethically and responsibly to enhance healing.
Amy Rubin is a certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT) who has helped hundreds of individuals in their healing from substance misuse, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, trauma, and PTSD. She lives in Nova Scotia, and is currently pursuing her Masters in Counselling Psychology.
- Presenter: Krystyna Laycraft
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the presentation, I analyse the decision-making process by applying logotherapy and self-determination theory (SDT). Logotherapy, created by an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, Viktor Frankl, focuses on the meanings individuals give to their experience when they make decisions and take responsibility for their lives. According to logotherapy, human beings are more than just the product of their psychological, biological and social conditioning. They are self-determining organisms who actively shape and change their lives by making decisions. Similarly, self-determination theory, developed by Edward L. Deci and Richard M. Ryan, psychologists at the University of Rochester, assumes that people are active organisms with inherent and deeply evolved tendencies toward psychological growth and development. This active aspect of human nature is evident in the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation that refers to people’s tendency to seek challenges, novelties, and making decisions.
Krystyna C. Laycraft, Ph.D. brings both practical and academic knowledge to her counselling. She is the author of many articles and five books on emotions and psychological development. Krystyna offers assistance to troubled and gifted adolescents and young adults. She delivers seminars and workshops that include topics related to their emotional needs and psychological development.
- Presenter: Kimmy Scarpine
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Throughout history, religions have operated to inspire and justify the full buffet of our human possibility, the savory and the unsavory. Secularity was a reaction to outdated belief systems in the wake of the scientific revolution. In the twentieth century, therapists slowly took the role of
clergy. While religion has been on the rapid decline for the last fifty years (with a couple of notable exceptions), our very human impulse to seek for something larger than ourselves has not waned. This webinar will explore the process of supporting our clients from a spiritual perspective in the age of secularity.
Kimmy Scarpine has a degree in counselling psychology and is an ordained interfaith minister. She has a counselling certification from Clearmind International. She is currently a Master of Divinity Candidate. She hosts a weekly radio program on forgiveness. As counsellor and long-time spiritual activist, she is committed to expanding community through the dialogue and practical application of where our humanity meets our divinity.
- Presenter: Maggie Green and Chelsea Kary
- Language: english
- Location: online
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- Presenter: Peggy Yu
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Mind and body have a connection but how do they connect? Do you know every internal organ can story a different kind of emotion and different kind of emotions can store majorly in a different part of your body? Ever wonder why people have a drinking problem easy to get anger issue as well? Let’s review and learn holistically to reassess those common mental and emotion health concern from holistic medicine’s angle. You might be surprised how easy to provide support to your clients and yourself to regain the balance for mind and body.
Peggy is a Registered Clinical Counsellor in BC and is a professional member or CCPA. She is also a Registered Acupuncturist. Peggy is an instructor in Holistic Medicine College and has her own private practice. She is also a co-author for Amazon best seller book, Heart and Soul.
- Presenter: Jennifer Summerfeldt
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Maternal mental health concerns are on the rise and the WHO is calling for action to address this crisis, including eliminating obstetrical violence in childbirth. Obtaining a trauma-informed lens to understanding PPMD is the overarching goal of this webinar. Topics to be covered include the following: Historical and intergenerational trauma; Assessing for childbirth trauma; Implications of unresolved trauma; Stress and the trauma response; Modalities for trauma recovery; Epigenetics and trauma; Attachment, trauma, and the postpartum; Cultural considerations and rising rates of birth trauma amongst marginalized populations; An empowering perspective for assessing PPMD; Gut health, nutrition, and hormones in the postpartum; Community in the postpartum.
Jennifer Summerfeldt, holds an MA in Counselling Psychology and has nearly two decades of experience in maternal health and psychology. In addition to being a counsellor and a coach, Jennifer has also been a childbirth advocate, maternal educator, doula, midwifery apprentice, speaker, and published writer. She uses her expertise and voice to help advance the dialogue on motherhood, mental health, and healing.
- Presenter: Durwin Foster
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The presentation offers an integrative approach to counseling ethics using K. Wilber’s (2000a, 2000b) integral metatheory. The presentation examines traditional counseling ethics through the lens of K. Wilber’s (2000a, 2000b) “all-quadrants, all-levels” model, consisting of quadrants, levels, lines, states, and types. The authors begin with the 4 quadrants and how they can inform an understanding of traditional counseling ethics. Vertical development, also called “growing up”, in relation to counseling ethics is addressed, followed by a case study of an ethical dilemma in counseling. The presentation includes an integrally informed process of ethical decision making that can be seen to complement standard ethical decision-making models.
Durwin Foster, M.A., CCC (#0345) is a counsellor with a strong background in mindfulness-based and integrally-informed approaches to psychology. Durwin worked with Ken Wilber in applying integral theory to counselling ethics. Durwin has authored or co-authored several articles in peer reviewed journals, including Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Journal of Integral Theory and Practice, Counseling and Values, and Transcultural Psychiatry.
- Presenter: Krystyna Laycraft
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the presentation, I introduce two psychological treatments in which acceptance plays an essential role. They are the Existential Analysis (EA) and the Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT).
EA is personal psychotherapy, which allows the therapist to take all possible aspects of an individual’s experience into consideration. It puts emphasis on active decisions and commitment. The main objective of EA is to help individuals recognize, understand, accept, and deal with their behaviours and emotions – in general with their life.
While, REBT teaches us how three forms of unconditional acceptance of self, others, and life are essential for our functional thinking that influences our feelings and decision-making. The awareness of two forms of thinking, the functional forms (rational) thinking and stress-increasing forms (irrational) thinking gives us powerful methods for self-improvement and becomes a path to psychological well-being.
Krystyna C. Laycraft, Ph.D. brings both practical and academic knowledge to her counselling. She is the author of many articles and five books on emotions and psychological development. Krystyna offers assistance to troubled and gifted adolescents and young adults. She delivers seminars and workshops that include topics related to their emotional needs and psychological development.
- Presenter: Noemie Kyryluk
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Learn all the skills you need to successfully set up and run your own therapy group. From logistics to material, to group communication strategies. Essentially group basics, how many should be in a group, how to deal with difficult group dynamics, what information to keep in versus take out, how to run intakes and choose individuals for your group, how much to intervene versus not and when to promote cross-talk versus not.
Noémie is a Registered Psychotherapist who recently relocated to Thunder Bay. She currently provides online counselling services to individuals and couples in Ottawa, focusing on relationship and sexual concerns, and has started to build her private practice to include the Thunder Bay area as well. She also has five years of group therapy experience.
- Presenter: Saira Sabzaali
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Research tells us that personal spirituality can be foundational for clients struggling with loss, grief, and depression. Clients may want to talk about their religious or spiritual beliefs in counselling, especially if they feel they are “losing faith”. Though we know spirituality is important, most mental health professionals are not explicitly trained in how to incorporate a client’s spirituality into therapy. Transpersonal psychology is a growing field that teaches practitioners how to value, clarify, and use their spiritual beliefs for lasting change. This eye-opening webminar will highlight key transpersonal exercises and themes for counsellors to feel more skilled and equipped to support their clients in exploring and managing their spiritual/religious life during therapy. No prior knowledge is required.
Dr. Saira Sabzaali has a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology and is a psychotherapist in private practice in Surrey, B.C. She has delivered two TedX talks, is a college instructor, and sits on the board of the Canadian Mental Health Association (Vancouver/Fraser). Dr. Saira specializes in cultural diversity and spirituality.
- Presenter: Krystyna Laycraft
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the presentation, I discuss the role of acceptance in our lives. Acceptance, as an emotion, means the acceptance of other people and acceptance by others. Both types of acceptance involve our sense of identity. They produce mutually affirming interaction, trust, harmony, and intimacy. At the level of the individual, acceptance is defined as an attitude towards one’s life, which involves openness to the environment, to others, and to oneself. Acceptance involves also a willingness to experience all psychological events such as thoughts, feelings, and sensations without changing, avoiding or controlling them. I introduce the complex emotions of resourcefulness, curiosity, friendliness, love, and ambivalence and emphasize the important role acceptance plays in their development. These emotional experiences increase our flexibility and capacity to deal with complex and challenging problems and make our lives rich and meaningful.
Krystyna C. Laycraft, Ph.D. brings both practical and academic knowledge to her counselling. She is the author of many articles and five books on emotions and psychological development. Krystyna offers assistance to troubled and gifted adolescents and young adults. She delivers seminars and workshops that include topics related to their emotional needs and psychological development.
- Presenter: Susan Cook
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Resilience is the ability to feel good about yourself in this very changing and chaotic world. Each person is like a rope bridge, and as the bridge swings back and forth, it rubs against rocks and gets worn down – life wears it down. It’s important to have a strong rope with a good coating on it, so that bridge doesn’t break. Resilience provides that coating.
Resilience can help every child be a star – in their own mind and out in the world. A resilient child will be less likely to choose to take drugs, choose to be a bully, or feel anxiety. Resilience creates a strong sense of self and enjoyment of self.
Resilient children are free to experience new things, and venture out and enjoy life. Resilience protects the child from damage, without isolating them from the world.
In this webinar we will be discussing the five points that help to build resilience.
1. Self Care
2. Ability to cheer oneself up
3. Pathways of appreciation and gratitude
4. Self – Value
5. Connections
Sue started working in this profession in the early 1980’s and has had the opportunity and privilege of assisting thousands of people. She has experience in the public sector working in education, non-profit and government agencies and proudly runs her own private therapy organization by the name of Family TLC. Family TLC has 7 therapist on staff focusing on a variety of different challenges.
Sue is a parent herself, her child and youth training and experience makes her an expert in parenting, in all the challenges a parent may face. Sue offers play therapy to children and teenagers for different concerns such as bullying, grief, behaviour and learning difficulties, and family changes.
- Presenter: Cathy Underhill, Gerard Vardy, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald and Brandon McElhaney
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will focus on the exploration of practical ways that counsellors and psychotherapists can help clients to explore, discover, and access individual spiritual values, principles, strengths, and resources within the treatment. The webinar will also explore practical ways that counsellors and psychotherapists respectfully explore and integrate the client’s beliefs and values system within therapy, and how to conduct assessments, both formally and informally, to explore when spiritual struggles may be impacting therapeutic outcomes. As spirituality can be expressed through various religious, cultural, and personal practices, the presenters will share how they have been able to meaningfully explore and enhance the client’s spirituality while respecting the individual and cultural diversity.
Cathy Underhill, B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., CCC – Cathy holds the position of Executive Director and Counsellor at a non-profit counselling agency in Northern Alberta. She has co-facilitated a number of groups, including anxiety management, grief and loss, and Mindfulness for Wellbeing. Cathy regularly delivers workshops on a wide variety of wellness topics. She has training in Mindfulness from the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic and runs the Mindfulness for Wellbeing program at Borealis Counselling Services: http//www.borealiscounselling.com/cathy
Gerard Vardy, RP, D.Min, MA at Changes First www.changesfirst.ca
Lorraine Smith-MacDonald, MDiv, MA, Doctoral Candidate, CCC – Lorraine is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. She has a Masters of Divinity (Hons) and a Master of Arts in Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care. Her research focuses on the intersection between spirituality and mental health and has specialized in military and veteran trauma. Her doctoral work is interested in the lived experience of veterans who have become psychologically injured in the military service and the role of Moral Injury in the
development of PTSD.
Brandon McElhaney, MA, RP, CCC, CCAC, NCC – Brandon currently works as a private psychotherapist at Deep Waters Counselling in Kenora, Ontario. His previous employment experiences include 15 years in the ministry as an evangelist overseeing family and youth ministry. Upon graduating with his Masters in Mental Health Counselling he worked at Gateway Rehabilitation Counselling running groups and individuals in Inpatient/Outpatient residential services for addictions and then joined Neil Kennedy Recovery Clinic where he helped oversee the Adolescent Program, the Adolescent Drug Court program, and the Suboxone program. He then joined CMHA Kenora where he worked as part of the Counseling and treatment team and the Assertive Community Treatment Team. He enjoys speaking and presenting on issues related to counselling, spiritual development, and personal development.
- Presenter: Cathy Underhill, Gerard Vardy, Lorraine Smith-MacDonald and Brandon McElhaney
- Language: english
- Location: online
This webinar will introduce participants to the executive of CCPA Spirituality in Counselling Chapter, who will be providing a brief overview of the Chapter’s history and purpose, as well as some general information on the integration of spirituality into the counselling practice. This webinar will be the first of a series on the topic of Spirituality in Counselling. There will also be time allotted for participants to ask questions and find out how being a member of the chapter can benefit them as professionals.
Cathy Underhill, B.A., M.Ed, Ph.D, CCC-
Cathy holds the position of Executive Director and Counsellor at a non-profit counselling Agency in Northern Alberta. She has co-facilitated a number of groups, including anxiety management, grief and loss, and Mindfulness for Wellbeing. Cathy regularly delivers workshops on a wide variety of well ness topics. She has training in Mindfulness from the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic and runs the Mindfulness for Wellbeing program at Borealis Counselling Services: http:jjwww.borealiscounselling.comjcathy
Gerard Vardy RP DMin MA at ChangesFirst
www.changesfirst.ca
Lorraine Smith-MacDonald, MDiv, MA, Doctoral Candidate, CCC- Lorraine is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary. She has a Masters of Divinity (Hans) and a Master of Arts in Psychotherapy and Spiritual Care. Her research focuses on the intersection between spirituality and mental health and has specialized in military and veteran trauma. Her doctoral work is interested in the lived experience of veterans who have become psychologically injured in the military service and the role of Moral Injury in the development of PTSD.
Brandon McElhaney, Registered Psychotherapist, MA, RP, CCC, LPC, NCC –
https:/www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/brandon-j-meelhaney-kenora-on/283996
- Presenter: Noemie Kyryluk
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Learn how to use motivational interviewing in group therapy that targets concurrent disorders of mental health and addictions. I will be covering how to use motivational interviewing in groups with people who have co-occurring mental health and addictions from a harm reduction perspective. How to use strategies such as rolling with resistance, how to deal with relapse, readiness for change, how to manage triggers etc.
Noémie is a Registered Psychotherapist who recently relocated to Thunder Bay. She currently provides online counselling services to individuals and couples in Ottawa, focusing on relationship and sexual concerns, and has started to build her private practice to include the Thunder Bay area as well. She also has five years of group therapy experience.
- Presenter: Giti Caravan
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Have you ever wished to radiate self‐confidence without words, embrace opportunities without hesitation, develop self‐assurance without arrogance, and have serenity without impassivity? If you answered yes, then this presentation is for you.
Giti Caravan draws on her thirty years of experience as a psychotherapist, counsellor, business consultant, hypnotherapy trainer, and neuro‐linguistic programming and leadership coach to share proven processes, procedures, and steps to achieve more than you ever thought possible.
She provides examples, anecdotes, insights, and advice so you can:
‐ Define yourself clearly to align your focus with true self
‐ Find your power and direct it to transform your dreams into reality
‐ See not only the glass half full but also refillable
‐ Enhance your life, filled with joy and pride
Concepts are explained in an easy‐to‐apply manner and are designed to help you create a system to reach your goals—no matter what they are or how impossible they seem. Get simple guidance to boost your confidence and start embracing all that’s possible with the lessons in 12 Key Steps to Build High Confidence.
- Presenter: Kimmy Scarpine
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Forgiveness, according to the psychological-spiritual text, A Course in Miracles, is our ticket out of suffering. When the relationship to our perception changes, forgiveness offers us freedom. How can we use an active practice of forgiveness to honour and support our clients? How can we educate compassionately about a subject that is rife with built-in judgement? How can we hold a spiritual truth while meeting our clients in their humanity? While A Course in Miracles is a heady work, the purpose of the webinar is to invite a movement of the material from the head to the heart. We will explore the profundity of the healing power of witness and connection.
Kimmy Scarpine is a graduate of Clearmind International and is currently a Master of Divinity Candidate. She hosts a weekly radio program on forgiveness. As a counsellor and long-time spiritual activist, she is committed to expanding community through the dialogue of forgiveness on an interpersonal and intrapersonal level. Through the distillation of hundreds of interviews on miraculous forgiveness and how it changes our consciousness, Kimmy educates clients on the power of experiential forgiveness.
- Presenter: Noemie Kyryluk
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This is a webinar to offer some guidance for therapists who don’t know or aren’t incredibly comfortable talking to their clients about sexual health. Sexual health is an important part of overall wellness, especially in couples counselling. As it stands, there is so much stigma around sexuality that most people don’t necessarily have the language or platform to talk about their sexual health. It is important, as therapists, that we create the space for clients to feel safe to process such things.
Noémie is a Registered Psychotherapist who recently relocated to Thunder Bay. She currently provides online counselling services to individuals and couples in Ottawa, focusing on relationship and sexual concerns, and has started to build her private practice to include the Thunder Bay area as well. She also has five years of group therapy experience.
- Presenter: Noémie Kyryluk
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This is a webinar to offer some guidance for therapists with couple clients who are looking to open their relationship and explore consensual non‐monogamy. This will provide tools to explore with your clients, how to set boundaries and limits and discuss expectations of such alternative relationship structures.
Noémie is a Registered Psychotherapist who recently relocated to Thunder Bay. She currently provides online counselling services to individuals and couples in Ottawa, focusing on relationship and sexual concerns, and has started to build her private practice to include the Thunder Bay area as well. She also has five years of group therapy experience.
- Presenter: Krystyna Laycraft
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the presentation, I review the main characteristics of the turbulent period of adolescence and emotional needs of young people. I emphasize the importance of understanding emotions. Therefore, I present the Psycho‐Evolutionary Theory of Emotions, which is a great tool for understanding differences between primary adaptive emotions and secondary reactive emotions such as worry, anxiety, loneliness, misery, contempt, and depression, which are experienced often by adolescents. These emotions need to be explored deeply in order to get their more primary emotions that provided access to adaptive information. Then I try to answer questions: What do troubled young people need? How can we help them? The emotions of acceptance and rejection I examine in detail. Finally, I explain the impact of social factors such as the parent-child relationship, the peers’ interaction, the role of school, teachers, and others on the self‐identity formation of young people.
Krystyna C. Laycraft, Ph.D. brings both practical and academic knowledge to her counselling. She is the author of many articles and five books on emotions and psychological development. Krystyna offers assistance to troubled and gifted adolescents and young adults. She delivers seminars and workshops that include topics related to their emotional needs and psychological development.
- Presenter: Teresa Ciolfitto
- Language: english
- Location: online
The provincial government has announced changes to shift towards more care and treatment for those injured in a crash in British Columbia. The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia is committed to continuing to engage with healthcare professionals on this journey to ensure that changes reflect your knowledge and expertise. CCPA CCC members will be recognized by ICBC as able to provide counselling services for those injured in a crash in British Columbia.
This webinar will expand on the information that has been sent through your association over the past several months, and will cover the following topics:
- fees
- invoicing & reporting
- contact & support
- learning resources
- Q&A
See free recording here: https://ccpaaccp.adobeconnect.com/pf153dgmvwf6/
- Presenter: Sabrina Trobak
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Core belief (not good enough, not important, not valued, unloved) play a significant role in a person`s anxiety. If the core belief is not good enough, not important, not valued, the person is going to struggle with confidence. Anxiety is a lack of belief in self to handle situations, so poor core beliefs create higher levels of anxiety.
- Special education teacher for 20 years
- Counsellor in private practice since 2011
- Practices model of therapy created by Tony Martens used in families of sexual abuse
- Presenter: Kimberly Pereira
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
What an exciting time in our field!
Where there used to be silos of researchers in psychology, biology, neurology, physics, & existentialism, we now have conversations that bridge our knowledge together. Collectively we have constructed a new mind model.
With so much info and modalities swimming around us, it is important for us to focus on how we apply the knowledge of this new mind model in a way that achieves impact for our clients.
In this webinar we will address:
What is the new mind model and why is it important to know & use?
How do we apply this new mind model in the work we currently do?
What positive outcomes are already occurring for people who are applying this dynamic approach?
The new mind model suggests that because our human nature is holographic, no matter where we start, we will arrive at increased wellness, the point is to start.
Kimberly Pereira is an entrepreneur, author, media guest, experienced psychotherapist, NLP coach, hypnotherapist and trainer, specializing in women in transition. Integrating modalities to effect deep lasting change, Kimberly focuses on addressing the unconscious root of emotional challenges and limiting beliefs. Kimberly is the Owner/Director of private businesses, Activate Your Brilliance, and 4 Tribes West Centre in Oakville, ON.
- Presenter: Coretta Rego
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
As helping professionals, we are keenly aware that our services are often catering to the mainstream population and can overlook the emotional, psychological and mental health needs of culturally diverse people. While many of us wish to serve this client population we often struggle with ensuring that the service we provide is delivered in a manner that would ensure meaningful therapeutic outcomes for these clients. The very notion of therapy needs to be examined and understood across cultures in order to be able to provide culturally sensitive and competent service. This webinar will cover various cultural myths around therapy and discuss how professionals can address and work through them in therapeutic practice.
Coretta is an experienced practitioner in the mental health and emotional well-being field. She believes that regardless of the presenting issue, while in session, every client is unique and requires the therapist to tune into that. Having worked directly with clients as well as being involved in program and policy development, she believes that a skilled therapist and an engaged client can produce therapeutic magic.
- Presenter: Michael Hughes
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
FACT: Networking has evolved from a “nice to do” activity to a required professional competency. In today’s complex and competitive corporate environment, the scope and diversity of your network often determines both professional and personal success.
Unfortunately, for over 90% of business professionals, it is also a misunderstood and abused business strategy.
This webinar addresses the most common networking myths, explores secret network principles and supplies success strategies for creating and leveraging a network of relationships.
During this session, participants will discover how to maximize every networking contact. As a result of participating in this program, they will have the ability to build more productive and profitable relationships.
Michael specializes in helping professionals increase results by improving their ability to develop and leverage relation-ships. For the last twenty-plus years, he has been coaching business, corporate and sales professionals to achieve better results.
His client list includes Human Resources Professional Association (HRPA), Canadian Society of Association Executives (CSAE), Canadian Association of Staff Physician Recruiters (CASPR), Dell, Staples, RBC Royal Bank and the University of Ottawa’s Telfer Executive MBA program.
Michael has done extensive research on, and is a specialist in, utilizing networking as a business strategy and professional competency. Michael has a unique ability to inspire minds and initiate change!
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Supervision by its very nature involves a trainee’s engagement in evaluative and therapeutic components that are overseen by a more senior member of the counselling profession. There is a disproportionate power relationship that is inherent despite efforts to minimize some of the power differentials. Conflict is a natural occurrence in supervision. For supervisors and trainees, conflict may be associated with discomfort and anxiety. This webinar examines the scholarly literature on sources of supervisory conflict and the implications of this conflict for the trainee and supervisor. Practical strategies are provided for addressing the supervisory alliance and promoting trainee growth. Best practices are integral to the professional and ethical care of trainees and the clients they serve.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Educational Studies in Psychology. Her clinical practice, scholarly endeavors, and training workshop/seminars underscore the important competencies in supervising and counselling individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Presenter: Cathy Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dr. Cathy Richardson describes a systemic, ecological and response-based approach to doing therapy with Indigenous couples in the context of their family and community life. She draws from traditional views of relationship, roles, love, partnership and purpose. While contextualizing the work in the colonial realities of residential school and mistreatment, she also provides a vision of couples’ love into the future, outside of or in response to colonial oppression.
Cathy Richardson is a Metis/Cree/Dene therapist and social work educator living in Montreal. She teaches Indigenous social work, as well as family intervention and other practice courses. She conducts research in topics related to violence prevention, youth well-being and Metis identity. She is a co-developer of response-based practice.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We hear so much about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) these days. Because of this it has become a catch phrase for any stressful situation a person experiences. Perhaps some of our clients have PTSD. If so, they should be referred to a trained professional who specializes in working with clients with PTSD. Recognizing symptoms of PTSD helps us know when to refer a client. Otherwise, being well versed in addressing issues related to trauma means we can help clients more effectively. This webinar will focus on the following topics: identifying symptoms of trauma, helping the client recognize and pay attention to these symptoms, assist the client in working through the trauma and related feelings, and offering concrete ways to confront flashbacks, dreams, and present life experiences resulting from the trauma.
- B.A., M.Div., M.Ed., CCC.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Sean Swaby
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
It is well documented that addiction can have significant collateral impacts on parents, extended family, partners and friends. But what happens when these care-givers and supports also have their own ACES history (Adverse Childhood Experiences)? Living with, loving and supporting a person with addiction can become personal: triggering parents’, partners’ and families to relive their own trauma history. This presentation will discuss the how ACES can impact the family system and specific treatment strategies using ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) and Mindfulness.
ACES: (CDC-Kaiser Permanente Adverse Childhood Experiences Study), a body of ground breaking research that looked at how childhood trauma affects long-term health and overall impacts.
Sean Swaby (MA – Counselling Psychology) has over 25 years’ experience working with youth and families. He is a CCC and an Internationally Certified Clinical Addiction Counsellor with the CACCF. He utilizes ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), Family Systems Therapy, Internal Family Systems Therapy and Mindfulness in his work.
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Client termination is experienced in a variety of ways. As such these differences bring with them a range of responses particularly for new counsellors who are more likely to have limited professional experiences in client terminations. Learning to navigate terminations ethically and professionally is an important skillset in the life of a counselling professional. Supervision can play an active and supportive role in promoting the growth of new counsellors as they encounter a range of feelings such as vulnerability, sadness, frustration, and anxiety. This webinar highlights the contributions of scholarly literature on different forms of client termination and their impact on the counsellor. Ethical requirements and practice guidelines are outlined to enhance trainee knowledge and skills. Emphasis is placed on the supervisory alliance and how it can promote trainee development through times of transitions and endings in therapeutic work.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Educational Studies in Psychology. Her clinical practice, scholarly endeavors, and training workshop/seminars underscore the important competencies in supervising and counselling individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In her work, Lindsey has noticed that the majority of her clients are using marijuana as a method of positive and negative coping. Lindsey has found this trend to be the same among colleagues, and that not all colleagues feel comfortable addressing the topic with clients.
As a result of the needs of her work, Lindsey has crafted a presentation to educate counsellors on the recent legislative changes regarding the legalization of Marijuana, and to assist counsellors in working with clients that use cannabis. This presentation aims to assist counsellors in increasing their knowledge and understanding of marijuana and its uses for medical and recreational purposes. This presentation will also examine the following: the prevalence in Canadian society and associated stigma, the strains of marijuana and associated physiological effects, how marijuana can be used for positive and negative coping, and how to address the topic comfortably with clients.
Lindsey Thomson has her own private practice in Ottawa. She completed her Masters in Counselling Psychology at University of Ottawa and is the President of the National Capital Region Chapter of the CCPA.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
**There are no CECs offered for this webinar.**
In May 2017 Lindsey Thomson launched her private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Three months later she decided to quit her other job and jump into her practice full-time, and it has been a success. Join Lindsey for this presentation to go over a step-by-step guide with everything you need to know to start your own private practice or expand your current client list. Lindsey will go over all the ups and downs of starting your own business and provide you with the practical resources you need to get started or improve your current practice from a business perspective. Some of the information covered will include how to set up your business, working with the Canada Revenue Agency to set up your HST number, marketing and promotional techniques for your target population, and how to maintain your momentum in your practice. Take home resources will be provided.
Lindsey Thomson has her own private practice in Ottawa. She completed her Masters in Counselling Psychology at University of Ottawa and is the President of the National Capital Region Chapter of the CCPA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This workshop explores how to integrate the concepts of coaching and mentoring perspectives into the Counselling paradigm to bring out the best in your client and outcomes.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Natasha Sharma
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) represent one of the largest groups that we will see as clients in terms of age-bracket. This webinar will focus on some of the unique challenges that today’s young adults are faced with, which shape their individual experiences, perceptions, and mental health challenges. The current generation of young adults is reported to experience significantly more anxiety than any previous generation of young adults that came before. Thus, it will also focus on how we as counsellors/therapists can best meet their unique emotional needs and serve them in their goals toward optimal emotional wellbeing.
Dr. Natasha Sharma is an Entrepreneur, Author, TEDx Speaker, and one of TV’s most popular experts in Emotional Fitness, Parenting, and Relationships. Dr. Natasha is the author of The Kindness Journal, founder and owner of NKS Therapy – a private psychology and therapy practice in Toronto, and a sought-after TV/Media Personality. She is also a Co-Founder of the soon-to-be-launched Emotional Fitness E-Learning and Life Coaching Platform Rule Your Emotions.
- Presenter: Natasha Sharma
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will be a case-based approach, examining the nature of “difficult” clients (i.e. clients who either a) exhibit strong and complex forms of therapeutic resistance, b) illicit feelings of strong dislike on the part of the counsellor, or c) both). Three to four case studies will be presented of difficult clients and their unique presentations, along with how to best approach these types of clients, in order to promote client retention and responsiveness to therapy. Issues such as countertransference, usefulness of therapist self-disclosure, and didactic instruction versus simple “talk therapy” will be discussed.
Dr. Natasha Sharma is an Entrepreneur, Author, TEDx Speaker, and one of TV’s most popular experts in Emotional Fitness, Parenting, and Relationships. Dr. Natasha is the author of The Kindness Journal, founder and owner of NKS Therapy – a private psychology and therapy practice in Toronto, and a sought-after TV/Media Personality. She is also a Co-Founder of the soon-to-be-launched Emotional Fitness E-Learning and Life Coaching Platform Rule Your Emotions.
- Presenter: Caryn Scotto d’ Luzia
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Join this webinar and discover the eye-opening framework that is giving professionals around the world a brand new education for understanding and working with resolving shame.
Through this breakthrough webinar come away with an understanding of shame’s function and evolutionary purpose, how it affects the autonomic nervous system, and crucial interventions that are gentle yet powerful for resolving shame and its toxic effects. Learn what this life-changing model has to offer you and your clients!
Through its cutting edge,
neurobiological-principled approach.
AST Model® offers the most Highly effective tools and education designed to facilitate shame resolution in the field of shame resolution today.
Find out the missing piece that can move your clients forward!
Join this webinar and discover the eye-opening framework that is giving professionals around the world a brand new education for understanding and working with resolving shame.
Through this breakthrough webinar come away with an understanding of shame’s function and evolutionary purpose, how it affects the autonomic nervous system, and crucial interventions that are gentle yet powerful for resolving shame and its toxic effects. Learn what this life-changing model has to offer you and your clients!
Through its cutting edge,
neurobiological-principled approach.
AST Model® offers the most Highly effective tools and education designed to facilitate shame resolution in the field of shame resolution today.
Find out the missing piece that can move your clients forward!
- Presenter: Jennifer Welcher
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Counselling and mental health professionals work in an increasingly dynamic context. We need to be aware of our own cultural backgrounds and have an awareness of the cultural backgrounds of our clients. We need to work to empower them and find ways to facilitate growth in them and in ourselves.
Culturally responsive practice is more than being aware of difference and power dynamics – it is understanding that we value and embrace others as they come to us. It is making sure our clients feel comfortable, represented and ready. We are asking our clients to share the most vulnerable parts of themselves and it is important that we create spaces that are safe and welcoming. We must move beyond inclusive.
Inclusive implies tolerance where responsive implies unconditional positive regard and caring.
Jennifer Welcher is a connected, responsive and advocate for all of her fellow humans. She is known for her work in Race Relations, Cross-Cultural Understanding, and Culturally Responsive Practices. She has presented to government, schools and private sector organizations. Her most recent work focuses on the LGBTQ2+, Indigenous and African Nova Scotian communities.
- Presenter: Ruth Strunz
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This sesion will provide therapists with the understanding and the skills they need to support adults with ASD level 1 to engage in the therapeutic relationship.
Ruth provides psychotherapy to people of all ages and specializes in helping people with ASD to make the changes they want in their own lives. She has developed a model of ASD-informed psychotherapy.
- Presenter: Susan Doiron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar incorporates the overview of a variety of spiritual approaches to counselling and psychotherapy that are incorporated into Susan Doiron’s latest book called: Journalling with Soul. These approaches include: the use of guided meditations that evolved from her journal writing; journalling with intent using prompts/questions that follows each guided meditation in her book; meaning/purpose exercises; poetry in prose form that take the form and shape of the deep and mystical meditations contained in her book; and communing with nature.
The guided meditations include a lot of symbolism that incorporates spiritual elements that inform and enrich the integration of spirituality into the counselling process. These elements form a spiritual approach within a counselling framework.
This webinar would be helpful to counsellors and therapists who are looking for ways to be more authentic and intentional about creating sacred spaces for clients to explore their spirituality and incorporating spiritual approaches to counselling into their practice. It also would be a helpful resource for mental health and addictions counsellors and therapists.
Susan Doiron is a counsellor, workshop presenter and author of Journalling with Soul, Finding Blue Beach Glass: A Personal Development Workbook and Finding Blue Beach Glass: Uncovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary. She had maintained a private practice for 10 years and also works as a school counsellor. Susan has previously worked as a trauma therapist in the sexual assault field. Susan holds a MEd in Counselling from Acadia University and is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. She resides in Rice Point, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
For some men, the experience of depression and seeking professional help places them at odds with masculine ideals of what it means to be a man. Men’s experiences of depression need to be understood within and beyond the confines of hegemonic/traditional masculinity. This webinar examines recent scholarship on the value of psychological flexibility, changing masculinities within a life span, and men’s voices on coping strategies for depression. Recommendations and strategies are offered to promote gender-sensitive practices.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Education Studies in Psychology. She has extensive experience in counselling adults, supervision/training, and presenting workshops nationally and internationally.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This creative workshop will look at how the mode of writing (particularly the narrative genre) can assist a client to gently journey will you, as the Therapist as well as within themself, in a calm. safe mode.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Andrea Currie
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this presentation, Andrea will combine an understanding of the historical and intergenerational experiences of grief in Indigenous communities and traditional teachings about grief, with knowledge from the settler perspective on grief and grief counselling. Participants will learn how different approaches can be blended to provide the best possible quality of service to grieving Indigenous peoples.
Andrea Currie is Métis from Manitoba, and is in her 15th year as the community-based Clinical Therapist in We’koqma’q First Nation. She provides individual, couple, family and group counselling and community wellness programs. She works extensively with residential School Survivors and their descendants. Andrea is Past President of the Indigenous Circle Chapter of CCPA, is the Nova Scotia Director on the National Board of CCPA, and teaches a course on Indigenous mental health at Acadia University.
- Presenter: Andrea Currie
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this presentation, Andrea will combine an understanding of the historical and intergenerational experiences of grief in Indigenous communities and traditional teachings about grief, with knowledge from the settler perspective on grief and grief counselling. Participants will learn how different approaches can be blended to provide the best possible quality of service to grieving Indigenous peoples.
Andrea Currie is Métis from Manitoba, and is in her 15th year as the community-based Clinical Therapist in We’koqma’q First Nation. She provides individual, couple, family and group counselling and community wellness programs. She works extensively with residential School Survivors and their descendants. Andrea is Past President of the Indigenous Circle Chapter of CCPA, is the Nova Scotia Director on the National Board of CCPA, and teaches a course on Indigenous mental health at Acadia University.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
When children are young our society tends to allow them to live with few restrictions based on gender. However, by puberty, girls and boys are expected to take on very defined roles. Individuality is frowned upon. Society demands young people to meet its expectations. This causes many young people to experience major identity crises. How can we, as counsellors, assist teens rediscover who they are, what they can do to develop their true selves, and do so without using destructive ways.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will take the foundational aspects of MI practise and overlay some creative techniques to create dynamic and fun sessions for clients at any stage of change.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Friendship has a new definition: number of people connected through various forms of social media. Clients do not generally have a number of friends in the ‘face to face world’. This means a lack of a strong support system for those whose family is not available to play that role. The clients often state a lack of knowledge in how to develop friendships, what a friendship looks like, how to communicate with friends, etc. This webinar focusses on these issues as well as others connected to helping clients in developing friendships in a ‘face to face world’.
- B.A., M.Div., M.Ed., CCC.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Jenna Fletcher
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Rooted in a deep and unwavering belief in the healing power of families, EFFT is a lifespan approach which affords caregivers a significant role in their loved one’s mental health and well-being – despite their loved one’s age, level of motivation, or involvement in mental health treatment. The therapist’s role is to empower and support caregivers in mastering the skills, tasks, and emotions involved in four main domains:
- Becoming their loved one’s recovery coach (i.e. symptom and maladaptive behaviour interruption).
- Becoming their loved one’s emotion coach (i.e. processing and management of challenging emotional states).
- Healing inter-generational emotional wounds through the use of relationship repair.
- Working through fears and obstacles (i.e. “blocks”) that, if unacknowledged, have the potential to interfere with mastering domains 1 through 3.
EFFT was developed by two Canadian Psychologists, Drs. Adele Lafrance and Joanne Dolhanty. Cutting-edge research is supporting EFFT’s promise as an inter-generational healing modality.
Jenna is a Holistic Psychotherapist in private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. She specializes in the treatment of Eating Disorders across the lifespan and in supporting parents and caregivers using Emotion Focused Family Therapy. Jenna is also an active and published researcher in the field of the indigenous Amazonian plant medicine, Ayahuasca, as a complement or alternative to conventional mental health treatment.
- Presenter: Andrea Currie
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this presentation, Andrea will explore the how the different worldviews and lived experience of Indigenous peoples and communities and settler society leads to different understandings of health, trauma, and healing. Participants will learn how the principles of trauma-informed practice can be adapted to be meaningful and helpful in an Indigenous mental health context.
Andrea Currie is Métis from Manitoba, and is in her 15th year as the community-based Clinical Therapist in We’koqma’q First Nation. She provides individual, couple, family and group counselling and community wellness programs. She works extensively with residential School Survivors and their descendants. Andrea is Past President of the Indigenous Circle Chapter of CCPA, is the Nova Scotia Director on the National Board of CCPA, and teaches a course on Indigenous mental health at Acadia University.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this clinical workshop, we will explore the theory and research associated with working with clients who have an Eating Disorder. We will explore Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia and Megarexia disorders and look at some ways in which we can intervene therapeutically.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In order to understand how we function as human beings, both physically and mentally, it is necessary to understand the nature of complex systems. Realizing that psychotherapy and counseling operate within the client’s natural system adds explanation to the recent research showing that it is not so much the therapy we use that elicits effective therapy, but the relationship and interaction between client and therapist. We will examine and explore the concepts of feedback and the effects of rigidity and chaos on a professional session. How do we best utilize our knowledge base and technical expertise? Which form of therapy do we use and when? These questions are easier to understand when you are thinking IN the system.
Richard Hill is an author, educator and in private practice. He is President of The Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, the Managing Editor of The Neuropsychotherapist, and author, with Ernest Rossi of The Practitioner’s Guide to Mirroring Hands. He lives in Australia and tours the world with lectures and workshops.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Throughout the years women have been taught that expressing anger is inappropriate. They bottle up the anger instead of expressing it in healthy ways. This leads to passive – aggressive expressions of anger and its destruction of self esteem. What is of concern is the number of young females, teens to 30s, who you’d think would have a strong sense of self, self confidence, and high self esteem are struggling with this issue. We, as counsellors, have an opportunity of helping our female clients recognize their anger, explore healthy ways of expressing it, and in so doing contributing to their mental health and increased self esteem.
- B.A., M.Div., M.Ed., CCC.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The experience of regret is something we have all been impacted by at one time or another. Something done or not done and the resulting wishful angst about the “should have/could have” choices occupy the mind. This webinar examines the psychology of regret and missed opportunities. Common sources of regret are identified. The old adage “you can’t turn back time” can be debilitating as well as growth-promoting. Therapeutic considerations in transforming the present and future are considered. A model for conceptualizing self-forgiveness is offered along with practical exercises and strategies to instill hope amidst the sorrow and pain.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Education Studies in Psychology. Her clinical practice, scholarly endeavors, and training workshop/seminars underscore the important competencies in counselling individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Childhood is still perceived as a time of innocence by many adults. Looking deeper we find disturbing and sometimes violent behavior. Children struggle with divorced parents, extended family units, learning challenges, jealousies, bullying and many other issues. We can help children learn how to express themselves in healthy ways. Before being able to discuss feelings they need to know what feeling they are experiencing, name it, and explore ways to express them. This is critical when depression and rage are the feelings. There are various opportunities to explore and express feelings; art, drama, games are just a few which we can use to help young clients
- B.A., M.Div., M.Ed., CCC.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Eileen Bona
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will help people understand some of the most common terms in animal assisted interventions for all species including equines. It will also define the terms used to describe the differences between animals in support roles, i.e., Service Animals vs Therapy Animals etc.
Owner and founder of Dreamcatcher Nature Assisted Therapy, practicing therapist for more than 20 years, specialize in working with people with complex needs and utilize a variety of mediums of therapy including animal and nature assisted therapy. Designed and taught the first English speaking College course in Canada in animal assisted interventions (AAI) and assisted and designed courses for the first college certificate course in animal assisted Wellness in Canada.
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dr. Catherine Richardson discusses her approach to family therapy when working with Indigenous (e.g. First Nations, Metis and Inuit families). She provides examples of how to apply a few family therapy models, such as family mapping/geneaograms, how to understand roles and power dynamics in Indigenous families and how to facilitate family meetings, such as the “Islands of Safety” violence cessation process.
Dr. Catherine Richardson is a Metis therapist, professor and researcher, currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Social Work. She studies recovery from all forms of violence and is a co-developer of Response-Based Practice.
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dr. Catherine Richardson discusses the concept of “Aboriginal Mental Health.” This entails offering a description of this term and providing examples of a holistic framework for approaching mental health and wellness work with Indigenous individuals and communities. She relates the history of Canadian colonization to interruptions in Indigenous well-being and provides some helpful examples of how to work in ways that do not reproduce colonial or “top-down” models on communities who often link well-being with liberation and social justice.
Dr. Catherine Richardson is a Metis therapist, professor and researcher, currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Social Work. She studies recovery from all forms of violence and is a co-developer of Response-Based Practice.
- Presenter: Andrea Currie
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this presentation, Andrea will discuss what resilience means from an Indigenous perspective, and its role in the survival of Indigenous peoples, and in balancing and healing from the damage to our peoples and communities through colonization. Four examples of ways that resilience is evident in We’koqma’q First Nation will be explored. Participants will be encouraged to reflect on their own experiences of resilience, and to make the connection between this and strengths-based mental health counselling.
Andrea Currie is Métis from Manitoba, and is in her 15th year as the community-based Clinical Therapist in We’koqma’q First Nation. She provides individual, couple, family and group counselling and community wellness programs. She works extensively with residential School Survivors and their descendants. Andrea is Past President of the Indigenous Circle Chapter of CCPA, is the Nova Scotia Director on the National Board of CCPA, and teaches a course on Indigenous mental health at Acadia University.
- Presenter: Stel Raven
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this 3 part series, Stel Raven combines lived experience as a trans person with 10 years of professional knowledge to help you improve your ability to provide supportive, client-centered mental health services to trans individuals.
Trans 101: This session focuses on the basics of trans related mental health services. Become aware of important terms, the World Professional Association for Trans Health (WPATH) Standards of Care, and the many forms of transition. Stel will discuss how to navigate your role as a mental health provider without reinforcing gatekeeper mentality.
Minority Stress and Mental Health: There’s a lot more than just transition to consider. Using a strengths-based lens, Stel explains what minority stress is, the influence it has on trans lives, and why it’s essential mental health providers continue to develop their awareness on these issues. This session will help you go beyond the surface of transition related services by addressing the intersectionality of mental health and gender identity.
Q & A: Throughout the month you will be able to email questions that remain unanswered directly to Stel. They will then develop a webinar tailored specifically to answer these questions.
Stel is a queer, trans, Two-Spirit person with a Master of Social Work and nearly 10 years of experience as a therapist. Originally from Labrador, Stel currently resides in New Brunswick where they run a private practice specializing in glbt wellness while homeschooling two enthusiastically, rambunctious little beings.
- Presenter: Laura Turnbull
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There is ever-growing awareness of the diversity of gender expressions, sexual orientations, and relationship styles of humans. As awareness of heterosexism, gender variance, and nonmonogamy grows, counsellors need to develop their understanding and awareness in working with gender- and sexually- diverse clients. Since the APA published guidelines for working with LGBT clients (), there has been a movement towards developing awareness of diversity issues in counselling. However, research suggests that many counsellors remain uncomfortable or unaware of specific issues that affect these populations. It is imperative that counsellors develop greater awareness of the specific issues facing these populations. In this webinar, we will explore the history, research, specific issues, and therapeutic approaches that counsellors can use with sexually- and gender-diverse clients.
As an ally of gender and sexual diversity, Laura Turnbull aims to increase awareness of diversity in the gender, sexual, and relationship experiences of clients, and to increase therapist knowledge and effectiveness with diverse clients. Her background is in working with vulnerable populations and trauma from a humanist, systemic perspective.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The client and counsellor are likely to have very different definitions/experiences of the act of forgiveness. Can we set aside our personal belief system to assist the client in working through personal issues as they relate to forgiveness? Does the difference between the two affect the counselling process in a positive or negative way? These questions, as well as others, will be addressed in this webinar.
- B.A., M.Div., M.Ed., CCC.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Supervisors are guided by an ethical imperative to promote multicultural awareness, knowledge, and skills in training new professionals. Research indicates that simply having an appreciation of diversity in the provision of supervision is insufficient. Multicultural supervision attends to culture and diversity issues as core components. However, much attention continues to be drawn to the acquisition of multicultural competencies (“a way of doing” tasks in counselling). Increasingly, there are concerns about the missing piece – a multicultural orientation (“way of being”) as a core competence in supervision. Effective work with people of diverse identities first requires our own reflexivity and cultural self-assessment. This webinar examines feminist multicultural supervision and the centrality of “cultural humility”. A model for conceptualizing diversity domains is offered along with practical exercises and strategies.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Education Studies in Psychology. Her clinical practice, scholarly endeavors, and training workshop/seminars underscore the important competencies in counselling individuals from diverse backgrounds.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Grief is the emotional component of the mourning process. As counsellors/therapists we have the opportunity to assist clients in working through other aspects of the mourning process as well as the feelings associated with it. Doing so can go a long way towards a client experiencing a sense of control, reassurance of not being awash in a sea of questions with no answers, and a sense of wholeness.
We also need to be familiar with the various losses, other than the loss of a loved one through death; i.e. lose of a job, lose of home via foreclosure or divorce, broken relationships, etc. in order to fully help our clients.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Heather Ferris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
As listeners we contribute to the energy field presented by our clients. We can facilitate a deep spacious healing container by our being and our heart-felt presence.
We will focus on being rather than doing in our listening. We will practice becoming more contemplative and aware of our own subtle sensations, feelings, resistance, through deep body awareness.
We do this by cultivating a more intimate relationship with bodily sensations, breath and thoughts with no judgment, expectations, anxiety in which a person’s nervous system is able to self-organise and integrate in an holistic way. We do it ourselves and support clients to do this for themselves.
We will practice ‘being with’ suffering rather than relieving suffering and helping clients to find a way through.
Heather Ferris has presented many counselling workshops internationally as well as formal counselling education instruction (10 years) in the City University master’s program. She has a private mindfulness-based psychotherapeutic practice and works closely with hospice, training their volunteers to be deep listeners. Heather provided a 4-session webinar on Mindfulness with CCPA.
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Catherine Richardson will present a few key points regarding the importance of language in therapy. First, she will present a model called “The Four Operations of Language” (Coates & Wade, 2007). This model shows how topics of violence and abuse are typically represented in the media, in courts and in general society. The quality of representation of violent acts (and acts related to social mistreatment, racism, sexism, ableism, etc) correlates directly to victim recovery or ongoing suffering. She explains how linguistic representations are a form of “social response” and how positive social responses provide increased safety and dignity for people who have experienced mistreatment.
Cathy Richardson is the University of Montreal/Co-director of the Centre for Response-Based Practice.
- Presenter: Don Chafe
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Supervision, as a distinct specialty in psychotherapy, continues to grow and mature. In training, supervisors learn about the structures and developmental processes that occur in supervision then use that knowledge to guide their actions. As supervisors gain experience, they begin to infuse supervision with their own style and creativity. In this webinar, we will explore ways to include creativity techniques from areas such as play, art, drama, and storytelling to enhance engagement in the supervisory process.
Don is a CACPT Certified Play Therapist Supervisor, as well as a CCC-S. He provides live and online supervision in play therapy, school counselling, and general therapy. He also works as a Behavior Consultant in the Alberta public school system.
- Presenter: Allan Barsky
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Ethics courses typically provide counselors and therapists with strategic decision-making frameworks for analyzing ethical dilemmas. In other words, they teach professionals how to identify and analyze ethical issues in order to determine the best response, particularly when professionals are dealing with conflicting ethical obligations. Although these frameworks help individuals make decisions, most ethical issues arise in the context of relationships, for instance, professional-client, professional-professional, and supervisor-supervisee relationships. This webinar is designed to provide participants with conflict resolution strategies and tools that may be used to engage others in constructive conversations, building insights, exploring options, and developing mutually satisfactory solutions to complex ethical situations (e.g., cross-cultural value conflicts, end-of-life decision making, homicidal ideation, and professional boundary issues).
Dr. Barsky is a social work professor at Florida Atlantic University. He is a Florida-Certified Family Mediator, former President of Ontario Association for Family Mediation, and former Chair of the National Association of Social Workers National Ethics Committees. His book credits include “Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions” and “Ethics and Values in Social Work” (Oxford University Press).
- Presenter: Jenna Fletcher
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will provide an overview of a qualitative research project undertaken by Laurentian University, the University of British Columbia, and independent researchers over the past three years entitled: Nourishing the Spirit with Ayahuasca: Exploratory Research Along the Continuum of Recovery from Eating Disorders.
Participants will be introduced to the historical and modern usage of the indigenous Amazonian plant medicine ayahuasca, followed by an overview of the research project’s design and methodology, and discussion of select results including:
The impact of ayahuasca on their eating disorder symptoms and body image;
The impact of ayahuasca on comorbid mental health challenges;
The impact of ayahuasca on trauma and emotional processing;
Spiritual and transcendent experiences;
Comparison of ayahuasca and standard therapies;
Importance of the ayahuasca leaders and ceremony;
Importance of in-ceremony ayahuasca experiences;
Integration and therapeutic support;
Ayahuasca as an intercultural therapy;
Risks and challenges; and
Recommendations.
Jenna is a Registered Psychotherapist in private practice (Ottawa, ON), psychometrist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, and energy medicine practitioner. She is an active and published researcher in the field of traditional indigenous medicine for mental health treatment.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
None of us wants to act in an irresponsible or unethical manner with/towards clients. However, there are times that we may be in danger of doing this very thing. Like all people, we experience difficulties in our lives. As a result, unconsciously, we may be drawn to a particular client or we may experience counter transference that can lead us into ill fated/damaging relationships with the client. This webinar will explore some of the pitfalls to be aware of and how to handle them.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The centrality of the mother-daughter relationship is underscored in the psychological literature. However, the death of a mother who is elderly is commonly regarded as a life experience that is on-time and normative. Less public and psychological attention has been given to the meaning and impact that this loss has for mid-life daughters. This webinar examines an important developmental phase for adult daughters and mother-loss as a form of disenfranchised grief. Clinical implications and therapeutic strategies are identified to promote best practices in supporting women in their grief work and life review.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Education Studies in Psychology. She has extensive experience in counselling adults, supervision/training, and presenting workshops nationally and internationally.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The word ‘love’ is bandied about casually and often refers to anything except love. Counselling the person who is ‘obsessive’ or the client who is the ‘target’ takes understanding, accepting, and appreciating the destructive forces at play as a result of obsessive love.
Exploring the healthy kind of love, the reasons behind experiencing obsessive love and how to break free of its hold on the client’s life are the goals of this webinar.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Cathy Richardson is a Metis therapist and scholar, she will present a framework for considering spirituality through Indigenous modalities such as the medicine wheel and through the tree of life. She will offer therapeutic questions that will assist counsellors in eliciting the client’s sources of strength, faith and well-being. She conceptualizes spirituality broadly to include relationality, connection with self and other and a reverence for the natural world and all life.
Cathy Richardson is a professor in Social Work at the University of Montreal and a co-director of the Montreal chapter of the Network of Spiritual Progressives. She is also a co-founder of the Centre for Response-based Practice.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Phobias can severely restrict a person’s life. Getting to the root of a phobia is a challenge, especially if the client does not have insight into why he/she has a particular phobia. This, I find, is especially true of young people. In some cases I find either the client is reluctant to visit this issue or does not take it seriously. Understanding the world of phobias, connecting feelings with them, taking the necessary steps to dealing with a phobia helps the client break free of its hold on his/her life.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Grief is the emotional component of the mourning process. As counsellors/therapists we have the opportunity to assist clients in working through other aspects of the mourning process as well as the feelings associated with it. Doing so can go a long way towards a client experiencing a sense of control, reassurance of not being awash in a sea of questions with no answers, and a sense of wholeness.
We also need to be familiar with the various losses, other than the loss of a loved one through death; i.e. lose of a job, lose of home via foreclosure or divorce, broken relationships, etc. in order to fully help our clients.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Catherine Richardson, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Metis therapist and scholar Catherine Richardson will share information from her counselling practice, her research and her two recent books “Belonging Metis” and “Calling Our Families Home: The History of Metis Child Welfare in Canada” (the latter co-written with Jeannine Carriere). In the webinar, Cathy Richardson will present a short case scenario and provide a conceptual framework for understanding the client’s daily experience in society. She will make links to culturally protective factors such as the presence of grandparents, spiritual/cultural guides, the use of ritual and ceremony and the presence of Indigenous cultural practices within the life of the family.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
People are familiar with Family Trees but few know what a Genogram is. Once explained I find clients very receptive to its use in understanding their issues. They also gain a greater appreciation of how family structure, family dynamics, communication styles, processing of information, and behaviours influence them in how they deal with their issues as individuals/family.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Often many jokes and lewd comments are made whenever a person attempts to speak about dealing with a sex addiction. This is not a laughing matter. Addiction is addiction; a person is struggling no matter if the addiction is to alcohol, drug, food, or sex. Although people understand a sex addiction can affect a person’s family and/or social life they do not often think about the impact it has on the person’s work life.
We will address the various issues associated with sex addiction, its impact on the different areas of the client’s life, and ways we can use to assist a client who has a sex addiction.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Rodolfo Nolasco
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar explores the power of therapeutic and compassionate presence in enhancing our professional practice, relational stance, and personal well-being. It will also examine the neural correlates of compassion and the impact of cultivating compassion on those engaged in providing mental support to those in distress. It then eventuates into a guided compassion cultivation practice that when practiced regularly has the potential of enhancing the flourishing of mental health practitioners. In other words, the consistent cultivation of compassion may bear fruits of resiliency and may act as a buffer against burn-out or empathy fatigue.
Dr. Rolf R. Nolasco, Jr. is professor of Counseling Psychology at Providence Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Contemplative Counselor: A Way of Being (2011) and Compassionate Presence: A Radical Response to Human Suffering (2016). He is also a psychotherapist, trainer and speaker, and spiritual guide.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this confronting workshop we will explore the types of abuse (physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, marital (DV/FDV), elder, spiritual) including neglect. We will look at the impacts of abuse and how to respond to traumas including the impact of physiology to the brain. We will discuss how to look for and encourage protective factors and recovery within the therapeutic context.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this interactive workshop, we will look at ways to promote increased engagement in the inclusive classroom with our students through movement. You will be physically engaging in this workshop as you learn some ‘moves’ and ‘brain breaks’ that you can take back to your counseling practice or school/education context. This workshop was originally designed for teachers working with children on the spectrum or other challenging behaviours but I have found that it can be used with all students to create fun transitions between learning episodes and to settle students who end up becoming more engaged and displaying on task behaviour as a result.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), once called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is not simply one clearly defined/diagnosed disorder. Perhaps we are influenced by the media, and, therefore, may experience anxiety/fear about working with a client diagnosed with DID. You may be one of many professionals who still refuse to believe it exists.
This webinar will assist the counsellor/therapist in gaining a better understanding of DID. We will look at the myths associated with this challenging issue, discuss why some professionals do not believe DID exists and discover ways in which we can help clients who may have DID or live/know a person with it. The counsellor/therapist needs to know at least the basics of the definition as found in the DSM – V and consider other relevant information about DID.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We may assume depression is experienced by everyone in the same way. This, however, is not true. Females/males, children/youth, and other population groups describe their experience living with depression in different ways. Although there are some similarities counsellors/therapists need to be aware/educated on the differences in order to help male clients who struggle with depression.
This webinar addresses the signs/symptoms unique to men. It will use comparisons to female sufferers as well as specific issues relevant to males suffering with depression.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this informative workshop Stacey will explore the dynamics and processes of working in a child inclusive manner in a post separation context. This workshop follows on from working with high conflict separation delivered in Halifax 2013. The area of parental separation is a complex mix of differing personalities, differing parental styles and often, high conflict. As a practitioner it can often be overwhelming to navigate these situations whilst maintaining confidentiality and boundaries of the conflicting parents as well as the children’s. Added to this, we need to be the child’s advocate, for younger children, we are often their voice in communicating their needs and wishes, with respect to maintaining neutrality and the child best interest.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Lindsey Thomson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Resilience is the ability to bounce back, and this webinar will focus on just that. During the webinar, the presenter will review the research and theory of resilience and the history behind the concept of resiliency. We will then examine the different cognitions, thoughts, and behaviours that affect a client’s ability to be resilient. We will review the learnable skills of resilience that a client can incorporate into their resiliency toolbox, as well as other techniques outside of the theory of resilience that clients can begin to use such as mindfulness, and how to incorporate them into their resiliency toolbox.
Lindsey has a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology as well as a Bachelor of Education. Lindsey has previously worked with Ottawa public health to create and present a train-the-trainer session on developing skills of resilience and mindfulness to deal with life’s stressors.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this informative workshop Stacey will explore the dynamics and processes of working in a child inclusive manner in a post separation context. This workshop follows on from working with high conflict separation delivered in Halifax 2013. The area of parental separation is a complex mix of differing personalities, differing parental styles and often, high conflict. As a practitioner it can often be overwhelming to navigate these situations whilst maintaining confidentiality and boundaries of the conflicting parents as well as the children’s. Added to this, we need to be the child’s advocate, for younger children, we are often their voice in communicating their needs and wishes, with respect to maintaining neutrality and the child best interest.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Adults may assume young people live carefree, fun – filled days. That may have been the experience in the past but not today. Social media has pushed this topic to the forefront in recent years. Counsellors/therapists need to recognize the urgency in addressing this issue in order to help those young clients who struggle with suicidal thoughts/behaviour.
This webinar assists the participants in recognizing suicidal thoughts/behaviour in young people, triggers/triggering events, and the importance of follow up.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), once called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is not simply one clearly defined/diagnosed disorder. Perhaps we are influenced by the media, and, therefore, may experience anxiety/fear about working with a client diagnosed with DID. You may be one of many professionals who still refuse to believe it exists.
This webinar will assist the counsellor/therapist in gaining a better understanding of DID. We will look at the myths associated with this challenging issue, discuss why some professionals do not believe DID exists and discover ways in which we can help clients who may have DID or live/know a person with it. The counsellor/therapist needs to know at least the basics of the definition as found in the DSM – V and consider other relevant information about DID.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Dawn Schell, Dan Mitchell and Sherry Law.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The purpose of the Webinar on June 16th is to obtain final input from the membership on the draft guidelines that are being prepared by our project consultant in order to move forward with the creation of our membership “how-to” guide. The webinar panel will be made up of the Technology and Innovative Solutions Chapter Board, and the project consultant (approx. 3-5person panel), that will be presenting to the membership for discussion for approx. 1-1.5hrs. During this time, a draft guidelines summary will be presented, and the floor will be open to questions and answers (supported by an agenda to be developed), that can be continued with questions from the membership for an additional 48hrs.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We may assume stress is experienced by everyone in the same way. This, however, is not true. Females/males, children/youth, and other population groups describe their experience living with stress in different ways. Although there are some similarities counsellors/therapists need to be aware/educated on the differences in order to help clients who struggle with stress.
This webinar addresses the signs/symptoms of stress, recognition of different levels of stress, and coping mechanisms.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We may assume anxiety is experienced by everyone in the same way. This, however, is not true. Females/males, children/youth, and other population groups describe their experience living with anxiety in different ways. Although there are some similarities counsellors/therapists need to be aware/educated on the differences in order to help young clients who struggle with anxiety issues.
This webinar addresses the signs/symptoms of anxiety in young people, triggers/triggering events, coping mechanisms and the importance of follow up.
- Counsellor/consultant, workshop facilitator and author.
- Extensive work for EAP providers.
- Assists people with disabilities, abuse issues, children and adult children of alcoholics, works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
Slogan: Helping Others Help Themselves
- Presenter: Dr. Catherine Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Catherine will discuss some of the ways that violence victims are stigmatized in society and how these misrepresentations can create obstacles to recovery and well-being. She will discuss the importance of using accurate language and contesting stereotypes and psychological theories that portray victims as “affected objects” rather than “responding agents”.
Her research has shown that certain therapeutic actions promote victim recovery, including 1) putting events, actions and symptoms in context renders clients actions as understandable; 2) focusing on client agency, action and activity to promote a sense of empowerment; 3) highlighting client “self-care”, safety knowledge to restore dignity after humiliating situations; 4) contesting the stereotypical notion that victims should have done something differently. By acknowledging what clients do/did in challenging situations, they are less likely to carry the shame and self-blame that can be so debilitating.
Catherine will talk about how therapists can prepare clients for court and help them to be strong in dispelling the myths that are imposed upon victims (e.g. they are weak, they deserved it, they pick “bad” partners”, they dress incorrectly, and so forth).
Catherine Richardson is a therapist in private practice in Montreal. Her office is at Sedona Centre on rue Monkland. There, she offers services to a wide-range of clients, including violence survivors, residential school survivors, couples, families, children for issues relating to life transitions, grief, recovery and for relief of symptoms of various conditions including depression, anxiety and loss. Catherine offers workshops in a variety of subjects including response-based practice and teaches therapies at the University of Montreal in the School of Social Work.
- Presenter: Dr. Anne Marshall
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Culture is a part of everything we are and everything we do. Cultural beliefs, awareness, knowledge, and experiences have a significant impact on all aspects of counselling; from the moment we connect with clients, we and they are enacting culture on multiple and intersecting levels. Gender, age, ethnic heritage, economics, education, sexual orientation, ability, social location, and other cultural factors affect the therapeutic alliance and the counselling process. Exploring these cultural considerations is particularly important in clinical supervision. In this webinar, Anne will outline several aspects of a cultural approach to clinical supervision. It is not possible to have knowledge and experience of all cultural differences, however, a number of key principles and strategies can guide supervisors and supervisees to effectively support cultural diversity in both counselling and supervision contexts.
Dr. Anne Marshall is a Professor of Counselling Psychology and Director of the Centre for Youth & Society at the University of Victoria, Canada. A registered psychologist, her clinical and research work focuses on well-being, transitions, and mental health in cultural and community contexts, particularly Indigenous communities and marginalized youth.
- Presenter: Barbara MacCallum
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, we are going to talk about regulation updates in Newfoundland and Labrador.
Barbara MacCallum is CCPA’s CEO.
- Presenter: Dr. Catherine Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this one hour webinar, Dr. Richardson will share her experiences of working in various Indigenous communities, both First Nations and Metis. She will talk about cultural diversity, working across difference, cultural safety and Aboriginal worldview. She will share a number of models such as Dr. Brant’s view of Indigenous ethics, the Circle of Courage, Connection-based work and Response-Based practice as frameworks for ethical practice. She works from a colonialism-informed and social justice approach to community work.
Dr. Catherine Richardson/Kinewesquao is a Metis therapist, professor and researcher with twenty years experience working in First Nations and Metis communities. Her roles have included therapist, community counsellor, family support worker, violence prevention facilitator and family child protection advocate. She has a background in family therapy, collaborative practice, education, child safety plannning and research.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, we will explore what trauma is and how to apply at critical incident stress debriefing model (CISD) to respond appropriately to trauma as a result of critical incidents in the workplace.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will extend your understanding of what makes up a anxious client to be able to apply some creative interventions to reduce a clients anxiety and increase their coping capacity.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore how to develop your practice philosophy and turn it into a framework you can use within your practice to grow yourself and your business.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will enable us to explore a range of types of abuse include DV and FDV. The psychological ramifications for clients and what we can do as effective practitioners to support, protect and grow clients at risk of abuse.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, we will look at what couples and relationship counselling is, considerations and interventions to successfully work with these clients.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Dr. Catherine Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dr. Catherine Richardson discusses the issues related to being a child in the foster care system.She describes the various losses and challenges of these children, possible emotional/behavioural responses and ways to comfort and offer a sense of belonging.
Dr Richardson explains the importance of social and therapeutic interaction involving dignity, the honouring of resistance and orchestrating positive social responses to children facing adversity. She outlines the complex relationships and loyalties for children in relation to natural parents, foster parents, social workers and other individuals in their environment.
Dr. Catherine Richardson is a Metis therapist, professor and researcher, currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Social Work.She studiesrecovery from all forms of violence and is a co-developer of Response-Based Practice.
- Presenter: Ruth Strunz
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The nature of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) makes the dynamics of relationships challenging for individuals with this increasingly-common diagnosis. This webinar will provide participants with insights into how to establish/maintain a working alliance with clients with ASD. Participants will gain an understanding of the central deficits of ASD, and will learn how to help clients with ASD engage in non-anxiety provoking ways, enabling them to support these clients in progressing toward their therapeutic goals. Individual participant questions and discussion will be welcomed in the last 15 minutes of the webinar.
Ruth is a Registered Psychotherapist, Developmental Counsellor and ASD Specialist who counsels families and individuals whose lives have been changed by autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other experiences that impact the parent-child relationship. Ruth uniquely combines developmental intervention for ASD with Adlerian psychology and Montessori education, within her model of relationship-based, ASD-Informed Therapy.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, we will be discovering what sandtray therapy is, how it is different sand play therapy, how it works and how to build a sandtray to integrate into your practise toolkit.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this second part of the suicide webinar we will explore suicide warning signs, determining level of risk, assessment and intervention.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This is the second part to the previously recorded webinar called Counselling People with Invisible Disabilities
In an earlier webinar I discussed how counselors/therapists can assist a client deal with an invisible disability. The main issue is not the illness but the lack of motivation to move forward. After he/she made significant lifestyle changes and worked through the grief associated with loss there is a need to shift the emphasis of help.
This second webinar deals with the client’s present day reality in living with an invisible disability. We will focus on such topics as; finding out his/her level of motivation at this point, how the client can transition to a new level of acceptance, deal with the results of the changes made, i.e. in the family, friendships, workplace and community, and how to live a healthy and happy future.
Shirley Soleil-Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar we will look at global statistics, current research, high risk groups, risk factors and the model for suicidal behaviours.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The DSM-IV calls sociopaths and psychopaths “antisocial personalities”. I will be using the terms sociopaths and psychopaths
The sociopath or psychopath may be your client or their family member, friend or co-worker.
If a person recognizes right from wrong but does the wrong thing anyway, can he be helped? If a person was born without a conscience, can he be helped? Can we help their victims, their family members, their co-workers, their friends?
In this webinar we will discuss the characteristics of the sociopath and psychopath; recognizing them may assist us in helping them. We will explore possible avenues of help and if there even is a way to help. Assisting the client who is the victim, family member, friend or co-worker of a sociopath/psychopath is also a valid part of our work as counselors/therapists, therefore, this topic will also be addressed.
Shirley Soleil-Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The DSM-IV calls sociopaths and psychopaths “antisocial personalities”. I will be using the terms sociopaths and psychopaths
At one time, we did not hear or read much about sociopaths and psychopaths. Now, these terms are familiar to the general public. It is not uncommon to hear “I am such a psycho” or something along those lines, especially when walking around schools. The general meaning of this expression does not exactly aling with the true meaning of the term. Furthermore, sociopaths and/or psychopaths are often portrayed as criminals rather than simply as people with mental health issues.
This webinar deals with the definitions of these terms. Case studies will be used to get a sense of known antisocial personalities’ behaviours. Some of the names may be familiar, others not. However, all have been reported in a written source. I will include a detailed bibliography at the end of the power point presentation.
Shirley Soleil-Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
What to do when the grief becomes complicated- in this webinar we will look at what grief and loss is, examples in a range of contexts, how to apply best practice in these difficult situations. We will also explore how to work when the grief and loss moves into complicated grief and how to intervene safely and appropriately.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There seems to be an increase in the number of people, especially young women, who are hurting themselves. In my practice, I discovered one critical aspect of this population: they do not acknowledge the real reasons for their destructive behaviour.
The work with this group is very time consuming since the denial, repression and/or memory loss they experience makes it difficult for them to get in touch with the underlying issues. In order to help them, we need to have a basic knowledge of what is really going on, build their trust in us and guide them to where they can get in touch with the reality that led them to this place of self-harm.
Shirley Soleil-Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil-Day
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In the 1980s, we were shocked to hear about the number of people who experience child abuse at the hands of males. It was assumed that if adult females abuse, it was male children who suffered. It is still difficult to accept the fact that mothers abuse their offspring, especially the daughters.
The statistics make it difficult to really know how many people have or are abused by mothers. The statistics I found are out of date and combine the abuse under the heading of ‘parental abuse.’ To get a better idea of what the specific statistics I was looking for would be, I turned to my caseload for the last two years. 76 % of female clients and 23.8 % of male clients reported abuse by female authority figures in the home.
This webinar focuses on the challenges facing females who have suffered or suffer abuse at the hands of their mothers or other mother figures.
Shirley Soleil-Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families.
- Presenter: Monique Brideau
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar provides a brief introduction to the topic of Post Traumatic Growth: definitions, a synopsis of the current known literature, and practical tools for assessing and using it with clients, particularly in the context of Trauma-Informed Care.
Monique Brideau is a Registered Social Worker, with a Clinical Specialization, based in Calgary, AB. She is a Co-Director of Upward Spiral Consulting and Counselling Services, which provides strengths-based training, consulting and counselling services to individuals, couples and groups.
- Presenter: Monique Brideau
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar provides a brief overview of the various female sexual dysfunction and sexual pain conditions clients, who seek counselling, might present with. Positive psychology-related coping strategies, such as those found in Sonja Lyumbomirsky’s book The How of Happiness, are explored. Additional resources for information are also discussed.
Monique Brideau is a Registered Social Worker, with a Clinical Specialization, based in Calgary, AB. She is a Co-Director of Upward Spiral Consulting and Counselling Services, which provides strengths-based training, consulting and counselling services to individuals, couples and groups.
- Presenter: Dr. Judy Chew
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Over the past three decades, scholarly and popular writing has addressed the benefits of forgiveness; nevertheless, compelling arguments against its utility have also been noted. This webinar will draw from this complex scholarly opinion to highlight the value of forgiveness and sort through the literature that identifies the limits and dangers of forgiveness therapy. Distinctions between forgiveness and reconciliation will be presented. An integration of feminist empowerment models with forgiveness psychotherapy will be offered, including considerations for best practice. The feminist empowerment model of forgiveness psychotherapy will be outlined, along with considerations for best practice.
Judy Chew, is a registered psychologist and Training Coordinator at the Counselling Centre, University of Calgary, where she also holds an associate adjunct position in the Division of Education Studies in Psychology. She has extensive experience in counselling adults, supervision/training, and presenting workshops nationally and internationally.
- Presenter: Dr. Catherine Richardson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dr. Catherine Richardson lays out the fundamentals and origins of response-based practice. She explains the importance of social and therapeutic interaction involving dignity, the honouring of resistance and orchestrating positive social responses to victims. She talks about using appropriate language and contesting unhelpful social systems when advocating for victims of violence. She emphasizes the rights and well-being of Indigenous people in Canada and the need for decolonizing approaches in the human services. Catherine will also discuss response-based interviewing which highlights capacity, pre-existing ability and things that people already know and do.
Dr. Catherine Richardson is a Metis therapist, professor and researcher, currently employed as an Associate Professor at the University of Montreal in the School of Social Work. She studies recovery from all forms of violence and is a co-developer of Response-Based Practice.
- Presenter: Jen Davies
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Most of our clients will have been employees or entrepreneurs at some point in their careers, meaning they will have worked, and work has a profound effect on our psychological states and our well-being. It may become obvious through the course of counselling on another issue – depression, anxiety, family strife – that the work our client is doing to keep roof overhead, food on the table, and pay for counselling is one of the major sources of the issue. We will look at the practical aspects of supporting these clients through the lens of the CCPA Code of Ethics, in particular the principles B1 Primary Responsibility, B14 Multiple Helpers, and B18 Referral.
Jen currently serves as the Manager, Career Development at the Academic Advising & Career Centre at UTSC, and is almost finished her Ed.D. in Counselling Psychology at OISE. She has worked in career services since 2007. Her interests/dissertation have focused on the experiences of newcomers entering the workforce in Canada.
- Presenter: Eileen Bona
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation will provide the viewer with a thorough understanding of the ethical concerns that people working with animals in helping professions or people hoping to, or currently practicing, Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) in Canada should be aware of. The presenter has 13 years of experience practicing AAT and has developed and taught the first College Accredited Course in AAT as well as developed the first certification program in AAT in Canada.
Eileen has been working with people with multiple mental health issues and organic brain dysfunction for more than 20 years. She began partnering with animals in a natural setting to help people with complex needs 13 years ago and founded the Dreamcatcher Nature Assisted Therapy Association at that time.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will be exploring the therapeutical interventions and considerations of working with children and young people. This is Part 2 to the Working with Children introduction webinar.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will look at the dynamics of family therapy and how to adapt other therapies to work inclusively and in an unbiased way with families to minimise conflict and enhance their communication.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will look at the considerations needed to alter our therapeutic interventions to work effectively with children.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will look at how to integrate a creative art therapy based approach into your sessions to make them more hands on, interactive and therapeutically dynamic.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Monique Brideau
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue and burnout are often used interchangeably but actually have subtle differences. This webinar explores those differences as well as coping strategies that build service providers’ resilience to these occupational hazards of caring. Both self-care and “collective care” (ways that service providers can care for one another as a community) will be explored.
Monique Brideau is a Registered Social Worker, with a Clinical Specialization, based in Calgary, AB. She is a Co-Director of Upward Spiral Consulting and Counselling Services, which provides strengths-based training, consulting and counselling services to individuals, couples and groups.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will look at what psychopharmacology is and what counsellors need to know about drug therapy and medications to enhance their work. *Please note that our presenter is from Australia and that while the information presented should take into consideration differences in Canada vs. Australia, some of the information presented MAY not apply to practitioners in Canada.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore the elements of taking notes, what to include, how to take good notes that are ethically sound. What to do if your notes are subpoenaed and also look at confidentiality considerations. *Please note that our presenter is from Australia and that while the information presented should take into consideration differences in Canada vs. Australia, some of the information presented MAY not apply to practitioners in Canada.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Renée Gendron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
As a counsellor/psychotherapist, your role is to care and tend to the needs of another. With caregiving professions in particular, putting others first can result in a lack of self-care. Society doesn’t see that you’re very tired, that you need time for yourself and that some days it’s very difficult to cope with all of the demands put on you. In short, you’re suffering from empathy fatigue. Learn what empathy is and some steps you can take to recharge yourself.
Renée Gendron is an engaging speaker(S), creative mediator (M), published researcher (R) and dynamic trainer(T). She applies her SMRT skills in support of individuals, entrepreneurs and organisations. Renée is keenly interested in helping individuals and firms become more resilient and responsive to rapidly changing market conditions. Renée welcomes feedback. She can be reached on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, her website www.vitaedynamics.com and by email [email protected]
- Presenter: Renée Gendron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Empowerment is the application of skills and a series of processes that encourages another to take responsibility and control over their lives. Building other people up is more than the delegation and decentralization of authority and power. Learn some techniques in helping others to help themselves. Assertiveness skills are one of the tools that will guide clients towards empowerment. Learn techniques to help your clients stand up for themselves, have their opinions heard and their ideas and input credited.
Renée Gendron is an engaging speaker(S), creative mediator (M), published researcher (R) and dynamic trainer(T). She applies her SMRT skills in support of individuals, entrepreneurs and organisations. Renée is keenly interested in helping individuals and firms become more resilient and responsive to rapidly changing market conditions. Renée welcomes feedback. She can be reached on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, her website www.vitaedynamics.com and by email [email protected]
- Presenter: Renée Gendron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
If you work with people, eventually you have to deal with conflict. People can scream, intimidate, pout, basically, they can be difficult. In the workplace, employees can have behavioural issues that impede their performance. Customers can be excessively difficult. In this workshop, learn some techniques to help your clients reduce friction in a tense conversation.
Renée Gendron is an engaging speaker(S), creative mediator (M), published researcher (R) and dynamic trainer(T). She applies her SMRT skills in support of individuals, entrepreneurs and organisations. Renée is keenly interested in helping individuals and firms become more resilient and responsive to rapidly changing market conditions. Renée welcomes feedback. She can be reached on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, her website www.vitaedynamics.com and by email [email protected]
- Presenter: Belinda Josephson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, we will be discussing resources that educators may use with a variety of cultures in a public school setting to facilitate a positive school settlement.
Belinda has been a public school educator for 10 years, a school administrator for 12 years and a school guidance counsellor 10 years. She has taught grades primary to College level in both Nova Scotia and Manitoba. She has facilitated many topics. Some of these topics include student leadership, peer helping and critical incidents.
- Presenter: Renée Gendron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Nous avons déjà tous vécu des conversations ponctuées de moments de silence. Certains de ces moments ne comportaient aucun malaise, tandis que d’autres suscitaient un certain inconfort. Nous nous empressons souvent de combler les moments de silence par du verbiage creux, des commentaires oiseux ou des idées en l’air. Lorsqu’on communique avec un client, les moments de silence peuvent être porteurs de beaucoup de sens. Ils peuvent rendre le client plus à l’aise de s’ouvrir et de partager, tout en relayant de l’information sur l’état émotionnel et en indiquant les aspects nécessitant plus d’attention.
Renée Gendron est une oratrice stimulante (O), une médiatrice créative (M), une chercheuse publiée (C) et une formatrice dynamique (F). Elle puise donc dans ses habiletés OMCF pour appuyer les individus, les entrepreneurs et les organismes. Renée souhaite vivement aider les individus et les entreprises à devenir résilients et plus réactifs aux conditions qui évoluent et changent rapidement sur le marché du travail. Elle accueille volontiers les commentaires. On peut la joindre sur Facebook, Twitter et Google+, sur son site web www.vitaedynamics.com et par courriel [email protected]
- Presenter: Lisa Drupsteen, M.A., CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Lisa Drupsteen is a drama therapist and applied improvisation facilitator. In this webinar session, Lisa will explore the fundamental principles of successful improvisation through a clinical lens and share with viewers her exciting discoveries from applying improvisation in a clinical setting with special emphasis on working with youth. Having worked with youth living with various psychological, developmental, and social challenges, Lisa has developed group programs that consist of three phases: 1) Introduction, 2) Exploration, and 3) Culminating Enactment & Review. This webinar will explore each phase in depth, including ways in which they can be adapted for a wide range of populations and to target a variety of clinical goals in different settings.
Lisa Drupsteen has dedicated the last 10+ years to integrating her passion for theater with her love for helping others in both community and clinical settings. She is now the founder of Creative Expression, a Toronto-based company dedicated to using creative methods to help organizations promote psychological and professional growth.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore the basic tenets of CBT and how to apply CBT as a therapeutic intervention with anxiety.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Steven Benmor
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This session will provide psychotherapists with the tools and skills to manage high conflict divorce clients; establish client expectations and boundaries; prevent, prepare for and manage formal complaints; and build a thriving practice, maximize profit and minimize client dissatisfaction.
Steven Benmor of Benmor Family Law Group is certified as a specialist in family law by the Law Society of Upper Canada. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Science, then from the University of Windsor with a Bachelor of Laws and then from York University with a Master of Laws (Family Law). He is one of the 43 Canadian Fellows of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He was a past adjunct professor of family law at Osgoode Hall Law School and at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology. He previously served as a panel lawyer with the Office of the Children’s Lawyer and the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee. His many volunteer positions include Chair of the Board of Access for Parents and Children of Ontario, Chair of the Family Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association, Founding Director and Treasurer of the Ontario Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, and Director of the Ontario Network for the Prevention of Elder Abuse. He was a member of the Expert Advisory Group on Family Justice Improvements to the then Attorney General, the Honourable Chris Bentley. Steven is a frequent writer, presenter and contributor to family law education and press coverage. He was awarded the 2012 Distinguished Service Award by the Ontario Chapter of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
Steven credits his wife Jackie and his 3 (vocal) children for his greatest education in the field of family law.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this seminar we will continue to explore tangible ways of working with ASD ( a follow up webinar to the previous one on ASD). We will look at an integrated, developmental approach to working with families, schools and the children to encourage an inclusive therapeutic intervention.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Renée Gendron
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We’ve all been in conversations in which there were moments of silence. Some moments were comfortable, some caused discomfort. We often take it upon ourselves to quickly fill the silence with any kind of idle thought, random comment or passing idea. When communicating with a client moments of silence can carry great meaning. They can make a client more comfortable to open up and share, they relay emotional information and they indicate where more attention is needed.
Renée Gendron is an engaging speaker(S), creative mediator(M), published researcher (R) and dynamic trainer(T). She applies her SMRT skills in support of individuals, entrepreneurs and organisations. Renée is keenly interested in helping individuals and firms become more resilient and responsive to rapidly changing market conditions. Renée welcomes feedback. She can be reached on Facebook, Twitter and Google+, her website www.vitaedynamics.com and by email [email protected].
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar we will look at how this addiction may form – attachment issues, separation anxiety in childhood or adolescence, childhood trauma, power control issues, insecurity, infantilism to name a few and how we can apply a values based approach to counselling this growing group of clients.
This is a follow-up to the webinar called Sex and Pornography Addiction. The recording of the first part is also available.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling and a Bachelor of Psychology. She has been a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. She holds clinical registrations with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Lynette Monteiro
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Mindfulness has attained wide-spread use in clinical settings and has grown into multi-faceted interventions we use to alleviate suffering. This presentation will introduce two important aspects of mindfulness interventions: (1) the essential concept of mindfulness practice with its varieties of interventions, and (2) the role of values in the cultivation of healthy relations with self and others.
Participants in this presentation will learn more about:
- Mindfulness interventions and their general application
- Client-related issues important to the use of mindfulness approaches
- Values as a central factor in helping clients understand the source of distress
- Intimacy, immediacy, and interconnectedness as relational components in the practice of mindfulness
Lynette Monteiro, Ph.D. is a registered psychologist and Director of Training at the Ottawa Mindfulness Clinic, Ottawa Canada. She completed an MA on neuro-behavioural correlates of human communication disorders and a PhD investigating the efficacy of methylphenidate in the treatment of ADHD in pre-school-aged children. She is trained in CBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy for veterans and active military personnel, mindfulness-based treatments (MBSR, MBCT, MiCBT, MSC) and Buddhist chaplaincy. Dr. Monteiro co-developed the Mindfulness-based Symptom Management (M4) program, an ethics-based mindfulness intervention and is used in the treatment of psychological distress, pain management, and burnout resilience. Her treatment interests include treatments for military and first response members experiencing PTSD and she serves as a personnel selection psychologist for police and military units. She developed the M4 Teacher Training Path for healthcare professionals seeking to cultivate mindfulness skills in clinical and educational applications. As Clinical Professor at the University of Ottawa, she is in charge of training PhD clinical psychology candidates in ethics-based mindfulness interventions. She is co-author of Mindfulness Starts Here, articles, and chapters on integrating Buddhist teachings, specifically ethics, into mindfulness interventions.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop participants will be supervisors or eligible to become one. We will explore how to use a reflective practice model to enhance the supervision relationship, process and practice.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore ways of working with ASD including behavioural, sensory and regulatory disorders through a developmental and relational lens. It will provide practical ways for supporting children diagnosed with ASD and their parents.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Todd Stride, Military Family Services
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Canada’s modern military families are similar to civilian Canadian families, but face distinctive challenges. The demands of service life, placed on military families, may exacerbate the need for mental health supports by some families. Accessing mental health services can also be more difficult for military families due to frequent geographic relocations which are often compounded by regular absences of the serving member during training and deployment. This webinar will explain the defining features of the military lifestyle in Canada (i.e., mobility, risk and separation), along with geographic and demographic information about military families. The resources currently available through the Canadian Armed Forces and extended Canadian community will also be highlighted.
Todd Stride is the Senior Manager of Community Development with Military Family Services in Ottawa. Todd has over 15 years’ experience in the management of community programming with Canadian Forces Morale and Welfare Services. In addition to being a trained educator and policy analyst, Todd holds a Master’s degree in Project Management from the Université du Québec en Outaouais.
- Presenter: Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation begins with the presentation of self-maps of four individuals from northern or aboriginal communities, and together these maps are taken to represent a spectrum of possibilities with respect to self-identity. The interplay of collectivity and individuality in the development and maintenance of a functional self is discussed. The resultant fluid view of aboriginality and the self-challenges essentialist notions that have influenced multicultural counselling. A collaborative approach recognizing the client’s expertise on his or her self is suggested involving co-construction of self-maps. The use of such maps in counselling is reviewed referencing Cognitive-Behavioral, Narrative and Adlerian schools.
Dr. Robertson is in private practice northern Saskatchewan as a counselling and educational psychologist. He is on the faculty of Athabasca University and has served on the CCPA Northern Initiative Committee.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This will look at the neural problems and describe the signs to help recognize onset, what to do and how to help the client and family manage.
Richard Hill is a psychotherapist, author and teacher in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He holds Masters degrees in Social Ecology, Education and Brain and Mind Sciences. He lectures internationally and is published in a number of books, journals and magazines. He is Co-President of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
For many psychotherapists and counsellors the treatment of addictions to substances or compulsive activities is regarded as a mystery (inclusive of alcoholism, drug abuse, sex addiction, and problem gambling). Such hesitance comes as little surprise as few therapy modalities provide for any explicit treatment methodology for addictive conditions–other than referral to 12-step treatment programs, use of pharmaceutical intoxicant substitutes or craving inhibitors, or the provisioning of support for abstinence. Often such ineffective interventions leave clients cycling through sobriety and relapse, with sometimes worsening conditions leading to very dire consequences. In this webinar participants will be challenged to overthrow this longstanding professional reluctance to deal with the suffering which underlies any addictive process. Through this brief seminar participants will be introduced to how an addictive attribute is not to be found, for instance, in an action or substance alone, but in the irresistible soothing which any activity may provide.
Participants will review major theories of overcoming addiction from contemporary schools of therapeutic work, leading to a formulaic breakdown of the logic of an addictive enactment. Finally, participants will learn how to guide their clients through to safely coming face to face with their innermost challenges–so to perceive, recognize, and realize their potential for true liberation and transformation.
Michael Hejazi, MSc, is a psychoanalytic researcher and practitioner.
His work seeks to address and resolve pervasive problems in the practices of psychotherapy, counselling, psychology, advocacy, as well as issues of knowledge attainment and engagement in the human sciences. Michael is enthusiastic about advancing theory and ethical practice, through teaching and learning from his international colleagues throughout the helping professions.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This will look at the neuroscience as well as how to recognize these things in the therapy. It is important to know what drugs are being prescribed so that you can understand some of the issues the client is experiencing i.e. why they are having talk therapy as well as medical therapy.
Richard Hill is a psychotherapist, author and teacher in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He holds Masters degrees in Social Ecology, Education and Brain and Mind Sciences. He lectures internationally and is published in a number of books, journals and magazines. He is Co-President of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This will look at the basis of these problems and show how they might be experienced in the therapy room.
Richard Hill is a psychotherapist, author and teacher in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He holds Masters degrees in Social Ecology, Education and Brain and Mind Sciences. He lectures internationally and is published in a number of books, journals and magazines. He is Co-President of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There has been an avalanche of neuroscience information over the past decade and even over the past few years since the first delivery of this presentation. It is still exciting, and it can still be confusing. This webinar will clarify some of the confusion and show how being a ‘brain-wise’ therapist can enhance whatever therapy you prefer to practice. The key to successful therapy is to help reintegrate the client to a more connected state. We will explore the most recent thinking about mirror neurons; the Polyvagal theory, resilience and coping, as well as innovations like memory reconsolidation and the implicit mind. Our desired result is still to show how knowledge of the brain helps us attune with clients to aid recovery and well-being.
Richard Hill is a psychotherapist, author and teacher in private practice in Sydney, Australia. He holds Masters degrees in Social Ecology, Education and Brain and Mind Sciences. He lectures internationally and is published in a number of books, journals and magazines. He is Co-President of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Steven Benmor, B.Sc., LL.B., LL.M. (Family)
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will give you important information and facts on family law in Ontario. The following topics will be covered:
- What is the law of child and custody & access?
- Who is your client?
- Can you (or your notes) be subpoenaed to court?
- What should be covered in your notes?
- When do you have a duty to report to CAS or the police?
- How to work with your clients’ spouse’s lawyers
- Can a therapist mediate a settlement?
- Can therapy be court-ordered?
- How to prevent, prepare for & manage formal complaints?
Steven Benmor has been certified as a Family Law Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada. He holds a Masters of Laws degree in Family Law and was an adjunct Professor of Family Law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University.
- Presenter: Ada Y. Barlatt, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Decision Making is important – personally and professionally. This workshop will help you improve your decision making skills and help you facilitate your clients’ decision making.
During this webinar, I will discuss relevant research about decision making (definitions, challenges and strategies). In addition, I will introduce you to my method that can be applied to any decision. My approach, called the Sumptu Decision Making Framework, empowers you to reflect your values and priorities in every decision. I will conclude with a discussion on how you can assist others in making decisions when using this method.
By the end of the webinar you will know implementable strategies and how to avoid common mistakes. You will have practiced these steps on a decision you are facing, and you will know how to help facilitate the decisions of others!
Ada Y. Barlatt, PhD is your cheerful Life Engineer! Ada helps people that are feeling lost stuck or confused 1) organize their thoughts 2) find clarity and 3) make decisions to create a life that they love! Ada develops products and services that combine Engineering thinking and Personal Development concepts to help you reach your full potential!
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Too often clients are overwhelmed because the issue they face feels overwhelming. At times, counsellors presented with a concern, such as a client’s passivity, can feel that way as well. Wheels Within Wheels is a simple tool that helps break the topic down by levels until a manageable issue reveals itself. Not only is this a very practical way of focusing on the challenge it takes far less time to discover the core problem area. One aspect of this counselling technique that appeals to me is the interaction between the client and me. Clients tend to be very invested in the process.
During this webinar I will demonstrate how to use Wheels Within Wheels in your practice. This includes an actual topic broken down into three levels.
Shirley Soleil – Day lives and works in Aylesford and also works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a consultant, facilitator, and author. Shirley advocates for people with disabilities, those suffering from abuse, and those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families. As part of the counselling process, Shirley uses Dream Work and a “Wheels Within Wheels” method to assist her clients in focusing on specific issues.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Brain science has moved so quickly and many of us know about this bit and that part, but not how it all fits together to be a whole brain that is inside a whole person. This course will help to fill in the gaps and develop more confidence in this fascinating area. We will walk through the overall architecture of the brain and how these bits and parts work together as well as look at how this can be used in the therapy room. Neuroscience shows what is going on within our clients, in addition to what we can observe. More importantly, when you have the brain/body in mind we can add other layers and possibilities to how we conduct therapy and deepen our understanding of what is or isn’t happening in the client. Let’s seek to know more about the organ we treat and use that knowledge to be better practitioners. That just makes sense.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Norman Amundson, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation will focus on how metaphors are used within counselling sessions and also how metaphors can be incorporated into the supervision process. The discussion will include both theoretical material and practical examples. The intention here is to provide a new framework for discussion and analysis of counselling situations. This metaphoric framework utilizes “combinatory play” and sets a foundation for creative problem solving and action.
Norman Amundson is a professor of Counselling Psychology in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. His areas of interest are creativity, metaphor, active engagement, and career development. He has published widely including a book on “Metaphor Making: Your Career, Your Life, Your Way”.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will look at what parent engagement and reflective processes are, then integrate the two to discuss ways in which we can get parents, particularly those in (post separation) conflict to better interact and engage with their child/ren and each other.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will explore the different types, symptoms of anxiety and ways of working with anxious clients.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Every ending matters, but how? When a patient or therapist has to move away, ending therapy prematurely, or even suddenly passes, a forced termination, when a span of therapy is to conclude, or, when a session ends, after sixty minutes, forty-five, or in a sudden perhaps rash break-down in the transference–in all these instances the end of therapy carries important significance for the parties to a therapeutic process. In this brief tutorial seminar Michael Hejazi will lead participants in a discussion on the important significance of endings to a person’s understanding, decision making, doubt, and intuition. Special attention will be given to psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan’s 1945 paper, Logical Time and the Assertion of Anticipated Certainty, and to his controversial practice of variable length sessions and the ‘scansion’, the “moment as a form of an interpretation” (Bruce Fink, 2011).
Michael Hejazi, MSc, is a psychoanalytic therapist in private practice in Ottawa. He researches, writes, and teaches in the psychotherapies.
Michael also studies Ethics at Saint Paul University. His upcoming projects include giving discussion papers on Sandor Ferenczi’s formalization of psychoanalytic theory, on René Descartes’ erotic fetishes, as well as a film on phantoms and visual hallucinations in psychopathology.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will look at identifying the different types of sex and pornography addictions as well as the morphology and intervention options.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Nikita Rewari
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This thought-provoking webinar we will change the way you think about occupational health and safety. Join us to learn about the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace – a set of guidelines, tools and resources that is revolutionizing how workplaces prevent psychological harm due to workplace factors. This session offers a roadmap to a brighter future for employers – highlighting the social and economic benefits of putting mental health at the top of the business agenda.
Nitika Rewari is the lead for the National Case Study Research Project at the Mental Health Commission of Canada. This three year project was launched in January 2014, and was initiated to help build the case for implementing the National Standard of Canada for Psychological Health and Safety in the Workplace. The project sees the MHCC following more than 40 organizations across Canada to identify promising practices. Nitika has dedicated the last 14 years of her career to health research, with a focus on e-Mental Health. Nitika has also delivered several workshops on the topic of workplace mental health, which is also the focus of the webinar.
- Presenter: Belinda Josephson
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will discuss the tools you can use to school counsel at the elementary level. We will discuss resources that can be used. An open discussion format will be used and shared with the participants.
Belinda has been a public school educator for 10 years, a school administrator for 12 years and a school guidance counsellor 10 years. She has taught grades primary to College level in both Nova Scotia and Manitoba. She has facilitated many topics. Some of these topics include student leadership, peer helping and critical incidents.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore the types of risks we experience in our rooms/settings and sessions eg safety and security, working with children, suicide and self harm indicators and more. And ways to can identify and manage these risks.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Beth Robinson and Jeff Landine
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There is a growing consensus in the field of counselling and psychotherapy that recognition of clinical supervision as a specialty area of practice is long overdue. Competence as a clinical supervisor is not something that is typically developed through graduate education and training nor does it automatically arise from experience as a practicing counsellor or psychotherapist. In this webinar Drs Robinson and Landine will distinguish between ethical and legal obligations in clinical supervision, explore ethical considerations related to informed consent, boundaries of competence, relational boundaries, record keeping, remedial intervention, and self-care, among other topics. They will promote awareness of approaches aimed at managing risk and minimizing liability in clinical supervision and will identify some clinical supervision contraindications. There will ample time allotted to respond to questions related to the ethical and legal aspects of supervision.
Beth Robinson is a Counsellor Educator in the MEd Counselling Program at Acadia University and has a longstanding interest in both counselling ethics and clinical supervision.
Jeff Landine is a professor in the Counselling program at the University of New Brunswick where he teaches Ethical and Professional Issues in Counselling Practice and serves as the University Coordinator for all Counselling practica.
- Presenter: Judy Chew, PhD. RPsych
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Feminist supervision grew out of the practice of feminist therapy. As a theoretical framework, feminist supervision is related to but conceptually distinct from good supervision. This webinar engages counselling professionals in the current knowledge and practice about feminist supervision. Participants are introduced to the key tenets, working with male trainees, challenges/cautions, and best practices to promote continued competency.
Judy is a registered psychologist and training director at the University of Calgary, Counselling Centre. In addition, she holds associate adjunct professor positions in the Faculty of Social Work and Division of Applied Psychology and has a small private practice. Her clinical practice and training/supervision reflect the value placed on addressing dimensions of diversity to promote professional and ethical practice.
- Presenter: Heather Ferris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Beliefs and habits affect our bodies and our responses to others. We will discuss five steps that, if practiced, will allow us to recognise what is going on in the present moment and allow us to respond authentically and more effectively.
Heather Ferris is a lead facilitator with Mindfulness Development Associates, counsellor and educator with over 30 years experience in Canada and internationally. A meditator for over twenty years, Heather is the author of Mindfulness, Awakening to a Meaningful life (2011) and facilitator of mindfulness groups and retreats. She uses mindfulness to help clients regulate stress and anxiety, as well as building awareness of habitual tendencies that lead to unfulfilled relationships with self and others.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This interactive workshop will explore ways to construct and utilise genograms and timeline therapy in everyday practice.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Heather Ferris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will discuss and practice techniques and methods to develop presence and recognise internal patterns that prevent us from being present. We will discuss co-regulation particularly as it relates to working with children who may have anxiety and attention or hyperactive responses.
Heather Ferris is a lead facilitator with Mindfulness Development Associates, counsellor and educator with over 30 years experience in Canada and internationally. A meditator for over twenty years, Heather is the author of Mindfulness, Awakening to a Meaningful life (2011) and facilitator of mindfulness groups and retreats. She uses mindfulness to help clients regulate stress and anxiety, as well as building awareness of habitual tendencies that lead to unfulfilled relationships with self and others.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop we will explore types of cyber addiction, gaming, social media and gambling and look at implications i.e. cyber bullying, social isolation etc
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Heather Ferris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will discuss the use of mindfulness practice and particularly the use of the mindfulness bell, and other cultural adaptations, to sustain quiet attention, interrupt habitual behaviours and develop self awareness.
Heather Ferris is a lead facilitator with Mindfulness Development Associates, counsellor and educator with over 30 years experience in Canada and internationally. A meditator for over twenty years, Heather is the author of Mindfulness, Awakening to a Meaningful life (2011) and facilitator of mindfulness groups and retreats. She uses mindfulness to help clients regulate stress and anxiety, as well as building awareness of habitual tendencies that lead to unfulfilled relationships with self and others.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This workshop will enable participants to have an introductory understanding of Acceptance and Compassion Therapy (ACT).
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This interactive workshop will employ a range of strengths-based tools and resources in order for the counsellor to effectively engage the client ensuring an effective intervention.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Heather Ferris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This one-hour session will provide an introduction to the practice of Mindfulness and is a prerequisite for the following three sessions. The session will be interactive providing instruction and encouraging practice of personal mindfulness meditation (body and mind awareness). There will be discussion of how this is used with clients to help them regulate their nervous system responses with case examples and time for questions.
Heather Ferris is a lead facilitator with Mindfulness Development Associates, counsellor and educator with over 30 years experience in Canada and internationally. A meditator for over twenty years, Heather is the author of Mindfulness, Awakening to a Meaningful life (2011) and facilitator of mindfulness groups and retreats. She uses mindfulness to help clients regulate stress and anxiety, as well as building awareness of habitual tendencies that lead to unfulfilled relationships with self and others.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
All therapists have had clients express interests in sharing their dreams, wanting to make sense of these deeply personal and perplexing experiences. Being full of significant symbols and emotional potency, dreams have to be properly worked to disclose their therapeutic potentiality. While analytic therapy modalities have long had a grounding in dream work, behavioral, cognitive, and client-centered therapies have generally avoided interpretation. That was then, and the emphasis in clinical work is fast changing; growing interest in subjectivity, personal life-narratives, hearing-voices, and the use of qualitative methods in research sets the groundwork for therapists of all orientations to become versed in working intersubjectively. What clinical experience shows is that a degree of willingness and capacity to work with dreams serves to both enrich therapy and provide powerful means by which therapists of all orientations can become more familiarized with otherwise hidden aspects of clients’ psychologies.
More importantly, client’s disclosure and effective working through of dream material serves to enrich the therapeutic alliance and deepen their own self-understanding of what disquieting and hindering experiences remain in the background of their conscious waking life.
This practical dream-interpretation webinar will provide both an overview of interpretation theory, and offer techniques therapists can use to safely, meaningfully, and effectively bring forward associations surrounding dream content. By comparing and contrasting the dream interpretation theories of Sigmund Freud, Carl G. Jung, and Jacques Lacan, participant therapists will be able to effectively navigate and use dream material in the course of a therapeutic regimen.
Michael Hejazi, MSc, is a psychodynamic psychotherapist in private practice in Ottawa. Michael is also involved with a number of international and local scholarly organizations and groups. His studies include investigations into the treatment of psychosis among refugee populations, psychopathology classification problems in the DSM-5, suicide prevention among military personnel, as well as the treating factor among differing modalities of therapy. Michael is interested in facilitating learning processes that will help his colleagues in the psychologies work more ethically and effectively.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this workshop participants will learn how to use mind mapping to assist and enhance client interventions.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Counsellors and Therapists practicing in an urban setting generally have another counsellor/therapist to listen to concerns regarding clients. Professionals working in rural and/or Northern parts of Canada may be more isolated and may at times have no one available to hear their stories or address their issues. Who, then, do these counsellors/therapists go to? The necessity of keeping a client’s confidentiality intact prevents us from talking to family or friends. However, there are people we can talk to without breaking confidentiality. The answer to the question, “Who Do We Talk To?” is discussed in this webinar.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Aylesford and also has an office in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor/consultant, Shirley is a workshop facilitator and author. She advocates for people with disabilities, those who are suffering from abuse, those suffering from poverty, etc. Her slogan is: “Helping Others Help Themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families and works with children and adult children of alcoholics. As part of the counselling process, Shirley uses Dream Work and a “Wheels Within Wheels” method to assist her clients in focusing on specific issues.
- Presenter: Eileen Bona
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will provide the participant with a thorough understanding of what AAT is, the foundational research and theories that support it, case examples of how it works for different populations and an outline of the ethical concerns that people practicing AAT in Canada should be aware of. This webinar will be the first of many intended to educate participants about the intricacies of practicing AAT. The presenter has 11 years of experience practicing AAT and has developed and taught the first College Accredited Course in AAT as well as developed the first certification program in AAT in Canada.
Eileen has been working with people with multiple mental health issues and organic brain dysfunction for more than 20 years. She began partnering with animals in a natural setting to help people with complex needs 11 years ago and founded the Dreamcatcher Nature Assisted Therapy Association at that time.
- Presenter: Alison Carpenter, BA, M.Ed, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Part 1:
This webinar will first focus on orienting participants to the lived realities of trans and gender non-conforming clients both by defining important words and concepts and by discussing some of the challenging manifestations and effects of gender dysphoria. We will also look at ways that we as clinicians can create a welcoming environment for trans and GNC clients who, in the rest of their lives, deal with environments which are unaware, dismissive and/or hostile to their experiences. The webinar is designed for clinicians who are interested in working with trans and GNC clients but who have little or no experience or training to do so.
Part 2:
This webinar will look at three or four diverse case studies and identify the therapeutic issues to keep in mind within the counselling relationship. Insight, experience and questions from participants are welcome.
Alison has been in private practice in Montreal since 1997 working with activist, artistic, student, LGBT and Q populations. She has worked therapeutically with 70+ transgender, transsexual and gender non-conforming clients and also writes therapeutic letters of support for clients who are pursuing physical transition with hormones and/or surgery.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of feeding and eating disorders? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Autumn Marie Chilcote, BA, Med, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Research supports the use of mindfulness in a therapeutic setting to enhance emotional regulation, reduce flashbacks and rumination, and work toward resilience and post-traumatic growth. In this two-part webinar, participants are invited to explore the integration of mindfulness principles with art and body work when approaching trauma-informed counselling.
In Part 1, a brief introduction of the primary tasks of safety and emotional regulation will be presented. Participants will be offered a sampling of 5-10 minute therapeutic techniques focusing on these main goals of trauma-informed counselling integrating mindfulness-based art and body work.
In Part 2, a short summary of trauma-informed care will open the session. Sample therapeutic techniques will focus toward mindfulness in relief of rumination and attending to flashbacks, with further samples of 5-10 minute art and body activities that invite this conversation with clients. Part 2 will close with a discussion of resilience and post-traumatic growth, including samples from clinical case work and resources for further exploration.
Autumn Marie Chilcote has enjoyed a range of roles in counselling, research and education, partnering with agencies including Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Northern BC Youth Sexual Health Team. Autumn currently provides trauma-informed counselling for Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of personality disorders? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Stacey Lloyd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
We will explore the elements of post separation as it applies to the Counselling and therapy context with a focus on specific skills and strategies for this special, unique & growing area of family therapy to defuse, manage and work appropriately with high conflict couples whilst maintaining a child focussed approach.
Stacey holds Master of Counselling, Bachelor of Psychology. is a dynamic child, family & relationship therapist, family court mediator and educator since 1999. Holding clinical registration with ACA & PACFA.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of trauma- and stressor-related disorders? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of an anxiety disorder? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Jason H. King, PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
DSM-5 is applicable in a wide diversity of contexts and is intended for use among clinicians and researchers practicing in academic, inpatient, outpatient, residential, partial hospital, private practice, primary care, clinical, community, and consultant settings. This seminar meets the pressing needs of these professionals as they are required to facilitate more accurate diagnosis of mental health disorders and strive for more common language to communicate with patients and to promote measurement-based care. The DSM-5® represents a fundamental shift in how disorders are conceptualized and diagnosed. The seminar provides an overview of the manual’s new organization and other innovations such as spectrum disorders. Changes to major psychiatric diagnostic groups are reviewed and participants have the opportunity to practice using the new system.
Dr. King served as a DSM-5 Revision Task Force committee member for the American Mental Health Counselors Association and the American Counseling Association. His Life Enhancement Center collected data for the American Psychiatric Association’s Routine Clinical Practice field trials that informed the DSM-5 revision process and is listed on page 914 of the DSM-5 for his contributions.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Through an overview of the use of the couch since Freud to contemporary seating and consulting-room arrangements, the webinar will touch upon the theoretical bases for free-associations, transferences, dreams, and resistance. The webinar will critically evaluate how design dynamics, office arrangements, and other aesthetics influence therapy. Case examples will explore the influence of the interview context on the achievement of depth and spontaneity in a series of therapeutic interviews.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Are you treating individuals who exhibit symptoms suggestive of a depressive or mood disorder? You are a competent and knowledgeable clinician; yet you want to provide clinical services with the most up-to-date information and techniques that are available. For a brief but comprehensive overview and clinical update you may want to participate in this webinar. Part of a six-part series, each webinar will provide you with information about one of the most commonly encountered disorder domains.
Please note that all upcoming webinars that are a part of this series are listed on this webpage.
Each of these webinars will provide an overview of the DSM-5 description of the disorder category. Then treatment strategies for these conditions will be considered through Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Client Centered, and Psychodynamic psychotherapy perspectives; clinical counselling case examples will illustrate the treatment techniques. The session will conclude with a brief discussion regarding emerging research being conducted regarding each of the disorder domains.
Michael is an Ottawa psychodynamic psychotherapist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health.
Interested in advancing clinical ethics and research methods in the psychologies, Michael hopes to support his colleagues become more aware and effective as therapists.
- Presenter: David Paré, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Small group reflecting processes developed by Tom Andersen (“the reflecting team” and Michael White (“outsider witness teams”) provide rich possibilities for group supervision. The adherence to a structured format increases safety by ensuring reflections unfold in a spirit of supportive curiosity and tentativeness. In this webinar, participants will learn how to structure group supervision sessions using elements of reflecting team and outsider witnessing team processes. David will present example of reflections intended to serve two key purposes: 1. Acknowledgment of the practitioner sharing their work; 2. Generation of multiple possibilities with regard to the “case” which is the focus of the sharing. Some familiarity with reflecting team traditions is helpful but not necessary for this webinar.
David Paré, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches counselling and psychotherapy. He is author of The Practice of Collaborative Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013) and editor (with Tom Strong) of Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies (2004) and (with Glen Larner) Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy (2004). A registered counselling psychologist, David is director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice in Ottawa.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, the following will be covered:
– Forming a hypothesis for diagnostic and treatment purposes: for the benefit of your patient/client.
– Reviewing different views on what constitutes evidence.
– Effective observation and blending clinical methods.
Michael runs a psychodynamic psychotherapy practice in Ottawa ON. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health, through which he takes a keen interest in advancing clinical ethics and research methods for the profession. His masters in science research topic and dissertation examined the globalized regulation of medically assumed harmfulness criteria concerning diverse lifestyle practices across cultures.
- Presenter: David Paré, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The opportunity to reflect deeply on practice with colleagues is not only a comforting support, but also a fertile learning opportunity. Unfortunately, the opportunity rarely arises in workplaces, where supervision too often happens on the fly, and case conferences forfeit, open-ended exploration in favour of a quest for single answers. Reflective communities offer a generative alternative. They bring together practitioners from diverse work settings for ongoing sharing of practice and theory using variations on reflecting team formats to create safety and encourage multiple viewpoints. David will share his experience creating these forums for peer supervision and professional development, highlighting some key learnings based on years of collaborations with counsellors in the Ottawa area. Some familiarity with reflecting team traditions is helpful but not necessary for this webinar.
David Paré, Ph.D., is a full professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches counselling and psychotherapy. He is author of The Practice of Collaborative Counselling and Psychotherapy (2013) and editor (with Tom Strong) of Furthering Talk: Advances in the Discursive Therapies (2004) and (with Glen Larner) Collaborative Practice in Psychology and Therapy (2004). A registered counselling psychologist, David is director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice in Ottawa.
- Presenter: Michael H. Hejazi
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will provide an overview of DSM-V diagnostics to clinical counselling and psychotherapy applications. Participants will review diagnostics in psychotherapy. Then, the restructuring of the DSM will be reviewed; changes, such-as the move towards spectrum levels of severity will be considered for their clinical implications.
Major disorders commonly encountered by clinicians are discussed as they are presented in the DSM-V. Conditions covered include childhood neurodevelopment, depressive, anxiety, mood, obsessive-compulsive, personality, schizophrenia and psychotic disorders, substance use disorder, somatic symptoms related disorders, and feeding and eating disorders.
Some consideration will be given to criticisms of the DSM-V; however, the primary focus will be pragmatic, towards recognizing and understanding how mental illnesses are categorized in the DSM-V.
Michael has a private psychotherapy practice in Vancouver BC. He is in supervised training in psychodynamic therapy with a psychoanalyst and clinical psychologist. His educational and professional background is in transcultural mental health, through which he takes a keen interest in advancing clinical ethics and research methods for the profession.
- Presenter: Danielle Lambrecht
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar focuses on forgiveness and self-limiting beliefs. I have found that there is a strong association between one’s self-limiting beliefs and the unstoppable expansion of past grudges, resentments, hurt, abandonment, self-victimization, self-sabotage, and so on. I hope to assist in sharing what I have learned in terms of forgiveness and how it will reduce or eliminate self-defeating thinking patterns. I use a combination of spiritual guidance, cognitive-behavioral (an offshoot of dialectical) paradigms, and my idea of “radically letting go”. Radically letting go is to accept that lessons can be learned and then let go, or lessons may be for or of past others and in this differentiation they can be radically let go to that person/ancestral lineage.
Danielle is bicultural – Hawaiian-Chinese and Yugoslavian. She was born in Hawaii and moved to Canada before she turned one year old. She has been working in the mental health and addictions field for 13 years, which has most recently led to a personal and spiritual counselling focus.
- Presenter: Louisa Jewell, MAPP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Research and applications in Positive Psychology are increasingly relevant for counsellors to improve the psychological well-being of clients. In this webinar, Louisa Jewell, president of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association, will give an overview of positive psychology and common well-being models used today. She will explore how you can apply this to improve psychological strength and resilience with clients. You will also learn proven exercises, activities and tools that you can use right away with your clients to help them bounce back quickly from any situation and strengthen resilience. Louisa offers participants practical, step by step instructions in the session.
Louisa Jewell, MAPP, is the President of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association and a facilitator and speaker with more than 16 years of experience working with leaders and teams to build positive and productive workplaces. She is a graduate of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology program at UPENN.
- Presenter: Nancy Buzzell, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
What do athletes, class presenters, performing artists and thesis defenders have in common? They are required to perform even when they are anxious.
This workshop uses sport psychology to provide practical skills that will help individuals overcome anxiety and improve their academic, artistic and/or athletic performance. Skills included in this workshop include: activation scale, relaxation, self-regulation, positive self-talk, best performance, mental rehearsal and smart goal setting.
Nancy holds a Ph.D. from the University of Calgary and works at the University of New Brunswick’s Counselling Services. PhD., University of Calgary. She has been a licensed psychologist in Alberta, British Columbia and is currently licensed in New Brunswick. Nancy has over 20 years of experience as a therapist, group facilitator, instructor and clinical supervisor.
- Presenter: Sue Smiley
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Poet Muriel Rekeyser said “the world is made up of stories, not of atoms.” In 15+years of companioning clients, I have noticed the presence of five consistent story themes that weave through the narrative of most every story told. Although clients are unique, these five story themes appear consistent across age, gender, sexual orientation and race. In this interactive webinar participants will:
- examine the five stories
- explore strategies to engage client discourse
- evaluate the impact of the five stories
Sue Smiley is smiley by name, smiley by nature. Her joy comes from a deep love of teaching, counselling, advocacy and consulting. Sue has a Master’s Degree in Counselling and teaches full time in the School of Health and Human Services (NSCC) and is an adjunct professor in the School of Education at Acadia University. In clinical practice since 1998, Sue is a strong advocate for demystifying grief and rescuing it from pathology. Grief is natural, necessary and transformative.
- Presenter: Autumn Marie Chilcote
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Distress tolerance techniques such as distraction, reality checking, acceptance and mindfulness are useful tools to share with clients presenting worries, stress and anxiousness in a therapeutic setting. In this webinar, participants will be introduced to 5-10 minute art interventions that can easily be integrated into a conversation about anxiety and distress tolerance. The presenter will explain the intention underlying expressive interventions in a therapeutic setting, offer 2-3 sample activities for participants based on a clinical case study and orient participants to theoretical principles underlying the use of brief expressive interventions for anxiety.
Autumn Marie Chilcote has enjoyed a range of roles in counselling, research and education, partnering with agencies including Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Northern BC Youth Sexual Health Team. Autumn currently provides counselling and facilitates community programs related to health promotion and sensitive-topic teaching in New Brunswick.
- Presenter: Priya Senroy
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will be discussing using cybercounselling with clients who have been diagnosed as having high functioning learning disabilities. The webinar is geared towards counsellors who work with people with disabilities using both face to face and cybercounselling. The webinar will conclude with sharing some challenges faced and goals attained during this brief counselling process while discussing the efficacy of using this medium of counselling with people with disabilities.
Priya Senroy is a Canadian Certified Counsellor, Disability Educator, Facilitator and Trainer. She has been using cybercounselling in her private practice for the last two years and have a number of clients with learning disabilities who access this service.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Children suffer in silence as an alcoholic parent continuously disrupts their home life. They are taught to keep the situation a secret and in silence repress/deny their deepest needs. They need to be heard; often their silence is heard first, sometimes for a session or more. Once they discover they are important to the counsellor they share what they feel. We cannot fix the alcoholic but we can hear and offer coping mechanisms to the children. The roles these children play out in their families are discussed in order for counsellors to recognize them and help the child unlearn and then learn new ways of living life to its fullest.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, those who are suffering from abuse, those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families and works with children and adult children of alcoholics. As part of the counselling process, Shirley uses Dream Work and a “Wheels Within Wheels” method to assist her clients in focusing on specific issues.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Presenter: Shirley Soleil
Language: English
Location: Online
Cost: $25 CCPA members per part | $35 non members per part *Plus applicable taxes
# of CECs: 1 per part
Webinar Description:
Adult Children of Alcoholics are a unique group and as such need to be heard on a deep level. Their needs are often deep wounds not yet healed because they are not aware of having them. Exploring feelings is only one level of counselling work. Addressing the roles such as Protector, Adjuster, Placator, etc. and helping them explore who they are as people, perhaps by getting in touch with the inner child who took on the role originally releases the clients to experience the freedom to be themselves.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, those who are suffering from abuse, those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families and works with children and adult children of alcoholics. As part of the counselling process, Shirley uses Dream Work and a “Wheels Within Wheels” method to assist her clients in focusing on specific issues.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Is it possible to recognize a person with an addictive personality? If the answer is yes then we, as counsellors, can use the clues to determine how to best help the client. It is important in dealing with the issues connected to living with an addiction. Educating people who potentially are addictive personalities could actually prevent abuse of addictive substances. The other reason discovering these clues is important has to do with taking prescribed medications. Many people suffer tremendous pain needlessly because of the concern about addictions. They could have better quality of life if given appropriate levels of pain medications. Therefore, counsellors who work with people with chronic pain/disabilities could advocate for them by determining as close as possible if these people are addictive personalities.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, those who are suffering from abuse, those suffering from poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families and works with children and adult children of alcoholics. As part of the counselling process, Shirley uses Dream Work and a “Wheels Within Wheels” method to assist her clients in focusing on specific issues.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The Curiosity Approach has been developed at The Mindscience Institute in order to bridge the gap between positive regard and positive psychology. There is a cycle of activity that is the basis of problem solving and life transformation. Therapy tends to focus on what is called Stage 2 where the struggle for meaning and understanding takes place. The Curiosity Approach adds a new dimension that allows us to engage with not only our strengths, but also the possibility of solutions. New techniques will be described that can help clients see into the ‘light at the end of the tunnel’. Curiosity about what is possible becomes a viable focus and a doorway to shifting beyond the problem.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Many of the symptoms of depression and negative affect may not have an emotional cause. There is another reason why we feel ‘down’ that is to do with a physical response to our lifestyle, especially the problem of prolonged time indoors. It is common to feel a mood change in winter, so much so that it has a special name – seasonal affective disorder – that is commonly abbreviated to SAD. This means that we must know something about how this happens and who it affects people so that we are able to include simple lifestyle practices. The main players in this problem are the Sun, skin, cholesterol, vitamin D, the liver, cortisol and the mid-brain. This webinar will explain the connections between these elements and what we can do to help our clients and ourselves!
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Dan Mitchell & Dawn Schell
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Telepsychiatry has been around for a number of years as a way that psychiatrists have reached patients at hospitals in rural areas. What about using the webcam attached to our computers? What about counselling by Skype? We use it to talk to our friends and family. Why not our clients? It seems like a great solution to busy lives, travelling, and reaching remote areas. However, there are a myriad of ethical and practical issues to work through, many of them unexpected. It’s not as straightforward as it may seem.
Dan co-founded Worldwide Therapy Online Inc. (www.therapyonline.ca) in 1994. He offers Cybercounselling training in collaboration with the University of Toronto, and PrivacEmail™ web-based software for online counselling.
Dawn is an affiliate counsellor with Worldwide Therapy Online Inc. and has been doing online counselling since 2006. Dawn also works in private practice as a Career Development Practitioner, facilitates employment service programs and writes for the CCPA blog on a bi-weekly basis.
- Presenter: Dawn Brown
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The best time to start working on a healthier way of living is now – wherever you are. There is a big push to make resolutions at certain times or around major events. We’ve all experienced the sense of loss that comes with the realization that days, weeks have gone by and we’ve made little progress in working towards our goals. Whenfaced with changes that seem daunting, taking steps one day at a time can get us to our goals and help us to appreciate the process. We shift the focus from ruminating about where we feel we should be to where we are…and take action.
This presentation invites participants to examine proven strategies that increase our awareness that our lives are made up of daily choices. These practical strategies cultivate and strengthen the mindset that reminds us that the responsibility for practising them is a personal choice…our own. We may forget this, however every day offers us an opportunity for new beginnings.
Dawn Brown, M.Ed. (counselling), has extensive experience as a psychotherapist and coach, specializing in relationship and life transitions. An international speaker and published author (her books That PerceptionThing! and Been There, Done That … Now What? deal with change and transition), she helps others navigate through and thrive in times of uncertainty and change. Her upcoming book, DayShift: Start Where You Are, reminds readers that every day offers an opportunity for new beginnings. Dawn is the head of Perception Shift, a company dedicated to creating a healthy approach to living. She is the proud recipient of the YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Learning for Life category.
- Presenter: Jennifer Holt
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Most counsellors feel that their education and training have prepared them to work with survivors of sexual abuse and violence. However, these same skilled clinicians often believe that they do not have the skill set required to effectively engage and work with “offenders.” Given the fact that there has been an increase in the number of sexual based charges being laid in Canada, especially those facilitated by the Internet, the need for skilled clinicians to work with this population is on the rise. This session will focus on what current research has shown to be best practice guidelines for effective counselling strategies for men who have engaged in sexually inappropriate and abusive behaviours. This presentation is designed for front-line counsellors who wish to enhance their skill set so to work with this population.
Jennifer Holt is a psychotherapist with 13 years of experience. She is qualified as an expert witness regarding sexual recidivism risk and counselling options for adults who have engaged in sexually inappropriate behaviours.
- Presenter: Leah Young
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Webinar Description:
Weight management is challenging for clients and therapists alike. Although there are many “diets” available to choose from, many clients continue to struggle with their weight and lifestyle choices. Moreover, for those challenged with weight management issues, very few diet programs actually work long-term and instead instill the painful feelings of deprivation, restriction and guilt. The reason is because typical diet programs do not effectively address the behavioural and emotional reasons why people over-eat. As a result most people cannot sustain the diet behaviours long-term and any weight-loss success they achieve is generally short-lived.
Using humour, personal anecdotes and the Am I Hungry?® Mindful Eating Cycle developed by Michelle May, MD , this interactive and insightful presentation pokes holes in diet industry methods while delivering a deceptively simple, common-sense alternative to weight management that offers more than just “eat-less and move more”. Instead, we will explore how people who struggle with overeating and emotional eating can re-establish hunger as their primary cue for eating, learn how to recognize their triggers for overeating and explore how to meet their bio-psycho-social needs more effectively. As they get back in touch with their natural body instincts, they cultivate an “in-charge” attitude towards their eating choices so they may arrive at long-term freedom from this issue.
As an MBA graduate with an extensive career in marketing strategy, a key note speaker and workshop facilitator, Leah Young is particularly motivated by her own 30 year struggle with yo-yo dieting. Through a combination of a research study she undertook on the weight loss services industry and her first-hand experience with many commercial diet programs, she arrived at the hard realization that diet programs do not address the psychological and emotional triggers that lead people to habitually overeat. Ultimately, through her unique blend of professional and personal expertise, she identified a tremendous opportunity in Canada, to promote and deliver the Am I Hungry? ® Program’s revolutionary non-diet, behavioural approach to weight management.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The struggle of PTSD is not so much the traumatic event, but the ongoing memory of that event and the emotional responses that come with it. Helping someone with PTSD is to try and disconnect the present emotional upset from the memory. This is done in many ways – putting the event in the past; reducing the emotional intensity through relaxation; and dealing with issues of self esteem and safety. Reducing the intensity of the distress usually uses the technique of extinguishing – making the person feel safe in the present. We now understand so much more about how memory occurs in the brain. Now we understand that it is possible to change the way the memory connects with emotional distress. This is called memory reconsolidation. This webinar will explain this new understanding of memory and how we can utilise this in treatment of those who suffer from past trauma, phobias and, to some extent, dissociative issues. This is a breakthrough that will allow greater focus of therapeutic effort and more reliable success in long term recovery from PTSD.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Elizabeth Sterritt, M.Ed., GCCR, Acc.FM (OAFM), Cert.EM (FMC) OCT
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Part 1:
What is domestic violence?
- Defining domestic violence
- United Nations Charter
- Canadian law
An overview of domestic violence in Canada
- Spousal violence
- Family violence against children and youth
- Family violence against seniors
Part 2:
The balance of power in family dynamics
- How is power defined in the family?
- Role of power in family relationships
- Effects of high conflict and abuse in family relationships
Part 3:
Family dynamics: the effects of domestic violence on all family members
- Indicators of danger
- The impact of domestic violence on all family members
- Role of culture in domestic violence
- How to deal with domestic violence
- Counselling
- Mediation
- Court system
Presenter: Elizabeth Sterritt
Elizabeth Sterritt, M.Ed., GCCR, Acc.FM, Cert.EM , OCT, is an articulate bilingual Accredited Family Mediator and Certified Elder Mediator in private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Her practice includes a specialization in elder and family mediation and conflict coaching. She also has a great deal of experience in offering her conflict resolution sills in the workplace. Ms. Sterritt is active in conflict resolution training, including teaching an Introduction to Mediation course, as well as providing training in Elder Mediation, as a certified Train-the-Trainer in Elder Mediation. Recently, Ms. Sterritt taught a three day course on “Family Dynamics: The Effects of Power Imbalance and Abuse on the Family” for the Centre for Life-Long Learning at the University of Prince Edward Island.
An assessor for the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution Program at Carleton University, Ms. Sterritt coaches and trains mediators in her private practice. The past president of OAFM (Ottawa Chapter), Ms. Sterritt is a certified coach, a master neuro-linguistic practitioner and a member of the Centre for Conflict Education and Research Board of Directors, at Carleton University. She is also a collaborative consultant with Collaborative Practice Ottawa.
- Presenter: Jamie Dovedoff
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Webinar Description:
Individuals find themselves off of work for a number of different reasons whether it be physical or psychological. However, after an individual has been off work for a significant period of time, regardless of the original reason for the absence, psychological stress plays a significant part in their continued absence. This stress is often a result of their fear of returning to work. This webinar will help you better understand the return to work process from an insurer’s perspective and will also provide you with tools to assist your client/patient in returning to a meaningful and productive adult life in the working world. But, most importantly, this webinar will provide you with useful tools to assist them alleviate their occupationally-induced stress.
Jamie Dovedoff is a Canadian Certified Counsellor, a Registered Rehabilitation Professional, and a Practicing Kinesiologist. She specializes in assisting individuals on long term disability return to work via Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-based practices and/or physical rehabilitation.
- Presenter: Dr. Darcy Harris
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Many clients who seek counselling struggle with significant losses in their lives. These loss experiences may involve the death of a loved one, loss of the ability to life their lives as they have known it, or a non-death loss experience. Clinicians who work with grieving clients need to be aware of the unique aspects of grief counselling, which distinguishes it from other types of clinical practice work. This webinar will provide information that will assist counsellors to effectively support the adaptive aspects of the grief response in their clients, draw attention to the current research and trends in grief counselling practice, and help counsellors to identify when the grieving process has gone awry in a client so that appropriate interventions and referrals can be implemented.
Dr. Harris is an Associate Professor and the Thanatology Coordinator at King’s University College at Western University. She also maintains a clinical practice with a specialization in issues related to change, loss, and transition. Dr. Harris is an author and lecturer on topics related to grief and loss, and she has published many articles, chapters, and books in these topical areas.
- Presenter: Susan Doiron, B.Ed., M.Ed., CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Finding beach glass is an ordinary beach scavenging activity. Finding blue beach glass is a rare find indeed. It is like finding the extraordinary in the ordinary. And so it is with helping people find their unique self that distinguishes them from everyone else and by extension a way of being and doing in the world that is authentic and meaningful for them.
In this webinar we will focus on two learning goals:
1) Explore three common protector parts that some of us extend a lot of time and energy re-enacting in our daily lives or indeed may become over identified with and are not a reflection of who we really are.
2) Explore 12 common vocational archetypes and discuss ways to help clients identify their top 3 that do reflect who they really are.
Susan returned to graduate school after a long and varied career in technology, management and education. She previously worked as a trauma therapist in the sexual assault field and in private practice. Susan is currently working as a school counsellor, author and workshop presenter. She is the author of a self help book Finding Blue Beach Glass: Uncovering the Extraordinary in the Ordinary and has published her Master’s thesis: Personal Transformation in the Counselling Process: The Integration of Psychosynthesis and Focusing Therapeutic Models. She resides in Rice Point, PEI.
- Presenter: Susan Meindl, MA, Counselling Psychology, OPQ license
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
It is generally recognized that grad students may experience burnout due to learning conditions that demand excessively high levels of effort and do not provide the supervisory or institutional support that would facilitate effective coping. Emotional and physical fatigue influences student performance and affects personal commitment. The degree to which students experience burnout is dependent on their psychological make-up, resiliency and social-emotional resources.
Less well understood are the deeper psychological issues that often underpin the hopes and dreams that drive pursuit of a graduate degree. Family expectations, perfectionism and unrealistic fantasies are often unacknowledged sources of psychological strain and academic blockage.
The thesis topic itself is sometimes an unconscious attempt to solve a psychological or familial wound. Identifying deeper motivations and connecting the thesis project to a larger life picture are ways to add value, purpose and personal relevance which sustain commitment to a lengthy and demanding process.
Susan Meindl is a graduate of the McGill Counselling Psychology program, the Argyle Institute of Human Relations psychodynamic training program and a member “en regle” of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec. The challenges and potential of Highly Sensitive People are a focus of her private practice in Montreal.
- Presenter: Mark Franklin, M.Ed. B.A.Sc. CMF P.Eng.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
You’re consistently good at what you do, but are you consistent? A clear method of practice makes it easier to attract clients, deliver service, improve programming, train associates and evaluate services. Hear first-hand experience about the initial development and continuous improvement of a narrative method of practice in which a growing group of helping professionals across Canada and the U.S. have been trained. Learn five steps to transform your work into a method-of-practice. Join the developer of the CareerCycles narrative method of practice, Mark Franklin, to explore how you can benefit from a method that balances structure with flexibility and professional judgment, so you and your clients find relief that there’s a ‘method in your madness.
Mark Franklin,M.Ed.,P.Eng.,CMF, leads CareerCycles, a career management social enterprise and practice with clients across Canada, and a team of amazing career professionals. He is creator of CareerCycles narrative method of practice embraced by 120+ helping professionals, Who You Are MATTERS! game, Career Buzz radio, and CCPA blogger.
- Presenter: Mark Franklin, M.Ed. B.A.Sc. CMF P.Eng.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
You’ve seen other people’s themed trips that incorporate the leader’s practice – such as personal counselling, yoga, career renewal – and you’ve thought, why not me? Learn from the presenter’s experience designing, marketing and leading over 20 retreats and getaways in Ontario, Cuba and Nicaragua. Understand what works, when using ‘activity based counselling’ principles and utilizing the cycle of the seasons and the outdoors as a catalyst for personal change. Find out how you can integrate and balance intentional conversation with active reflection and time for fun and relaxation.
Mark Franklin,M.Ed.,P.Eng.,CMF, leads CareerCycles, a career management social enterprise and practice with clients across Canada, and a team of amazing career professionals. He is creator of CareerCycles narrative method of practice embraced by 120+ helping professionals, Who You Are MATTERS! game, Career Buzz radio, and CCPA blogger.
- Presenter: Elizabeth Sterritt, M.Ed., GCCR, Acc.FM (OAFM), Cert.EM (FMC) OCT
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Part 1:
Learn about the current social trends that call for change in helping Canadian families
Examine the transferable skills counsellors bring to elder mediation
Consider how diversification and the expansion of your skill sets offer the potential for growth in your practice!
Part 2:
Discover how a diagnosis of dementia creates a ripple effect in Canadian families, placing a special emphasis upon helping the caregiver in the family, and how elder mediation accomplishes this important task
Learn how elder mediation offers a “preventative” element for families in crisis
Work with a specific case study to understand and assess the interplay of counselling skills with elder mediation skills.
Part 3:
With the capacity for a diagnosis of dementia to destabilize families and communities, learn how the elder mediator’s expertise invokes the potential for swift action in families
Probe the specific qualifications required to integrate new skills into your professional repertoire
Embrace elder mediation as an emerging field that responds to the needs of Canada’s aging population and expands your counselling practice
Elizabeth Sterritt, M.Ed., GCCR, Acc.FM, Cert.EM (OAFM), OCT, is an Accredited Family Mediator and Certified Elder Mediator in private practice in Ottawa, Ontario. Her practice includes a specialization in elder and family mediation and conflict coaching. Ms. Sterritt is an evaluator for the mediation skills assessment module in the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution Program at Carleton University. The past president of OAFM (Ottawa Chapter), Ms. Sterritt is a certified coach, a master neuro-linguistic practitioner and a member of the Centre for Conflict Education and Research Board of Directors, at Carleton University, the Family Mediation Canada Board of Directors and a collaborative consultant with Collaborative Practice Ottawa.
- Presenter: Richard Hill, M.A., Diploma Professional Counseling, M.Ed
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Considered by many to be one of the most enlightening breakthroughs of the past two decades. This theory enables us to understand the underlying processes to stress, anxiety, panic attacks and most importantly how it is possible to use this understanding to the treatment of these issues. This presentation is partly theoretical, but largely about how to utilise this knowledge in a practical way that creates beneficial change for the client.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil, B.A., M. Div., M. Ed.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Counsellors need to be there to listen to the stories, to acknowledge the abuse and validate the client’s experience. Without that willingness, we might condemn them to silence, continued pain, and unhealthy future relationships.
We all know abuse occurs in some families. When we, as counsellors, hear these stories, our responsibility is to report. Unfortunately, some do not because of a possible heavy time commitment or other factor. In not doing so, we are condemning the children to lives of pain and to a belief that no one cares. In some cases, these children will eventually become abusive parents themselves and lead to future generations experiencing abuse.
This webinar will explore the issues faced by children sometimes facing daily abuse from parents. It also explores the counsellor’s role in the legal and ethical issues involved.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, suffering abuse, poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Although Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families, her main interest is counseling people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
- Presenter: Richard Hill, M.A., Diploma Professional Counseling, M.Ed
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This presentation will explain how the problematic behaviors we see can be just the superficial expression of wide variety of issues within the ‘human being’. Although it is necessary to have a deep understanding and skills in your preferred therapeutic practice, we are more like an orchestra than just a solo instrument. It is necessary to understand more about the various elements that make up the human ‘system’. A set of ‘9 Voices’ helps us in our assessment of the client. We can look so much deeper into the client if we learn to listen to messages that include not just behavior and affect, but also what we eat; how much Sunshine we absorb, how our immune system is feeling; and how our brain brings all these things together into a sense of self.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Christina Schmolke
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Sex addiction is a controversial and misunderstood issue in North American culture. In this webinar, I will: (a) discuss the factors that contribute to sex addiction, (b) share ways to identify and screen for sex addiction, and (c) present treatment options. Due to the engaging nature of the topic, sufficient time will be provided for questions.
Christina Schmolke is a registered psychologist who practices in Edmonton. Christina works an addiction counsellor for Alberta Health Services and runs a part-time private practice specializing in sex and love addiction. Christina is currently completing a certification in sex addiction therapy through the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals.
- Presenter: Bryan Hiebert
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Virtually all stakeholders are interested in demonstrating the value of counselling services, however recent studies indicate that counsellors seldom evaluate their work with clients and when evaluation is done, it often does focus on the changes that clients experience as a result of counselling. To address accountability concerns, it is useful for counsellors to be able to provide evidence connecting the changes clients experience to the specific components of the services that counsellors provide. In this two-part webinar an innovative processes for integrating evaluation into the everyday practices of counsellors will be presented and several tools for gathering evidence will be described.
Part 1: Part 1 will focus on describing the approach and provide some different ways to evaluate group experiences and workshops.
Part 2 will re-cap the approach very briefly and then describe several different ways to collect data that would track client progress and client change in individual counselling.
Both sessions will provide examples of new tools for providing evidence of the value of counselling services. Participants will leave the webinars with a repertoire of tools and approaches that they can use to provide evidence of a strong link between the services they provide and the changes that clients experience.
Bryan Hiebert has been working on new ways to evaluate the impact of counselling on clients’ lives for more than 20 years. He is a member of the Canadian Research Working Group on Evidence-Based Practice in Career Development and part of the international Prove It Works initiative.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Self-employment is a growing trend in Canada. However, many counsellors and career practitioners don’t understand enough about self-employment realities to be able to assess their clients’ readiness or to provide adequate support as they decide whether or not to “take the leap.” Drawing from a recent project funded in part by CERIC, the presenter will share her own journey of self-employment over the past 30+ years and, through case examples, humour, and a touch of pragmatic realism, provide you with tips and strategies for helping your clients make an informed choice. You’ll also learn about the Look Before You Leap website, blog, course, and book – a useful suite of resources for counsellors and their soon-to-be-self-employed clients. This webinar will also be useful for counsellors considering private practice.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Susan Meindl, MA, Counselling Psychology, OPQ license
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1.5
Psychologist Elaine Aron (1996) proposes that 15-20% percent of the population naturally falls into the range that is considered “highly sensitive”. High sensitivity (HS) includes intense sensitivity from birth to physical stimulation, strong somatic reactions and intense emotional responses which create a unique life experience and certain predictable physical and interpersonal stresses. Heightened ability to perceive and respond to fine detail and nuance also creates an acute ability to detect non-verbal signals which may generate relational anxieties. High Sensitivity is not a DSM-IV diagnosis, but may appear in higher percentage of psychotherapy clients than in the population at large as an origin, intensifier or complicating factor in the complaints that bring clients to our practices
This one hour webinar will “sensitize” therapy professionals to the problems and potentials of High Sensitivity, in the clinical setting and at large, and suggest how to work effectively with these very interesting clients.
Susan Meindl is a graduate of the McGill Counselling Psychology program, the Argyle Institute of Human Relations psychodynamic training program and a member “en regle” of the Order of Psychologists of Quebec. The challenges and potential of Highly Sensitive People are a focus of her private practice in Montreal.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
It’s a common misperception in Canada that anybody working here who is “from away” is an immigrant. Interestingly, however, we don’t tend to think of Canadians working abroad as having emigrated – rather, we consider them as expatriates (i.e., part of the global workforce, engaged in an international career). In fact, many of your clients, who appear at first glance to be immigrants, may actually be global careerists(i.e., expatriates from their home countries, temporarily in Canada for work).
This distinction is important for counsellors as the needs and expectations of international workers can be significantly different from those of immigrants. Learn from the presenter’s extensive experience with clients in international/global careers and challenge your assumptions. By distinguishing between immigrants and expatriates, you’ll be better equipped to meet the unique needs of clients from each of these groups.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Jocelyne Lebel
- Language: french
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Dans les organismes d’employabilité, il arrive que l’on doive intervenir auprès de personnes ayant des problèmes de santé mentale. Pourtant habitués à travailler avec des individus de tous les milieux et de tous les genres, les intervenants/tes peuvent se sentir incompétents, impuissants à aider et mal à l’aise vis-à–vis ces personnes qui présentent des difficultés particulières. Quelle est la réalité actuelle entourant les gens aux prises avec des problèmes de santé mentale ? Y a-t-il de bonnes ou de mauvaises manières d’aider ces personnes ? Jusqu’à quel point pouvons-nous intervenir ? Cette conférence vise à aider les intervenants à mieux comprendre les problématiques entourant la santé mentale et adapter leur intervention avec les personnes aux prises avec des souffrances psychiques.
Jocelyne cumule près de vingt années d’expérience dans le développement de carrière et le soutien aux petites entreprises. Elle s’intéresse autant à la santé psychologique au travail qu’à la gestion du rendement dans les organisations. Conseillère, formatrice et conférencière, elle soutient les personnes dans leur vie de travail et les organisations dans l’établissement d’un milieu de travail sain et motivant.
- Presenter: Dr. Rolf Nolasco
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The webinar offers participants a closer view of integrating attachment theory, neuroscience, and mindfulness in therapeutic work. It brings together key elements from each discipline and then weaving them together in such a way that the whole person–body, mind, spirit–is encountered and addressed in therapy. A case vignette is presented as a way of translating theory to practice.
Dr. Rolf Nolasco is Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology at Providence Theological Seminary and Founding Director of the Contemplative Life Institute. He is also a psychotherapist, spiritual director, and author.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil, B.A., M. Div., M. Ed.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Part 1: The first session focuses on specific challenges to counselling children and teens with Learning Disabilities. Self Esteem, Peer Pressure/Acceptance, Feelings of Failure/Inadequacies, and Self Disclosure cause more challenges for young people with LD(s) since they are not going to out grow the LD(s). Acceptance of their LD(s) is a long process for many and without it life continues to be lived in chaos.
Part 2: The second session deals with how to assist parents in understanding how Learning Disabilities affect the child. For example, it is the LD(S), not the child who is chronically late, disorganized, etc. It determines the way the parents attend to the child, either as a defiant, rebellious child who needs punishment/discipline or a child who needs help in developing coping strategies for living with the LD(s). Parents often blame themselves for the LD(s) or struggle with needing outside help. They often need help in the grieving process, grief for the loss of dreams/hopes as well as loss of what the healthy child looks like.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, suffering abuse, poverty etc. She is a Canadian Certified Counsellor. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Although Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families, her main interest is counseling people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Retirement is eagerly anticipated by some and a focus of anxiety for others. As with any major life transition, some clients seek pre-retirement counselling for support exploring opportunities, setting goals, making decisions, restructuring relationships, and preparing for the transition process. Retirement concerns include financial readiness, health and wellbeing, relocation, whether or not to return to work, and, ironically time management (most of the newly retired can’t figure out how they had time to work!). Through humorous case examples drawn from extensive experience facilitating pre-retirement workshops over the past 16 years, you’ll leave this webinar with tips and strategies for supporting your clients as they contemplate retirement.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Richard Hill, M.A., Diploma Professional Counseling, M.Ed
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There has been an avalanche of neuroscience information over the past decade. It is exciting, but at the same time can be confusing and seem too technical. This webinar will clarify some of the confusion and show how being a ‘brain-wise’ therapist can enhance whatever therapy you prefer to practice. The key to successful therapy is to help reintegrate the client to a more connected state. That is what we need to do with all the seemingly disconnected elements of knowledge. We will cover things like: mirror neurons; the polyvagal theory, resilience and coping and how the brain can be attuned to aid recovery and well being.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Involuntary job loss (being laid off or fired) is one of the highest-rated stressors in life. Career counsellors, of course, need to understand the process from job loss to re-employment. However, other counsellors, too, are likely to encounter clients who have recently and unexpectedly become unemployed.
In this webinar, learn from someone who has been supporting the unemployed for over 30 years. Through case examples, stories, and tips drawn from the research literature and her extensive experiences, the presenter will help you help your clients navigate the challenging emotions and puzzling process of becoming successfully re-employed.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Priya Senroy, Drama and Movement Therapist, MA, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar will explore the use of creative therapies (art, writing, music, dance and play, amongst others) in therapy with adolecents with eating disorders. Creative therapies are particularly useful as ways to engage a reluctant participant in therapy. Given the prevalence of alexithymia in individuals with eating disorders, creative therapies are also essential tools to aid the client to express their emotional experiences and needs. Case study along with tips and tools will be shared.
Priya Senroy is a Canadian Certified Counselor, Disability Educator, Facilitator and Trainer. She has combined her training with facilitating various pioneering projects in forensic, mental health, community centers and special needs schools in India London, England in the 18 years she has been in this field.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 2
Part 1: Everyday Leadership – 1 hr
There are many skills that easily transfer from other leadership experiences as you take on the role of clinical supervision. Use this webinar to reflect on the skills you have, those you need to develop, and even roles and responsibilities that it may be best to delegate.
Part 2: Leadership Lessons for Transformational Times – 1 hr
It can be particularly challenging to lead during times of significant change and transition. As our field moves more toward regulation, funding priorities continue to shift, and counsellors in entry-level positions are increasingly faced with clients who have significant challenges, clinical supervisors may feel that their leadership competencies have been stretched beyond capacity. Based on the book, Leadership Lessons for Transformational Times, this webinar will introduce 10 lessons to help keep leaders engaged and on track.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Robyn Israel, M.A. (Clinical Psychology)
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Most relationships start off blissfully, yet too often run into problems once the honeymoon is over. There is a constant struggle between maintaining one’s individuality and building connection with one’s partner. Differentiation is a higher order process that involves balancing both autonomy and connection. This webinar will provide realistic strategies for couples who want to work together to overcome the sexual and emotional blocks that hold them back from finding satisfaction with each other.
Robyn Israel is a Canadian Certified Counsellor in private practice in London, Ontario. Her specialization is relationships and life transitions, and she loves incorporating the arts into her practice. She is also an award-winning playwright and performer, and creator of the hit comedy “Jewish Girls Don’t Kayak,” which she has toured nationally.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault, PhD, CCC, RRP, GCDF-i, CCDP
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Many career counsellors select, administer, or interpret career assessments. However, restricted by budget and contract requirements, with limited training or exposure to the wide range of tools available, some use assessment tools ineffectively. This webinar will help you move beyond “test and tell,” integrate assessment results into meaningful career conversations, and refresh your assessment toolkit. Learn from the presenter’s extensive experience in teaching assessment courses to counsellors and career practitioners, serving as a consultant to guide assessment within organizations, and leading a research team that examined the use of assessment tools and models in career services across Canada.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, serving as consulting editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Dawn Brown, M.Ed Counselling
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The place called Scare City is confining. It kills relationships in their infancy, dissolves dreams, and strangles initiative. It causes us to grab onto what may not be good for us and to hang onto what no longer serves our best interests. Scarcity isn’t just about money. It can show up in our relationship with ourselves and others or in the workplace.
This presentation looks at the many facets of scarcity and the role our perceptions play in creating them. Much of the pain in our lives comes from our way of thinking, our fear around what we interpret as not having enough or being enough. Whether we call it fear of failure, success, commitment, abundance, intimacy, having, not having… it still comes down to fear.
There are signposts along the way to guide and support us as we journey from scarcity. Learning to recognize them is a personal challenge for each of us. Join me for an hour of insights and strategies as we make the journey leading to prosperity.
Dawn Brown, M.Ed. (counselling), is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship and life transitions. An international speaker and published author, she helps others navigate through and thrive in times of uncertainty and change. She is the recipient of the 2006 YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award in the Learning for Life category.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil, B.A., M. Div., M. Ed.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Counsellors will discover how practical the discussion of dreams is in assisting clients in moving towards wellness. It is critical to have a solid background in how to implement dream work in the counselling process. For example, it is important for the professional and client to remember that all aspects of a dream are part of the dreamer. Therefore, the counsellor needs to stand back as the client experiences his/her ‘aha’ moment. Then the interaction can focus on the insight the client has experienced as a direct result of the dream.
This webinar is an introduction presented in two sessions. The first will focus on the practical points needed to use dream work effectively. The second session will be ‘hands on’ as we discuss one of Shirley’s dreams. Participants have the opportunity to use their knowledge in interpreting the dream and how it may have assisted Shirley in her personal healing.
Shirley Soleil lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Besides being a counsellor, she is a tutor, Consultant, facilitator, author and advocates for those with disabilities, suffering abuse, poverty etc. Her slogan is: “Helping others help themselves”. Shirley has two years of training in the use of dream work as part of the counselling process with Ruth Main. Ruth studied dream work at the Jungian Institute in North Carolina. Although Shirley works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families, her main interest is counseling people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
- Presenter: Duanita G Eleniak, MSW RSW ATR BCATR RCAT PhD
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Ideas are presented in this online course to provoke a conversation about the implications for counselling ethics and practices of the current paradigm shift in consciousness. Emphasis is placed on it being the ethical responsibility of all helping professionals to learn about the new developments in the areas of science and to ponder the implications for the field of counselling. The need for a new psycho-spiritual paradigm in the field of psychology is presented along with the need to address these issues in our codes of ethics so that counsellors have some guidance in this pioneering territory.
Dr. Duanita is a registered clinical social worker, a registered art therapist, a philosopher of consciousness studies, an author, an inspirational speaker, and a mentor for helping professionals who want to learn more about the business side of their practice. Her specialties include working with trauma, loss and personal transformation from a transpersonal perspective.
- Presenter: Priya Senroy, Drama and Movement Therapist, MA, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Please note that this webinar is especially relevant to Ontario members but also beneficial to anyone that might need to know the disability etiquette.
According to the Accessibility for Ontarians with disabilities Act, “All businesses with at least one employee will have to comply with the Accessible Customer Service Standard by January 1, 2012. Working with diverse client groups, counsellors and front line staffs play a crucial role in the area of customer service. It’s one thing to know the policies, but into place but it another matter to have a better understanding about disability etiquettes. This webinar will inform the participants through brief introduction to the AODA along with gaining a better understanding and awareness about people with Disabilities. Etiquette strategies based on evidence based practice will be shared along with helpful tips.
Priya Senroy is a Canadian Certified Counselor, Disability Educator, Facilitator and Trainer. She has combined her training with facilitating various pioneering projects in forensic, mental health, community centers and special needs schools in India London, England in the 18 years she has been in this field.
- Presenter: Doreen Westera, MscN, MEd
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
It is important that counsellors incorporate spirituality into their practice in order to maintain a holistic approach to client care. At times, a spiritual issue is key in a client’s life – if this is not recognized, then counselling may not be as effective as it might be. Therefore, counsellors should be aware of the variety of definitions of spirituality, the various expressions of spirituality, how to complete a spiritual assessment and various spiritual interventions which can be employed in the counselling process. Awareness of one’s own spirituality is paramount.
This Webinar discussion will discuss the above topics, drawing forth examples from the presenter’s counselling experience. Issues and challenges inherent in incorporating spirituality into counselling practice will be presented, using the presenter’s own counselling experience to illustrate these.
Doreen is currently teaching courses in counselling and the spiritual dimension of nursing practice at Memorial University. She also has a part-time counselling practice at a local community agency. Doreen has presented papers and workshops related to this topic at national and international workshops, both in the nursing and counselling fields.
- Presenter: Ariel Haubrich
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Times are changing and so too are the ways we connect with kids! Often we find ourselves wondering how we can build the vital foundations of rapport and relationship with our students and children in counselling. This session speaks to the unique dynamics and opportunities in school settings, the research behind the importance of connections between children and healthy adults, and tried & true ways to achieve them. It will also provide information on the evidence-based dynamics of developmental assets, mirror neurons and the ways kids communicate, and how each impact these relationships and connections. Finally, the session will outline practical strategies for counsellors working with kids in school and community settings whether you have 2 seconds, 2 minutes or 2 hours!
Ariel Haubrich has over ten years of multifaceted experience as a school counsellor and programming coordinator in school systems and communities working with students, families, school staffs and community members. She has experience in all areas of wellness and development, and counselling for those experiencing emotional, social, educational, family or psychological challenges.
- Presenter: Herky Cutler
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, participants will learn:
– Non-traditional methods of career planning such as; music, photography and yes, even cartoon characters!!!
– Why our current method of career planning is NOT successful!
– How to engage students/clients in a much more fun and relevant way
Herky Cutler is a highly regarded speaker, facilitator/trainer and consultant working in a variety of settings with a proven track record in community and organizational development. He is an acknowledged motivational leader and a certified career development professional.
- Presenter: Wendy Arscott
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Students with Autism should have the opportunity to pursue post secondary education along with their peers. If they can be admitted to colleges and universities they should be able to access higher education to fulfill their potential and their dreams. For many students capable of being admitted to post secondary education, barriers remain in the areas of social interaction, residence life, peer relationships and getting and maintaining employment. Too many people on the spectrum are living under meagre circumstances due to a lack of education and social skills. Pursuing a higher education is peer appropriate and gives way to a better standard of living. Learn how we can support students with Autism in pursuing their unique goals and dreams at the post secondary level.
Wendy is a professional Autism Consultant for a regional health care institution consulting to, and training, educators and has just completed a Masters of Education program with a thesis on postsecondary education supports for students with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. One of Wendy’s passions is structured teaching strategies implemented from daycare settings all the way through to community, workplace and postsecondary opportunities.
- Presenter: Sandra Girouard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Your role includes assisting people through life’s challenges and be more composed when confronting disturbing events.
Lear a technique that will help your clients “Flow” with their emotions rather than be “Taken By” their emotions. This healing technique will bring them beyond the intellectual understanding of their life experiences to integrate and grasp the wisdom out of all experiences, free themselves and alleviate their suffering.
The art of being available and vulnerable to life itself… and evolving freely through Love and Happiness!
Seasoned adult educator specialized in developing and facilitating training programs to promote mental health and wellness and acquired over more than 15 years in training, and wellness consulting. Very engaging passionate speaker and strong facilitator with extensive experience on topics related to resilience, emotional intelligence, communication, personality type (Myers Briggs – MBTI), creativity, conflict resolution, intimacy, authentic relationships and adult education (train the trainer). Post-graduate degree in adult education; former massage therapist and baby massage instructor.
In the past 15 years has helped a myriad of people dealing with stress, anxiety, loss and grief, depression, burn out, post traumatic stress disorder and many other major life changing events. There is also a keen interest by other healthcare providers such as psychologists, EAP referral agents, support group facilitators, care givers etc.
- Presenter: Kadie McCourt, MA, Psychotherapist
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Helping children and families of divorce, the issues and landmines that are not always covered in basic training. These include a spouse who will not let go, spouses who want to reunite, strategies for helping parents navigate dating and introducing the partner as well as assessing when it is time to get married or unite families. Dealing with a difficult former spouse and how to help the children determine what their needs are, not the parents needs. As well as parent alienation and helping children cope.
Kadie has worked as a therapist with children, adolescents and families for twelve years. She is dedicated and committed to her clients. Divorce and it’s subsequent issues have been a key focus of therapy for Kadie.
- Presenter: Shirley Soleil, B. A., M. Div., M. Ed
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Invisible Disabilities include illnesses not visible to the naked eye and those not diagnosed by objective tests. Both groups experience negative responses from family, friends and coworkers. It is difficult to accept how a person can move from health to illness without an obvious physical change. What they need is a listening ear, a validating voice and a compassionate heart as they process lifestyle changes, broken relationships, lost hopes and dreams and discover possibilities for a future full of positives.
In the role of counsellor you can offer these elements as you assist the client in addressing the physical and emotional/psychological needs. This Webinar presents: the definition of invisible disability, issues facing the client, understanding of the medical and/or legal process the client moves through and practical suggestions in assisting these clients.
Shirley lives and works in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. She has several invisible illnesses. Besides being a counsellor, she is also a tutor and author. She has written articles on the subject of invisible disabilities, some of which were published in the Private Practitioners Newsletter. Although she works with children, teens, individuals, couples and families, her main interest is counselling people with chronic illnesses and disabilities.
- Presenter: Christine Gatzke, M.Ed., CCC, CPAC/ ARC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process that unites birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families forever. Adoption is not a single event, but a complex lifelong process. Adoption is not a simplistic happy, “everybody wins” situation, as it tends to be portrayed in our culture. Tremendous blessings can be experienced by all the participants in adoption, but we must never forget that those blessings are born of loss. Many people have misconceptions about the adoption community. This interactive workshop will debunk these myths and close the gap on misconceptions, by increasing awareness of the realities for those working with the adoption population.
Christine Gatzke is an international speaker and a clinical psychotherapist, in private practice, specializing in adoption, foster care, attachment issues, women’s health, and grief and loss. Among various certifications she possesses, Christine is a certified adoption, adoption reunion and foster care counsellor.
- Presenter: Madeline Dietrich, M. A
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This webinar explores the possibility of expanding the field of psychological inquiry beyond normalcy and adaptation to encompass expanded states of awareness and a “beyond the self” way of being in the world. It will thoughtfully consider the issues involved in integrating spiritual dimensions within the therapeutic practice. The seminar will cover taking a spiritual assessment; assessing risks and benefits for introducing spiritual perspectives; role of family of origin’s religious philosophy and practice; stages of spiritual development; spiritual tools and techniques; exploring one’s own bias and assumptions about religion and spirituality.
Madeline Dietrich M.A. has worked as a holistic psychotherapist in private practice and group facilitation for 20 years. She has lead hundreds of seminars, workshops, retreats and training events on the themes of wellness, somatic psychotherapy, relationship and sexuality and spirituality. Madeline is also a spiritual counsellor and offers training to counsellors and psychotherapists on the interface between psychology and spirituality.
- Presenter: Sandra Girouard
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Your role includes assisting people getting through life’s challenges and help them become autonomous to develop their full potential. Resilience is our best ally when facing the adversities of life and in confronting challenges constructively. It does not imply returning to a previous state but it is rather the opening of a new stage of life. It is a step that inspires a new vision of life and suggests new ways to reconstruct our lives one day at a time.
When we choose to look at life`s step backs as a learning opportunity, an opportunity for growth rather than an obstacle to our development, what was supposed to shake you up becomes an opportunity to deploy your resilience potential. Learn to guide people to contact, develop and use their internal potential and the necessary resources to thrive trough hardships and bounce back from stressful experiences.
Sandra Girouard is an Adult Educator who specializes in the development and facilitation of ongoing training programs to promote mental health and wellness. She is a very engaging passionate bilingual speaker working on initiatives such as train the trainer. She coaches and trains on topics related to resilience, emotional integration, authentic relationships and adult education.
- Presenter: Nalini Iype, MC:AT, CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The webinar will include a brief introduction to the process of art therapy, present theories of grief and how art therapy is beneficial in grief therapy for children and youth. Examples of children’s art will be presented as well as practical tips for counsellors and therapists to integrate into their practice.
Nalini Iype is an Art Therapist in private practice at Art Therapy Solutions in Toronto. She has a Master’s degree in Counselling with a specialization in Art Therapy. Her practice includes art therapy in a diverse cultural setting with children, youth, adults and couples. In addition to working in private practice, Nalini’s experience includes working with clients from the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Planned Parenthood Toronto and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. She is also currently an instructor of Psychology and Expressive Arts at George Brown College in Toronto.
- Presenter: Rob Straby
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
What are your core motivations? What about your clients or customers? What motivates them? What stops someone from moving forward towards his or her goals? How can you uncover the core motivating forces to help someone take the next step? In this interactive Webinar, you will learn how to work with client stories and elicit core-motivating elements. This is a practical approach that you can use to help yourself and others be motivated!
Rob Straby has followed his passion for the innovation and development of state-of-the-art professional development coaching, facilitation and training systems since 1986. He has delivered these services to individuals, teams and departments in corporations, human services organizations, educational institutions and government services. In addition to his consulting work, Rob also is a faculty in the “Career Development Practitioner” Program at Conestoga College. This unique program trains career development professionals across Canada via the Internet with interactive Webinars.
- Presenter: Diane Doyon, M.A
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Birth-rate fall and longevity increase; two reasons calling for a new understanding of aging workers and for new counselling practices. These workers are the keystones of knowledge creation/conservation/transmission. But, nearly half of the retirees say that taking a retreat was not a successful experience for them or for their organization. Rituals are needed. So we developed the Career Legacy Circle; a small group approach (6 sessions) bringing together 8-12 people in the final stage of their active working life to share the way they want to complete this stage. In this counselling process, a vade mecum is used. This program aims to develop two bodies of knowledge: knowing to stay and knowing to leave, which imply, among other things, updating one’s work-life balance (preventing burn out and obsolescence) and wrapping up commitments and transmitting one’s professional legacy via mentoring, testimony, procedure manual, new mandate in or outside the organization, etc.
Diane DOYON holds a Master in Career Counseling and is experienced in Human Resources Management. Her expertise in mentoring programs has driven her to design the Career Legacy Circle concept, research and practice. She facilitates Work-Life management groups and is in charge of the international training program for CLC facilitators.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Especially during transformational and chaotic times, clients are looking for career support from their counsellors. Career Flow is a new model, grounded in hope, that acknowledges that not all times in our careers will be smooth sailing. Through stages of Self-Reflection, Self-Clarity, Visioning, Goal Setting/Planning, and Implementing/Adapting, use of the Career Flow model helps facilitate optimal career flow but also equips us to navigate stagnant water career periods (times of feeling stuck), still water (times to pause and reflect), white water (the crazy, busy, challenging times), and flow interrupted (times when plans are temporarily or permanently set aside). Drs. Spencer Niles, Norman Amundson, and Roberta Neault co-authored a career workbook using this model; join Roberta for a lively and engaging look at Career Flow and leave with practical activities that you can immediately apply.
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, currently serving as editor of the Journal of Employment counselling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Herky Cutler
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Parenting is one of the most difficult and demanding jobs of our time, and virtually the only “profession” that does not require the practitioner to have any formal training. “Courageous Parenting” is just that…Parents who have the courage to admit they don’t have all the tools they need to do a great job with their kids.
In this session, participants will be exposed to a parenting model for adolescents using The Circle Of Courage. Herky has adapted The Circle for this purpose and has written a manual on parenting teens. Whether you are familiar with The Circle of Courage or not, come and find out how to help your clients apply the components of Independence, Mastery, Belonging and Generosity into family life.
Herky has a Bachelor of Education, a Master of Arts and is a Certified Career Development Practitioner. He works as a professional speaker, workshop facilitator and organizational & educational consultant. His private practice, Foothills Youth & Family Services, is located in Pincher Creek, Alberta. Herky also has a passion for music, which has led him to perform in various venues, including coffeehouses and at folk festivals.
- Presenter: Sue Smiley
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Since Kubler-Ross’s seminal work, closure has been held up as the ultimate goal for successful grief resolution. In this interactive webinar, we will explore why linear concepts like closure and acceptance do not serve the client engaged in healthy grief work. In fact, they may be barriers to successful grief resolution. We’ll explore who is served by these concepts and how ‘transformation’ is a more apt term to describe the movement of grief in a society that may value outcome over process. Counselling strategies (including meaning- making approaches) will be presented as an alternative to closure. In addition, the transformative nature of grief will be examined.
Sue has a Master’s degree in Counselling specializing in loss and grief. She is a sought after consultant and shares her knowledge, compassion and sense of humour in local and provincial settings. She is a frequent contributor to CBC radio, speaking nationally on a variety of grief related topics.
- Presenter: Sandi Duffield-King
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There is a growing awareness of clients needs to infuse their counselling sessions with spirituality. This webinar will introduce the concept of deepening one’s relationship to the Divine from an Interfaith perspective. We will explore how some modern counselling techniques draw on the world’s major religions’ spiritual practices. We will see how simply some of these practices can be used therapeutically to enhance the client’s need to view and solve their issues through the eyes of their Divinity. Such modern techniques as deep breathing for anxiety, affirmations for positive focus, colour therapy, the use of crystals, an understanding of the chakras and vibration as healing tools – all have their roots in spiritual practices. An understanding of how deeply these spiritual practices can affect their clients can have profound therapeutic effects, regardless of the therapists beliefs.
Rev. Sandi King, a retired school counsellor, is in private practice. She co-leads an Interfaith Centre and is the Registrar for the intuitive Times Institute. Her passion is assisting clients to deepen their personal connection to the Divine: a road to spiritual and emotional wellness.
- Presenter: Roberta Neault
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Increasingly, counsellors are being called to an advocacy role for their clients and communities. However, despite their interest in social justice, some counsellors struggle to balance their commitment to client confidentiality with the need to ensure stories of injustice are heard and remedied. Join Dr. Roberta Neault to examine the ethics of advocacy, using case examples, ethical decision-making models, and various ethical codes. Leave this webinar with advocacy tips and ethical strategies, inspired and equipped to advocate effectively. Instead of feeling powerless to address some of the injustices your clients bring to you, learn to challenge your outrage to champion change!
Roberta Neault is an award-winning career counsellor, published author, and international speaker, currently serving as editor of the Journal of Employment counselling and on the executive of CCPA’s Career Counselling Chapter. Her research / career interests include individual / organizational sustainability (work-life balance), international / global careers, assessment, and e-learning.
- Presenter: Glenn Sheppard & Lynda Younghusband
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The ethical and legal issues of dual relationships have caused much controversy over the years. Many articles and books have examined the ethical aspects of various dual relationships and other boundaries. Boundary dilemmas and the perameters of a relationship often catch us off guard and unprepared. Much attention has been focused on sexual intimacies between therapist and client but dual relationships can involve combining the role of therapist with another professional relationship (such as supervisor, employer) or a personal relationship (such as friend or relative). These various boundary issues and the potential for harm will be explored during the webinar.
Glenn is a past president of the CCPA (2001-2003) and has also contributed to the Association in numerous other roles, including as co-chair of the CCA Committee for the development of the 1999 CCA Code of Ethics and its revised edition in 2006. Glenn has been a professor of counselor education at Memorial University of Newfoundland for 24 years, and 9 of these were as Chair of the Dept of Educational Psychology. In addition to his university teaching, Glenn works in private practice in St John’s, Newfoundland where he devotes considerable time to providing a range of services associated with the management, prevention, and treatment of traumatic stress.
Lynda graduated from Memorial University with a B.Voc.Ed, an M.Ed (counselling), and, more recently, with a Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology. Lynda has taught at all levels of the school system and was a school guidance counsellor for 13 years. Since 1997, Dr. Younghusband has been a sessional lecturer, in education and nursing, at Memorial University and is presently an assistant professor in the student counselling centre at Memorial. Lynda has served on the board
- Presenter: Sandra Girouard
- Language: french
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Votre rôle consiste à aider les gens à faire face aux épreuves de la vie en les guidant vers une plus grande autonomie. La résilience est notre meilleure alliée dans l’existence pour faire face aux défis de la vie et intégrer les épreuves de façon constructive. Lorsque nous choisissons de voir ce qui nous arrive comme une occasion favorable, une possibilité de croissance plutôt qu’un obstacle à notre développement, ce qui était censé nous déstabiliser devient alors notre tremplin d’épanouissement!
Apprenez à guider les gens vers les ressources nécessaires au maintient de la résilience, ce potentiel en chacun de nous qui permet d’avoir une emprise sur sa vie, de traverser les épreuves de l’existence et en ressortir grandis.
Sandra détient un diplôme d’études supérieures en Andragogie ainsi qu’un baccalauréat ès art en travail social, animation puis communication sociale. Sandra est spécialisée dans le développement de programmes de formation en promotion de la santé et du mieux-être. Elle est aussi l’auteure d’un programme de formation innovateur en développement de la résilience. Passionnée et très engagée, elle offre des conférences et ateliers sur différents sujets liés à la résilience, l’intégration émotionnelle, etc.
- Presenter: Mark Franklin & Leigh Anne Saxe
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Do you ever find yourself working with clients with BOTH personal and career questions? We know that career and life issues blend together, however, in training and practice, there can be a divide between personal and career counselling. Wouldn’t it be great to feel confident and excited about bridging that divide and exploring career and life choices in a more meaningful way? In this webinar, learn about a leading edge career and life clarification process, which is the first of two processes in an integrated, holistic framework grounded in narrative and cognitive approaches, ‘law of attraction’ and positive psychology.
Mark Franklin, career counsellor and practice leader of CareerCycles, has enriched the career wellbeing of 2000+ clients. Mark has an M.Ed. in Counselling Psychology, presents nationally, is host of Career Buzz radio show and developed the ‘Who You Are Matters!’ career and life clarification game.
Leigh Anne Saxe, happiness coach, career counsellor and inspirational speaker, empowers people with meaningful law of attraction workshops and seminars. Leigh Anne has an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, has presented at Cannexus and CACUSS, is host of Career Buzz radio show and is the founder of Living in the Moment.
- Presenter: Mark Franklin & Leigh Anne Saxe
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
How do you move toward a more intentional career exploration? Living your Career Statement is a positive and life-changing way of making career and life choices! A key process of the presenters’ positive, holistic and narrative-based framework, a Career Statement distills the client’s story into a brief statement of desires, strengths, preferences, assets, influences and possibilities. In this lively, interactive session — building on the presenters’ first webinar, ‘Sparking career happiness and life enrichment’ — you will learn what a Career Statement is and why it matters, success stories, and interventions to help clients and practitioners live their Career Statement and be more confident and excited about their intentional exploration.
Mark Franklin, career counsellor and practice leader of CareerCycles, has enriched the career wellbeing of 2000+ clients. Mark has an M.Ed. in Counselling Psychology, presents nationally, is host of Career Buzz radio show and developed the ‘Who You Are Matters!’ career and life clarification ga
Leigh Anne Saxe, happiness coach, career counsellor and inspirational speaker, empowers people with meaningful law of attraction workshops and seminars. Leigh Anne has an M.A. in Counselling Psychology from the Adler School of Professional Psychology, has presented at Cannexus and CACUSS, is host of Career Buzz radio show and is the founder of Living in the Moment.
- Presenter: Glenn Sheppard, Ph.D. & Lynda Younghusband, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
This session addresses the Code of Ethics for CCPA members. Questions to be discussed include: Who owns the client file? Who has access? How do I manage a client’s file if I am deceased? How do I make provision for my files in private practice should I be seriously ill or die? What should I include in my record keeping? Participants are encouraged to read pages 13-16 in CCPA’s Standards of Practice, which will be sent out to all registered participants prior to the webinar.
Glenn is a past president of the CCPA (2001-2003) and has also contributed to the Association in numerous other roles, including as co-chair of the CCA Committee for the development of the 1999 CCA Code of Ethics and its revised edition in 2006. Glenn has been a professor of counselor education at Memorial University of Newfoundland for 24 years, and 9 of these were as Chair of the Dept of Educational Psychology. In addition to his university teaching, Glenn works in private practice in St John’s, Newfoundland where he devotes considerable time to providing a range of services associated with the management, prevention, and treatment of traumatic stress.
Lynda graduated from Memorial University with a B.Voc.Ed, an M.Ed (counselling), and, more recently, with a Ph.D. in clinical epidemiology. Lynda has taught at all levels of the school system and was a school guidance counsellor for 13 years. Since 1997, Dr. Younghusband has been a sessional lecturer, in education and nursing, at Memorial University and is presently an assistant professor in the student counselling centre at Memorial. Lynda has served on the board of the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) and is the current Chair of the Ethics Committee for CCPA.
- Presenter: Simon Grégoire
- Language: french
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Au cours des dernières années, certains ont tenté d’établir des rapprochements entre le counseling, la psychothérapie et la pleine conscience, soit une notion en partie inspirée du bouddhisme. Dans le cadre de ce webinaire, cette notion encore peu connue des conseillers en orientation sera d’abord définie. Puis, trois programmes d’intervention destinés à cultiver un tel état de conscience seront présentés. Les principes et les exercices sur lesquels reposent ces programmes seront par la suite exposés et nous tenterons de montrer en quoi ceux-ci peuvent enrichir l’évaluation et l’intervention des conseillers en orientation œuvrant en santé psychologique.
Simon est psychologue et professeur en développement de carrière à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Ses travaux de recherche portent sur l’apport des programmes d’intervention basés sur la pleine conscience sur la santé psychologique au travail des employés.
- Presenter: Christine Gatzke, M.Ed., CCC, CPAC/ARC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
6 out of 10 people are touched by adoption, whether via domestically or internationally. Apart from the joys, there are challenges, such as core and/or mental health issues, that are often overlooked. It is apparent that adoption has a profound and permanent effect on the lives of all members of the adoption population. This webinar will provide a brief outlook on core and/or mental health issues faced by these members. It will assist those serving/working with adoptive families to help those families to become more aware of the issues impacting the family system (i.e., attaching/bonding, school-related issues, etc.).
Christine M. Gatzke, M.Ed., CCC, CPAC/ARC, EFT-ADV
Christine is an international/national speaker and clinical psychotherapist providing individual, family/couple, group and career counselling/coaching. She also provides consultations, workshops, and EFAP services. Christine is a certified post-adoption, adoption reunion and foster care counsellor and an Emotional Freedom Techniques Practitioner – Advanced. For more information, visit www.clc-apathtohealing.ca.
- Presenter: Rob Straby, M.A.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Engaging with our clients’ lifework stories enables us to discern the most important elements of their lives. The counsellor can facilitate a powerful empowerment process with clients to help them to find their way in life. This session will help you to:
- Appreciate the power of a constructivist approach to client narratives
- Set the context for powerful client storytelling with a diversity of client groups
- Identify the key elements that can be elicited through storytelling, such as values, beliefs, interested, skills, social networks and more
- Develop strategies to help your clients move forward in life by focussing on their natural strengths and talents.
Rob Straby has followed his passion for the innovation and development of state-of-the-art professional development coaching, facilitation and training systems since 1986. He has delivered these services to individuals, teams and departments in corporations, human services organizations, educational institutions and government services. In addition to his consulting work, Rob also is a faculty in the “Career Development Practitioner” Program at Conestoga College. This unique program trains career development professionals across Canada via the Internet with interactive Webinars.
- Presenter: Lloyd Hawkeye Robertson, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
There is a consensus that the self which lies at the heart of such concepts as self-esteem, self-actualization and self-concept is a cultural construct. This self may be “mapped” in units of culture, and such maps may be used to inform practice and empower clients. Drawing on the presenter’s original research, this webinar will include a theoretical discussion of the structure of the self along with practical applications for counselling.
Dr. Robertson is a consultant to Northlands College in northern Saskatchewan where he also has a private practice as a counselling psychologist.
- Presenter: Françoise Mathieu, M.Ed., CCC
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
L’usure de compassion est un problème courant chez les travailleurs en soins de la santé, les intervenants en service sociaux, les policiers et les éducateurs specialisés. Cet atelier explique ce phénomène mal compris et explore les obstacles personnels et professionnels qui nous menacent. L’atelier explorera des stratégies de dépistage précoce, les conséquences du surtravail et les éléments protecteurs contre le burnout et l’usure de compassion.
Françoise Mathieu détient une maîtrise en psychologie (counselling) et a plus de 15 ans d’expérience en tant que psychothérapeute dans divers environnements: urgences, centre de soins de santé mentale et universités. Conférencière chevronnée, Françoise oeuvre comme spécialiste en usure de compassion et burnout depuis 2001. Elle offre des ateliers de formation partout au Canada et est l’auteure du livre “The Compassion Fatigue Workbook.” Pour plus d’information: www.compassionfatigue.ca
- Presenter: David Paré, Ph.D.
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
The “exception”—an instance when the problem is absent—is the cornerstone of Brief Solution Focused practice, a doorway into new realms of possibility where the problem is absent. This webinar explores how exceptions can be multiplied by joining clients in what Anthropologist Clifford Geertz called “thick description”. These practices are drawn from narrative therapy, which focuses on action, rather than behaviour—the difference being that actions are seen as expressions of agency, purposes, values, and intentions. These practices go beyond “do more of what works” to rich story development and the generation of multiple exceptions, the basis for future action.
David Paré, Ph.D., Couns. Psych. is an associate professor teaching counselling and psychotherapy at the University of Ottawa and director of the Glebe Institute, A Centre for Constructive and Collaborative Practice in Ottawa.
- Presenter: Judi L. Malone
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Rural communities and their counselling needs have been changing. Certain ethical dilemmas can be more common or more complicated when practicing in rural, remote, or small communities. This presentation will review some of these specific to managing professional boundaries, community pressure, generalist practice, interdisciplinary collaboration, and attaining professional development. Join us to explore the context & ethical challenges of rural counselling practice, consider the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association’s Code of Ethics, and to share insight for dealing with the demographic and practice characteristics that may instigate ethical issues in rural practice.
Judi Malone is a registered psychologist in Alberta with a rural practice. She teaches counselling for Athabasca University and her doctoral research was on ethics in rural practice.
- Presenter: Jacques Limoges
- Language: french
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Pour bien cerner le potentiel des groupes, nous considérerons trois variables bipolarisés et au sens large et génériques des termes : responsable c. membres ; contenu c. dynamique ; objectivité c. subjectivité. Pour y parvenir, il y a lieu d’établir l’objet principal d’apprentissage visé par un groupe. Cet objet est-il surtout extrapersonnel (savoir, objectivité, donc appelant une fonction importante pour le responsable), intrapersonnel (savoir-être, subjectivité, donc requérant un investissement important des deux parties) ou interpersonnel (savoir-faire, donc demandant un investissement significatif de tous les membres) ? Quelque soit le nombre de participants, l’extrapersonnel justifie une approche grand groupe, l’intrapersonnel une approche moyen groupe et l’interpersonnel une approche petit groupe. À cause des ses finalités impliquant généralement des relations explicites entre le responsable et les membres et entre les membres entre-eux quant à l’objet visé, le counseling fait surtout appelle au petit groupe. Conséquemment, la seconde partie de ce webinaire s’attardera à cette approche en abordant les rôles et besoins des membres, les techniques d’animation du responsable et les phases qui en découlent. Enfin, après avoir souligné le potentiel d’entraide inhérent à tout petit groupe et après avoir présenté la technique du Double-axe, nous verrons la pertinence du petit groupe par rapport aux six occasions carriérologiques, en particulier par rapport à l’acquisition des dimensions de l’insertion socioprofessionnelle telles que définies dans le modèle Trèfle chanceux.
Jacques Limoges est associé à l’Université de Sherbrooke depuis plus de 35 ans. Ses champs de recherche et de pratique sont le counseling groupal, l’insertion professionnelle et la gestion de carrière. Depuis une quinzaine d’années, il concentre ces efforts sur le paradigme du maintien professionnel selon les tiers de carrière.
- Presenter: Christina Schmolke
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Across Canada, thousands of individuals face barriers to improving their mental, emotional, and economic status. In an effort to address the environmental factors (e.g., poverty) that impede client well-being, a growing number of counsellors have become interested in social justice interventions. For counsellors, social justice interventions involve actions that are designed to improve the equitable distribution of resources and services. This may include advocacy, outreach, and prevention. This webinar focuses on helping counsellors integrate social justice interventions into their roles.
Dr. Roberta Neault, president of Life Strategies Ltd., serves as editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling. A dynamic presenter, Roberta introduces a pragmatic approach to juggling complex work-life roles.
- Presenter: Dr. Roberta Neault
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
As counsellors we see the results of unsustainable life choices – stress and burnout from overwork, frustration and distress from unemployment or underemployment, relationship challenges from life role conflicts, illness from lack of exercise and poor nutrition, and exhaustion from chronic busy-ness. Using “sustainability” as a metaphor, join this session to take a fresh look at how to support clients to reorganize their lives and make healthier choices. We’ll also look at the role of employers in creating workplaces where individuals can thrive while consistently achieving organizational objectives. Sustainability is a win-win solution, for people and the places that employ them.
Dr. Roberta Neault, president of Life Strategies Ltd., serves as editor of the Journal of Employment Counseling. A dynamic presenter, Roberta introduces a pragmatic approach to juggling complex work-life roles.
- Presenter: Dr Jacques Limoges
- Language: french
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
La gestion de carrière tout au long de la vie s’appuie sur la dynamique Individu-Étude-Travail. Cette gestion implique une multitude de décisions à prendre, à réaliser, à maintenir selon les tiers de carrière, à revoir, à faire à nouveau (i.e. transition) et à défaire (i.e. retraite et après). Il s’ensuit 6 types d’occasion carriérologique, chacun impliquant des étapes bien précises que le conseiller en orientation ou en carrière doit bien maitriser. Au cours de ce webinaire (web+séminaire) nous ferons un survol de ces occasions et verrons les applications courantes dans le counseling d’orientation et de carrière.
Jacques Limoges, docteur en éducation (counseling), associé au Département d’Orientation (Université de Sherbrooke) depuis 40 ans; ses recherches et enseignements sont l’insertion, le développement de carrière; approfondit présentement le maintien professionnel, celui qui évite à la fois l’épuisement et l’obsolescence; est auteur de plus de 20 livres et reconnu internationalement.
- Presenter: Norman L. Quantz, MA
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Counselling is Going Online – Fast. What you do about it will affect your career! In
considering this exciting new method of service delivery, Norm introduces you to 6 basic
questions therapists around the globe are asking. You will get to know what it takes to
counsel your clients at a distance, provide webinars & consult with colleagues – all
online.
Norman L. Quantz – Relationship Expert; Trauma Specialist, Author
In-Person and Online Trauma Support: since 2005 including the 2020/21 pandemic.
Private Practice Therapist: 1982 – 2013; Online Video Counselling from 2007 – 2018
Online Video Therapy Experience: Pioneer, Professional & Collegial Advocate,
Educator, and Consultant since 1995 – Canada, Europe, USA.
Ex: International panel member re: online therapy – Istanbul, Turkey
Online Video Therapy Topics: jurisdiction, insurance, scope, risk, security, technology,
compliance, costing, client/therapist capabilities, in private practice & trauma support.
Publications:
IT’S ALL ABOUT POWER AND CONTROL: Why Relationships Fall Apart and What It
Takes To Put Them Back Together Again (2010)
TRAUMA NO MORE: A Six-Step Recovery Guide (2021)
Contact: www.normquantz.com
- Presenter: Dr. Daniel Klassen
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Helping clients forgive has found a credible place in counselling and psychotherapy literature in the past decade. Forgiveness has been discovered to play a critical role in helping clients resolve anger, relieve depression and increase hopefulness. Clients who choose to forgive, experience a series of recognizable themes on the path to forgiveness. Participants in this Webinar will encounter the myths of forgiveness and explore the themes through illustrations and brief lecture. In addition, participants will be introduced to structured exercises from The Forgiveness Workbook, which helps clients with forgiveness.
Dr. Klassen is Professor Emeritus in Education at Lakehead University, Author of The Forgiveness Workbook, founder and counsellor at The Listening Centre, which is a clinic serving individuals and families in Northwestern Ontario.
- Presenter: Richard Hill
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
Depression, anxiety, panic, fearfulness, sadness, loss of control, traumatic experiences, managing life, feeling unsafe, feeling unloved or unlovable… we could go on with a list of affective disorders and difficulties that bring clients to therapy. The brain is involved in this. It has to be. What do we know about that? The body is also involved. It has to be. How do brain and body interact and affect each other? What is the whole person story? Neuroscience opens our mind to a deeper understanding of what is happening within the client and understanding always leads to better therapy. Clients often say they feel as though something is wrong in their head, but that is not necessarily the best way to look at it. Affective disorders are usually telling us something. Knowing what the brain is doing can amplify our ability to understand and respond to that important message.
Richard Hill is in private practice in Sydney, Australia and travels the world lecturing on the subject of the neuroscience of psychotherapy and Psychosocial Genomics. He is a board member of the Global Association for Interpersonal Neurobiology Studies, a select member of the International Psychosocial Genomics Research Group and director of the MindScience Institute which acts as an international hub for education in therapy.
- Presenter: Dan L Mitchell
- Language: english
- Location: online
- # of CECs: 1
In this webinar, Dan Mitchell shares his experience and knowledge of supervising counsellors who provide text-based online counselling. The webinar will increase participants’ awareness of ethical and legal issues, technological factors, and counsellor competencies that are unique to the online realm.
Founding Worldwide Therapy Online Inc. with Lawrence Murphy in 1994, Dan Mitchell began a long journey of pioneering the delivery of counselling via the internet. Dan is Clinical eSupervisor of a team of online counsellors, is engaged in research, and has published a number of professional articles.