Cascadia Training for Professional Development

Ethical Assessment in Early Childhood Mental Health and Development
Presented by Kristie Baber, MSW, LICSW, CCTP

📅 When: Thursday, June 18, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live on Zoom
🎓 CEs: 6 Law & Ethics CEs

This workshop provides clinicians with the skills and tools to ethically assess mental health and development in young children (0–5 years old). 🍼✨

Participants will explore questions such as:
• What does depression look like in an infant?
• How do environmental factors influence developmental delays?
• When is an attachment pattern a typical developmental stage versus pathology?

💡 Did you know? This training also aligns with Washington State HB 1325, requiring clinicians to use DC:0-5 for diagnosing children 0–5, ensuring developmentally appropriate and legally compliant assessments.

✨ In this workshop, you’ll learn:
• How to ethically use diagnostic and standardized tools for early childhood
• Methods for assessing at-risk populations, including impacts of abuse, neglect, and transgenerational trauma
• Practical strategies through case examples, videos, group exercises, and discussion
• How to integrate attachment theory, developmental science, and mental health assessment into clinical practice

This session is ideal for clinicians seeking to enhance their competence and confidence in early childhood assessment while meeting ethical and legal standards.

👉 Register now to earn 6 Law & Ethics CEs and advance your expertise in early childhood mental health! https://cascadiatraining.com/early-childhood-mental-health-ethics

Introduction to Schema Therapy
Presented by Dreya Blume, LCSW

📅 When: Monday, June 15, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live on Zoom
🎓 CEs: 3 CEs

Unlock the power of Schema Therapy to help clients identify and transform deeply ingrained patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior. 🧠✨

Schemas shape how clients interpret themselves, others, and the world. This training introduces the foundational concepts of schema therapy, including early maladaptive schemas, schema modes, and their influence on emotional and relational challenges.

💡 Did you know? Understanding schemas can improve assessment, intervention, and client outcomes, helping therapists address core patterns rather than just surface-level symptoms.

✨ In this workshop, you’ll learn to:
• Identify and understand early maladaptive schemas
• Recognize schema modes in the therapy room
• Explore how schemas develop and influence client behavior
• Apply strategies to help clients shift maladaptive patterns
• Integrate schema-focused approaches into everyday clinical practice

This interactive training will leave you equipped to enhance your therapeutic interventions and support clients in building healthier coping mechanisms.

👉 Register now to earn 3 CEs and start integrating schema therapy into your practice! https://cascadiatraining.com/schema-therapy

Cultural Humility in Working with Immigrant Clients
Presented by Dr. Gitika Talwar

📅 When: Friday, June 12, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live via Zoom
🎓 CEs: 3 CEs – Law & Ethics, Health Equity, and/or Cultural Competence

Deepen your understanding of cultural humility and its impact in therapy with immigrant clients. 🌍✨

This workshop explores how therapy can be a site of acculturation for the therapeutic dyad—therapist and client, couple, or family—and how values alignment and misalignment can create opportunities for meaningful, culturally attuned work. Cultural humility emphasizes continuous self-reflection, openness, and respectful engagement with clients’ lived experiences.

💡 Did you know? Research shows that cultural humility is linked to stronger therapeutic alliances, improved client outcomes, and the repair of cultural mistakes—making it a critical practice for culturally responsive care.

✨ In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
• Engage in lifelong self-exploration and learning
• Recognize power dynamics and personal biases within therapy
• Respect and leverage clients’ diverse identities and cultural capital
• Build trust by honoring client experiences and perspectives
• Practice openness, curiosity, and flexibility in cross-cultural encounters
• Advocate to dismantle systemic barriers impacting clients

This training is experiential and reflective, offering practical strategies to integrate cultural humility into everyday clinical practice, enhancing both your effectiveness and your clients’ sense of safety and empowerment.

👉 Register now to expand your skills and provide culturally attuned care for immigrant clients! https://cascadiatraining.com/cultural-humility

Menopause and Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges from Perimenopause to Post-Menopause
Presented by Rebecca Bloom, LMHC

📅 When: Friday, June 19, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific
📍 Where: Live, in-person at the Shoreline Center
🎓 CEs: 6 CEs – Meets Health Equity or Cultural Competence Requirements

Menopause, perimenopause, and post-menopause bring unique physical, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual challenges—and yet, these experiences are often under-recognized in clinical settings. 🌿

This workshop equips clinicians to recognize, understand, and support clients navigating these transitions, while addressing systemic biases and inequities that impact care.

👉 Register now to earn 6 CEs while deepening your expertise in menopause, mental health, and equitable care! https://cascadia-training.com/course/menopause-and-mental-health-june-2026/

Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT): Tapping for Clinicians
Presented by Shelley White, MA, LMHC

📅 When: Friday, June 12, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:15 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live on Zoom
🎓 CEs: 3 Law & Ethics CEs

Learn to harness the power of Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT/Tapping)—an evidence-based tool to reduce emotional distress and enhance physical well-being. 🌿✨

Used by leading trauma experts like Bessel van der Kolk, EFT Tapping works on the same principles as acupuncture and is backed by over 200 research studies. It can reduce amygdala activity, regulate immune and inflammation genes, boost endorphins, and lower cortisol—helping clients release trauma, manage fear, and quiet shame.

💡 Did you know? Tapping can be used not only to support clients but also as a self-care tool for clinicians, helping you stay calm, centered, and present after intense sessions.

✨ In this workshop, you’ll:
• Learn the history, science, and psychology behind EFT
• Practice the basic Tapping protocol to use with clients immediately
• Explore how to integrate EFT into your self-care toolkit
• Understand how tapping helps with trauma, anxiety, stress, and emotional regulation

This interactive, hands-on workshop will leave you equipped to offer clients an effective, evidence-based intervention while also enhancing your own well-being.

👉 Register now to earn 3 Law & Ethics CEs and start tapping for transformation—for you and your clients! https://cascadiatraining.com/eft-tapping-for-clinicians

More than a Personality Test: How to Work Mindfully with Enneagram
Presented by Dr. Jennifer Manlowe

🆕 Brand-New Workshop! 🆕

📅 When: Thursday, June 11, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live via Zoom
🎓 CEs: 6 CEs (includes 2 Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs)

Discover how to combine mindfulness practice and Enneagram wisdom to support clients in a deeper, more compassionate way. 🧘‍♀️✨

💡 Did you know? Personality patterns are often protective strategies developed in response to trauma—but with awareness, they can become pathways to growth and healing.

This workshop helps clinicians understand how personality patterns emerge as adaptive responses to suffering. Through meditation, inquiry, and embodied awareness, you’ll learn to work skillfully with shame, fixation, and reactivity—especially in clients with complex PTSD—guiding them toward grounded presence and self-compassion.

This experiential training will leave you equipped, inspired, and ready to bring mindfulness and the Enneagram into your work with clients.

👉 Reserve your spot today and deepen your clinical skills! https://cascadiatraining.com/working-mindfully-with-enneagram

Cascadia Training now offers "LAST-MINUTE DEALS" on several workshops in June!

We have several Last-Minute Deals for June with several workshops $50 off!

Register for these amazing workshops at a steeply discounted rate! 👉 https://cascadia-training.com/courses/category/last-minute-deals/

Mindfulness and ADHD: Strategies for Cultivating Focus and Self-Regulation
Presented by Dreya Blume, LCSW

📅 When: Wednesday, June 24, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Pacific
💻 Where: Live on Zoom
🎓 CEs: 3 CEs – Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs

ADHD can make attention, emotional regulation, and impulse control challenging, but mindfulness provides evidence-informed strategies to support clients in managing these difficulties. 🌱

Attendees will leave with practical tools to guide clients in using mindfulness as a resource for managing ADHD-related challenges.

👉 Register now to earn 3 CEs and expand your skills in mindfulness-based ADHD interventions! https://cascadiatraining.com/mindfulness-adhd-6