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    • March 21, 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM
    • Virtual
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    Mindfulness for Self Care: Tools for Self-Regulation and Navigating the Polyvagal System
    by: Margreta Doerfler, LICSW, Certified Mindfulness Instructor (Mindful Schools)

    Friday, March 21nd from 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM EST

    6 CEU Credits


    Participants will gain an understanding of the neuroscience behind mindfulness and how it supports emotion regulation. Concrete strategies to use both proactively and in moments of distress will be demonstrated for participants to implement into self care and
    clinical practice. Participants will reflect on their own polyvagal response to stress and develop a plan to effectively manage this response. This is highly experiential so participants are encouraged to engage in demonstrations in order to maximize the benefit of this workshop.


    Intended Audience (what level of staff/administrative or clinical or either):
    Either, but more applicable for clinical.


    Learning Objectives:
    At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

    1.  Participants will learn at least 3 concrete mindfulness skills to integrate for self care and clinical practice.
    2. Participants will understand and be able to e
    xplain the three parts of the polyvagal system.

    3. Participants will be able to identify and use two proactive mindfulness skills and two reactive mindfulness skills to effectively navigate the stress ladder.





    About the Presenter:
    Margreta Doerfler is a licensed Clinical Social Worker who owns her own practice (Mindful Moments LLC) and a Certified Mindfulness Instructor through Mindful Schools. She has been practicing psychotherapy for 13 years and specializes in Mindfulness Based Cognitive
    Behavioral Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems. She has been teaching mindfulness to students in the classroom, providing trainings, and supporting schools with school-wide implementation of mindfulness for the last decade. She has over 350 hours of training in mindfulness.



    NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category 1) & Psychologist Category A (NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program).

    • April 11, 2025
    • 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM
    • Virtual
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    Eating Disorders 101: What they are and what to do  by: Malcolm Horn, Ph.D., LCSW, LAC

    Friday, April 11th from 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM EST

    3CEU Credits

    About this event
    This session will not only provide a brief overview of eating disorders, including diagnostic criteria, but also some simple and practical strategies to help clients that struggle with disordered eating and diagnosed eating disorders. This session will also provide an overlay of the “why” behind the behavior to help clinicians (and clients) gain insight to the behaviors and how to engage in healthier choices. We will discuss what treatment might look like and some foundational therapeutic strategies and goals will be addressed.

    Learning Objectives:
    1. Participants will learn what the diagnostic criteria for eating disorders as well as some assessment strategies.
    2. Participants will gain awareness of the etiology of the behaviors.
    3. Participants will gain some foundational skills and strategies to assist these clients in an outpatient setting


    About the Presenter:

    Malcolm Horn, Ph.D., LCSW, LAC, received her Doctorate in Psychology, with a teaching emphasis, from Walden University. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and is licensed by the state of Montana as an Addiction Counselor. She also had accreditation from NAADAC as a Masters Level Addiction Counselor (MAC) and a Substance Abuse Professional (SAP). She is the incoming President-Elect for NAADAC. She currently works as the Chief Behavioral Health Officer for Rimrock Foundation, a CARF-Accredited co-occurring treatment facility that provides the full ASAM continuum of care in Billings, MT. She is responsible for ongoing training and education for
    clinical and support staff and supervises the mental health counseling team. She is passionate about changing systems to improve access to care and reduce the stigma that surrounds mental health and substance use disorders.


    NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category 1) & Psychologist Category A (NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program).

    • May 09, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Virtual
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    Responsible Supervision


    By: Jeri W Stevens PhD, LCPC, CSS

    Owner of Chandler Bay Resources, Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Counselor Educator from Maine


    Friday, May 9th 

    6 CEU Credits


    Ethical Challenges to Responsible Clinical Supervision 

    Providing responsible “good” clinical supervision requires skills, knowledge and curiosity.  We work in a multidisciplinary mental health system which puts stress on clinical supervisors to understand codes of ethics from different professional perspectives. This training will explore some of the more common ethical dilemmas through the eyes of different professional codes of ethics.

     

    Objectives of this training 


    Participants will

    1.  review clinical supervisor skills: understanding the supervisee needs (models)


    2.  share the most common ethical dilemmas per licensure board and risk assessment complaints 

    3.  explore different codes of ethics regarding risks and benefits of boundaries in mental health

    4.  discuss the impact of navigating (or not) these boundaries for clinical supervisors –(explore both ignoring or challenging the boundary issues) impact on agency, clinicians, profession, clients, 

    This training will be both didactic and experiential.  Please come with your clinical and supervision codes of ethics and an open mind.




    About the Presenter:

    Jeri W Stevens PhD, LCPC, CCS, owner of Chandler Bay Resources, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor and counselor educator from Maine.  Beyond her 40 years as a psychotherapist, Jeri is an assistant professor in the Counseling and Human Relations Department at Husson University, provides supervision for school counselors, mental health clinicians and social workers, facilitates ethics trainings through associations and mental health agencies, provides stress resilience training and coaching, as well, delivers organizational leadership consultation and training.  In her role as assistant professor, Jeri is the clinical coordinator for practicum and internship, clinical supervisor for practicum, and teaches internship. And in her spare time, she provides mindfulness sports performance training to elite athletes.

    As owner of Chandler Bay Resources, Jeri developed and facilities ethics and clinical supervision trainings. She created the Clinical Supervision Institute and with her team, has trained hundreds of licensed professionals to become clinical supervisors. She has also presented on this topic both nationally and in Canada.

    Jeri is professionally active and advocates strongly for the mental health profession. She served on the Board for Counseling Professionals Licensure in the State of Maine.  Her advocating years have included but not limited to licensure, insurance reimbursement and Medicaid inclusion.  She is highly vested in the advocating for mental health professionals’ parity and Medicare inclusion. She has been twice president of Maine Mental Health Counselors Association, serves as a mentor to the organization and for 10 years was the ethics chair of the American Mental Health Counselors Association.  Jeri belongs to and supports both ACA and AMHCA. 

    In October 2017 Jeri was awarded the Janine M. Bernard Outstanding Supervisor of the YearAward by the North Atlantic Region Association of the Counselor Education and Supervision and In March 2018 Jeri was awarded the Service to the Profession of Counseling Award by the Maine Counseling Association. 




    NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category 1) & Psychologist Category A (NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program).

    • June 12, 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
    • The Derryfield, Manchester NH
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    Cutting-edge Ethical Challenges in Mental Health Counseling - Risk Management Strategies

     

    By: JFrederic G. Reamer

    Thursday, June 12th 

    6 CEU Credits





    About the Presenter:



    NBCC: LICSW/L-MFT/LCMHC (Category 1) & Psychologist Category A (NH Alcohol & Drug Abuse Counselors Association has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No 6754. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NHADACA is solely responsible for all aspects of the program).

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