These workshops are currently available for scheduling by NC AHEC regional mental health directors. Click on a workshop title to view detailed information: a program description, learning objectives, target audience, contact hours, and more.
- Accessible Reproductive Healthcare: Removing Barriers for Individuals with Disabilities
(Nellie Galindo) - A Walk in My Shoes: Brief and Effective Cognitive Behavioral Strategies to Promote Effective Change
(Audrina Jones Bunton) - ACES Too High: Prevention and Intervention Strategies to Address Trauma and Reduce Health Disparities
(Kelly Graves) - Adapting Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents and Their Families
(Becca Edwards-Powell) - Adolescent Technology Use: Addiction, Culture, or Both?
(Katie Salmons) - Advanced Application of DBT Skills
(Becca Edwards-Powell) - Aftershock: Responding to the Aftereffects of Community Violence — An Overview
(Matthew Sullivan) - Aging in Place, Aging in Community
(Alison Climo) - Appetite Awareness Training for Binge and Overeating
(Rachel Goode) - Balancing Change and Acceptance: Use of Dialectical Behavioral Strategies in Work with Families
(Becca Edwards-Powell) - Becoming a Neuro-Affirming Clinical Supervisor
(Donna Newberne) - Behind the Mask: Understanding and Assessing Trauma in Children
(Kelly Graves) - Building Provider Resilience (full-day version)
(Kelly Graves) - Building Provider Resilience (2-hour version)
(Kelly Graves) - Children & Anxiety: Signs, Symptoms, and Strategies
- (Audrina Jones Bunton)
- Community Resilience Model (CRM) Training
(Rachel Galanter) - Co-occurring Disorders: The Chicken or the Egg (full-day program)
(Brandon Robinson) - Co-occurring Disorders: The Chicken or the Egg (half-day program)
(Brandon Robinson) - Counseling During Covid: Taking Care of Them, Taking Care of You
(Matt Sullivan) - Creating Environments that Support Executive Functioning
(Eileen Slade) - Critical Incident Response to Stress Management for Human Service Professionals
(Matthew Sullivan) - Culturally Relevant Engagement Interviewing
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Dialectics of Distress: How to Apply What You Know About Emotional Suffering to Working More Effectively with Chronic Physical Pain
(Deborah Barrett) - Diversity in Neurodivergence: Girls and Women with Autism
(Caroline Garrett) - Eating Intuitively, Live Freely: Intuitive Easting Essentials for Disordered Eating
(Alicia Freeman) - Effective Chronic Pain Management: Helping Clients Understand and Improve Their Experience with 3rd Wave CBT Approaches
(Deborah Barrett) - Effective Providers for Victimized Children
(Kelly Graves) - Engaging Clients as Partners in Change Using Motivational Interviewing
(Rachel Galanter) - Engaging Clients as Partners in Change Using Motivational Interviewing — Introduction and Skill Building
(Rachel Galanter) - Engaging LGBTQ Youth and Families: How Do You Show You Are an Ally?
(Rachel Galanter) - Essential Grief and Loss Skills for Companioning Mourners
David McLawhorn - Ethical Considerations in Clinical Supervision: Understanding the Power Differential
(Ellen Pallme) - Ethical Considerations of Grief for the Helping Professional
David McLawhorn - Ethical Decision Making in Child Maltreatment Reporting Exploring Best Practices for Professionals (Two-hour version)
(Amy Levine) - Ethical Decision Making in Child Maltreatment Reporting: Exploring Best Practices for Professionals (Four-hour version)
(Amy Levine) - Ethics in a System Funded by Outcomes—Respecting “Not Yet” in a World of Annual Reports
(Rachel Galanter) - Field Safety and Assessment Skills for the Human Service Provider
(Matthew Sullivan) - Getting the Full Picture: How to Thoroughly Assess for Substance Use Disorders
(Danny Ball) - Growing the Toolbox: The Fundamentals of Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training
(Becca Edwards-Powell) - Healing Developmental Trauma: Transforming Developmental Trauma’s Impact of Emotion Regulation and Connection
(Kate Gotelli) - Health Disparities Among Older Adults
(Annamae T. Giles) - How Supported Decision Making Can Enhance the Health of Individuals with Intellectual and other Developmental Disabilities
(Karen Luken) - Human Service Provision in High Stress Environments: Individual and Community Resilience in Times of Crisis
(Matthew Sullivan) - Human Service Provision in HIgh Stress Environments: Skills and Strategies for Provider Self-Care
(Matthew Sullivan) - Identifying and Addressing Anxiety and Trauma Related Disorders in Children and Adults
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Implications of COVID-19 for Crisis Intervention and Suicide
(Matthew Sullivan) - Implicit Bias in Mental Health
(Andrea Murray-Lichtman) - Improving Clinical Outcomes: Addressing Racial Equity in Treatment
(Juan Tuset) - Improving Outcomes: Enhancing Cultural Competency in Work with the LGBT Community
(Avery Cook) - Increasing Social Emotional Competence of Children
(Sofia Moyano-Kleckner) - Initial Engagement—Helping Clients Show Up
(Rachel Galanter)
- Introduction to Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Depression
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
(Ellen Pallme) - Introduction to the Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) Profile in Autism/ADHD
(Lydia Stellwag) - Introduction to Somatic Psychotherapy
(Kate Gotelli) - Key Components of Trauma Informed Care
(Kelly Graves) - Let’s Come Together, Let’s CRM Together: Community Resilience Model
(Rachel Galanter) - Let’s Get Creative: 25 Brief, Interactive Strategies to Engage Children and Adolescents in Therapeutic Settings
(Amy Levine) - LGBTQ+ Trauma Informed Practice in Recovery: Ethical Care
(Avery Cook) - Maternal Depression and Children’s Health: A Look at Outcomes and Why Maternal Mental Health Matters
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Meeting the Health Care Needs of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Ending Invisibility and Knowing Your Patients
(Avery Cook) - Mental Health Disparities Among African Americans
(Andrea Murray-Lichtman) - Moral Distress Amid COVID-19
(Kim Strom) - Motivational Interviewing I— Introduction (2-day program)
(Michael McGuire) - Motivational Interviewing II — Practice and Feedback
(Michael McGuire) - Motivational Interviewing III — More Practice and Feedback
(Michael McGuire) - Motivational Interviewing Skill Expansion
(Rachel Galanter) - Navigating the Complex World of Autism Spectrum Disorder for Children and Adolescents of Color: a Parent Perspective
(Danyale Sturdivant) - Neurodiversity in the Workplace
(Caroline Garrett) - New Perspectives on Marijuana
(Brandon Robinson) - Peace of Mind: Mental Health Disorders — Symptoms, Signs, and Interventions
(Audrina Bunton Jones) - Perinatal Depression: Recognizing and Treating Depression During Pregnancy and Postpartum
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Potential Youth Violence: Behavioral Indicators, Prevention and Intervention
(Matt Sullivan) - Provider Resilience: Assessing Compassion Fatigue and Cultivating Well-Being
(Amy Levine) - Providing Feedback and Coaching to Support Skill Development
(Rachel Galanter) - PTSD and COVID-19
(Kelly Graves) - Orientation to Disaster Mental Health Intervention
(Tab Ballis) - Race-Based Traumatic Stress: Broadening Your Toolkit to Support Diverse Clients
(Alicia Freeman) - Recognizing Students Affected by Trauma and Best Approaches When Interacting with Students in Crisis
(Kelly Graves) - Refresher of Basic Motivational Interviewing Skills
(Ellen Pallme) - Resilience Focused Motivational Interviewing
(Rachel Galanter) - Responding to Community Violence, Bullying, and Suicide: Prevention and Intervention
(Matthew Sullivan) - Responding to Family Violence: Evidence-Based Approaches for Practice
(Kelly Graves) - Rethinking Guardianship: Exploring Less Restrictive Alternatives
(Linda Kendall Fields) - Same But Different, or Is It? Best Practice Treatment for LGBTQ+Clients with Substance Abuse Concerns
(Avery Cook) - Secondary Trauma and Self Care
(Kelly Graves) - Seeing the Forest and the Trees: John T. Edwards’ Legacy of Family Intervention and Treatment
(Tab Ballis) - Self-Care Is Not Self-Indulgence: Navigating Vicarious Trauma and Potential Burnout
(Andrea Murray-Lichtman, Tauchiana Williams) - Sexuality and Disability: Reducing the Stigma, Improving Access, and Increasing Equity
(Nellie Galindo) - Shift the State, Change the Story: Applying Polyvagal Theory to Enhance Change
(Ellen Pallme) - Sibling Support Across the Lifespan
(Eileen Slade) - Social Determinants of Health
(Betsy Bledsoe) - Starting or Restarting Motivational Interviewing
(Rachel Galanter) - Supporting Children’s Healing —Building Connections, Guiding Behavior
(Rachel Galanter) - Supporting Choice and Self-Determination: Less Restrictive Alternatives to Guardianship
(Alison Climo or Linda Kendall Fields) - Supporting Families of Children with Complex Needs
(Laurel Powell) - Supporting Older Adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
(Kim Schlegel) - Taming The Flames: Helping Clients Recognize, Understand, and Move Beyond Anger
(Kate Gotelli) - The Art of Promoting Culturally Sensitive and Responsive Practices in Clinical Supervision
(Donna Newberne) - The Courage to be Disliked: Integrity in Leadership
(Kim Strom) - The Ethics of Evidence-Based Practice in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(Betsy Bledsoe) - The Family Dynamics of Addiction: Impact on the Children
(Katie Salmons) - The GATE Model: An Interactive Tool for Addictions Risk Assessment
(Tab Ballis) - The Impact of ACES on Autistic Individuals
(Molly Marus-Quinley) - The Impact of Toxic Stress on Health and Your Role in Resilience
(Rachel Galanter) - Trauma and IDD
(Eileen Slade) - Trauma and Recovery for Adults
(Kate Gotelli) - Trauma Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (3-hour version)
(Kelly Graves) - Trauma Informed Care in Behavioral Health Services (6-hour version)
(Kelly Graves) - Treating Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Conduct Disorder
(Amy Levine) - Unapologetically You: The Power of Radical Self-Care
(Alicia Freeman) - Understanding Trauma and Substance Abuse: Implications for Practice
(Kelly Graves) - Unveiling the Mask: Cognitive Processing Therapy
(Audrina Jones Bunton) - Using the Cultural Humility and Intersectionality frameworks with LGBTQIA+ Clients of Color
(Hayden Dawes) - Utilizing Integrative Hypnosis in Practice: A Guide to Treating Anxiety and Trauma
(Laurie Emmer-Martin) - Voices of Resilience: Suicide Prevention in Native Communities
(Alicia Freeman) - What If There’s No Such Thing as Client Resistance?
(Michael McGuire) - When Silence Is Loud: Depression and Adults
(Audrina Jones Bunton) - When the Dam Breaks: Preventing and Planning for Mental Health Crises with People with IDD
(Laurel Powell) - Where the Healing Begins: Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Children and Adolescents
(Audrina Jones Bunton) - Working with Families: Intervention Skills and Techniques (2-day program)
(Michael McGuire) - Youth Risk Behavior: Responding to and Assessing Adolescent Suicide
(Matthew Sullivan)
