Instructor | Dr. Brian Paulson, Ph.D.
Culturally Sensitive Assessment and Treatment of Intimate Partner Violence (2 Hours)
Current 2023/2024 NISVS prevalence data explained
Step-by-step training in danger assessment and personalized safety planning
Practical guidance for culturally responsive screening with interpreters
Caffeine as a Modulator of Mood, Emotion, and Cognition (2 Hours)
Ready-to-use seven-day caffeine log and collaborative taper plan
Current FDA, ACOG, and AAP guidance on caffeine intake
DSM-5-TR caffeine diagnoses explained with documentation examples
Human Sexuality Across the Lifespan: The Role of Aging and Illness (2 Hours)
Current research on sexuality in older adults, including NSHAP and the National Poll on Healthy Aging
Practical tools for raising sexual health with older and medically ill clients
Clear guidance on capacity, consent, and abuse reporting in long-term care settings
Chronic Pain Syndromes and Interventions: Treating the Whole Person (3 Hours)
Plain-language tools for explaining pain science to clients
Ready-to-use PEG tracking and biopsychosocial formulation methods
Pain-informed suicide risk assessment and safety planning
Indiana Ethics for Licensed Mental Health Counselors (2 Hours)
Covers both years of Indiana's 1 hour per year ethics requirement (839 IAC 1-6-3).
Counselors learn why the Indiana duty to warn statute's immunity may not cover LMHCs.
Practitioners handle records under IC 16-39 and the counselor privilege.
Suicide Risk Assessment, Treatment and Management for Oregon Counselors and Therapists (2 Clock Hours)
Written for Oregon's 2 clock hour suicide risk assessment, treatment and management requirement (ORS 676.866).
Clinicians build a written risk formulation and a collaborative safety plan with lethal means counseling.
Counselors use 988, Oregon mobile crisis, and extreme risk protection orders appropriately.
Cultural Competency for Oregon Counselors and Therapists (4 Clock Hours)
Written for Oregon's 4 clock hour cultural competency requirement (ORS 676.850); no OHA approval needed.
Clinicians use the Cultural Formulation Interview and Oregon's interpreter rules.
Counselors broach culture, repair ruptures, and audit their practice for equity.
Oregon Ethics and Law for Professional Counselors and Therapists (6 Clock Hours)
Written for Oregon's 6 clock hour ethics and Oregon law requirement (OAR 833-080-0011).
Counselors and LMFTs learn that the Board enforces the 2014 ACA Code for all licensees.
Clinicians apply Stone v. Witt, ERPOs, mandatory reporting, and minors' consent rules.
Health Equity Training for Washington Behavioral Health Professionals (2 Hours)
Written for Washington's 2 hour health equity requirement (RCW 43.70.613; WAC 246-12-830).
Includes the required implicit bias training to reduce bias during assessment and diagnosis.
Clinicians use a bias reflection plan and a practice equity audit.
Professional Roles and Boundaries for Washington Mental Health Counselors (2 Hours)
Written for Washington's 2 hour professional roles and boundaries requirement (WAC 246-809-630).
Counselors learn that WAC 246-809-049 bars sexual contact with former clients with no time limit.
Clinicians use a written boundary decision worksheet and a social media policy.
Washington Law and Ethics for Mental Health Counselors (6 Hours)
Written for Washington's 6 hour professional ethics and law requirement (WAC 246-809-630).
Counselors apply Volk v. DeMeerleer and RCW 18.225.105(6) when a client may harm someone.
Practitioners handle records under RCW 70.02, including the court order rule for mental health records.
North Carolina Ethics for Clinical Mental Health Counselors (3 Contact Hours)
Counselors apply G.S. 90-329 et seq., 21 NCAC 53, and the Board's adoption of the ACA Code.
Practitioners protect privileged records under G.S. 8-53.8 and respond correctly to a subpoena.
Clinicians know the 2023 parental consent law for minors and North Carolina reporting duties.