Continuing Education

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2026

• Ethics and Boundaries: Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers and Marriage ; Family Counselor
• Clinical Supervision Essentials: Compliance, Competency, and Client-Centered Care
• Cultural Competency in Healthcare: Tools and Strategies for Better Patient Care
• Texas Human Trafficking Resource Center HEART Training
• Virtual EMDR: A How-to Guide to Providing EMDR via Telehealth
• Whole-Person Clinical Supervision: Embracing a Fresh Perspective on Relational Based Care
• Texas Human Trafficking: HEART Training 
• Clinical Supervision Essentials: Compliance, Competency, and Client-Centered Care
• Dying to know: Exploring the Contemplative Paths in Thanatology Across Disciplines
• Transformative Alchemy: Humanistic and Contemplative Wisdom Alive in Thanatology, Hospice & Palliative Care in Society 
• Psychological Implications of the biological basis of behavior
• Exploring Archetypes and Tarot Creatively: Transpersonal Sensibilities and Compassionate Self-Care 

2026

• Traditional Healing Part 2: Understanding Latino Cultural Health Behaviors and the Role of Women
• Traditional Healing Part 1: Integrating Curanderismo in Behavioral Health
• Putting Our Healing Gifts (aka “Don”) into Practice
• Decolonizing Healing Practitioner Titles, Labels, Identities, & the Processes of Reclaiming Them
• Helping Clients Manage Different Stressors
• In-Person & Online Classes, Group Ceremonies, Dynamics, & Facilitating
• Understanding Your Clientele, Promoting, & Collaborating
• Pricing, Policies, and Boundaries
• Research Foundations and Literacy
• Intermediate Training and Education in Hypnosis
• Research Ethics for Doctoral Research Learners

2025

• Combining Hypnosis with Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (APA)
• How to Start Using Clinical Hypnosis in Your Therapy Practice Now (APA)
• Psychedelics and Clinical Health Psychology (APA)
• Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Serious Mental Illness: The Cognitive Restructuring Program (Book Pres: APA)
• Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control: A Comprehensive Approach to Management and Treatment of Pain (Book Pres: APA)
• Using Clinical Hypnosis to Facilitate Mystical Experiences (APA)
• Walking the Path: Ethics, Community, and Trauma in Psychedelic Therapy (APA)
• Case Formulation in Existential-Humanistic Therapy (Book Pres: APA)
• The Influence of Demons and Shadows in Psychology: Awakening and Feeding your Demons (APA)
• Integrating Cannabis Policy Changes into Health Care Practice and Research (APA)
• Virtual EMDR: A How-to Guide to Providing EMDR via Telehealth (ADV EMDR)

2025

Basic Training and Education in Hypnosis

Psychology of Consciousness

Ethics, Spirit, and Healthcare

Interdisciplinary Foundations for Vibrant Longevity

Combining Hypnosis with Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (APA)

How to Start Using Clinical Hypnosis in Your Therapy Practice Now (APA)

Psychedelics and Clinical Health Psychology (APA)

Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Serious Mental Illness: The Cognitive Restructuring Program (Book Pres: APA)

Clinical Hypnosis for Pain Control: A Comprehensive Approach to Management and Treatment of Pain (Book Pres: APA)

Using Clinical Hypnosis to Facilitate Mystical Experiences (APA)

Walking the Path: Ethics, Community, and Trauma in Psychedelic Therapy (APA)

Case Formulation in Existential-Humanistic Therapy (Book Pres: APA)

Integrating Cannabis Policy Changes into Health Care Practice and Research (APA)

Fire Limpia Series

Water Limpia Series

Sweeping Limpia Series

Space Activation and Limpia Series

2024

• Processing, Demonstration & Experiential Training (ADV EMDR)
• 8 Phases of EMDR: Skills & More (ADV EMDR)
• Where EMDR Comes In (ADV EMDR)
• Foundation, Neuroscience and Memory (ADV EMDR)
• Moving Clients Forward: Modified EMDR and Parts Work for Complex PTSD (ADV EMDR)
• How to Assess for a Complex Diagnosis: History Taking and Case Conceptualization (ADV EMDR)
• Understanding Complex Trauma: The Neurobiology of PTSD (ADV EMDR)
• Advanced PTSD Case Conceptualization
• Practice and Integration (EMDR)
• Supervision and Professional Development (EMDR)
• Management of Complications and Complex Cases (EMDR)
• EMDR Treatment Phases
• Preparation and Stabilization (EMDR)
• Associated Approaches and Complimentary Tools (EMDR)
• EMDR Protocol Adaptations
• Standard EMDR Protocols for Adults
• Neurobiology of EMDR
• Introduction to EMDR
• Mastering Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS) 
•  A Therapist’s Guide to the Psychopharmacology of Trauma and Dissociation
• IFS & Couples Therapy: Using Intimacy from the Inside Out (IFIO) to Heal, Improve, and Provide Relationship Help 
• IFS with Children & Adolescents: Using Parts Work to Help Young People Heal
• Healing Racial Trauma with IFS Therapy 
• IFS Approaches with LGBTQ2IA+ Clients 
• IFS Therapy Approaches to Shame, Anxiety, and Depression  

2023

• IFS & Disordered Eating: Heal the Relationship Between Food and Body 
• IFS & Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the System of Parts 
• Treating Complex PTSD with IFS
• Attachment & IFS: Healing Trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body
• Internal Family Systems (IFS): Development, Application and Transformational Model to Effectively Help Clients Improve Well-being 
• Overcoming Trauma-Related Shame and Self-Loathing with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. 
• Trauma Defined: Bessel van der Kolk on The Body Keeps the Score 
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 6 - Integration and Healing 
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 5 - Traumatic Attachment and the Treatment of Dissociative Disorders
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 4 - Working with Regression, Aggression and Passivity
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 3 - Working with Traumatic Memory in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 2 - Increasing Awareness of Dysregulated Parts and Dissociative States 
• (CCTP Training II) Mod 1 - Introduction to the Treatment of Dissociation
• (CCTP Training I) Mod 6 - Working with Shame, Fear and Anger
• (CCTP Training I) Mod 5 - The Role of Dissociation in Trauma-Related Disorders
• (CCTP Training I) Mod 4 - Disorganized Attachment, Borderline Personality Disorder, and the Traumatic Transference
• (CCTP Training I) Mod 3 - Working with Traumatic Memory: Principles and Techniques
• Integrate CBT and Exposure & Response Prevention for Treatment of GAD, Panic Disorder, OCD, Social Anxiety, & Phobias (Anxiety Certification) 
• Heal Trauma with Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM®) 

2022 & Earlier

2022

• (CCTP Training I) Mod 2: Working with Complications of Dysregulation
• Suicide Risk Management
• (CCTP Training I) Mod 1: Trauma & The Body
• Panic Attacks: A Brief Intervention
• "PTSD" with the National Center for PTSD (Lunch & Learn) 
• ABCs of Trauma
• The Use of Poetry to Facilitate the Grieving Process in Psychotherapy
• Treatment Planning Through a Humanistic Lens 
• Stimulation Technologies
• Prolonged Exposure Therapy: Effective Treatment for PTSD 

2021

• Brainspotting Phase One
• Treating Trauma: The ACT Matrix
• 2021 Update: The Mental Health Professional's Role in Evaluating the Need for Emotional Support Animals
• Facilitating Connection through Restorative Practices
• Restorative Root Facilitation Skills Training
• Identifying and Treating Moral Injury
• Exploring the Use of Psychedelic Drugs in the Treatment of PTSD: Groundbreaking Treatment 
• Using Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills in Group Therapy (Peer Learning Event)
• Recognize, Respond, Report: Training for Colorado's Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Professional Counseling Diploma for Sexual Abuse
• Strategies for Broaching the Subjects of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
• Suicide Risk Assessment
• "We Are Still Here": Learning From Native American Perspectives 
• Risk Management: License Protection and Board Complaints against Professional Counselors 
• When Being “Essential”  Illuminates Disparities:  Counseling Clients Affected  by COVID-19
• Demystifying Ethics and Law for Telebehavioral Health (III)
• Understanding and living with Disorders of Sexuality (BH Peer Learning Event)
• Ethical, Legal, and Risk Management Considerations: Understanding the Landscape of Telebehavioral Health and Supervision
• Fundamental Differences Between Developmental and Shock Trauma with Innovative Interventions 
• Exploring Psychedelics: Discovery, Research, & Effects
• Therapeutic Strategies for Survivors of Sex Trafficking: Regulation, Rehabilitation, and Rejuvenation (Peer Learning Event)
• The Use of Fairy Tales in Narrative Group Therapy for the Treatment of Sexual Assault Survivors (Peer Learning Event)
• Avoiding a Disconnect with Telemental Health
• Demystifying Ethics and Law for Telebehavioral Health (II)
• Becoming an Effective Supervisor

2020

• Demystifying Ethics and Law for Telebehavioral Health (I)
• COVID-19 and Telebehavioral Health: Ethical Considerations during a Public Health Emergency
• Clinical Supervision I - III (ACS)
• Establishing Personal and Professional Boundaries
• The Mental Health Professional's Role in Evaluating the Need for Emotional Support Animals: A Clinical-Forensic Perspective
• Social Justice Counseling: Making your practice make a difference
• College Counseling and Student Development: Stress and Anxiety
• Expanding Perspectives: Systemic Approaches to College Students Experiencing Depression
• Creative Counseling for Couples: Using the Integrative Model, Part 1 
• The Efficacy of Interventions Aimed at Reducing Procrastination: A Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials
• Assessment and Intervention with Suicidal Clients  
• QPR Suicide Prevention Training
• Counselor Self-Care
• Risk Management: Malpractice Cases and Claims Against Professional Counselors 
• Personal Mythology, Social Justice, & the Heroic Journey Parts 1 & 2
• On Healing and Self-Healing 
• Dr. David R. Hawkinks’ Map of Consciousness and Consciousness Calibration Approach
• Dreams as Creative Inspiration
• Freeing Your Creativity: Exploring Your Inner Voices
• Creativity at Work: Authentic Expression
• Creativity, Rituals, and Cultivating Meaning 
• Connecting with Nature: An Existential-Humanistic View of Relational Creativity  
• Principles of Addiction
• Pharmacology I
• Professional and Ethical Issues II
• Climate Change and Mental Health: The Role of the Counselor
• Addiction in The Schools: Improving Training for School Counselors 
• Ten Ways to Intentionally Use Group Work to Transform Hate and Enhance Community Building 
• Carrying the Burden: Counselors of Color’s Experiences of Microaggressions in Counseling

2019

• Developing Competence in Working With LBGTQI+ Communities: Awareness, Knowledge, Skills, and Action 
• The LGBTQ Affirming Therapist.  
• Ethical Issues Related to the Practice of Online Clinical Supervision 
• A Constructive Approach to Help Counselors Work With Clients Who Express Discriminatory Views
• Self-Stigma, Mental Health Literacy, and Health Outcomes in Integrated Care
• Dirt Road Counseling: Evidence-Based Interventions for Rural Mental Health Delivery 
• Complicated Grief: An Evolving Theoretical Landscape
• Meta-Analysis of Counseling Outcomes for Youth With Conduct Disorders
• Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Substance Misuse 
• Healing Humiliation: From Reaction to Creative Action
•  Spirit 
• Private Practice Owner's Guide to Business Protocols and Human Resources Practices 
•  Single Case Research Design and Analysis: Counseling Applications
• Hoarding Disorder: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment  
• Check-In/Check-Out Intervention With Peer-Monitoring for a Student With Emotional-Behavioral Difficulties 
• Effects of Adlerian Play Therapy on Children's Externalizing Behavior
• Addressing Clients' Experiences of Racism: A Model for Clinical Practice
• Affective Constellations for Countertransference Awareness Following a Client's Suicide Attempt
• Enhancing Counselor Supervision Through Compassion Fatigue Education   

2018

• Multicultural Career Counseling: Limitations of Traditional Career  Theory and Scope of Training and Using the Genogram for Career  Assessment and Intervention With an Economically Disadvantaged Client
• Protecting Human Research Participants
• Animal-Assisted Therapy in Counseling, Therapeutic Horticulture, and Wilderness/Nature Therapy  
• Irvin Yalom and the Art of Psychotherapy 
• Internet Addiction 
• A Counselor's Guide to Medication- Assisted Treatment for Opioid Addiction 
• Music and Counseling
• Creative Approaches in Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Multicultural Career Counseling 
• Private Practice: Managing Your Business 
• What do we know, or think we know, about how counseling works?  
• Extending Boundaries 
• Counselor Considerations When Working With Older People

2017

• Therapeutic Art: Art Therapy for Self Healing
• Proseminar: Dreamwork Session
• Play and Humor in Counseling 
• Final Evaluation and Certificate of Completion (LGBTQ) 
• Transgender & Gender-Expansive Counseling Issues 
• Preparing for Conversations with LGBTQ Youth 
• Supervision Ethics 
• Multiculturalism and Social Justice 
• LGBTQ Youth & Young Adults in School, College, Careers 
• Introductory Competencies for LGBTQ-Affirmative Counseling 
• So, What is Play Therapy and Why Should We Care?  
• Developmental Approaches in Treating Addiction
• Unique Ethical Challenges Facing New Faculty 
• Ethics, Spirit, and Healthcare
• Creative Studies: Creativity and Writing
• EEG Assessment Lab
• Using EEG to Assess Clients
• Hypnosis/Biofeedback Combined Lab and Seminar
• Peer Learning: Experience in Using Unscripted Hypnosis
• Career Counseling: A Life Career Development Perspective 
• Male-Sensitive Couples Counseling

2016

• DSM-5 Structural, Philosophical, and major Diagnostic Changes 
• Trauma & Addiction: A Symposium with Dr. Gabor Maté
• Ethical, Legal, and Professional Considerations in Assessment 
• Gestalt Therapy

2024 & Earlier

• Integrative Sex and Couples Certification Training with Tammy Nelson: Certified Sex Therapy Informed Professional (CSTIP) Course
• Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for Trauma: Essential Insights into Ketamine, MDMA, Psilocybin, & More
• LGBTQIA+ Affirmative Care Summit: Intersectional Perspectives to Successfully Cultivate Inclusive Therapy Practices

2023 

•  IFS & Addictive Processes: Healing Wounds and Restoring Balance to the System of Parts 
•  Treating Complex PTSD with IFS 
•  Attachment & IFS: Healing Trauma and Attachment Wounds that Befriend the Body 
•  Internal Family Systems (IFS): Development, Application and Transformational Model to Effectively Help Clients Improve Well-Being 
• Trauma & Altered States of Consciousness: Results of Psychedelic Studies
• Learning from Non-Ordinary states: Mindfulness, Compassion, & Psychedelic
• Expanding the Nature and Breadth of Consciousness: A Holistic Psychedelic Approach
• Integration Strategies for Psychedelic Psychotherapy: Focus on Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy
• Internal Family Systems (IFS): A Simple and Effective Map to the Psychedelics Territory
• Training Medical and Mental Health Professionals to Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapies
• Transformative Psychotherapy: Process and Methodology
• Learning from the Non-Ordinary States: Mindfulness, compassion, & Psychedelics
• What does the Future hold for Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
• Covering the Pros and Cons of Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
• Exploring the Psychedelic power of meditation
• Transpersonal Ecodelic Experience: walking the worlds between science and indigenous wisdom traditions
• Alchemy
• Dream Discovery
• Autism Diagnosis in Adulthood
• spirit-releasement-therapist-training
• Hypnosis For Spiritual Awakening & Healers
• DSM-5© Differential Diagnosis for Clients with a History of Trauma: 4 Steps to an Accurate Diagnosis
• 2-Day Ketamine and Mental Health: Foundations of Ketamine Assisted Therapy
• Psychdelic-Assisted Psychotherapy for trauma: Forward to the Past: Healing and Therapies in the 21st Century
• Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Theory & Methodology for Journey Clinical Members

2022

• Riding the Wave: Principles of Psychedelic Harm Reduction: Psychedelic Support
•  Improving Outcomes Through Culturally-Informed Practices

2021 

• Brainspotting Phase One
• 2021 Update: The Mental Health Professional's Role in Evaluating the Need for Emotional Support Animals
• Recognize, Respond, Report: Training for Colorado's Mandatory Reporters of Child Abuse and Neglect
• Grow your Practice with Social Media Marketing
• Keeping Kids and Teens Engaged with TeleMental Health
• Keeping it Professional with Facebook Privacy Settings
• Avoiding the Top Tele Mental Health Mistakes
• Lifting Latinx: A primer about working effectively with the Hispanic and Latino population
• Letter and Assessment training (For Trans health) 
• Healing Invisible Wounds: Working through past sexual trauma in relationships
• Coming Out On A Continuum: Recognizing the lifelong process for LGBTQ people
• Lifting LGBTQIA voices of color: Racism among gender & sexual minorities
• Transgender clients with eating disorders: Clinical considerations and approaches 

2020

• Clinical Supervision I - III (ACS)
• Embodied Mindfulness In Teaching (EMIT)
• UHSBH Bipolar Disorder
• UHSBH Childhood Depression (CBT)
• UHSBH Self Mutilation   
• UHSBH Crisis Prevention Plan
• UHSBH General Anxiety Disorder
• UHSBH Schizophrenia
• UHSBH Therapeutic Milieu   
• UHSBH Trauma Informed Care
• HIPPA Privacy and Security Rules
• CPH Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale with SAFE-T
• UHSBH Covid 19 Education
• CPH Hospital Emergency Response
• Colorado Regulations regarding Involuntary Admissions
• UHSDEBH Patient safety concerns
• UHS Preventing Workplace Violence

2019

• The LGBTQ Affirming Therapist 
• CPH NR 045 Transgender Patient Rights
• EMTALA
• CPBH - C.R.S. 27-65 Care and Treatment of the Mentally Ill
• CPH Emergency Response
•  Rapid Regulatory Compliance 
• UHS Information Security and Privacy Agreement
• UHSDEBH Therapeutic Boundaries
• CPH Clinical Opioid Withdrawal Scale (COWS)
• CPH CIWA-ar and RASS Education

2018

• Working with dreams in group
• CPH Involuntary Treatment Interventions
• CPBH- C.R.S. 27-65 Care & Treatment of the Mentally Ill
• UHSDEBH Safety Concerns
• UHSDEBH Therapeutic Boundaries

2017

• Infection Control
• UHS Secured Email Training Anti-Phishing
• UHSDEBH - Therapeutic Boundaries
• UHS Suicide Assessment & Reassessment - Licensed Staff

2016

• UHSDEBH- Circumstantial Life Changes
• CPBH - C.R.S. 27-65 Care & Treatment of the Mentally Ill
• UHS Suicide Assessment & Reassessment - Licensed Staff
• UHS HIPAA Training
• UHS Assessment and Prevention of Risk

2015

• UHS Keep Me Safe
• UHS Suicide Prevention
• UHS Therapeutic Boundaries

2014

• LGBTQ Integrative Treatment: Introducing a new model of treatment 
• Recognizing and Responding to Trauma: The ACE study and Trauma-Informed Care 
• Implementing Seeking Safety: An Evidence-Based treatment for Trauma and/or Substance Abuse 
• Driving with Care: Alcohol or other drug safety education and treatment 
• Barriers and gaps in services for Trans survivors of sexual violence 
• Dual Diagnosis for Adolescents 
• Coming Out: Voices of Gay and Lesbian Teens and their Families  
• DBT At a Glance: An Introduction to Dialectical Behavior Therapy  
• Motivational Interviewing  
• Psychotherapy with the experts series: Solution-focused therapy  
• Dual Diagnosis: An integrated model for the treatment of people with co-occurring psychiatric and substance disorders 
• Opposite Action: Changing emotions you want to change 

2013

• Increasing awareness and decreasing gaps in services for transgender survivors: train the trainer 
• Co-Occurring Disorders Program 
• Motivational Interviewing Basic Skills Training 
• Addiction Recovery and Intimate Violence (ARIV) 
• Substance Use Disorders in Minority Men Who Have Sex With Men 
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: Historical Perspectives 
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: Individual Assessment and Psychotherapy 
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: Relationships, Families and Couples Counseling  
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: The Coming Out Process  
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: The Bisexual Experience  
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: Diversity and Multiple Identities  
• Psychotherapy with Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Clients: Sexual Minority Adolescents  
• Motivational Interviewing
• Infectious Disease
• Group Counseling Skills
• Pharmacology I
• Principles of Addiction Treatment
• Professional Ethics II
• Pharmacology II
• Advanced Motivational Interviewing
• Clinical Supervision I
• Clinical Supervision II

2012

• The Power of Words: Understanding Mediation Through Micro-aggressions 

2008

• Qualified Medication Administration Person (QMAP)
• Certified Fitness Trainer: ISSA

2005

• Kickboxing Certification: AFAA

2001 

• Acupuncture Detoxification Specialist: NADA