Self-disclosure is a powerful clinical and supervisory tool, but many clinicians feel trepidation about utilizing it because the risks can feel just as real as the potential benefits. What if I overshare, what if it doesn’t land well, or what if the moment shifts attention away from the client, supervisee, or the work that needs to happen?

This training offers clinical supervisors a thoughtful space to examine how self-disclosure can be used with greater clarity, purpose, and professional intention in both clinical practice and supervision. For supervisors who want to model appropriate use of self-disclosure while helping supervisees develop this skill in support of their own clinical growth, this course provides a practical place to begin.

Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT, is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Approved Clinical Supervisor, Certified Financial Therapist, professor, consultant, TEDx speaker, and 2x Amazon #1 best-selling author. Her experience as a clinician, supervisor, educator, and consultant positions her to help clinical supervisors think carefully about the risks, benefits, and appropriate use of self-disclosure within both clinical and supervisory relationships.

Khara’s approach centers on self-disclosure as a skill that can be assessed, practiced, modeled, and refined rather than avoided out of fear or used without reflection. She will guide participants through a simple framework for self-disclosure while identifying opportunities for supervisors and supervisees to use this tool in ways that support clinical development, strengthen the supervision alliance, and encourage professional growth.

This course will explore self-disclosure as a clinical tool, including the common concerns clinicians have about oversharing, timing, impact, and professional boundaries. Participants will examine the risks and benefits of self-disclosure in both client work and clinical supervision, consider how supervisors can model appropriate self-disclosure, and learn a framework that supports intentional use of this skill within professional supervisory relationships.

As we become ethically sophisticated in clinical supervision, CACREP standards must be at the forefront of our minds when documenting trainee progress. Dr. Andi Johnson will demonstrate ethical documentation standards based on the NAADAC Code of Ethics for addiction counselor trainees and their supervisors. She will also address the eight domains of addiction counseling practice and counselor dispositions used to thoroughly assess addiction counselor trainees. Templates for documentation will be provided, and examples will be used in application procedures using these templates.  

In Of Fear and Strangers, George Makari, MD, considered how different psychological models – behaviorist, cognitive, phenomenological – accounted for xenophobia, and in the end, considered psychoanalytic theories of projection to most clearly define the most intractable form of this problem. With ethnonationalism and militarism on the rise around the world, Dr. Makari wanted to explore the social conditions that fostered such projected hatred. For that, he turned to Einstein and Freud’s 1932 exchange, “Why War?”. In Freud’s brief letter, he proposed a model for collectives, in which the problem of self-defense and the risk of social disintegration were central. How, we might ask, does this model apply to our present?

From boundaries to informed consent to scope of practice. This 6-hour course will cover the most cited reasons for ethics violations and engage the group in utilizing evidence-based decision making to navigate the most challenging dilemmas.

This training is for mental health professionals in any setting.  From Private practice to agency work, ethical boundaries are an essential part of our therapeutic work.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what constitutes a healthy and therapeutic boundary and those that undermine the therapeutic process

• Understand and develop a working knowledge around ethical decision

• Develop an understanding around legal & ethically compliant informed consent including the use of ‘dynamic’ informed consent with respect to dual relationships

6 FREE CEs*

*Six Continuing Education Credits for Professionals:
Social Workers (NASW, TN Chapter), Counselors (NBCC)  Assisted Living Administrators, Certified Peer Recovery Specialists

Leaving Against Therapeutic Advice (often called Leaving Against Medical Advice, or AMA) occurs when a patient chooses to leave a healthcare facility before the treating clinician recommends discharge. This situation presents complex ethical challenges and reflects broader systemic, social, and interpersonal problems within healthcare delivery. Leaving Against Therapeutic Advice is not merely an individual patient choice but a multifaceted ethical and systemic challenge. While patient autonomy must be respected, healthcare providers have an ethical responsibility to ensure informed decision-making, effective communication, and compassionate care. Addressing the underlying social, economic, and institutional factors—along with strengthening patient-provider relationships—can help reduce the incidence of leaving against advice and improve overall health outcomes.

Join the Center of Excellence for Integrated Health Solutions on Monday, May 18, 1-2:30 p.m. ET, for a dynamic webinar on integrated care strategies to strengthen community‑based services for children with co‑occurring serious emotional disturbance and neurodevelopmental needs. This session will explore how children’s behavior serves as communication, how to work effectively across complex systems of care, and how to deliver coordinated, high‑quality treatment within bidirectional primary and behavioral health care integration settings.

Featured expert speakers will include Stacy L. Nonnemacher, PhD, director of cross‑system strategies at the National Association for State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services; Nancy Thaler, MS, project lead at The Link Center; and Tyrome Launderville, steering committee member at The Link Center.

This webinar is ideal for providers, mental health providers, governmental employees, educators and researchers seeking practical insights to enhance collaboration, improve outcomes and better support children and families.

This 2-hour training will teach how to adapt the DSM V criteria when working with older adults with a substance use disorder. You will learn the specific risk factors and treatment needs of older adults and how to use evidence based screening tools and treatment approaches relevant to older adults with substance use disorders.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with Lisa Goldfarb, MD

The NBCC Foundation invites you to a free webinar on Wed., May 13, 2026, from 1–2 pm EDT. Live webinars are available at no cost, and documentation of 1 clock hour of continuing education is available for those who attend the full webinar. After this presentation, participants will be able to:  -understand the personal responsibility of burnout on three levels: survival, success, and significance. -address the systemic responsibility of burnout based on primary wellness needs. -identify and implement three to five wellness tools and strategies for a well workplace and well-organized leadership. Availability is on a first-come-first-served basis, and registration does not ensure a spot at the webinar. If you are unable to attend the live webinar, it will later be available through Academy.cce-global.org. If you have any questions, please e-mail webinars@nbcc.org. All webinars include auto-generated closed captioning. If additional accommodations are needed, please email Foundation@nbcc.org to request a form. Documentation of one clock hour of continuing education is available for completing the webinar. Webinar attendees must log in and attend the full webinar to qualify for continuing education documentation.

This is a hybrid event with in-person (at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA) and virtual attendance options. A collaboration by the Freud Foundation US, Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna, and the Erikson Institute of the Austen Riggs Center, this roundtable examines how digital technologies are reshaping psychic life within the context of place and its disembodied absence.

Register now for our Psychiatry Update 2026 series, which includes 3 dates in the spring and summer! 

Join fellow healthcare professionals from around the country for this popular series, now in its 11th year! Connect with us online to hear from our world-class faculty as they discuss the latest diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in psychiatry today.

This webinar is intended for Medicare Part B providers and includes: • Mental Health Overview • Provider Eligibility • Psychiatric Evaluations or Testing • Psychotherapy and Evaluation and Management (E/M) • Other Covered and Non-Covered Services

This 90-minute webinar examines common ethical challenges encountered by certified addiction counselors, clinical supervisors and interns working with individuals affected by opioid, stimulant, and other substance use disorders. Participants will review core ethical principles, boundary management, confidentiality concerns, and decision-making frameworks relevant to real-world practice. Through case examples and guided discussion, the session equips attendees with practical tools to identify ethical risks early and respond in ways that protect clients, professionals, and the integrity of treatment services. 

This 90-minute presentation will provide mental health professionals with an understanding of telehealth delivery of evidence-based trauma-focused treatment for children and adolescents who have experienced trauma and engage in substance use. Topics covered will include: (1) telehealth best practices, (2) specific tailoring of trauma-focused and substance use-focused treatment for a telehealth delivery format, and (3), demonstration of how to utilize electronic resources to deliver trauma-focused and substance use-focused treatment via telehealth.

Session Learning Objectives

• Participants will be able to describe modifications needed to implement trauma-focused and substance use-focused treatment for children and adolescents via telehealth

• Participants will be able to understand telehealth best practices and the ethics surrounding distance counseling

• Participants will be able to describe techniques and resources to provide engaging trauma treatment for children via telehealth

The deployment of racialized fear as a political strategy has a profound impact on the individuals and communities who are targeted as objects of fear. In our current climate the use of fear as a tool of racialization is an important site for practitioners to consider in their work not solely with clients who are targets, but also when considering the work of clinical practice.

This presentation will consider the framework of fear and racialization as conceived in the historic work of Frantz Fanon through the work of Afro Futurists who offer language and framing for holding sites of possibility in the Black imaginary in the midst of oppressive conditions of the present. While Blackness is an origin site of this discussion of fear, understanding the application of these concepts may be of significant utility in our current climate to individuals, practices, and spaces who may be targeted as objects of fear.

This presentation will center the significance of understanding what fear can do to people, while identifying the necessity of holding autonomous sites of possibility for both the client, practitioner, and communities in which people reside.

We’ve designed these sessions to provide quick overviews of different trauma-informed tools and techniques that you can implement personally or with clients. Childhood trauma, adverse childhood experiences (ACE’s) and substance abuse disorders have significant impacts on overall physical and mental health. Trauma effects can cause emotional dysregulation, social challenges, physical symptoms and mental health impairment leading to substance abuse, violence, crime and other outcomes. This training will be focused on examining how trauma and substance abuse connect, its impacts, barriers to treatment and how it can lead to addiction.

This session examines the intersection of eating disorders and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use, highlighting shared risk factors, warning signs, and how the conditions can reinforce one another. Participants will learn strategies for prevention and early intervention, including how to support youth with integrated, trauma-informed approaches.

Depression is a fundamentally episodic psychiatric disorder, but the mechanisms that drive mood-state transitions over time are not well understood. Dr. Liston will present findings from a series of parallel studies in preclinical mouse models and in patients with depression aimed at developing new treatment approaches by identifying the cellular and circuit-level mechanisms that initiate and sustain mood-state switches.

This professional development workshop provides an in-depth exploration of the theories, processes, and skills essential for effective group counseling. Participants will examine the stages of group development, group member roles, facilitation strategies, and methods for fostering cohesion and working through conflict. Designed for counselors, clinicians, and helping professionals, this workshop equips participants with practical tools to enhance group outcomes and support diverse client needs

Racism, and otherness, continues to be contentious for psychoanalysts to consider as a psychic phenomenon. Unlike aggression and sexuality, racism is held in silence and resistance, inhibiting exploration of this aspect of mind. By closely examining how and where the analyst/psychotherapist locates themselves racially and working through our resistance and countertransference to this type of exploration, this paper invites us to include these aspects of mind for our analytic use. This paper expands on how we become raced by exploring the transgenerational transmission of racial trauma, and its intra-psychic, structuralizing components. Using examples from the creative arts and clinical vignettes to demonstrate how being raced, as a universal phenomenon, is embodied and symbolized in mind, opens a therapeutic aperture for clinicians who may benefit from a psychoanalytic, intrapsychic perspective on this aspect of our shared humanity.

Join the Suicide Risk Management Consultation Program (SRM) for our monthly lecture: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Moral Injury (ACT-MI)

Research has shown that moral injury, the pain one feels as a result from a situation where the individual perceives that an important moral has been violated, is a significant risk factor for suicide among the Veteran population.

This month’s lecture provides an overview of moral injury and how to identify it in clinical settings. Attendees will learn about research that supports ACT-MI as an intervention and best practices for applying the model in practice. Participants will also learn how ACT-MI processes can help Veterans develop a new context for their moral pain so they can live their values even in the presence of moral pain.

As identification of autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other forms of neurodivergence continues to rise, clinicians are increasingly supporting clients whose needs aren’t well served by traditional mental health models. This webinar equips mental health professionals with an updated, neuroaffirming framework—covering current terminology, identity-affirming communication, and key distinctions between autistic or ADHD burnout and depression, anxiety, or occupational burnout.

Participants will leave with practical, evidence-informed strategies to support executive functioning challenges, trauma-related concerns, and therapeutic engagement—while creating neuroinclusive clinical environments that reduce stigma and empower neurodivergent individuals to thrive.

Topic Description: This presentation provides a brief overview of the emerging field of positive health, which merges lifestyle medicine with positive psychology in a supportive biopsychosocial-spiritual model of whole-person health. Positive psychology has a key role in lifestyle medicine due to the reinforcing, reciprocal link between positive emotions and health behaviors. Also positive psychology mindsets and activities serve as additional health protective factors through direct physiologic benefits. Two key areas within positive health will be highlighted: 1. social connection with positivity resonance and 2. meaning, purpose and spirituality. These are intertwined, as often one derives greatest meaning from social connection. The talk will conclude with a brief review of recommendations made at the Summit on Meaning, Purpose, and Spirituality in Lifestyle Medicine for research, clinical practice, clinician well-being and medical education.

Mindfulness and Compassion Grand Rounds at Harvard Medical School will be held about twice monthly, live online via Zoom, and is open to those within Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), and members of the CMC community, for free. Our Grand Rounds series has 3 main aims:

• Disseminate information about new cutting edge science and impactful clinical research findings

• Highlight best practices for enhancing the efficacy, accessibility, and safety of mindfulness and compassion delivery and applications for population mental health

• Provide opportunities for healthcare provider self-care and burnout prevention.