Available Training Topics

Gender-affirming supervision is an ethical, relational, and justice-oriented standard of care that supports clinically sound and culturally humble practice with transgender, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-expansive clients. As clinicians increasingly serve gender-diverse communities, supervisors play a critical role in shaping inclusive practice across settings. Participants will develop skills to foster supervisory relationships that support learning without shame, use identity-conscious and inclusive language to reduce harm, navigate ethical, documentation, and risk-management considerations in gender-affirming care, and coach supervisees through common clinical challenges such as misgendering ruptures, caregiver conflict, gatekeeping pressures, and referral decisions. The focus is on integrating ethics, risk management, and relationship-centered supervision practices with practical tools for immediate application.

In a high-intensity sociopolitical climate, clients and supervisees may present with fear, anger, grief, uncertainty, identity threat, moral injury, burnout, and conflict within clinical spaces. Using a social justice and anti-oppressive lens, this session provides practical strategies for holding clinical and supervisory space when politics and policy emerge in practice. Focus is placed on validating impact without turning sessions into debates or minimizing harm, assessing risk, maintaining role clarity and scope, supporting meaning-making, and navigating countertransference and ethical tension with steadiness and accountability.

This interactive workshop equips clinical supervisors with a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, justice-oriented lens for supporting supervisees who work with trauma-affected clients. Participants examine how direct trauma exposure, vicarious trauma, burnout, compassion fatigue, and organizational stress show up in supervision—and move beyond “trauma-informed” as a checklist by exploring what it requires structurally and relationally, including how supervision can either reproduce harm or interrupt it. Grounded in core principles (safety, trustworthiness, collaboration, empowerment, and cultural humility), the session uses case discussion, practice exercises, and reflection to strengthen supervisee support, resilience, and ethical practice across identity and institutional context.

Virtual supervision requires intentional structure, clear boundaries, and relational skill-building to maintain clinical quality, ethical practice, and psychological safety across distance rather than functioning as “supervision on Zoom.” Designed for clinical supervisors and mental health professionals across settings, it integrates ethics and risk management with relationship-centered supervision skills. Participants will examine how power, identity, access, and technology shape supervisory relationships and develop practical tools for contracting, documentation, feedback, and engagement that can be applied immediately in practice.

Neuro Social Work offers a justice-informed approach to understanding human behavior, adaptation, and healing that integrates neuroscience, trauma-informed practice, and person-in-environment thinking without reducing people to symptoms, deficits, or diagnoses. It examines brain development, the nervous system, stress, trauma, regulation, and resilience through a social work lens grounded in identity, relationships, context, and systems. Emphasis is placed on applying neurobiological insights to real-world practice with individuals, families, groups, and communities while critically examining how neuroscience is used to avoid decontextualized or overly individualistic interpretations that obscure structural inequities. Participants engage in reflection and case-based discussion to develop concrete, applicable strategies for practice across settings.