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SUMMARY:From Startup to Success: Strategies to Master Building & Managing Your Private Practice
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Information:\nA successful private practice requires the understanding of both running a small business and applying proven clinical skills. This four-hour training will focus on key strategies needed to build and manage a successful private practice. It was developed to enhance licensed clinicians’ knowledge and understanding of private practice\, both legally and ethically. \nAt the conclusion of the workshop\, clinicians should be able to understand basic record-keeping\, financial management\, marketing and the role of AI. Participants will also gain a clear understanding of their responsibility to themselves and their clients. \n\nObjectives:\n\nParticipants will have an understanding of what a private practice entails.\nParticipants will understand the importance of a business team.\nParticipants will understand the importance of basic bookkeeping\, budgeting\, setting a fee for service\, and record keeping.\nParticipants will learn the issues involved in opening a practice\, managing the necessary paperwork and dealing with taxes and insurance.\nParticipants will have a basic understanding of the key elements in marketing a private practice.\nParticipants will learn the ethical considerations involved in running a private practice.\nParticipants will have an understanding of the role that AI can and cannot play in a private practice.\nParticipants will learn how to avoid burnout.\n\nThis training is worth a maximum of four (4) contact hours. \n  \nRegister Here \n\nAgenda for the Day:\n8:30am to 8:45am – Welcome\, Housekeeping\, and Introductions \n8:45am to 9:45am – Presentation \n9:45am to 10:00am – Break \n10:00am to 11:30am – Presentation Continues \n11:30am to 11:45am – Break \n11:45am to 1:00pm – Presentation Wrap-Up & Open Discussion \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter:\nDaniel Richards\, Ph.D.\, LCPC\, NCC is a licensed clinical professional counselor and national clinical counselor. Dr. Richards holds an associate’s degree in business administration from the University of Maine at Orono\, a bachelor’s degree in education and master’s degree in counseling from the University of Southern Maine. He received his Ph.D. in counseling from the State University of New York in Buffalo. He began practicing as a counselor in 1975. In 1983\, he achieved board certification with the National Board for Certified Counselors and he became licensed in the state of Maine as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor 1992. Dr. Richards has served as president of a number of organizations including Maine School Counselor Association\, New England Personnel and Guidance Association and Maine Counselors Association. While serving on the board of directors for the American Personnel and Guidance Association (now known as the American Counseling Association)\, Dr. Richards conceived the idea of establishing the Maine Clinical Council Association (Maine Mental Health Counselors Association) which he founded and served as the first president. In 1990\, he was asked to author the first book on private practice titled\, “Building and Managing Your Private Practice.” His dedication to the success of private practice has led him to write over 50 articles and conduct over 75 workshops and trainings on various mental health and counseling issues across the United States and Canada. \nHe is a person who has a unique blend of education\, business expertise and a dynamic presentation style. Dr. Richards has learned from experience about the risks\, failures and successes that come from building a private practice. Establishing and managing a successful private practice demands a thorough understanding of running a small business\, coupled with proven clinical expertise. \nRegister Here
URL:https://healthaffiliatesmaine.com/event/from-startup-to-success-strategies-to-master-building-managing-your-private-practice/
CATEGORIES:Professional Trainings
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SUMMARY:Neurodiversity in Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Information:\nThis dynamic four (4) hour training offers an engaging deep dive into Autism and ADHD – exploring their historical roots\, how understanding has evolved over time\, and what current clinical research tells us today. Participants will gain insight into common yet often overlooked traits\, the subtle presentations of Autism and ADHD\, and the cultural dynamics that shape neurodivergent lived experiences. \nThrough practical skill-building\, attendees will learn how to recognize and work effectively with Autistic and ADHD traits\, confidently support neurodivergent clients\, and expand their repertoire of neuroaffirming language\, strategies\, and clinical tools to enhance therapeutic outcomes. \n  \nObjectives:\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of neurodiversity by defining key principles\, terminology\, and the spectrum of neurodivergent conditions\, with an emphasis on how embracing a more inclusive and respectful approach when working with neurodivergent clients.\nParticipants will learn strategies and techniques for delivering care that is respectful of\, and tailored to\, the unique needs and strengths of individuals with autism and ADHD. This will include practical methods for creating affirming environments\, improving communication\, and addressing common challenges specific to these conditions.\nParticipants will learn practical methods to recognize and address cultural\, societal\, and clinical biases related to neurodivergence\, including how societal factors\, such as stigma and exclusion\, affect neurodivergent individuals and how to provide a safe\, affirming\, and supportive space for all clients.\nParticipants will review neuroaffirming strategies to foster safe and inclusive therapeutic environments\, promoting client engagement\, trust\, and retention in substance use treatment.\nParticipants will develop practical\, collaborative care skills for working with neurodivergent clients and their families\, with an emphasis on client autonomy\, self-advocacy\, and honoring individual preferences in meaningful and empowering treatment planning.\n\n  \nThis training is worth four (4) contact hours. An application for four (4) contact hours has been made to the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors. \n  \nRegister Here \n  \nAgenda for the Day:\n8:30am to 8:45am – Welcome\, Housekeeping\, and Introductions \n8:45am to 9:45am – Presentation \n9:45am to 10:00am – Break \n10:00am to 11:30am – Presentation Continues \n11:30am to 11:45am – Break \n11:45am to 1:00pm – Presentation Wrap-Up & Open Discussion \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenters:\nMolly Tarr\, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who earned her MSW from the University of New England in 2016. She works from a relational\, integrative\, and neurodiversity-affirming perspective and is trained in EMDR\, with influence from Internal Family Systems (IFS). Molly has worked across community\, outpatient\, and IOP settings\, supporting autistic and ADHD clients as well as individuals navigating anxiety\, trauma\, and disordered eating. Now in private practice\, she specializes in autism\, ADHD\, and trauma-informed care. Her clinical work is informed by both professional training and lived neurodivergent experience. \n\n\n\nJaime Mastrorio\, LCSW is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who earned her MSW from the University of New England in 2017. Her clinical approach is grounded in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)\, with an emphasis on acceptance\, values-based living\, and skill development. Jaime has worked across the continuum of care\, including in-home therapy\, residential treatment\, school-based services\, and outpatient settings. She is now in private practice\, primarily supporting neurodivergent adolescents\, young adults\, and families. \n  \nAbout This Training Team – Shared Clinical Perspective:\n\nJaime and Molly first worked together supporting autistic children and families and bring over a decade of combined clinical experience. Now both in private practice with shared specialties in Autism and ADHD\, they collaborate to offer therapist trainings that are practical\, strengths-based\, and neuroaffirming—designed to support clinicians in building safer\, more effective therapeutic relationships with neurodivergent clients. \n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://healthaffiliatesmaine.com/event/neurodiversity-in-clinical-practice/
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CATEGORIES:Professional Trainings
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SUMMARY:Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in Trauma-Informed Behavioral Health Practice
DESCRIPTION:Presentation Information:\nThe training integrates trauma-informed principles with ethical decision-making to strengthen clinicians’ ability to navigate the complex situations they encounter in everyday practice. Participants will explore a structured ethical decision-making framework grounded in core professional values\, including client welfare\, autonomy\, beneficence\, competence\, integrity\, and cultural humility. The workshop begins with an overview of trauma-informed ethical practice\, clinician well-being\, and the professional use of self as foundations for ethical decision-making. Participants will then apply the framework to real-world clinical dilemmas through collaborative case discussions\, identifying practical strategies they can immediately integrate into their behavioral health practice.  \n  \nObjectives:\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of the core principles of trauma-informed care and their application to ethical decision-making in behavioral health practice.\nParticipants will apply a structured ethical decision-making framework to analyze complex clinical dilemmas encountered in behavioral health settings. \nParticipants will evaluate ethical dilemmas by considering professional values\, client circumstances\, and potential courses of action.\nParticipants will develop practical\, ethically informed strategies that can be immediately integrated into behavioral health practice.\n\n  \nThis training has been approved for four (4) contact hours\, including four (4) hours of professional ethics\, by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors. \n  \nRegister Here \n  \nAgenda for the Day:\n9:00am to 10:30am – Welcome\, Housekeeping\, and Introductions\, and Presentation \n10:30am to 10:45am – Break \n10:45am to 12:00pm – Presentation Continues \n12:00pm to 12:15pm – Break \n12:15pm to 1:30pm – Presentation Wrap-Up & Open Discussion \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter:\nJohanna Creswell Báez\, Ph.D\, LCSW is an Assistant Professor and the Director of the MSW Program in the Department of Social Work at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. She completed her Master’s of Science in Social Work at Columbia University in 2006 and then worked at several non-profits as a director of clinical and research programming and as a private practice clinician before completing her Ph.D. in clinical social work at Smith College in 2016. She then served as the Manager of Course Development at Columbia University School of Social Work beginning in the fall of 2018 through summer of 2021. Dr. Báez’s research focuses on issues related to trauma\, children and families\, immigration and technology. She has a particular interest in artificial intelligence (AI)\, trauma-informed practice\, mental health support for immigrant youth\, school-based mental health services\, culturally responsive interventions\, and qualitative and mixed methods research. She published a book on how to do qualitative research in 2021 with SAGE Publications\, co-authored by John W. Creswell\, 30 Essential Skills for the Qualitative Researcher (2nd ed.) (opens in a new tab)\, and just published in 2025 with Routledge the edited book\, Issues of Equity: Key Concepts in Qualitative Methods (opens in a new tab). She is also an Associate Editor for the international journal\, Qualitative Health Research (opens in a new tab) and currently is editor for their special issue on AI and qualitative health research (opens in a new tab). Most recently she has been exploring the use of large language models and technology use within social work practice as a Network Lead and Grand Challenges Futures Fellow with the Grand Challenges for Social Work to “Harness Technology for Social Good.” (opens in a new tab) \n\n\n\n\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://healthaffiliatesmaine.com/event/navigating-ethical-dilemmas-in-trauma-informed-behavioral-health-practice/
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SUMMARY:Restoring Mentalization: Attachment-Focused MBT for Personality Disorders\, Trauma\, and High-Acuity Clinical Practice
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an engaging and interactive virtual training exploring the transformative framework of Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)! \nDesigned for clinicians working with complex and high-need populations\, this workshop will provide practical tools and strategies to better understand\, and respond to\, moments when clients struggle to understand themselves and others. \nGet ready for a dynamic day of learning\, reflection\, and practical application that you can bring directly into your clinical practice! \n  \nPresentation Information:\nMany of the individuals seen in community mental health settings struggle not because they lack insight or motivation\, but because overwhelming emotion\, attachment insecurity\, and chronic interpersonal stress can temporarily disrupt their ability to understand themselves and others. When mentalizing collapses\, clinicians often encounter crises\, treatment ruptures\, emotional dysregulation\, impulsive behavior\, rigid thinking\, and recurring interpersonal conflict that can leave both therapist and client feeling stuck. \nMentalization-Based Therapy (MBT) offers an evidence-based\, attachment-informed framework for understanding these moments. We understand them not as resistance or manipulation\, but as understandable disruptions in reflective functioning that can be restored within the therapeutic relationship. \nThis six-hour interactive workshop will introduce clinicians to the theoretical foundations and practical clinical application of Mentalization-Based Therapy across a broad range of clinical populations\, including individuals with personality disorders\, attachment trauma\, chronic suicidality\, self-harm\, complex PTSD\, anxiety\, depression\, and relational difficulties. Drawing upon attachment theory\, developmental psychology\, neuroscience\, psychodynamic psychotherapy\, and contemporary MBT research\, participants will learn to recognize moments of non-mentalizing\, assess reflective functioning\, and intervene using the characteristic MBT stance of curiosity\, collaboration\, and epistemic humility. \nRather than emphasizing techniques alone\, the workshop will help clinicians understand how therapeutic change occurs through restoring reflective functioning and strengthening epistemic trust. Participants will learn concrete interventions that can immediately be incorporated into outpatient psychotherapy\, integrated behavioral health\, crisis work\, and community mental health practice. \nThroughout the day\, participants will engage in live demonstrations\, experiential exercises\, structured role plays\, and case consultation designed to increase confidence in applying MBT principles with complex clients. \nAn ethics component integrated throughout the training examines therapist use of self\, countertransference\, professional boundaries\, cultural humility\, implicit bias\, and ethical decision-making when working with clients whose attachment histories and personality functioning evoke strong emotional responses in treatment. \n  \nObjectives:\n\nParticipants will gain an understanding of the theoretical foundations of Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)\, including attachment theory\, reflective functioning\, epistemic trust\, and contemporary psychodynamic principles.\nParticipants will learn to recognize clinical indicators of impaired mentalizing and differentiate common non-mentalizing modes\, including psychic equivalence\, pretend mode\, and teleological thinking\, across a range of psychiatric presentations.\nParticipants will develop skills to apply core MBT interventions\, including clarification\, curiosity\, affect regulation\, perspective-taking\, exploration of misunderstandings\, and rupture repair\, to support therapeutic alliance and emotional regulation.\nParticipants will gain skills needed to evaluate ethical\, cultural\, and relational factors that influence mentalizing\, including therapist self-awareness\, countertransference\, implicit bias\, professional boundaries\, and culturally responsive clinical practice (1:15pm to 2:15pm – Ethical Use of Mentalization).\n\n  \nThis training has been approved for six (6) contact hours\, including one (1) hour of professional ethics\, by the Maine Board of Alcohol and Drug Counselors. \nRegister Here \n  \nAgenda for the Day:\n8:30am to 10:00am – Welcome\, Housekeeping\, and Introductions\, and Presentation \n10:00am to 10:15am – Break \n10:15am to 12:15pm – Presentation Continues \n12:15pm to 12:45pm – Lunch \n12:45pm to 2:15pm – Presentation Continues \n2:15pm to 2:30pm – Break \n2:30pm to 3:30pm – Presentation Wrap-Up & Open Discussion \n  \n\n\n\n\nAbout the Presenter:\nDr. Gwendolyne Tuttle-Beaudoin\, DSW\, LCSW is the founder of The Coastal Institute for Psychodynamic Training & Treatment and an internationally recognized educator specializing in Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT)\, attachment\, personality disorders\, and contemporary psychodynamic psychotherapy. \nDr. Tuttle-Beaudoin earned her Doctorate in Clinical Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania\, where her research examined the role of race and epistemic trust in Mentalization-Based Therapy for BIPOC with BPD. \nA passionate clinician-educator\, Dr. Tuttle-Beaudoin provides training\, consultation\, and clinical supervision to behavioral health professionals nationwide and has served as faculty for Maine Medical Center and Central Maine Health Care. She has also supervised graduate interns from the University of Southern Maine\, Boston University\, Smith College\, and the University of New England. \nNamed the 2024 Maine NASW Social Worker of the Year\, Dr. Tuttle-Beaudoin has presented at leading national and international conferences\, including ISSPD Boston\, ESSPD Switzerland\, PREACH Toronto\, SPPP New York\, and NATSAP California\, and is known for translating complex psychodynamic concepts into engaging\, practical interventions clinicians can immediately apply in practice. \n\n\n\n\n  \nRegister Here
URL:https://healthaffiliatesmaine.com/event/252900/
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