Full Day Webinar - December 20, 2026

10:00 AM - 4:45 PM Eastern

Two classes, 6 CE Credits. Full-day package: $99.99. Each individual class: $59.99.

To register for the full day, select BUY IT NOW. To register for one class, use its link below.

Class 1: Implicit Bias and Structural Racism in Mental Health Practice - A Case-Based, Anti-Oppressive Approach

10:00 AM - 1:00 PM Eastern | 3 CE Credits

Bias in mental health practice is rarely a matter of anyone deciding to discriminate. It shows up in which symptoms get explored and which get assumed, whose account is believed, which intake form has a box for your family, and which crisis gets a clinician rather than a police officer. This course moves past awareness and into examination. After clarifying the terms the field uses loosely and reviewing what the research shows about how bias operates and what it costs, participants work through twenty brief case studies drawn from patterns documented in the clinical and health-services literature. Cases are organized by ecological level — micro, mezzo, and macro — and span race, ethnicity, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, weight, parenthood, disability, immigration status, and socioeconomic status.

Please Note: Maryland requires Anti-Oppressive Training to be taken as a live Category I training. This class only meets the Maryland requirement when taken as a live training.

Kathryn Krase, Ph.D., J.D., LMSW

Class 2: Queer Recovery Through A Different Lens: Trauma‑Responsive Trust Work in Co‑Occurring Disorder Treatment

1:45 PM - 4:45 PM Eastern | 3 CE Credits

Queer and trans clients enter substance use treatment carrying layers of identity based trauma, medical harm, systemic invalidation, and attachment ruptures that profoundly shape their recovery trajectories. Traditional addiction models often overlook these lived experiences, resulting in treatment plans that unintentionally reinforce shame, compliance based expectations, and structural harm.

This training introduces a trauma responsive, culturally attuned framework for supporting LGBTQ+ clients navigating substance use and co occurring mental health concerns. Grounded in CBT, somatic awareness, trauma informed care, and relational trust building, the session equips clinicians with practical tools to deepen therapeutic connection, reduce shame, and foster non linear healing.

Participants will examine how trust functions as a core therapeutic mechanism in queer recovery, explore case vignettes illustrating identity based trauma, and engage in expanded experiential exercises that promote safety, embodiment, and connection. This presentation aims to allow for deeper clinical application, including advanced skills practice, documentation shifts, role plays, and trust centered conceptualization of co occurring disorders.

Clinicians will leave with immediately usable interventions that strengthen relational safety, support gender identity diversity and inclusivity, and enhance culturally responsive care across individual, couples, group, and intensive clinical settings. Emphasis is placed on reframing resistance as protective wisdom, understanding out of control behavior patterns through a trauma responsive lens, and applying practical interventions that reduce shame and increase engagement.

Mark McMillan LMSW, CAADC