Below are trainings/presentations
(virtual preferred, in-person negotiable)
offered by
Jessica Holton, MSW, LCSW, LCAS 
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Title: “Anxiety: Understanding & Managing Inner Turmoil”
Length: 90 Minutes


Title: “Assessing the Assessor: Strengthening Assessing, Diagnosing, and Treatment Planning Skills”
Length: Six Hours
 

Title: “The Basic Neuroscience of Addiction: Debunking the “Choice” Myth”
Length: 90 Minutes to Three Hours

Brief Description:
Over the past 30 years, we have witnessed vast scientific advances. Such advances, including functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), have great implications in assisting and improving the treatment of addiction(s). Regrettably, despite these scientific advances, deep rooted stigmas and misconceptions remain. This presentation will describe possible predisposing factors and undercurrents of addiction, the basic neurobiology of addiction, and adaptive coping skills.
 

Title: “Compassion Fatigue: Proactive Approaches to Counter Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Depletion”
Length: 90 Minutes
 

Title: “Cultural Diversity-Working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing Clients”
Length: Three-hours
Brief Description:
As we navigate through the world, we often encounter individuals with hearing loss, knowingly or unknowingly. This presentation will assist participants in understanding the unique cultural attributes and communication needs of D/deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals. Additionally, Deaf Culture, Americans with Disabilities Act and utilizing certified interpreters will be explained during this comprehensive presentation.
 

Title: “Discovering and Maintain the Balance between Clinical Care and Empathy”
Length: Two Hours

Brief Description:
As a helping professional, implementing self-care is crucial. A component of self-care is Emotional Intelligence in our professional and personal roles. Emotional Intelligence assists in meeting individuals and their families where they are at while providing effective clinical care. 
 

Title: “Effective Clinical Supervision: Intentionally Utilizing Supervision- Specific Approaches, Models and Interventions”
Length: Four Hours
 
Brief Description:
It has been stated that clinicians will repeat the mistakes of their supervisors. Thus, it is essential to offer clinical supervision with intention. Clinical supervision sessions must offer effective guidance and training to associate practitioners. This presentation will offer examples of clinical supervision approaches, models, and interventions. Participants will discover and discuss their experiences and develop clinical supervision approaches, models, and interventions to assist in ensuring that newer clinicians will repeat desirable actions of their supervisors.
 

Title: “Everyone Has a Vice, Right? Understanding and Treating Process Addictions”
Length: Six Hours
 

Title: “Implementing Evidence-Based Practices with Adolescents with Mental Health and/or Substance Use Disorders”
Length: Two Hours
 

Title: “I Just Don’t Understand It: Increasing Awareness and Accepting Differences” [About Transgender Individuals]
Length: Four Hours

 
Title: “Maintaining Ethical Integrity While Providing Treatment to Individuals Experiencing Co-Occurring Disorders”
Length: Four Hours

Brief Description:
Codes of Ethics among helping professional disciplines have similarities and differences. The presentation will emphasize the importance of maintaining ethical standards despite potential roadblocks, such as working outside of one’s scope of practice, managing multiple diagnoses (mental health, substance use disorders, and medical), agency agendas, and organizational discord. Participants will discover the importance of setting and maintaining boundaries while maintaining their ethical obligations.
 

Title: “Military Veterans and Trauma: It May Not Be What You Think”
Length: Two Hours

Brief Description:
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often overlooked and misdiagnosed. Unfortunately, many individuals who exhibit signs and report symptoms that correlate with PTSD are misdiagnosed with Anxiety Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Personality Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and/or Psychotic Disorders. Additionally, it is assumed that our military veterans who have PTSD experienced combat-related trauma. This session will explain the diagnostic criteria and neuroscience of PTSD while offering a personal perspective on trauma and recovery.
 

Title: “LAMP Training: The Neurobiology of Trauma”
Length: Two Days (six hours per day)
Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Advocates, Mental Health Professionals, Prosecutors (LAMP)

Brief Description:
LAMP is a two-part curriculum. The Common Content session is a one-day training while the role-specific modules are three hours each. The first session has content common to all the professions for whom this curriculum is intended: LEA, prosecutors, judges, mental health personnel, and advocates. Audiences may be mixed. The second session is content unique to the profession, and facilitators are less likely to have mixed audiences.
Adult learning principles mandate delivery that approximates the actual work experiences of the learners, engages them as contributors to the process, and uses multiple learning styles and intelligences. Accordingly, the course uses case-based learning, discussion, minimal lecture (for new information), team-based learning, and guided discovery.
 

Title: “Professional Wills: Social Workers’ Ethical Responsibilities to Clients”
Length: One Hour

Brief Description:
The Code of Ethics of The National Association of Social Workers states the following in Section 1.15: “Social workers should make reasonable efforts to ensure continuity of services in the event that services are interrupted by factors such as unavailability, disruption in electronic communication, relocation, illness, mental or physical ability, or death.” Considering proactive provisions for physical or mental incapacitation and/or death may not be on the list of priorities for many social workers. This webinar will offer an outline that can assist in composing a professional will and suggestions for additional documents.
 

Title: “Professional Wills: Ethical Responsibilities to Clients & Supervisees”
Length: Four Hours

Brief Description:
As a clinical supervisor, have you considered continuity of services if you are suddenly incapacitated? Most ethical standards for human service professionals speak to the importance of continuance of care. For example, the Code of Ethics of The National Association of Social Workers states the following in Section 1.15: “Social workers should make reasonable efforts to ensure continuity of services in the event that services are interrupted by factors such as unavailability, disruption in electronic communication, relocation, illness, mental or physical ability, or death.” Composing proactive provisions for physical or mental incapacitation and/or death may not be on the list of priorities for many clinical supervisors. During this training, participants will create a Professional Will and consider appropriate updates to their Supervision Contract and Disclosure Statement.
 

Title: “Supervisor Roles and Responsibilities: Increasing Effective and Essential Gatekeeping Methods”
Length: Six Hours or 11 Hours

Brief Description:
It has been stated that clinicians will repeat the mistakes of their supervisors. Clinical supervision is not a role to take lightly. Despite busy schedules, large caseloads, and professional pressures, it is essential to provide effective clinical supervision to associate clinicians. Many patients expect that medical residents receive thorough guidance from an attending superior. This is just as crucial in behavioral health professions while providing clinical supervision. This presentation will discuss the statutory and ethical importance of clinical supervision. It will also offer methods to provide effective and efficient clinical supervision to assist in ensuring that newer clinicians will repeat desirable actions of their supervisors.
 

Title: “Tackling Avoidance: Understanding & Effectively Treating Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
Length: Three Hour, Six Hours or 11 Hours

Brief Description:
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is often overlooked and misdiagnosed. A vast majority of the population will experience chronic stress, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and/or traumatic event at during their lifetime. Unfortunately, many individuals who exhibit signs and report symptoms that correlate with PTSD are misdiagnosed with Anxiety Disorders, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Personality Disorders, Bipolar Disorders, Depressive Disorders, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders and/or Psychotic Disorders. Since the brain is wired for relief and reward, it is not uncommon for individuals with PTSD to also have a Substance Use Disorder and/or Behavioral Addictions. This presentation will describe the signs and symptoms (according to the DSM 5-TR) and the basic neuroscience PTSD, clarify the correlation between the symptom of avoidance and substance use, explain the differential diagnoses, and emphasis the importance of a thorough clinical comprehensive assessment. Additionally, effective treatment that is related to the diagnostic criteria and basic neuroscience of PTSD will be described and practiced.
 

Title: “Therapeutic Group & Individual Sessions: Utilizing Effective Metaphors & Visual Aids”
Length: Two Hours, Three Hours or Six Hours
 
Brief Description:
This presentation will provide techniques that assists clinicians in engaging and encouraging clients as they move through the therapeutic process. Participants will learn about and/or review the basics about group work. Participants will build upon current group processing techniques and learn new methods to implement, not only during group sessions, but also during individual sessions, family sessions, and psychoeducational classes.
 
 
Title: “Translating Borderline Personality to Provide Effective and Compassionate Care”
Length: Four Hours
 

Title: “Trying to Escape by Getting Trapped: Using Unhealthy Coping Skills to Grieve Hearing Loss”
Length: Two Hours

Brief Description:
Society encourages people to deal with struggles quickly and quietly. Such messages create a perfect foundation for developing unhealthy coping skills. Grief that is associated with hearing loss is often misunderstood by the individual, as well as their friends, family, and/or co-workers. Individuals often turn to unhealthy coping skills to cope with the misunderstood grief. Developing and using healthy coping skills is essential in dealing with life’s difficulties associated with hearing loss.


Title: “Understanding & Managing Stress Responses”
Length: 90 Minutes

 
Title: “Why We Do What We Do: Merging Neuroscience and Theory into Practice While Facilitating Group Sessions.”
Length: Two Days (six hours per day)

Brief Description:
This two-day training will enhance the providers’ understanding of how evidenced-based theories, neuroscience and coping skills create individualized group sessions for the individuals being served. The training will benefit newer clinicians and will be a refresher for experienced clinicians.
 
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