CEU COURSES
We provide CEU trainings for social workers and collaborate with aligned providers to offer courses that support additional licensures. All offerings reflect our liberation-based clinical values.
Course Title: Decoding the DSM: A Critical Look at the DSM and Liberated-oriented Alternatives
Start Date: April 21, 2026
Time: 5:00 - 8:00 PM EST
Presenter: Sara Eldridge, LCSW (she/her)
This 3-hour course critically examines the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Designed for mental health professionals engaging with the complexities of diagnosis for use when using health insurance & engaging with the medical model for increased access to care, this course offers a liberated-oriented, and responsive lens for understanding mental/emotional distress beyond the limits of diagnostic pathology.
While recognizing the clinical utility of diagnostic frameworks for access to care, we also critically examine their cultural, historical, and systemic roots — and the ways they can distort, support and/or constrain care.
Course Title: Where’d You Go? Exploring Dissociation and Countertransference in Psychotherapy
Start Date: May 13, 2026
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM EST
This two-day course offers an in-depth exploration of the dissociative spectrum, using case examples to examine mutual dissociation in couples and transferential relationships, while equipping participants with therapeutic strategies, awareness of sustaining patterns, and tools for managing countertransference — all grounded in a liberation-based, holistic framework.
Presenter: Dagem Lemma, LCSW (he/him)
Course Title: Practicing Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Ethical Decision Making, Confidentiality, Transference, & Self-Disclosure
Start Date: TBD
This course supports mental health and medical providers in strengthening professional boundaries while exploring ethics, confidentiality, transference, countertransference, and self-disclosure through an intersectional, feminist lens. Participants will gain practical tools and reflective strategies to navigate challenges across diverse clinical settings.
Presenter: Nyx Melody, LMHC (they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers)
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Liberation-Based Therapy LCSW, PLLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0861.