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Course Title: Practicing Appropriate Professional Boundaries: Ethical Decision Making, Confidentiality, Transference, & Self-Disclosure

Start Date: Friday, October 17, 2025

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Presenter: Nyx Melody, LMHC (they/them/theirs & fae/faer/faers)

This 3-hour course support s 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.

Day: Friday

Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Duration: 3 hours

Media Type: Online Course via Zoom

Credit Hours: 3 Credits

Cost: $90.00

Course Title: Decoding the DSM: A Critical Look at the DSM and Liberated-oriented Alternatives

Start Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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.

Day: Tuesday

Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Duration: 3 hours

Media Type: Online Course via Zoom

Credit Hours: 3 Credits

Cost: $60.00

Course Title: Where’d You Go? Exploring Dissociation and Countertransference in Psychotherapy

Start Date: Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Presenter: Dagem Lemma, LCSW (he/him)

This 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.

Days: Tuesday(s)

Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Duration: 4 hours

Media Type: Online Course via Zoom

Credit Hours: 4 Credits

Cost: $75.00

Course Title: Anti-Oppression vs. Cultural Humility

Start Date: TBD

Hosts: Tanisha Christie, LCSW (she/her) & Aishia Grevenberg, LCSW (she/her)

Participants will examine the distinctions and intersections between anti-oppressive practices and cultural humility. Through discussions and case studies, therapists will develop strategies to honor clients’ identities and experiences while challenging systemic inequities.

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