Resources for Therapists & Mental Health Providers

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VTCPAP is proud to present a two-day virtual training, Trauma & Children’s Sexual Behavior: Screening, Assessment & Clinical Foundations, led by Ashley Fiore, LCSW & Geoff Sidoli, LCSW. Strengthen your skills in understanding, assessing, and responding to sexual behavior concerns in trauma-exposed children.

This training is Phase Two in a multi-phase training series on this topic.  Phase 1 provides a broad overview of the topic for a wider audience. Participation in Phase 1 is not required to apply for or be considered for admission to Phase 2.

Date: Wednesday November 18 & Friday November, 20, 2026

Time: 9:00AM - 3:30 PM EST

This training also includes three, one hour consultation calls on December 4, December 18, and January 15. Calls will be held at either 10:00 or 11:00 AM, depending on the size of the cohort and the number of consultation groups needed.

Virtual: Zoom (details will be sent to attendees after they are accepted into the training cohort)

Cost: FREE

CEUs’s: Approved for 11 CEU credits (social work, allied mental health practitioners, and psychological examiners )

WHO IT’S FOR: Mental health clinicians seeking to expand knowledge and skills in this area. Pediatric medical providers are also welcome to attend. 

This training will explore sexual behaviors through a trauma-and attachment-informed lens while building practical skills in assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, caregiver engagement, and collaborative safety planning.

Through demonstrations, case-based learning, and guidance from experienced trainers, clinicians will gain strategies they can immediately apply in their work with children and families, regardless of treatment model. 

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VTCPAP is proud to present a three-day virtual training,Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) training, led by Ashley Fiore, LCSW.

This training is Phase Three in a multi-phase training series on this topic. Completion of Phase 2 of this training series, Trauma & Children's Sexual Behavior: Screening, Assessment & Clinical Foundations, is required as a prerequisite for participation in Phase 3.

Dates: January 7, January 12, & January 14, 2027

Time: 9:00AM - 3:30 PM EST

This training also includes twelve, one hour consultation calls following the training that will meet approximately biweekly January - June.

Virtual: Zoom (details will be sent to attendees after they are accepted into the training cohort)

Cost: FREE

CEUs’s: 13.5 CE’s provided through ASWB and NBCC, 13.5 CEU credits for psychologists approved through VT OPR, certificate of completion available for other profession types

WHO IT’S FOR: Mental health clinicians seeking to expand knowledge and skills in this area. Pediatric medical providers are also welcome to attend. 

This intensive training covers the complete TF-CBT protocol, including model principles and individualization; psychoeducation and parenting skills; relaxation, affective regulation, and cognitive coping; trauma narration development; cognitive processing and restructuring; conjoint sessions; in vivo mastery of trauma reminders; and enhancing future safety and development.

Join us for a FREE, two-day LivingWorks ASIST (Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training). Through guided practice, real conversations, and group learning, participants will build the confidence and skills to recognize when someone may be having thoughts of suicide, talk with them directly and without judgment, develop an immediate safety plan, and connect them with ongoing support.

No clinical background is required. ASIST is open to anyone age 16 or older who wants to be better prepared to support someone experiencing thoughts of suicide.

DATES: Tuesday Oct 27 - Wednesday Oct 28, 2026

TIME: 9AM - 5PM EST

LOCATION: Delta Hotels by Marriott Burlington, 1117 Williston Road, South Burlington, VT

COST: FREE

WHO IT'S FOR: Licensed clinicians, crisis workers, and community mental health staff; social workers, peer support specialists, and community health workers; teachers, coaches, and school staff; faith and community leaders; first responders and human services professionals; parents, caregivers, and any community member who wants to be prepared to help.

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Adolescent EF work sits at an awkward intersection: the prefrontal cortex isn't done, autonomy is non-negotiable, and the parent who scaffolded everything in elementary school is now the problem. This workshop introduces a structured coaching approach designed for the adolescent client who needs skills, not insight. Built around frameworks including P.I.L.O.T. (planning), C.L.E.A.R. (task initiation and follow-through), and R.E.S.E.T. (recovery from breakdown), the workshop gives clinicians a session-by-session model adaptable to therapy or coaching contexts. Particular attention to working with teens whose EF struggles intersect with anxiety, demand avoidance, or family conflict. Click Here to learn more. 

DATE: Tuesday October 27, 2026 

TIME: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

VIRTUAL: You will receive a confirmation email with a URL

COST: $25.00

CEU’s: 2.00 (Must be present the full 2 hours to receive CE certificate) 

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Adolescent clients are frequently referred, mandated, or dragged into therapy, and traditional MI scripts written for adult substance use clients don’t translate well to adolescents. This workshop adapts MI for adolescent work. We’ll cover engagement strategies for the silent or hostile teen, how to elicit change talk when the “problem” is the parent’s, and how to use OARS (Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections, Summaries) in ways that don’t feel performative to a 15-year-old. The workshop draws on MI applications to adolescent presentations including school refusal, substance experimentation, screen use, and treatment ambivalence. Click Here to learn more. 

DATE: Wednesday November 4, 2026 

TIME: 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

VIRTUAL: You will receive a confirmation email with a URL

COST: $25.00

CEU’s: 2.00 (Must be present the full 2 hours to receive CE certificate) 

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Description: This interactive, 3-hour training will focus on identifying and reducing parental accommodation in the context of pediatric anxiety and OCD. It will equip clinicians with practical, evidence-based strategies to help families reduce these problematic patterns and provide more autonomy-supportive and resilience-building responses to their child's anxiety and OCD symptoms.

The training will open with an evidence-based overview of parent accommodation: what it is, why it develops, and how accommodation of children's avoidance and compulsions inadvertently sustains and strengthens anxiety and OCD symptoms over time. Introductory content will also include an exploration of the bi-directional relationship between parent and child responses to emotional distress, including how parents' relationship to their own discomfort, values conflicts, and psychological flexibility influence the capacity to tolerate their child's anxiety and forego accommodation.

DATE: Friday, January 29, 2027

TIME: 9:30 AM - 12:45 PM

CEs:  3

FORMAT: Zoom

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Our host organization, Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, partners with providers, communities, and state leaders to improve health care quality across Vermont. Explore VPQHC's upcoming trainings and professional development opportunities.

Check out this library of FREE webinars from McLean/Mass General on a variety of mental health topics.

Check Out this on-demand webinar Comprehensive Treatment for BFRBs: Everything You Need to Know About Treating Hair Pulling and Skin Picking

Hair pulling and skin picking disorders—known as Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs)—are common, yet many clinicians feel unsure how to treat them due to limited training and available resources. This course addresses that gap by providing an evidence-based overview of what BFRBs are (and are not), how to diagnose and conceptualize them using an individualized functional analysis, and how to develop effective, personalized treatment plans. Participants will learn practical strategies for treating BFRBs, including managing treatment resistance, co-occurring disorders, and shame. Taught by two recognized experts in the field, this comprehensive clinical training also includes time for case conceptualization and participant questions.

Check Out this on-demand webinar Phenomenology and Treatment of Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: An Overview of Existing and Emerging Approaches

Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors (BFRBs) are repetitive self-grooming behaviors, such as trichotillomania (hair pulling) and excoriation disorder (skin-picking), that fall within the scope of OCD and related disorders. Although BFRBs are common, affecting as many as 1 in 20 individuals, accessing accurate information and evidence-based treatment resources can be challenging. This workshop will provide an overview of BFRBs, including the phenomenology, self-reinforcing nature of the disorders, current trends in evidence-based treatment, and resources for clinicians as well as for those living with these disorders.

Check out this $10, self-paced training Building Solidarity with LGBTQ+ Youth created by Outright VT for, adults who work with LGBTQ+ youth, like teachers in schools and professionals in youth-facing organizations. 

The aim of the training is to share best practices for working with LGBTQ+ youth, and teach strategies for solidarity with young people.

Check out this self-paced, online TF-CBT training available through the Medical University of South Carolina.  This training is endorsed by the Allegheny Health Network, Rowan Medicine Cares Institute, and the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. The cost for this training is just $35. 

Check out Facing Suicide VT's On-demand training and events library.

Check out the Suicide Prevention Resource Centers Evidence-Based Treatments for Suicide Prevention a FREE, online webinar. 

Check Out F.E.A.S.T Webinars on topics related to feeding and eating disorders

CAMS – Brief Intervention Online Video Training; This 90-minute video course provides foundational knowledge and an engaging demonstration of the CAMS Brief Intervention (CAMS-BI). The training experience combines didactic presentations and clinical demonstrations by Dr. Raymond Tucker, the senior author on the initial evaluation of CAMS-BI, as he introduces an unscripted clinical demonstration of using CAMS-BI following the hospitalization of a potential suicide attempt. The demonstration captures the importance of the collaborative process essential to CAMS-BI therapeutic risk assessment and treatment planning while also highlighting the challenges that clinicians often encounter when working with patients who are suicidal.

Check out NOCD Academies library of live and archived webinars related to the treatment of OCD. Many are FREE and offer continuing education credits. 

Check out this library of trainings from the Austen Riggs Center, including FREE trainings for social workers. 

Check out this FREE online training module from IOCDF on OCD treatment basics.

Eating disorders are complex. Weight restoration and cessation of disordered eating behaviors, along with psychotherapy, can reverse many of the psychological and physiologic consequences of these disorders. This presentation will cover the evidence base of how (getting started), where (treatment settings), and what (food, therapy, and psychopharmacology) that are involved in the treatment of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.

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'I Know They Need More But...': Common Obstacles in the Treatment of Eating Disorders: Is a great webinar hosted by The Renfrew Center in collaboration with the National Alliance for Eating Disorders. It contains a lot of practical advice for clinicians, as well as some discussion about systemic barriers to accessing eating disorder treatment. 

Offered by Mass General/McClean, this series of trainings include dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), general psychiatric management (GPM), mentalization-based treatment (MBT)—offered in conjunction with the Anna Freud Centre for Children and Families, and transference-focused psychotherapy (TFP)—offered in conjunction with TFP-New York.

Check out the CAMS-Care On-Demand Webinar Essential DBT Skills for Individuals Who are Suicidal and the People that Care for Them 

Offered by Anna Freud: this self-guided online training will introduce participants to mentalizing and mentalization based treatment for adults. It will cover the theory of mentalization and its relevance to work with adults to provide learners with a foundation for developing their skills in using a mentalizing approach.

Access this FREE training module on helping youth to develop DBT-based skills(Partners for Children's Mental Health & Colorado Children's Hospital)

Check out a recording of the Perinatal Substance Use Disorders 101 training from PSI and the Policy Center for Maternal Mental Health.

Check out Safer Society's continuing education center which provides online trainings, free webinars, and other educational opportunities for professionals working in the field of ending violence and abuse.

(FAST-B) Video Training is a two-hour training consisting of 14 required videos and a required completion survey.

Program materials, as well as engagement and assessment tools for mental health clinicians. 

For each FAST program, there is a two-page "Snapshot" educational handout that can be given out as a first step in care, prior to referral for the clinician-guided intervention. Click the link below and select a focus area to access its program materials.

Program Materials for Clinicians

Eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), binge eating disorder (BED) and Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) are prevalent conditions in children, adolescents, and young adults. They have a high mortality rate (second only to opiate dependence), owing to medical complexity leading to hypoglycemia, sudden cardiac death and co-morbid conditions such as severe anxiety and depression that may lead to death by suicide. Unfortunately, few mental health providers identify eating disorders as an area of expertise. For this reason, general clinicians are often asked to evaluate and care for these patients despite having limited experience. All can benefit from ongoing education to stay abreast of new developments in the field and to feel comfortable in their approach. Concerning eating behaviors are often co-morbid with mood, anxiety, OCD, ADHD, and substance disorders. Proper identification, referral, and treatment can significantly improve clinical outcomes. The presenter will address post-pandemic trends as well as the evolution of eating disorder presentation in traditionally underrepresented communities (males, BIPOC, and sexual minority youth).

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