This course reframes ADHD through the lens of executive dysfunction, emphasizing that difficulties with attention, task completion, and self-regulation are rooted in inconsistent access to executive functioning. Within this framework, emotional intelligence and emotional management are understood as core components of executive functioning, directly impacting how individuals experience and respond to anger.  Participants will explore how impairments in executive processes contribute to emotional dysregulation, particularly the escalation of anger, and how these patterns affect daily functioning and relationships.  The training provides clinicians with practical, evidence-based strategies to address both ADHD symptoms and anger management, integrating cognitive, behavioral, and regulation-focused interventions.  By the end of the course, clinicians will be equipped with a structured framework and actionable tools to help clients improve executive functioning, enhance emotional regulation, and reduce maladaptive anger responses.

This interactive training introduces participants to ways Child-Centered Play Therapy (CCPT) can be applied through a social justice lens. Participants will explore how systemic influences, cultural identity, and advocacy intersect with children’s mental health. The course provides strategies for fostering equity in therapeutic playrooms, supporting resilience in marginalized children, and empowering clinicians to engage families and communities.

Hour of Private Practice:  Questions and Answers

Friday,  November 20, 2026 (Noon – 1 pm ET)

This course examines how one’s culture impacts decision making in various treatment settings. Providers are constantly faced with ethical choices resulting in ambiguous outcomes and difficult decisions that may be morally confusing. Understanding cultural concepts enables providers to bridge the difference between themselves and diverse populations. Participants will acquire a better understanding of the ethical decision-making process when cross-cultural conflicts occur while addressing implications of unconscious biases. The workshop will address these issues through a combination of interactive dialogue, focused discussion, applied. practice exercises, and small group work

Supervising clinicians in high acuity settings requires supervisors to manage complex clinical, relational, ethical, and organizational demands while maintaining an effective supervisory stance. This six-hour training provides an advanced, practice-oriented examination of supervision under sustained stress and high clinical complexity.
Participants will examine vicarious trauma and burnout in supervisees, the effects of supervisor stress responses and parallel process, culturally responsive supervision and power dynamics, boundaries and over-functioning, structured decision-making for high-risk situations, and strategies for sustaining effective supervision over time.