Special Skills & Topics

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Enhance your skills and make a meaningful impact in the field of behavioral health.

Dive into our comprehensive specialty training topics in behavioral health care, where you’ll master cutting-edge therapeutic techniques and explore best practice approaches. These training sessions emphasize strengths-based care, ensuring you can effectively support and empower the individuals you serve by leveraging their inherent strengths and resilience.

When & Where

Sessions will be held via Zoom in central standard time, unless otherwise noted.

HOW

Course materials will be in Canvas, the University digital learning management system. Email notification will be sent.

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How Much?

Fees are separated by member status: full, partial or nonmember. Please select the correct status when registering.

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Upcoming Trainings

Somatic Symptom Disorder

Understanding Somatic Symptom Disorder with Predominant Pain: Clinical Assessment and Intervention

Explore Somatic Symptom Disorder with predominant pain through comprehensive training on diagnosis, biopsychosocial factors, and evidence-based interventions including CBT, ACT, and biofeedback. See Details

October 27, 2026, 8:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 full members; $60 partial members & non-members
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Trainer(s): Kristen Payne, Ph.D.

Correctional Settings

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk in Correctional Populations

Explore the complexities of suicide risk assessment in correctional settings. See Details

December 3, 2026, 1:00 - 4:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 full members; $60 partial members and nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 3.5
Trainer(s): Lesley Chapin, Psy.D.

The ASAM Criteria

Fourth Edition Volume 1 Adults: Core Concepts

Explore the major updates in the ASAM Criteria, Fourth Edition through an interactive, one-day virtual training designed to enhance assessment, treatment planning, and level-of-care decision-making. See Details

December 2, 2026, 8:30am - 4:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 full members only
Continuing Education Hours: 7.0
Trainer(s): Klementyna (Ky) Weyman, LCSW, Master Trainer and Consultant for the Consulting and Training Solutions Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation ; James Puckett, EdD, LPC, NCC, CSAC, MAC, Clinical Trainer Consultant for the Consulting and Training Solutions Team at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Training

Gain practical skills to help professionals guide individuals and families in reducing access to firearms and medications during suicide risk. See Details

December 8, 2026, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $15 full members; $60 partial members & non-members
Continuing Education Hours: 4.0
Trainer(s): Liz Bartz, MS

EMDR Therapy

EMDRIA Approved Online EMDR Therapy Training

Meet your goal to become an EMDR therapist as a specialty or to integrate EMDR into your existing practice with our mindfulness-infused training program. See Details

December 9-11 2026 AND January 20-22, 2027, 8:30am - 5:00pm CST
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $395 full members only
Continuing Education Hours: 42.0
Trainer(s): Roshni Chabra, LMFT

De-Escalation & Coping Skills

To Prevent and Manage Crisis Situations

Learn skills informed by both Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI), and will gain more tools to add to your crisis intervention toolbox, including ways to incorporate skills into your own lives to reinforce self-care. See Details

December 15-16, 2026, 12:30 - 3:45pm CST each day
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 full members; $135 partial members & nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 6.5
Trainer(s): Jessica Beauchamp, LCSW, SAS, SOTS

Motivational Interviewing

Part One, Introductory

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is widely embraced, evidence-based conversation style for awakening self-awareness of a person's choices to heal and embrace behavior change. See Details

Live Session: January 7, 2027, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Self-Paced Modules: December 31, 2026 - January 6, 2027,
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 full members; $135 partial members & nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 6.0
Trainer(s): Shawn Smith, Certified MI Trainer and MINT Member
Note: Self-Paced Modules to be completed prior to the live session to receive full credit. For optimal skill development, it is recommended to also complete Motivational Interviewing: Part Two, Advanced.

Motivational Interviewing

Part Two, Advanced

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is widely embraced, evidence-based conversation style for awakening self-awareness of a person's choices to heal and embrace behavior change. See Details

Live Session: January 14, 2027, 8:30am - 12:30pm CST
Self-Paced Modules: January 7 - 13, 2027,
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $35 full members; $135 partial members & nonmembers
Continuing Education Hours: 6.0
Trainer(s): Shawn Smith, Certified MI Trainer and MINT Member
Note: Self-Paced Modules to be completed prior to the live session to receive full credit. Required Pre-Requisite: Motivational Interviewing: Part One, Introductory or Instructor Agreement.

DeTUR

Urge Reduction for Addictions and Dysfunctional Behaviors - The Accelerated Adaptive Information Processing Model

DeTUR (Desensitization of Triggers and Urge Reprocessing) is an EMDR-based, trauma-focused approach for reducing urges related to addictions and dysfunctional behaviors. Developed by A.J. Popky, it combines bilateral processing, resource development, trigger desensitization, and relapse prevention to address underlying trauma and promote lasting, client-defined behavioral change. See Details

April 1- 2, 2027, 9:00am - 5:00pm CDT
Virtual via Zoom
Fee: $70 full members only
Continuing Education Hours: 12.0
Trainer(s): Kristen Garubba, Ed.D., MACL, LMFT
Note: A beginning level workshop for clinicians who have completed EMDR Basic Training.

Training Needs?

Reach out to our Training Coordinator, Joanne Tulachka, if you have any questions about our training offerings.