Browse our categories of educational workshops for mental health professionals. Click on the categories below, followed by the class(es) you're interested in, to view the trainings we offer mental health professionals this semester.
- (NEW) Online Training – The Slippery Slope of Clinical Practice: Ethical Considerations in the
Client Therapist Relationship
March 25 - Online Training – Ethical Considerations for the Wounded Healer: With Covid, we are all wounded healers
May 10 - Online Training – Psychopharmacology in Plain English: Essential Information and Ethical Considerations AND Understanding and Working with Thrill Seeking Clients
June 8
- (NEW) Online Training – Using Neuroscience and Creative Techniques to Address Anger Management
Issues in Children
March 4 - Online Training – Using Vision Boards to Expand Clients’ Narratives for Self-Actualization
June 3 - (NEW) Online Training – Using IFS and Creative Approaches with Clay for Grief, Loss, and Trauma
June 17
Kids, Adolescents, Couples, and Families
- (NEW) Online Training – Using Neuroscience and Creative Techniques to Address Anger Management
Issues in Children
March 4 - Online Training – Navigating the Difficulties in Couples Therapy: An Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy
March 8 - Online Training – Meeting the (Big!) Challenges for “Blended Families”: What Works and What Doesn’t
May 20 - (NEW) Online Training – Working with Transgender Youth and Their Families
May 27 - Online Training – Transcending the Coercive Control of Domestic Violence and Emotionally Abusive Relationships: A Trauma Informed Approach
May 31 - (NEW) Online Training – Master Class Case Consultations: Working with Traumatized Teens and Adults
June 13
- PART ONE – Level I: Class 1 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: The Strengths-Based Perspective
March 1 - PART ONE -Level I: Class 2 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: Trauma, Memory, and the Brain
March 16 - PART ONE – Level I: Class 3 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: The Impact of Insecure Attachment
March 28 - PART TWO – Level I: Class 4 – Creatively and Effectively Treating Trauma: The Foundation of Trauma-Informed Care
April 13 - PART TWO – Level I: Class 5 – Creatively and Effectively Treating Trauma: Strategies for Affect Regulation, Grounding, and Containment
April 29 - PART TWO – Level I: Class 6 – The Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Trauma Survivors
May 6 - PART THREE – Level I: Class 7 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Bridging Therapy Sessions, Working with Self-Harm, and Traumatic Transference
May 23 - PART THREE – Level I: Class 8 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Understanding the Impact of Counter-Transference
June 9 - PART THREE – Level I: Class 9 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Processing Ethics, Reporting Issues and Termination
June 21
- Online Training – Navigating the Difficulties in Couples Therapy: An Introduction to Imago Relationship Therapy
March 8 - Online Training – It’s About Relationships
April 28 - Online Training – Meeting the (Big!) Challenges for “Blended Families”: What Works and What Doesn’t
May 20 - Online Training – Transcending the Coercive Control of Domestic Violence and Emotionally Abusive Relationships: A Trauma Informed Approach
May 31
- (NEW) Online Training – The Slippery Slope of Clinical Practice: Ethical Considerations in the
Client Therapist Relationship
March 25 - (NEW) Online Training – Effective Treatment of OCD: Cracking the Conundrum
March 30 - Online Training – It’s About Relationships
April 28 - Online Training – Ethical Considerations for the Wounded Healer: With Covid, we are all wounded healers
May 10 - Online Training – Using Vision Boards to Expand Clients’ Narratives for Self-Actualization
June 3
- (New) Online Training – Certificate in Sensory Modulation, Trauma and Healing: The Slower You Go
the Faster You Get There
March 17 at 8:00 am - (NEW) Online Training
Certificate in Post-Traumatic Growth
Class 1 & 2
April 5 - Online Training – Addressing Guilt and Shame
with Traumatized Clients:
Using Parts Work and Expressive Modalities
May 16 - Online Training – Transcending the Coercive Control of Domestic Violence and Emotionally Abusive Relationships: A Trauma Informed Approach
May 31 - (NEW) Online Training – Master Class Case Consultations: Working with Traumatized Teens and Adults
June 13 - (NEW) Online Training – Using IFS and Creative Approaches with Clay for Grief, Loss, and Trauma
June 17 - (NEW) Online Training
Trauma Informed Stabilization Training (TIST)
June 27
COVID-19 Update
At this time, all Ferentz Institute workshops are conducted online via Zoom. Please email Gerri Baum at [email protected] if you have any questions.
We do not offer recorded versions of our online trainings. Our online classes must be live, interactive, and held in real-time, as required by the Maryland Board of Social Work, so that participants may receive the essential Category 1 CEUs that we provide.
The Ferentz Institute offers continuing education workshops for mental health professionals on a wide range of clinical topics including: treatment of trauma survivors; eating disorders and other self-injurious behaviors; addiction; dissociative disorders in children and adults; couples counseling; professional self-care and burnout; the challenges of adolescence and professional ethics. Our informative and experiential workshops provide clinicians with current theory, tools for assessment, evaluation and diagnosis, as well as strategies for creative and effective treatment. Network with colleagues, learn and grow together in a warm, nurturing, professional environment.Instructions for joining your class on Zoom, along with all applicable PowerPoint presentations and handouts, will be emailed to you the day prior to your class(es).
All trainings can be used for CEUs by Social Workers, LCPCs, MFTs and Psychologists.Cancellation Policy
The Institute has the right to cancel any workshop due to insufficient registration, inclement weather, presenter’s illness or problems at the training site. Whenever possible, registrants who have already signed up will be given a week’s notice via email. They will have the option of either receiving a full refund or applying whatever fees they have already paid to any future training of their choice. No refund will be issued if no payment has been made. In addition, all registrants will be given a $25.00 discount off any future workshop to compensate for any inconvenience the cancelation creates.
When a registrant has signed up and paid for a training and either needs to cancel in advance or is unable to attend due to personal conflicts, no refund will be issued. However, the registrant can apply all of their payment to any future training of their choice.
