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.
- Online Training – Effective Treatment of OCD: Cracking the Conundrum
March 3 - (NEW) Online Training – Art-Informed IFS: Illustrating Parts of the Eating Disordered Client
March 6 - In-Person Training – The Top Twenty Tips for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder
March 29 - Online Training
Certificate in Treating Anxiety
Class 1 & 2
April 26 - (NEW) In-Person Training – Borderline Personality Disorder as a Traumatic Attachment Disorder
June 1 - (NEW) In-Person Training – Master Class: Understanding and Managing the Narcissistic Personality
June 9
- (NEW) Online Training – Working with Gender Expansive Youth: Ethical Considerations
March 7 - In-Person Training – The Ethical Importance of Helping Clients Heal from Cultural Burdens Using “Art-Informed IFS”
April 24 - (NEW) In-Person Training – “Medical” Marijuana: Ethical Considerations for Mental Health Practitioners
May 5 - In-Person Training – Treat or Terminate? Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice
June 23
- (NEW) Online Training – Art-Informed IFS: Illustrating Parts of the Eating Disordered Client
March 6 - In-Person Training – Addressing Guilt and Shame with Traumatized Clients: Using Parts Work and Expressive Modalities
April 14 - (NEW) Online Training – Releasing the Superwoman Schema: From Role Self to Real Self
April 17 - In-Person Training – The Ethical Importance of Helping Clients Heal from Cultural Burdens Using “Art-Informed IFS”
April 24 - (NEW) Online Training – Group Therapy: Presence and Process Using Symbols, Metaphor & Poetics
May 22
- Level I: Part One: Class 1 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: The Strengths-Based Perspective
March 1 - Level I: Part One: Class 2 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: Trauma, Memory, and the Brain
March 13 - Level I: Part One – Class 3 – Understanding Trauma and its Reverberating Effects: The Impact of Insecure Attachment
March 31 - Level I: Part Two: Class 4 – Creatively and Effectively Treating Trauma: The Foundation of Trauma-Informed Care
April 18 - Level I: Part Two: Class 5 – Creatively and Effectively Treating Trauma: Strategies for Affect Regulation, Grounding, and Containment
April 28 - Level I: Part Two: Class 6 – The Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety and Depression in Trauma Survivors
May 16 - Level I: Part Three: Class 7 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Bridging Therapy Sessions, Working with Self-Harm, and Traumatic Transference
June 8 - Level I: Part Three: Class 8 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Understanding the Impact of Counter-Transference
June 21 - Level I: Part Three: Class 9 – Trauma and the Therapeutic Alliance: Processing Ethics, Reporting Issues and Termination
June 30
- Trauma Certificate Level II – Using Parts Work to Overcome Resistance, Calm the Inner Critic, and Help Trauma Survivors Self-Actualize – Part 1
March 9 - Trauma Certificate Level II – Using Parts Work to Overcome Resistance, Calm the Inner Critic, and Help Trauma Survivors Self-Actualize – Part 2
March 10 - Trauma Certificate Level II: A Three-Stage Approach to Incorporating Expressive & Creative Therapies • Part I
March 27 - Trauma Certificate Level II: A Three-Stage Approach to Incorporating Expressive & Creative Therapies • Part 2
April 3 - Trauma Certificate Level II – Clay and Collage: Artwork in Parts Work
May 3 - Trauma Certificate Level II: Moving Beyond “Healing”: Inviting All of Ourselves into Embodiment • Part I
May 30 - Trauma Certificate Level II: Moving Beyond “Healing”: Inviting All of Ourselves into Embodiment • Part 2
May 31 - Trauma Certificate Level II: Using Visualization, Focusing & Guided Imagery for the Management of Anxiety, Depression and Flashbacks
June 15 - Trauma Certificate Level II – Clinical Case Consultation and Integration: Processing Complex Trauma Scenarios in Clinical Practice
June 28
- Online Training – It’s About Relationships
April 4 - In-Person Training – Transcending the Coercive Control of Domestic Violence and Emotionally Abusive Relationships: A Trauma Informed Approach
May 1 - (NEW) In-Person Training – Borderline Personality Disorder as a Traumatic Attachment Disorder
June 1 - (NEW) In-Person Training – Master Class: Understanding and Managing the Narcissistic Personality
June 9
- Online Training – Effective Treatment of OCD: Cracking the Conundrum
March 3 - (NEW) Online Training – Working with Gender Expansive Youth: Ethical Considerations
March 7 - (NEW) Online Training – Fear and Faith: Cultivating Resilience in a COVID Changed World
March 20 - Online Training – It’s About Relationships
April 4 - (NEW) In-Person Training – “Medical” Marijuana: Ethical Considerations for Mental Health Practitioners
May 5 - In-Person Training – Treat or Terminate? Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice
June 23
- In-Person Training – Addressing Guilt and Shame with Traumatized Clients: Using Parts Work and Expressive Modalities
April 14 - In-Person Training – Transcending the Coercive Control of Domestic Violence and Emotionally Abusive Relationships: A Trauma Informed Approach
May 1 - (NEW) In-Person Training – “Medical” Marijuana: Ethical Considerations for Mental Health Practitioners
May 5 - (NEW) In-Person Training – Borderline Personality Disorder as a Traumatic Attachment Disorder
June 1
COVID-19 Update
The Ferentz Institute workshops are conducted either live, online via Zoom, or in-person at the Hilton Garden Inn, Owings Mills, MD. Please email Gerri Baum at gerrib@theferentzinstitute.com 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.
