Professional development opportunities online
Satir Group Supervision
6 Tuesdays March 3 to April 7, 2026
9:30 am to 11:30 am PACIFIC TIME
Held Online Via Zoom
With Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC-ACS
This 6-session supervision program will assist counselors and clinicians to focus on the therapeutic process rather than the content of the clients’ presenting problems. Counselors/therapists will present a case presentation for a deeper understanding of how to create and facilitate systemic and transformational changes.
Each 2-hour session will provide time for 2 counselors, one per hour, to present their chosen cases. Each counselor will provide 2 cases over the course of the 6 sessions. Each counselor will offer a brief overview of their case with program provided supervision questions. Jennifer will guide and facilitate the counselors through a supervision process to bring about new possibilities, new awareness and increased clarity when working with clients.
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Healing the Space Between: Relational Work with Couples and Families
6 days of training from April to June 2026
2:30 pm to 8:00 pm Pacific Time
Online via Zoom
Healing the Space Between: Relational Work with Couples and Families
With Kate Gomboc, MA, CCC, Assisted by Jennifer Nagel, MA, RCC-ACS
Healing the Space Between is an experiential professional development program designed for helping professionals seeking greater confidence and effectiveness in couples and family work. Grounded in systemic and relational practice, this six-day online course offers a structured yet flexible approach to working with the “space between” people—where meaning, connection, and change emerge.
Participants will develop practical skills for working with both moderate and high-acuity couples and families, including assessment of relational patterns, use of Satir’s coping stances, and discerning when to listen, interrupt, reframe, or teach skills. The program explores change focus and change meaning techniques, immediacy, reframing with attention to nobility and impact, rituals for connection, decoding language through the Personal Iceberg, and supporting relapse recovery.
Through experiential learning, discussion, and skills practice, participants strengthen their ability to target growth areas within systems, facilitate honest conversations, and anchor both themselves and their clients in internal resources. Emphasis is placed on shifting therapeutic focus from pathology to possibility while increasing clarity, confidence, and clinical presence.
This program is open to counsellors, therapists, and professionals in the helping fields who are interested in deepening relational dialogue and supporting meaningful, sustainable change in couples and families. Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Introduction to Virginia Satir’s Model
February 20th 6:30 – 8:30 pm and February 21st 9:30 am to 4:30 pm PST
Online via Zoom
Introduction to Virginia Satir’s Model
With Mary Leslie, MSW and Wendy Lum, MA, RCC-ACT, RMFT-S
This experiential professional development program offers counsellors, therapists, and allied mental health professionals an introduction to the core beliefs and therapeutic approach of Virginia Satir. Delivered over two day, the workshop emphasizes therapeutic presence, deep listening, and observational skill-building through live demonstration, dyads, reflective exercises, and facilitated group dialogue.
Participants will explore Satir’s use of metaphor as a means of fostering connection and reframing experience, including a live demonstration of the Personal Iceberg Metaphor to illustrate how internal experience shapes behaviour and relational patterns. The Five Essential Elements of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) are introduced to support clinical understanding and guide therapeutic process. The workshop also includes an experiential exploration of coping stances and sculpting, supported by demonstration, paired practice, and group discussion to deepen insight and integration.
Throughout the program, participants are invited to reflect on how the material can be integrated into both professional and personal practice.
Open to clinicians, allied health professionals, and students in at least their second year of social work or psychology programs. No prior experience with the Satir Model is required.
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Motivational interviewing and harm reduction with youth – Live webinar by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Facilitator: Adina Hauser, MSW, RSW, and Joanna Seel, MSW.
Date: March 2, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET
Registration fees: $300 NOW $240 with code BCACC20
Build your clinical confidence supporting youth who use substances—engage, intervene, and make change possible using motivational interviewing and harm reduction with youth clients.
Learn more at: https://cvent.me/nyQ8Gg
CE: 6 hours
Website: www.sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Contact: [email protected]
BCACC members & affiliates save 20% on all programs (not valid with other offers).Use code BCACC20 to save 20% off your registration fees.
Bubbles, Slime, Lego, and more! Creative interventions to build emotional regulation and social skills – Live webinar by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Facilitator: Liana Lowenstein, MSW, RSW, CPT-S.
Date: February 25, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET
Registration fees: $150 NOW $120 with code BCACC20
Engage children with creative interventions to build emotional regulation, social skills, and flexible thinking—motivating lasting positive change through fun, hands-on strategies.
Learn more at: https://cvent.me/0E5xNR
CE: 3 hours
Website: www.sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Contact: [email protected]
BCACC members & affiliates save 20% on all programs (not valid with other offers).Use code BCACC20 to save 20% off your registration fees.
Authenticity and empathy: Exploring the use of self in eating disorders treatment – Live webinar by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Facilitator(s): Anita Federici, PhD, C. Psych, FAED., and Dhwani Joshi, MSW, RSW.
Date: February 24, 2026 | Noon to 3 p.m. ET
Registration fees: $150 NOW $120 with code BCACC20
Deepen your impact by learning how authenticity, identity, and empathy shape effective, culturally responsive eating disorder treatment.
Learn more at: https://cvent.me/0M7rYe
CE: 3 hours
Website: www.sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Contact: [email protected] BCACC members & affiliates save 20% on all programs (not valid with other offers).Use code BCACC20 to save 20% off your registration fees
Grief work through a harm reduction lens: Supporting clients who use substances – Live webinar by SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Facilitator: Juno Zavitz, MDiv and MPS Candidate U of T
Date: February 17 and 18, 2026 | 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET
Registration fees: $300 NOW $240 with code BCACC20
Enhance your clinical or community practice with trauma-informed, harm reduction tools for supporting individuals affected by grief/loss and substance use.
Learn more at: https://cvent.me/PM2dbm
Website: www.sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Contact: [email protected]
BCACC members & affiliates save 20% on all programs (not valid with other offers).Use code BCACC20 to save 20% off your registration fees.
On-demand training – 100% online learning with SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute
Build practical skills in areas such as Youth Mental Health, Interpersonal Therapy, Self-harm and Suicidality, Eating Disorders, Workplace Wellness, Psychotherapy Techniques, and more.
Benefits of on-demand learning:
- Learn at your own pace, on your schedule
- Access expert-led content anytime, anywhere
- Earn continuing education credits
- Apply evidence-informed strategies directly to practice
Learn more and register: On-Demand Training
Website: www.sickkidscmhlearning.ca
Contact: [email protected]
BCACC members & affiliates save 20% on all programs (not valid with other offers).Use code BCACC20 to save 20% off your registration fees.
Clinical Management of Alcohol Use in the Context of Trauma Focused Therapies
Join Bespoke Mental Health Canada for a workshop delivered by Dr. Debra Kaysen
Friday February 6, 2026
8:00 am – 3:30 pm (PT), 11:00 pm – 6:30 pm (ET)
To register for this event, click here
Can’t attend on that date? The “On-Demand” video is available 2 weeks after the live event.
PTSD and alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are frequently comorbid and represent a major public health concern. There are poorer AUD treatment outcomes when comorbid PTSD is untreated, including higher alcohol relapse and use. This workshop will review the research regarding the use of trauma-focused CBTs to address PTSD/AUD, then describe ways to address alcohol use in the context of providing a trauma-focused CBT. We will discuss ways to assess and monitor drinking, when not to provide trauma focused CBT, and strategies clinicians can use to help clients manage their drinking over the course of treatment.
Bespoke Mental Health Canada is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Bespoke Mental Health Canada maintains responsibility for the program.
Participants completing this workshop, live or on-demand, are eligible to receive 6 CE credits.
Price
Professionals: $175.00 CAD + tax
Students: $140.00 CAD + tax
CLINICAL HYPNOSIS SKILLS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
Fundamentals Level 1 Training Workshop
Delivered via Zoom
February 21–22, 2026
9:00 am – 2:00 pm
Discover the Core Skills of Clinical Hypnosis
Gain practical, hands-on training in the foundational components of clinical hypnosis. Ideal for clinicians new to hypnosis or those seeking a refresher, this workshop includes demonstrations, guided practice, and expert instruction to help you begin integrating hypnosis into your clinical work.
Eligibility
Open to members (and full-time students) of regulated health professions, including: – Physicians, Nurses, Naturopaths – Dentists & Dental Hygienists – Psychologists – Marriage & Family Therapists – Registered Clinical Counsellors – Social Workers – Chiropractors – Massage Therapists – Physiotherapists
Fees
(Payment by e-transfer or credit card) – CSCH Members: $250 Early Bird | $290 after Feb 6 – Non-Members: $320 Early Bird | $360 after Feb 6 – Full-Time Students: $180 (Early Bird & regular)
Faculty
Learn from experienced CSCH Faculty: – Davidicus Wong, MD – James Stabler, MSW, RCC – Bianca Rucker, PhD, RN, RMFT – Leora Kuttner, PhD (Clin. Psych.) – Saul Pilar, MD
Registration
CLICK HERE to Register
Upcoming Training
Level 2 will be offered via Zoom on April 18–19, 2026.
Details and registration to be announced soon.
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
February 6-8, March 20-22, April 24-26, May 22-24 and June 19-21 and July 10-12, 2026
(6 Friday/Saturday/Sunday over 6 months)
2:30 pm to 8:00 pm Pacific Time Online Via Zoom
81 Continuing Education Hours with Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
STST is based on the work and Wisdom of world renown psychotherapist Virginia Satir, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 program offers:
- Deepening the experience of “how to” facilitate change and transformational change with clients
- Experience the profound process of growth as a professional and in your personal life
- Opportunities to expand the internal resources of Self and congruently connecting with clients
In addition, STST offers evidence based experiential therapy, and a process that is experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused, resulting in neurological changes in the individual.
Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
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