FALL 2025
IN-PERSON CEU COURSES
Family systems theory and its impact on relationship counseling
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Friday, September 26th
10:00am - 1:00pm
3 CEUs for LSW/LCSW & LPC/LCPC
$120
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Understanding the difference between individual and relationship counseling, besides there being more people in the room.
Family Systems Theory and its impact on relationship counseling.
Ethical considerations in relationship counseling
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Dr. Sandra Carlson is a graduate of Northern Illinois University. She has been in private practice in Bolingbrook, Il since 2000. Sandra has been providing relationship counseling for over 30 years.
Sandra has taken courses in marriage and family counseling, family systems and is Gottman trained. She has also taught marriage and family counseling at NIU. Working with couples and families is her absolute favorite kind of counseling.
Sandra is mother to three sons, lucky mother-in-law to three wonderful women and grandmother to the cutest kids ever. Sandra lives in Bolingbrook with her husband of 49 years, Paul. Sandra hopes to encourage the workshop participants to enjoy relationship counseling, challenging though it may be.
Under Fire–The Emotional Ambush of First Responders and Their Families
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Friday, October, 4th
10:00am - 1:00pm
3 CEUs for LSW/LCSW & LPC/LCPC
$120
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First responders have unique emotional responses to exposure to chronic trauma that impact their professional and personal systems.
Mental health providers struggle to understand the cultural context of first responders and their families, how to uniquely support them, and identifying provider competency.
Countertransference: mental health providers are provided with a review of common topics and circumstances where countertransference can present in the clinical space when working with first responders.
The presentation includes a video of an actual traumatic event for the police officers involved with a facilitated discussion following the video.
Sociopolitical influences that impact the mental health provider when formulating a treatment approach for first responders and their families along with cultural topics, values, etc. that impact the first responder's decision to seek emotional support or not.
First responder suicide.
Illinois Firearms Owners Identification card mandates.
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Clark Beckley is the Founder of two mental health practices, Your Story Counseling and Angie's Place, and holds an MSW from Dominican University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Mr. Beckley presents topics to professionals and corporate groups that highlight unique cultural influences on how we integrate, collaborate, and increase awareness of our uniqueness at the individual, team, and organizational levels. In addition to providing mental health therapy, he and his team design emotional wellness programs for first responder organizations. Mr. Beckley provided training on a variety of topics to survivors of childhood trauma, the Chicago Police Department Training Academy, the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS), the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the 100 Club of Illinois, various local and national police and fire agencies and associations, as well as other organizations and groups. He is a former police officer and trauma survivor.
Trauma Informed Practices–Neuroscience, Health Impacts, & Healing
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Friday, October 24th
10:00am - 1:00pm
3 CEUs for LSW/LCSW & LPC/LCPC
$120
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Stephanie Hogan MA (12/25), RYT-500, TCTSY-F, is a trauma-informed educator and facilitator with over a decade of experience empowering survivors, and now guiding professionals in creating safe, healing-centered spaces. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Trauma-Informed Practices for Community Health in December, am is a certified advocate in Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, specializing in Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY), an evidence based treatment for Complex PTSD.