The Faculty of Social Work's professional development program offers over 300 continuing education courses, workshops, and certificates annually. Whether you're looking to upgrade your skills, complement your education, or explore new areas of interest, our program can help you achieve your goals through experiential and interactive learning opportunities.

For more information visit our website or contact us at fswprofessionaldevelopment@wlu.ca.

Offerings

0090 - Fundamentals of Addiction
0091 - Level I: Fundamentals of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT)
0094 - Complex Trauma
0095 - Trauma-Centred Psychotherapy Techniques
0096 - Building Resilience in Children Who Have Experienced Trauma
0097 - Traumatic Bereavement
0100 - Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Resilience
0101 - Foundations of Trauma
0102 - Working with Refugees and Survivors of War
0104 - Structural Dissociative Theory: A Therapeutic Approach to Working with Trauma Parts
0106 - Mindfulness for Trauma
0107 - Crisis Intervention and De-Escalation
0108 - Trauma and Addictions
0111 - Polyvagal Theory: A Bottom-Up Approach for Trauma Treatment
0113 - Calming the Storms of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents
0115 - Expressive Arts Therapy with Children and Adolescents
0118 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Assessment and Case Conceptualization
0123 - Human Resource (HR) Management
0124 - Resource Development
0125 - Program Evaluation
0127 - Fundamentals of Management
0128 - Leadership Coaching: Guiding Conversations Towards Transformation
0129 - Managing Conflict with Confidence and Compassion
0130 - Introduction to Clinical Supervision
0132 - Community Consultation and Needs Assessment
0133 - Introduction to Motivational Interviewing (MI)
0134 - Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 'Slicing it Thin'
0135 - An Overview of Narrative Therapy
0136 - The Private Practice Roadmap
0138 - Brief Single Session Therapy
0139 - Creating Secure Relationships: An Introduction to Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT)
0141 - Redeveloping Secure Adult Attachment: A Journey of Awareness and Change
0143 - Mindful Self-Compassion
0144 - Breathe In and Play: Mindfulness Practice with Children and Adolescents
0145 - Grieving Children and Youth
0146 - Level II: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Anxiety Disorders and Depression
0147 - Level II: The Essentials of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) with Children and Youth
0148 - Level II: Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) for Trauma
0149 - Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): The Model, the Practice, the Application
0150 - Addiction and the Family
0151 - Understanding Relapse Prevention
0154 - Pharmacology
0156 - Concurrent Disorders
0157 - The Essentials of Harm Reduction
0158 - Counselling Techniques in Addiction Practice
0165 - Palliative and End-of-Life Care
0166 - Grief Counselling
0167 - Supporting Bereaved Parents After a Pregnancy Loss or the Death of a Child
0168 - Foundations of Grief
0169 - Spirituality, Religion and Self-Care
0170 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Individual Therapy
0171 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Phone Coaching and Consulting
0178 - Positive Psychology: The Science of Well-Being, Resilience and Flourishing
0180 - An Introduction to Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
0187 - Bereavement Support Groups: Advanced Facilitator Training
0204 - Working with Trauma and the Body: The Fundamentals of Somatic Therapy
0220 - Project Management
0224 - When the Marriage/Partnership Ends: Families in Transition
0225 - Expressive Arts with Trauma
0226 - A Neuroplasticity Approach in the Treatment of Substance Abuse and Mental Health
0229 - Engaging Individuals and Their Support Systems in Navigating the MAiD Journey
0232 - The Art of the Clinical Note
0233 - Level I: Sacred Circle CBT -- Mikwendaagwad: “It is remembered, it comes to mind”
0257 - Play Therapy Interventions for Helping Children with Mental Health Challenges
0290 - Trauma-Informed Approaches to Working with Those Impacted by Gender-Based Violence
0306 - Working with Neurodiverse Children and Youth: An Anti-Oppressive Approach
0307 - Advanced Structural Dissociative Theory: A Therapeutic Approach to Working with Trauma Parts – Part 2
0310 - When a Few Sessions is All we Have: ACT as a Brief Intervention
0312 - Substance Use and Youth
0314 - Cannabis and Mental Health
0316 - The ACT Matrix: A Powerful Framework for Living Meaningfully
0317 - Disability and Grief
0318 - ACT and Self-Compassion
0320 - ACTing, Grooving and Shaking in Groups
0321 - Trauma-Informed ACT
0322 - Developing an Expanded Understanding of a Polyvagal-Informed Practice
0326 - Prolonged Exposure
0327 - Theories, Models and Methods of Clinical Supervision
0329 - The Supervisory Relationship
0330 - Ethical Issues in Clinical Supervision
0331 - Challenges in Supervision: How to Get 'Unstuck' in Supervision
0332 - Safe and Effective Use of Self in Clinical Supervision
0333 - Promoting Cultural Competence in Clinical Supervision
0357 - Schema Therapy: An Effective Way to Support Clients Who Have a History of Trauma, Attachment and Personality Disorders
0371 - A Compassionate Approach to Working with Addictions
0401 - Advanced Motivational Interviewing
0406 - Developing Skills for Couple Work
0407 - Intimate Partner Violence
0409 - Introduction to the Foundations of Sex Therapy
0415 - Trauma-Informed Leadership: Transforming Your Agency into a Trauma-Informed Sanctuary of Care
0417 - Understanding the Specific Individualized Features of Trauma: The Importance of In-depth Trauma Screening Instruments
0419 - Foundations of Restorative Justice: Fostering Healing for People, Relationships and Communities
0420 - Trauma and Neurodivergence
0421 - Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
0423 - Understanding OCD in Children and Youth: Early Intervention and Assessment Strategies
0425 - Suicidal or Self-Harming? Assessment and Treatment of "At Risk" Teens
0426 - An Introduction to Counselling for Infertility, Loss and Assisted Reproductive Technologies
0447 - Know this First: Necessary Knowledge for Mental Health Professionals Working with First Responders
0487 - Change Management: What it Is and How to Use it In Your Projects and Operations
0490 - Part 1: Self, Protectors and the Foundations of IFS
0491 - Asking Good Questions
0494 - Understanding the Role of Transference and Countertransference in Clinical Supervision
0498 - Part 2: Exiles, Unburdening and Deepening IFS Practice
0499 - Attachment in Adolescence: Theory, Assessment and Clinical Application
0501 - Counselling Women Through Menopause
0505 - Working with Diverse Populations: DBT as a Principle-Based Intervention
0506 - DBT-Kids: Part 1 – Introduction and Individual Work with Kids and Caregivers
0507 - Introduction to Radically-Open DBT
0508 - DBT and Eating Disorders: What and How to Treat
0509 - Core Change Strategies in DBT: Behaviourism, Contingency Management, Cognitive Modification and Exposure
0510 - Moving from Self Criticism to Self-Acceptance with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
0517 - Dare to Lead™ 2.0
0518 - Working with Individuals Who Have Caused Gender-Based Harms
0538 - Perinatal Wellness: Navigating Prenatal and Postpartum Mental Health
0539 - Foundations of Family Therapy
0543 - Brain Injury and Addiction: Understanding and Supporting Complex Clients
0558 - What to Know: Domestic Abuse, Police Response and the Criminal Justice System
0560 - Discover the Transformative Power of Internal Family Systems (IFS): Free Online Information Session
0567 - Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)
0571 - Understanding Autism and Mental Health: Tools for Effective and Affirming Care
0596 - The Silent Struggle: Trauma, Burnout, and the Mental Health of Women
0597 - Rage and Resilience: Reclaiming Women's Anger in Mental Health Care
0598 - Better Together: Practical Integration of CBT and Attachment Theory in Therapy
0600 - Evidence-Based Strategies for Treating Sleep Disturbances and Insomnia
0603 - Human Trafficking: Hiding in Plain Sight
0604 - Integrating Journaling into the Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders and Dissociation
0605 - Resourcing the Body: Somatic Practices for Cultivating Safety and Stability
0606 - Deepening Embodied Resilience: Somatic Practices for Enhancing Interoceptive Awareness
0613 - Rural Women's Mental Health
0614 - Looking Beneath Food and the Body: Integrative Approaches for Working with Eating Disorders
0615 - Women, Pain, and the Nervous System
0616 - Foundations in Parent-Infant Mental Health
0617 - Female Adolescent Mental Health: Age-Specific Interventions
0618 - SEEN in Full Colour: Applying the CULTURE© Framework to Support the Mental Health of Black and Racialized Women
0619 - Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) Skills Training
0621 - Family Systems Crisis Management
0622 - Group Supervision: Transforming Your Practice Through Collective Growth
0623 - Secure Functioning in Action: Using Neuroscience and Attachment through the PACT Method for Advanced, Experiential Couples Therapy
0628 - Women, Criminalization and Mental Health
0645 - Culturally Safe and Trauma-Informed Practice in Diverse Communities
0658 - Faculty of Social Work -- Celebrating 60 Years of Impact: Monthly Lecture Series
0660 - Outside the Playroom: Working With Parents of Children in Therapy
0680 - Advanced Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Deepening Practice and Expanding Possibilities
0681 - Context Matters: ACT for Racialized and Marginalized Populations
0682 - Trauma, Attachment and Relational Work with Clients
0684 - Intimacy Under Pressure: Supporting Couple Connection Through Infertility and Reproductive Loss
0685 - From Survival to Connection: Introduction to Attachment-Based Interventions for Children and Families
0686 - Navigating the Weight: Secondary Traumatic Stress, Compassion Fatigue and Moral Injury in Practice
0687 - Therapeutic Presence and Attachment Dynamics in Clinical Practice
0688 - Advanced Trauma-Centred Psychotherapy Techniques
0689 - Seeing the Whole Child: Alternative Assessment Methods in Mental Health Practice
0690 - Turning Toward Ourselves: Inner Relationship Focusing as a Practice of Embodied Listening
0691 - Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
0692 - From Protection to Connection: Introduction to Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP) with Children, Youth & Families
0694 - Exploring the Connection Between Eating Disorders and Attachment: Creating a Secure Attachment as the Foundation for Recovery
0695 - DBT-Kids: Part 2 – Working with Families
0697 - When the Body Speaks: Metabolic Health, Nervous System Biology and Human Flourishing in Women’s Mental Health
0698 - Direct Interventions Using Seeking Safety Techniques
0699 - Supporting Clients with Reproductive Health Diagnoses: Validation, Advocacy and Body Trust
0700 - Helping Families Thrive with Emotionally Focused Family Therapy: An Introduction to EFFT
0701 - Who Did I Need to Become?: Understanding Attachment Through an Internal Family Systems Lens
0702 - Foundations in Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP): Four-Day Intensive
0703 - OCD Subtypes: Advanced Conceptualization and Treatment
0704 - Trauma and OCD: Clinical Considerations
0705 - Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours (BFRBs)
0706 - OCD Across Neurodivergent and Complex Presentations
0709 - Engaging in Activism in Social Work
0710 - Evolution of Attachment: History, Core Concepts and Categories NEW
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