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Upcoming Live Classes

Classes denoted with 🖥️ are taught online for convenience and COVID safety. Click a class title ↓​ for more info.
Sep. 24, 2026 (Thu.) ​​​​🖥️​
Legal and Ethical Issues when Supervising Efforts to Support System-Involved Youth and Families

Sep. 25, 2026 (Fri.) ​​​​🖥️​
Understanding How Energy Medicine, Energy Psychology, and Verbal First Aid Can De-Escalate Crisis Situations in Child Welfare Services

Oct. 15, 2026 (Thu.) ​​​​🖥️​
AI in Mental Health: Legal, Ethical, Clinical and Practical Issues
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Resources

ENROLLMENT IS OPEN!
AI & Mental Health Class
Online, On Demand

Our new Continuing Education course covers two broad areas: Using AI in mental-health delivery (how it can be used, the rules, pros and cons, and much more), and how mental-health disorders could be exacerbated or even caused by interacting with AI. Provides 3 CE hours (can count as Law and Ethics CE) for practitioners licensed by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS). CLICK HERE to enroll now!

BBS-Required
​Telehealth Class
Online, On Demand

Take our 3-hour Telehealth class to meet the requirement of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences (BBS) for all BBS-licensed therapists. The course is recorded — take it at your convenience. Includes handouts, post-test, and certificate of completion. CLICK HERE to enroll!
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Free:
​Online Healing Drop-In Sessions (live, weekly)

Find some calm in these challenging times. Our instructor, Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, offers free Energy and Sound Healing gatherings on Zoom, every Monday. Click here to learn about the free weekly groups, and other groups Rachel offers.​
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Sign up for our online and in-person DSM-5 training courses. ​

DSM-5 Online Course
Online, On Demand

​Medicare, Medicaid, and other government programs require diagnoses to follow ICD-10 (International Classification of Diseases) as of October 1, 2015. DSM-5 diagnoses comport with ICD-10; DSM-IV does not.

Be prepared with our course — now with nationwide CE credits! 

Our expanded three-hour course covering the DSM-5 in depth is available online now!
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Faculty

Rachel Michaelsen, LCSW, was a Collaborating Investigator on the field trials for the new DSM-5. … 
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Online classes ( virtual / remote learning ) covering social-work subjects, including trauma, energy psychology, and telehealth. CEUs available for most mental-health professionals.
​Continuing education for practitioners in Oakland, Berkeley, Concord, Hayward, Martinez, Pleasant Hill, ​San Leandro, other East Bay cities, all of California, and nationwide.
For COVID-19 / coronavirus safety, nearly all classes are being offered online / remotely / via telehealth rather than in person.

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