Please note: This training goes for 3.5 hours for 3.0 CEs, with an additional optional 1+ hour (non-CE eligible) collaborative discussion thereafter. The times noted below reflect the full experience. You may drop off the training at 12:30pm Pacific time if you do not want to participate in the discussion.
Resonant Equity is pleased to present:
The Role of Mental Health Counselors in Times of Collective Crisis
Date: Friday, October 31, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM Pacific / 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM Mountain / 12:00 PM to 4:00 PM Central / 11:00 AM to 5:00 PM Eastern
CE hours available: 3
- Intended for: Novice/Beginning Learners: No advance knowledge required
- NBCC Content Area: Counseling Theory/Practice and the Counseling Relationship, Social and Cultural Foundations, Counselor Professional Identity and Practice Issues
Program Description
PLEASE NOTE: THIS TRAINING IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING FULLY REFINED. WE WANTED TO MAKE REGISTRATION AVAILABLE AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE BUSY SCHEDULES AND ADVANCE PLANNING. THE LEARNING OBJECTIVES MAY BE ADJUSTED AFTER YOU REGISTER.
We are in a time of tremendous systemic change. As individuals, and as clinicians, we may be feeling powerless. We may rightly be feeling overwhelmed. There are multiple concurrent crises occurring around and in front of us: Economic. Climate. Militaristic. Violent. Many systems that we thought we could rely upon are changing. It may even feel like the world is destabilizing.
How do we respond to these simultaneous crises as people?
How do we respond as mental health clinicians?
What do we say to our clients?
What is the appropriate reaction? What interventions are available? What is our ethical and moral responsibility in this time?
How do we hold the complexity?
This training cannot promise answers. What you’ll get are frameworks, ideas, and suggestions for interventions and approaches for clinical work using systems perspectives and ethical imperatives to help you make sense of this and find ways to respond to the crises we are in. You will hopefully come away feeling supported, and you will likely experience being challenged. You will gain insight into yourself as a counselor, be invited to examine how you are showing up, and potentially experience an expansion of your capacity to be a change agent in whatever way that is meaningful for you.
As James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
NOTES FOR ATTENDEES:
- The CE-eligible presentation runs for 3.5 hours, which includes 3 hours of training plus time for a break. You will need to be logged onto the zoom meeting for the entire 3.5 hours to earn the CEs. There will also be an optional (non-CE eligible) 1+ hour discussion and community-building session available immediately after, to end at 2pm Pacific / 5pm Eastern.
- Some knowledge of social justice counseling concepts and liberatory psychology helpful but not required.
- This training will not be recorded. The slides will not be distributed.
- We invite participants to be camera-on during this training.
- We specifically request that each participant join from a private space where you can focus on the experience. Please do not join this zoom training from a car or airport or coffee shop. We offer flexible cancel policies in case your availability changes after you register.
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Educational Goals
So what is this training?
It is a self-of-the-counselor training, where we will engage with the events we are all experiencing together, and investigate how those events are impacting us personally and professionally, and the countertransferential responses we may be experiencing in the treatment room.
It is a training on ethics with some historical context from the development of the counseling profession over time, to increase understanding of how counseling as a whole positions itself in society and our part in that.
It is a trauma-informed training to recognize the harms being done and to work together in community to find ways to respond, in recognition of the realities of how our world is changing.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:- Identify countertransference reactions in response to sociopolitical crises, social threat, and “cancel culture.”
- Define concepts of complicity, collusion, and enactment in a simultaneously cultural and therapeutic context
- Describe defense mechanisms and cognitive distortions that may be operating in the clinician and the client in response to systemic stress
- Describe and self-assess aspects of perceived and actual risk to the clinician within the micro, mezzo, and macro contexts
- Describe and implement at least 2 clinical interventions to support clients in navigating sociopolitical instability and an uncertain future
Equity Focus
This training is built on recognition of oppressions and active harm being done in society based on client target identities.
Presenters
Presenter Name: Lisa Wenninger, PhD, MBA, LPCC, LPC, LMHC, NCC, BC-TMH (she/her)
Dr. Lisa Wenninger (she/her) has a PhD in Counselor Education and Supervision from Antioch University Seattle, a social justice focused program. She is a National Certified Counselor and is licensed in California and Washington, with a telehealth-only social justice counseling practice working with individuals with marginalized identities who are navigating a complex and difficult world. Dr. Wenninger serves on the Board of Counselors for Social Justice to promote advocacy and allyship within the counseling profession and help nurture development of the professional identity of counselor-advocate in colleagues. Dr. Wenninger makes a point to attend the meetings of the California Board of Behavioral Sciences and in other ways stay on top of laws and regulations affecting counselors and our clients. She regularly provides continuing education courses on topics such as law and ethics of telehealth, culturally informed diagnosing, and antiracism in counseling, and consults with organizations interested in building more inclusive and welcoming cultures.
Qualifies for 3.0 CE hours (which includes 1.0 CE hour of Law & Ethics)
Resonant Equity, Inc. is authorized by NBCC to issue CEs. NBCC CEs are accepted by most state licensing boards, including California. Please check with your licensing board for their specific policies.
Continuing Education Program Policies
By registering for this course, you accept and agree to these policies.
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Resonant Equity, Inc. has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7682. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Resonant Equity, Inc. is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. |
Attendance in full for the entire duration of the training is required in order to qualify for CEs for that training. Instructions for attending, including accessing the online Zoom meeting or other online broadcast platform, are provided in the registration confirmation email. It is the responsibility of the participant to troubleshoot any technology access issues ahead of time. Resonant Equity, Inc. cannot provide technical support, and is not liable in the event of any internet outage or other technology problem on the participant’s side that prevents access to the training.
Participants are invited to take care of their own needs during the course of a training, however if off camera for an extended time, then participants must be in close enough proximity to their viewing device that they can respond to any requests sent by voice or chat to confirm their active presence in the training experience. Participation in breakout rooms, if part of the training, is expected in order to engage in the learning activities.
Completion Requirements – Home Study ProgramsResonant Equity, Inc. is approved by NBCC as a continuing education provider of home study (on-demand) training programs for mental health providers (ACEP #7682). In order to award CE hours, participants must complete the full duration of training, including watching any videos or listening to audio content in its entirety (no fast forward or skipping ahead), and reading all provided text-based learning materials in full. Completion is also verified by passing the assessment that checks knowledge based on the training content. CE certificates cannot be issued until completion is confirmed. Wherever possible, we implement technology based tracking to support these requirements, however some course content relies on the honor system for participants to attest to completion. We hope that our training content is engaging enough that you choose to take full advantage of the learning opportunities we design.
CE CertificatesAttendance in full is required to be eligible to earn CEs for this training. Confirmed attendees will receive an email with instructions on completing the course evaluation within a week of the training. The course evaluation must be submitted within 30 days of the training. The CE certificate will be generated once the evaluation is received and sent to your email address on file. If you are missing a CE certificate for a training that you believe you qualified for, please reach out to programs@resonantequity.org to inquire.
Refunds and Cancellations for Real-Time EventsAny registration for a real-time (“live” synchronous) program produced by Resonant Equity, Inc. may be cancelled and a refund issued in full if the request to cancel is received 10 days before the scheduled program date. For cancellations received from 3 days to 9 days before the program date, a refund less $10 admin fee will be issued. For cancellations received in the 72 hours before the start time of the training on the program date, a credit in the amount of the registration fee paid less $10 will be issued; such credit must be used within a year, and any subsequent registration to which that credit is applied cannot be refunded or credited thereafter. No refunds or credits available if no advance request to cancel is received before the start time the day of the training.
AccommodationsResonant Equity, Inc. conducts all programs in alignment with the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). If you would like to request accommodations in order to participate in one of our programs, please email us when you register or at least 7 days ahead of the program date to inform us of your needs so that we may develop a solution together.
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