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Featured Event
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A 4.5 HOUR NETWORKING AND ETHICS CE EVENT
When Outpatient Isn’t Enough: Ethical Decision-Making Across the Continuum of Care
In partnership with Skyway Behavioral Health, join Livia Budrys and Sarah Buino in person for a 3-hour ethics training (with ethics CEs!) designed for therapists navigating one of outpatient work's most ethically complex moments: recognizing when a client needs a higher level of care.
This training offers a grounded clinical framework, practical tools for confident level-of-care decision-making, and a facilitated case consultation luncheon where you can process real-world challenges alongside peers and higher-level-of-care professionals. Whether you're carrying the weight of a difficult case or simply want to strengthen your clinical network, this is a space to feel less alone at the edge of hard decisions. Education, connection, and thoughtful companionship all in one event.
Together we will…
Identify clinical and behavioral indicators that ethically obligate consideration of a higher level of care, including risks related to safety, stabilization, and the limits of outpatient treatment.
Differentiate among levels of care (IOP, PHP, residential, inpatient) and describe the core clinical functions, treatment goals, and ethical fit of each level.
Describe at least three common ethical and emotional barriers (e.g., fear of abandonment, countertransference, rescue fantasies, financial or systemic pressures) that interfere with timely step-up decisions, and apply strategies to navigate them responsibly.
Apply an ethical decision-making framework to assess acuity, determine when outpatient care is no longer sufficient, and support sound clinical judgment through consultation and documentation.
Demonstrate ethically sound, compassionate referral language that engages clients collaboratively while maintaining therapeutic boundaries, informed consent, and professional responsibility.
When: Thursday, July 30th - Skyway Downers Grove
Thursday, July 31st - Skyway Skokie
Cost: $25, lunch included
2026 Speaking Events
March 6
Relational Resilience: Leading Group Therapy Practices Through Industry Disruption
Trawinski Consulting
Join us
April 25
Anchored in Acuity: Outpatient Skills for Complexity and Clinical Judgment
with Livia Budrys
Impact CE
Join us
February 27
Stuck Voices, Stuck Patterns: Clinical Strategies for Patients Who Can’t Sustain Change
Southern Ohio ENTs
Private Event
March 3
Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times
Impact CE
Join us
April 17
Anchored in Acuity: Outpatient Skills for Complexity and Clinical Judgment
with Livia Budrys
The Meadows, Atlanta
Details coming soon
April 4
Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times
April 28
The Wounded Healer's Toolkit: From Self-Care to Systemic Change
ADEPT Educational Institute of Maine
Join us
June 2
Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times
OACBHA Mental Health and Addiction Conference
July 31
When Outpatient Isn’t Enough: Ethical Decision-Making Across the Continuum of Care
with Livia Budrys
Skyway - Skokie
Join us in person!
September 15
When Outpatient Isn’t Enough: Ethical Decision-Making Across the Continuum of Care
with Livia Budrys
Clinical Events
Join us
May 19
Psychotherapy for a Changing World: A Practice of Unlearning for Uncertain Times
ADEPT Educational Institute of Maine
Details coming soon
June 30
Bridging Heart & Practice: Enhancing Clinical Supervision Skills
with Sarah Suzuki
ADEPT Educational Institute of Maine
Join us
July 30
When Outpatient Isn’t Enough: Ethical Decision-Making Across the Continuum of Care
with Livia Budrys
Skyway - Downers Grove
Join us in person!
September 25
Embracing Ethical Power in Therapy
Good Therapy
Join us
Courses and Workbooks Galore!
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Join Mishara D. Winston and Sarah Buino for a pre-recorded webinar and earn 3.5 CEs.
In an era of increasingly turbulent social, political, and legal waters, therapists and practice owners face unprecedented challenges to their sustainability and wellbeing. This workshop equips mental health professionals with the tools to navigate these uncertain times by combining stable foundations with flexible systems—creating a metaphorical "houseboat" capable of weathering any storm.
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Originally created for the NASW National Conference in 2025, this workbook is supportive for any therapist navigating our modern challenges.
In a time when therapists are being asked to do more with less; navigating burnout, trauma, systemic failure, and global upheaval; this comprehensive and reflective workbook offers a radical new approach to professional sustainability.
Part practical guide, part personal transformation tool, A Modern Social Worker’s Survival Toolkit equips helping professionals with the frameworks, exercises, and self-assessments they need to not just survive, but evolve in their roles. Through topics like developmental awareness, values-based decision-making, boundary work, power dynamics, and collective care, social workers are invited to explore their “why,” rethink empathy, and ground their practice in both self-compassion and structural advocacy.
This is not your average self-care manual. This is a toolkit for the modern helper who wants to show up with more clarity, courage, and consciousness at work, in community, and within systems in desperate need of change.
Perfect for individual reflection, clinical supervision, or group learning spaces, this resource is a lifeline for therapists who are committed to making an impact without losing themselves in the process.
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This workbook was developed as part of Sarah’s Authentic Leaders Group supporting practice owners, managers, and supervisors to develop a positive relationship with holding themselves and others accountable. It was inspired by a piece of writing on Mia Mingus’s blog called Dreaming Accountability.
Thank you for seeking right relationship with power and leadership by deepening your understanding of accountability.You'll receive a full-color, 6-page pdf with journaling prompts to support your relationship with accountability.
Authentic Leaders Group
Cohort 4 in 2027
Authentic Leaders Group is for therapists and mental health leaders who sense that what’s needed now isn’t just more tools, but also more clarity about what they and their teams are experiencing internally, relationally, and systemically.
Authentic Leaders helps you gain perspective and greater awareness so you are able to enact your leadership from a place of grounded wisdom.
