Webinars and Courses
Events listed below are not all CACFT/ACTCF events
but we believe they are of interest to MFTs.
CACFT/ACTCF has not reviewed the content of the events offered below, except for those that have been given pre-approved CEUs from CACFT. The events are not listed in any particular order. Not all courses will be approved for CEUs. Although we do our best to have all details below correct, CACFT is not responsible for any errors.
Fundamentals of Clinical Supervision Course
Instructors:
Jennifer Myrie: DMin, RP, RMFT-S and Susan Winter Fledderus, RP, RMFT-SM, RSW
Starts January 20, 2025 - Virtual
This course is designed for professionals wishing to pursue their CACFT Supervisory Designation or to further develop their supervision skills. The course emphasizes the integration of supervision theory with selected supervision practice issues. It features a critical review of several major models of clinical supervision and a focus on facilitating the co-evolving supervision-therapy systems. This course is approved by CACFT. Please click here to learn more about this course. Or click here to register for the course. Early Bird ends December 1, 2024.
The Hidden Patterns of Relationships:
Clinical Applications of Family Systems Theory
Friday, March 7, 2025 - Online Conference
9:00 am - 4:15 pm PST
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Kathleen Smith
This online conference will highlight the practical applications of Bowen theory in the clinical setting and the specific ways a systems perspective offers creativity, flexibility, and versatility from conceptualizing the presenting problem, assessing the broader family system in a family diagram, to marking progress and shifts in patterns in the family and other relationships. Please click here for more information.
Clinical Supervision Fundamentals Course
Facilitators:
Vange Willms Thiessen BSCN, MAMFT, DMIN, RMFT-SM and Estera Boldut BSW, MAMFT, PSYD
February 7 - March 22, 2025
This 36-hour/3-credit university equivalent supervision course is designed to meet professional association criteria for supervisor training. It will enhance the skills for Masters/Doctoral level counsellors/psychotherapists who provide clinical supervision at government and community mental health agencies, private counselling centers/clinics, academic training institutions and private practice settings. This course is approved by CACFT. Early Bird ends January 10, 2025. Please click here to learn more.
TCEFT
EFFT Essential
Emotionally Focused Family Therapy
January 30/31 and April 3/4, 2025
With Robin William Blake and Gail Palmer
In-Person Toronto, ON
Who is this training for?
All mental health professionals, including… Please click here to read more.
OPS Training: Clinical Use of the Adult Attachment Interview
February 22, 2025
Time: 9 AM - 4 PM
Location: Online (Google Meet)
Format: Participants will be sent materials beforehand.
Cost: 175.00 CND for the day
- Understand Attachment Theory and its application to the clinical use of the AAI.
- Understand attachment types and how to apply them to AAI analysis.
- Learn AAI analysis concepts, including how defenses work among the ABCD types.
- Conducting the assessment: Do's and Don'ts of the AAI Interview
- Understanding the AAI analysis process, including how to listen to clients' state of mind with respect to attachment.
Utilizing Couple Relationships to Work Through Trauma and Addiction:
An Introduction to Congruence Couple Therapy
Two-Part LIVE WEBINAR series (3 hrs. total)
Friday, January 17 and January 24, 2025
12-1:30 p.m. ET
Case-Based Group Supervision-Training:
Guided by an e-workbook and facilitated by the developer of a new evidence-based couple therapy model, you will engage in pre-session readings using the Congruence Couple Therapy (CCT): Concept and Method Workbook. Therapists will present a case using a structured format followed by input from the supervisor, group participants, and role-plays. The systemic framework and interventions of CCT will be explained and applied to the case. Therapists have found their effectiveness enhanced by incorporating CCT's systemic concepts and interventions into their existing style and practice. The supervision-training combines structure and flow to optimize therapist's intuitive creativity.
Supervisor: Dr. Bonnie Lee, RSW, RMFT(S), Professor in Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
Various groups are ongoing with flexible entry points. Complimentary Pass to one session for eligible participants.
Questions? Email [email protected]
Group Therapy for the Climate Concerned: Facing Our Pain and Resilience Together
Starting January 28, 2025
For those concerned about the state of our earth, come together in community to support each other, discover that what you are feeling is a natural response, and cocreate resilient ways to move forward in these times. As you get in touch with your deeply felt emotional responses to the climate crisis, be validated that so many are feeling those same things.
OPS Training: USING AI IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
March 28, 2025
Time: 10 am to 1 pm
Location: Online (Google Meet)
Format: Highly interactive, come prepared to use AI to get you started.
Cost: 150.00 for the webinar/training
Learning Goals:
Ethical and Privacy Considerations - specifically the governance around AI provided by the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers
Creative ideas for using AI in your practice.
Things to know when selecting an AI program - ranging from basic ChatGPT to specific services (like AutoNotes, etc).
Understanding how AI stores and uses your information
Client Consent
Differences between transcription and case note generating using AI.
Designing Chat Prompts, tools and tips to keep things private and simple.
A live demonstration on using AI specifically for producing a case note from a client session
Please click here to register.
Join Us for a Dynamic EFT Workshop: Carnival in EFCT Tango Move 4
January 31, 2025
11am - 2pm EST via Zoom
Trainer: Dr. Cindy Goodness Zane, PsyD, ICEEFT Certified Trainer
Assisted by: Jomo Phillips, MSSW, ICEEFT Certified EFCT Supervisor
Cost: US $60.00
We’re thrilled to invite you to "Carnival in EFCT Tango Move 4," a special fundraising workshop to introduce and expand the reach of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) in the Caribbean. All proceeds will directly support our externship in May, the first regional EFT training opportunity for Caribbean clinicians!
By attending, you’ll enhance your EFCT skills by learning to:
- Recognise and interpret a partner’s empathy and reactivity during enactments.
- Select interventions to optimise emotional processing and engagement.
- Loosen rigid protective strategies to create more flexible, secure relational patterns.
Additional Highlights: Please click here to learn more about this event.
Registration: https://tinyurl.com/CaribbeanEFT
The Vanier Institute of the Family
Celebrating diversity. Advancing family well being.
The Vanier Institute of the Family is a national, independent think tank committed to enhancing family wellbeing by making information about families accessible and actionable.
Research snapshot: Children in Out-of Home Care in Canada
Research snapshot: Newcomer Women's Experiences of Intimate Parter Violence in Canada
ONLINE EFT WORKSHOP (via Zoom):
EFIT: Working with Grief and Loss
Mar 22, 2025
9:30 am-12:30 pm EST
Dr. Herman Chow, RP, RMFT-SM, CCTP
The focus of this workshop is to help you use Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) to work with your client’s grief and loss. This training will help you deepen your understanding of grief and loss in the context of attachment. You will learn various EFT macro-interventions and micro-interventions to access the emotions behind their loss so that they can move towards growth and healing. Various teaching methods, such as concise teachings, video clips, discussions, etc., will be used. Please click here to read more about the workshop. CEU approved by CACFT. Early Bird ends January 22, 2025
Non-Pathologizing Approach To Counselling
with Michael Towers, MFC, CPC-S, RMFT-S, RCC-ACS, CCC, CCS
Friday, May 9, 2025 8:00am PT Virtual
The profession of psychotherapy / counselling was built on the medical model, which perpetuates a pathologizing of the client. This workshop is designed to equip practitioners who wish to sit with their clients in non-pathologizing ways. You will learn how to take the training you have already acquired, along with each modality’s interventions, and translate them into a non-pathologizing perspective. It is advised that you purchase the textbook and workbook to help you apply the theories and principles to your practice. Please click here for more information
The Calgary Family Therapy Centre
August 11 - 21st, 2025
Approved by CACFT for 60 CEUs. Please click here to learn more.
Applied Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practice Certificate
Presented by Wilfrid Laurier University Faculty of Social Work Professional Development
in Partnership with Red Maple Coaching and Consulting
The Applied Internal Family Systems (IFS) Practice certificate will help you understand each client as a unique and complex system who has an innate capacity for self-leadership and healing. The program is comprised of two parts:
Part 1: Foundations of IFS Practice.
Part 2: Deeper Applications of the IFS Model
This two-part program will require 80 hours of learning through: ...... Please click here to learn more about the program. Or click here. This has not been reviewed by CACFT/ACTCF.
Chronic Shame in Clinical Practice: An Embodied Relational Perspective
with Stacy Adam Jensen, MEd
ONLINE 5 Tuesday Evenings: Tuesday evenings, February 4 – March 4, 2025 6 - 9 pm PST
Chronic shame is woven into the lives, histories, and presentations of many of the people we sit with in our clinical practices. At the heart of insecure attachment, chronic shame disrupts healthy relational development, and has far-reaching implications for one’s capacity to regulate affect, engage in healthy relationships, and on one’s internal working model- how one sees themselves, others and the world. This early template of self becomes intertwined with shaming experiences across the lifespan, creating cycles of multi-layered suffering. Please click here to learn more about this.
Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy Online 2 year Training
With Lisa Mortimore, PhD and Stacy Adam Jensen, MEd
Starts March 2025
Early relational experiences forge a neurophysiological and psychological template of self, often creating insecure attachment which distorts the development of self, and impacts relational functioning throughout the lifespan. Corresponding affect management strategies and attachment patterns, accompanied by dysregulation of the Autonomic Nervous System (ANS), impact one’s self perceptions, world, and identity. Please click here to learn more.
Clinical Supervision - Using CFM to Personalize Your Approach & Excel as a Supervisor
A Leading Edge On-Demand webinar led by Jeff Chang, PhD, RPsych
This 30 hour course has been approved by CACFT.
Please click here for more information.
Brain Story Certification Course
Presented by the Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Complete at your own pace on our virtual learning platform
The Brain Story Certification Course is a free, online, 20-hour, self-paced, in-depth course featuring leading neurobiology and mental health experts about the science of brain development and its impact on health outcomes. Developed with the intention of being accessible to individuals of all backgrounds, this course covers topics ranging from healthy relationship building to attachment styles to stress. At the end of the course, learners not only take away a thorough understanding of brain development but also ways in which that understanding can be applied to build resilience in children, adults, and families.
The Brain Story Certification Course has been approved for CEUs by The Canadian Association for Couple and Family Therapy. For more information and to enroll in the course, please click here.
Wilfrid Laurier University
Certificates
We offer 15 non-credit professional development certificates. Our courses provide experiential, interactive learning opportunities through online and remote training options. All of our courses are facilitated by highly qualified, knowledgeable instructors with considerable experience in their area of expertise. You can take any of the courses associated with our certificates without working towards earning the certificate. These courses have not been reviewed by CACFT/ACTCF. Please click here for more information.
Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) Certificate Course
Join EFT developer Sue Johnson's hand-selected team of trainers to discover the empirically validated approach that's now the gold-standard for treating couples
Her Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) approach revolutionized our field by offering the clear, structured roadmap we need to guide partners from disconnection to deeply connected, fulfilling relationships — even when working with relationships troubled by issues such as trauma, anxiety, and grief. Please click here to read more about this event.
Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute
CTRI’s mission is to inspire learning and improve lives. They provide training (in-person and online), consulting and free resources in the areas of trauma, mental health and counselling skills.
Upcoming Workshops
Attachment - Strategies for Fostering Connections January 8, 2025 9 - 4pm CT
View the full live virtual workshop schedule here.
Leading Edge Seminars
Since 1993, Leading Edge Seminars has been serving mental health and human services professionals with ground-breaking continuing education seminars on a wide range of topics facilitated by today’s leading clinicians. Delivered online and in-person, at Leading Edge Seminars, you’ll get the speakers you love, the content you want, and the skills you need.
Why not try the University of Guelph's OpenEd's Couple and Family Therapy Studies continuing education courses and program? Expand your knowledge and develop practical skills. Please click here for more information about the courses in the Advanced Couple and Family Therapy Studies Program.
University of Lethbridge in Canada
New!!! Graduate Certificate in Couple and Family Counselling Studies now offered by the University of Lethbridge in Canada (One year, Online).
In this Graduate-level Program in Couple and Family Counselling, you will explore the dynamics of family communication, structures and systems to enhance your mental health-care skills without committing to a master's program.- Develop systemic relational knowledge and skills for improving mental well-being
- Enhance your practice or pursue further education
- Build a foundation in the growing family and couple counselling profession
- Suitable for a range of social- and health-services fields
- Online, part-time study
Apply by June 30, 2024 to start your graduate certificate this fall!
Please click here for more information.
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ANIMAL-ASSISTED INTERVENTIONS
A self paced, online course all about AAI. This comprehensive course is a must for any health professional.
Please click here for more information.
ABOUT THE ATLAS INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND FAMILIES (THE ATLAS INSTITUTE)
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The Atlas Institute for Veterans and Families works with Veterans, Families, service providers and researchers to bridge the divide between research and practice so Veterans and their Families can get the best possible mental health care and supports. The Atlas Institute was originally established as the Centre of Excellence on PTSD and Related Mental Health Conditions.
Projects and resources from the Atlas Institute include
Envision is a Canada-based provider of online workshops for mental health professionals. We seek to make learning accessible and attainable no matter the stage of a professional's career. With our online format, we are able to bring international leading presenters to your screen, wherever you are, in an interactive way, that outshines any conference room.
Click here to explore our upcoming live events & be sure to explore our catalogue of home study courses where you can learn at your own pace. CAMFT members are eligible for a 15% discount for any general online workshop or home study course up to 8 hours long. To see the discount code please login to www.camft.ca and click on Envision under the "membership' menu tab.
Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute
CTRI’s mission is to inspire learning and improve lives. They provide training (in-person and online), consulting and free resources in the areas of trauma, mental health and counselling skills
- Resources offered:
- Virtual and in-person workshops across Canada
- Private/On-location group training
- On-demand training videos
- Free mental health resources