This course is a live, interactive webinar held on November 1, from 1 pm - 2 pm, Eastern Daylight Time.
Registration closes at midnight (EDT) the day before the event
One in four counselors and one in two psychiatrists will have a client die by suicide in their career. The impact is significant and contributes to a clinician’s ability to remain in the field. The purpose of this course is to understand the impact of client suicide on clinicians and our ability to remain in the role of professional helper.
This course is for mental health professionals, both beginning and seasoned, therapist survivors, and the mental health leadership and supervisors who support clinicians throughout their careers. By exploring the symptoms experienced by therapists in response to a client's suicide, as well as strategies mental health leaders can adopt to help them heal, we can begin to eliminate confidential grief and stigma after a client's suicide, supporting more mental health professionals remaining in this industry after a client suicide occurs.
Participants will leave with:
- a deeper compassion for the experience of client suicide with their colleagues;
- healing tools for themselves or colleagues as therapist survivors if they’ve had a client die by suicide and;
- ideas for mental health leadership and supervision to support clinician healing.
Schedule: (listed in Eastern Daylight Time)
- 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm Lecture
- 1:50 pm - 2:00 pm Q&A
Upon completion of this training, professionals will be able to do the following:
Learning Objectives:
- Explore the physical and psychological impact each client's death by suicide has on a clinician
- Identify healing strategies for clinicians experiencing a client suicide
- Develop supportive leadership for mental health professionals to remain in the field after a client's suicide
Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT-I
Khara Croswaite Brindle, MA, LPC, ACS, CFT-I, is passionate about turning pain points into possibilities for mental health professionals and Financial Therapists. She is a TEDx Speaker, Consultant, Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Professor, and Financial Therapist in Colorado. Her mission is to provide quality products and services to mental health professionals that spark curiosity and possibilities in alignment with professional growth and work-life balance. Khara values giving back to the next generation of therapists through teaching, consultation, and clinical supervision. She has served her community as a dedicated suicide assessment trainer and speaker both nationally and internationally since 2017. Khara’s passion for suicide prevention includes training hundreds of mental health professionals on suicide assessment and safety planning, creating the CACS Suicide Risk Tool for helping professionals, as well as founding Catalively, a nonprofit that focused on reducing youth suicide in Colorado.
She is the author of the book “Moving from ALERT to Acceptance: Helping Clinicians Heal from Suicide”, which covers suicide assessment and safety planning in measurable and empowering ways that take away some of the fear of asking about suicide when working with clients of diverse backgrounds. Experience a modern, compassionate take on suicide assessment in this book through client stories, and explore how you can adopt the ALERT suicide assessment framework into your own client work. With a predicted 1 in 4 mental health professionals, including clinical supervisors, therapists, and social workers losing a client to suicide sometime in their career, this book also serves to explore this life-altering event, including an in-depth look at the personal and professional impact on clinicians through therapist stories, the mental health leadership and support needed to heal, and tools that encourage a purposeful transition from crippling anxiety and grief towards post-traumatic growth and meaning.
Credit Hours: This course consists of 1 continuing education hour of credit.
Counselors: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No, 6693. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Mental Health Counselors. #MHC-0048.
Marriage and Family Therapists: Many MFT licensing boards accept our courses or one of the approvals which we have from professional associations. You can check with your board to determine if your licensing board would accept this course.
Social Workers: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, #1609, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 05/02/2024 – 05/02/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credit.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Social Workers #SW-0435.
Addiction Professionals: This course has been approved by Telehealth Certification Institute LLC, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #193104, Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Psychologists: Telehealth Certification Institute LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Telehealth Certification Institute LLC maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Psychologists #PSY-0128.
Art Therapists: Telehealth Certification Institute, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Creative Arts Therapists #CAT-0093.
Other Professionals: This course qualifies for 60 minutes of instructional content as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Retain your certificate of completion and contact your board or organization for specific filing requirements.
This course is an-interactive, live online webinar.
Participants may request a printed version of their certificate of completion to be delivered by mail. A shipping/handling fee of $6.95 will be charged per request. Shipping internationally may require an additional charge.
Register on the website before midnight the day of the event. So that we can provide you these CEs, you are required to:
- login and access the direct link to the webinar through your account
- your attendance is marked automatically when you use the direct link and attend fully
- complete a post-test with a passing score of 80% or higher (which can be retaken until passed), and complete a course evaluation
- collect your certificate of completion on your account after steps 1-3 are completed
Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants. No refunds are offered to those who do not attend.
Directions for completing a course and collecting CEs can be found here
Enroll in the webinar by adding it to the cart and proceeding through the check out process. Create an account (or login to yours) during the checkout process.
Prepare: Download Zoom software. Participants must use a device that is connected to adequate internet speed with a camera, microphone and speakers (or headset).
Attend: At least 15 minutes before the designated start time, login to your account on the website. Go to "My Courses", click on the title of the webinar. The link for the webinar will be listed in the course content.
Attendance is recorded automatically when you use the direct link and attend the full event.
By registering for this event you are agreeing to the following:
24 hour notice is required if you are not able to make it to a live event. Recordings are not provided to webinar registrants.
To update and test using Zoom.us/test before the event to ensure you are ready for the event.
Since this is a live interactive event it means that your interaction during the event is expected. Your name and image will be visible to other participants during the live event. You will NOT be included in any recording made.
An evaluation must be completed within one week of the event. Continuing Education credit(s) cannot be issued unless you attend the event and the evaluation is submitted. (Evaluation is not mandatory for APA hours)
Partial CE credits are not possible; therefore you are required to be present throughout the event in order to receive CE credits.
Respect all other participants during the event as though you would if you were sitting with the other attendees at a conference table:
- Dress appropriately
- Be in a private location void of distractions
- Do not multitask
- Do not drive during an event
- Remain on mute unless you are sharing with the group
Closed captioning is offered for all live webinar participants.
This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.
This is a live, interactive webinar.
