Integrating the Art of Writing into Your Clinical Practice

Description

This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

In an age where words often feel fleeting, writing offers a way for therapeutic insights to live on—grounding, clarifying, and deepening the clinical process. This course shows how written expression, when intentionally integrated, can amplify therapeutic rapport, reflection, and transformation.

Discover how writing—often overlooked in clinical practice—can become a powerful tool for connection, clarity, and collaboration. Whether you’re guiding clients or supervisees, this course offers thoughtful, practical strategies to enhance your clinical effectiveness through writing.

Michèle Mani, M.Ed., RP, CCC is a Registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with over 18 years of experience, particularly in online and virtual counseling. As a published author and expert in asynchronous and synchronous therapy, Michèle brings a depth of insight into how clinicians can leverage writing as both a clinical intervention and a supervisory asset. Her work emphasizes the importance of presence, person-centered care, and narrative approaches to mental health.

In this course, Michèle brings her authentic and strengths-based approach to life, helping clinicians thoughtfully integrate writing into their therapeutic toolkit. Her teaching is grounded in experience, ethics, and a deep respect for clients’ voices.

Topics explored include therapeutic letter writing, reflective journaling, narrative-based writing prompts, creative tools for rapport building, asynchronous counseling strategies, trauma-informed writing considerations, and writing practices that enhance both clinical supervision and client engagement. Participants will also examine cultural and contextual sensitivities, how to establish professional boundaries in written communication, and how to personalize writing to align with each client’s needs and identity.

Key Takeaways:

• Creative writing tools that work: Learn specific techniques like therapeutic letters, journaling, and metaphor to deepen connection and strengthen client agency.

• Practical writing strategies for clinicians: Understand how to ethically and effectively use writing across different counseling modalities, including in-person, telehealth, and asynchronous formats.

• Stronger therapeutic relationships: Use writing to foster empathy, trust, and attunement—even when the visual cues of face-to-face sessions are absent.

Why This Course?

• Clinically grounded and creative: You’ll learn from an instructor who has built her career around integrating evidence-based models with narrative and expressive writing practices.

• Relevant for real-world practice: Whether you're writing notes, emails, or asynchronous messages, you’ll gain strategies you can immediately apply with both clients and supervisees.

• Developed by experts who care: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, this course reflects our commitment to excellence, kindness, and equipping clinicians with tools that truly make a difference.

Learning Objectives:

• List five ways therapists and clinical supervisors can use writing to augment the clinical process.

• Adapt a writing ‘toolkit’, as informed by the clinician’s clinical modality and/or model, and the client’s needs and preferences.

• Explain the best practices and clinical considerations for using writing with clients.

• Create rapport and connection through writing.

Experience how the written word can become a vital instrument in your clinical toolbox—one that honors the client’s voice, expands therapeutic possibilities, and enhances your own reflective practice.

Enroll today to explore how writing can transform the way you engage, support, and grow with those you serve.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 1 hour of video instruction and an evaluation.

Course Details

Availability: 

From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: 

This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services. This continuing education course is designed for licensed behavioral health professionals and provides training in suicide prevention using expressive arts as an integrative approach. However, this is not a creative arts therapy course and does not provide training in creative arts therapy.

Teaching Methods: 

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to Attend: 

Course access and completion instructions.

Instructor and Disclosures

Instructor

About Michèle Mani, M.Ed., RP, CCC

Michèle Mani is a Registered Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor with over 18 years experience in the field of Employee and Family Assistance Programs (EFAP).  Michèle’s key area of focus is in the delivery and supervision of asynchronous and synchronous online and virtual counseling. Employing a variety of clinical models, such as narrative, solution-focused, and CBT, her core approach draws upon counselors’ and clients’ essential strengths and capacities. Michèle co-authored the chapter: Supervising the delivery of online counseling services in an employee and family assistance program, (EFAP) setting in the book: Technology in Mental Health: Applications in practice, supervision and training (2nd ed., 2016).

Disclosure Statement: 

The instructor(s) for this course receive compensation for their services. There are no reported conflicts of interest to disclose.

CE Hours

This course does not offer CE credits, just great content.

The same course is available for purchase and offers 1 CE hour for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

This course is a non-interactive, online self-study.

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.

Accommodations and Policies

Close Captioning is available for live webinars and recorded video presentations.

You can click on the following links to view our policies:

• Accommodations for Individuals with Disabilities.
• Cancellation Policy
• Grievance Policy
• Support Options
• Disclosure Statement