Supporting Young People To See Themselves, Be Themselves and Live Empowered Lives

Description

This course does not offer CE Credits. The same course is available for purchase and offers 3 clinical CE hours for behavioral health clinicians.  See "related products" below.

Young people are not just our future—they are our present. In a world that too often misunderstands, judges, or underestimates them, how we show up as clinicians can determine whether they see themselves clearly and feel safe enough to be who they are.

Clinicians working with youth face a unique challenge: supporting them through internal and external struggles without overshadowing their autonomy. This course offers the clarity, strategies, and relational tools to do just that.

Shira Sameroff, LCSW, brings over 30 years of experience in working with young people and the systems around them, integrating therapeutic practices with deep attention to identity, power, and healing. As a therapist, educator, and social work leader, Shira offers a trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and somatic lens rooted in direct practice and lived experience.

Shira’s approach is collaborative, heart-centered, and deeply intuitive. She invites learners into reflective practice while offering grounded, actionable strategies that strengthen therapeutic alliances and foster authentic empowerment with youth.

Topics include building authentic relationships with young people, understanding the roots of behavior, transforming the negative societal narratives about youth, collaborating with other adults in clients’ lives, and holding space for social justice and systemic change. Participants will also explore their self-awareness, boundaries, and role in dismantling adultism and internalized oppression in clinical settings.

Key Takeaways:

• Empowered relationships with youth: Gain tools to build authentic, respectful, and healing relationships that foster youth agency and trust.

• Critical systemic awareness: Learn to recognize and navigate the intersection of individual experience and structural oppression in young people’s lives.

• Self-reflection in practice: Deepen your understanding of your own youth experiences and biases to show up more fully and ethically for clients.

Why this course?

• Expert, heartfelt instruction: Shira Sameroff offers not only professional expertise, but a deeply lived and thoughtful perspective on what it means to support youth meaningfully.

• Beyond theory—into impact: This course goes far beyond theory, offering actionable tools, practices, and mindsets clinicians can implement immediately.

• Mission-aligned training: Offered by the Telehealth Certification Institute, whose mission is to equip healthcare professionals with exceptional education rooted in integrity, collaboration, and wellness.

Learning Objectives:

• Provide strength-based approaches when working with youth.

• Build authentic and empowering relationships with young clients.

• Address challenges, including systemic oppression, faced by youth.

• Apply self-awareness tools in youth counseling practices.

In a time when so many young people feel unseen or unheard, your presence as a clinician can be transformational. Join us in this course and rediscover the power of being real, being ready, and being a force for growth and equity in the lives of the youth you serve.

Add this course to your cart to begin learning instantly.

Format and Access

This is a non-interactive, self-study program and consists of 3 hours 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.

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 Shira Sameroff, LCSW

Shira Sameroff, LCSW, is a therapist, coach, and teacher with experience rooted in decades of practice with people of diverse identities, ages, and life stories in a wide array of settings. Professional roles have included therapy, supervision, professional development training, coaching, teaching, community organizing, transformative decluttering and a decade and a half on the leadership team of a community-based social work agency in Brooklyn, NY, US.

Shira weaves a range of therapeutic healing modalities, including IFS, Hakomi, and other holistic, somatic, nature-based, and anti-oppressive practices into her practice. Shira offers therapy, coaching, and professional development for individuals and organizations around themes including group facilitation, working with shame, oppression-ending practices, giving and receiving feedback, empowering practice with youth, and tending to self as a practitioner.

Shira’s approach is collaborative, intuitive, creative, and full of heart and is rooted in my own lived experience of healing, learning, and emerging.

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 3 CE hours 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