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Events & Workshops

For practitioners & Trainees

Upcoming Events

  • Healing in a Broken System: Resilience, Advocacy & Culturally Responsive Care… Feeling the weight of a system that isn’t working? You’re not alone.

    Mental health professionals, students, and leaders—if you’ve felt the pressure of doing healing work within structures that perpetuate harm, this space is for you. Join a growing movement of clinicians, advocates, and change makers committed to reimagining mental health care through a lens of equity, collective care, and cultural healing.

    Conference Details:

    Join us for a powerful day of connection, learning, and collective care. This conference brings together clinicians, community advocates, and systems change makers for a day rooted in radical self-care, cultural healing, and a shared vision for a more just mental health system.

  • 🖤 Networking Night at Autana

    Wednesday, May 27 | 6:00–8:00 PM
    Troy, MI

    Join us for an evening of connection, community, and collaboration. Whether you’re a familiar face or joining us for the first time, this is a welcoming, low-pressure space to meet others and build meaningful relationships.

    What to Expect

    • Resource Table (bring business cards, flyers, and upcoming events!)

    • Attendee Spotlight display to help spark easy connections

    • J.A.M. Session (our fun, one-minute sharing activity)

    Location

    PNC Center
    755 W. Big Beaver Road, Suite 475
    Troy, MI 48084

    Reserve your spot here

Upcoming Workshops

(lovingly), You Need to Calm Down

A monthly training series designed to help therapists recognize their own activation in real time and learn how to stay grounded, clear, and clinically effective under stress.

Less urgency. More presence. Better therapy.

Regulating Ourselves in the Therapy Room ~ June 5th, 2026, 1:00PM. -2:30PM Regulating Ourselves in the Therapy Room ~ June 5th, 2026, 1:00PM. -2:30PM
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Regulating Ourselves in the Therapy Room ~ June 5th, 2026, 1:00PM. -2:30PM
$45.00

Basics of therapist regulation and reflexive responses

Therapists are often taught how to regulate others, but not how to notice their own urgency when sessions feel tense, uncertain, or high-stakes. This introductory workshop focuses on fixing, rescuing, over-explaining, and the subtle ways therapist anxiety can interfere with treatment progress.

You’ll learn to:

  • recognize signs of therapist activation

  • identify default responses under stress

  • reduce rescuing and over-functioning

  • stay present without rushing to solve

  • use motivational interviewing spirit to support autonomy

When You Feel Responsible for the Outcome When You Feel Responsible for the Outcome
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When You Feel Responsible for the Outcome
$45.00

Managing urgency, pressure, and fear of getting it wrong

Many therapists carry a quiet belief that if therapy is not progressing, they are failing. This workshop explores how feeling responsible for the outcome increases urgency, rescuing, and burnout.

In this Workshop, you’ll learn to:

  • recognize outcome-driven urgency

  • reduce rescuing and over-functioning

  • stay in role during difficult treatment

  • tolerate uncertainty in the process

  • support change without controlling it

Each workshop includes:

  • practical teaching

  • reflection and self-assessment

  • case-based application

  • language shifts and clinical examples

  • discussion focused on sustainable, role-consistent practice

Format: 90-minute workshop
Location: In person at Autana Family Therapy Center
Address: PNC Center, 755 W. Big Beaver Rd., Suite 475, Troy, Michigan 48084
Fee: $45 per workshop

Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Chronic Activation Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Chronic Activation
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Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Chronic Activation
$45.00

Understanding the cost of staying on high alert

Burnout rarely starts with paperwork alone. It starts in the nervous system — session after session of urgency, emotional labor, and unresolved activation. This workshop focuses on understanding the cumulative cost and building more sustainable practice patterns.

You’ll learn to:

  • recognize signs of nervous system overload

  • understand how burnout develops

  • reduce constant urgency

  • stay present without over-giving

  • build sustainable clinical habits

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