SickKids CCMH Learning Institute

04/17/2026

When sessions are limited, every conversation matters.

Join Cleo Haber, BSW, RSW, MSW, June 4 and 5 for a workshop on integrating evidence-informed practices into time-limited psychotherapy and counselling.

Designed for clinicians in community-based settings, this training will explore how to make the most of limited client sessions using practical strategies drawn from short-term trauma-informed treatment, CBT, and IPT.

Participants will learn to:
▪️ Structure the beginning, middle, and end phases of treatment
▪️ Apply common principles of psychotherapy effectiveness
▪️ Use a model for short-term trauma-informed treatment
▪️ Integrate CBT and IPT interventions into time-limited care

🔗 https://cvent.me/VagqA8
🏷️ Save 26% with code JUN26

04/16/2026

Guilt and shame are often central to trauma—and too important to leave unaddressed.

This training will examine how unresolved guilt and shame can maintain trauma symptoms and interfere with healing. Participants will explore how to define and differentiate these emotions, understand their subtypes, and organize clinical conversations that help clients face the unspoken needs and dilemmas driving their experience.

Participants will learn about:
7 types of guilt
How to process conversations when:
▪️ client feels guilty but is not guilty
▪️ client has a distorted view of their role in a negative experience
▪️client is guilty
7 types of shame
How to process passing through shame and a shame-prone identity
▪️Pinpoint the source of a shame-prone identity
▪️See the connection between dissociation and shame
▪️Change shame-prone patterns

🔗https://cvent.me/NMRWQY
🏷️Save 26% with code JUN26

04/15/2026

Effective CBT with children starts with strong clinical foundations.

Join Dr. Kathryn Walker and Dr. Daniel Chorney for a four-day certificate program designed for mental health professionals beginning their CBT journey or looking to strengthen core skills in child-focused practice.

Build practical knowledge in:
▪️ CBT fundamentals, goal setting, and case formulation
▪️ Therapeutic alliance and rapport with children
▪️ Cognitive strategies and restructuring
▪️ Emotional literacy, body cues, and regulation strategies
▪️ Behavioural strategies, including exposure and behavioural activation

This program will help participants build a solid foundation in CBT principles and techniques and apply them with children and adolescents in real-world settings.

June 4, 11, 18 and 25, 2026
🔗 https://cvent.me/GaRX9a

🏷️ Save 26% with code JUN26

04/14/2026

Attachment shapes how clients relate, cope, and heal.

Join Devra Igra, MSW, RSW, for a two-part training, June 1 and 2 (10 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET), exploring how early attachment experiences continue to influence adult relationships, self-perception, and mental health.

Learn how to assess adult attachment categories, understand the impact of early childhood attachment experiences on personality development, and apply an attachment-focused model of therapy to support therapeutic change.

Participants will learn to:
▪️ Recognize adult attachment categories
▪️ Assess adult attachment using patterns of behaviour
▪️ Explore a modified form of the adult attachment interview
▪️ Use attachment as a paradigm for understanding mental health diagnoses
▪️ Recognize the adult brain and attachment
▪️ Apply a model of attachment-focused therapy for adults
▪️ Make attachment the paradigm for therapeutic change

This training also invites therapists to reflect on their own attachment style and its importance in the reparative process of therapy.

🔗 Register here: https://cvent.me/Ey5BX8
🏷️ Save 26% with code JUN26

04/13/2026

🙏Thank you to everyone who joined us today for day one of the Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1.

We are grateful to Natalie Zlodre Choy for leading this six-day certification program and for introducing learners to trauma, its impacts, and trauma-informed approaches to care.

We look forward to welcoming everyone back as the program continues.

04/13/2026

We are thrilled to welcome Liana Lowenstein: Mental Health Professional & Family Therapeutic Resources back again this May to present this vital workshop.
Join us May 4, 2026 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET as Liana shares strategies and techniques to build positive therapeutic rapport and engage children and teens in therapy.
🔗https://cvent.me/bWlReD

Attend this practical hand-on webinar: https://cvent.me/bWlReD

04/10/2026

🙏 Thank you to everyone who joined us today for day one of Certificate in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) level 1: Foundational CBT training.

We are grateful to Dr. Nili Benazon for leading an engaging start to this certificate program.

We are honoured to support our learners in building foundational CBT knowledge and skills, and we look forward to welcoming everyone back as the program continues.

04/10/2026

🙏 Thank you to everyone who joined us today for Emotion dysregulation in the family: Clinical interventions for family members of youth with emotion dysregulation.

Thank you to Adina Hauser, MSW, RSW, for leading a thoughtful and practice-focused training on supporting family members navigating chronic relationship challenges related to emotion dysregulation.

04/10/2026

Bring emotion-focused chair-work into your clinical practice.

Join Adele LaFrance, PhD, C.Psych., for an introductory, experiential workshop exploring simple theory and efficient emotion-focused interventions that clinicians can integrate into individual therapy.

Participants will have opportunities to engage with theory experientially, observe interventions in action through video demonstration, and receive resources and scripts to support integration into practice. No prior training is required.

Learn to:
▪️Apply emotion-focused interventions in individual therapy
▪️Describe theories for the development of self-critical and self-interruption processes
▪️Explain emotion-focused change mechanisms

June 3, 2026 | 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET | 6 CE hours

Reserve your spot for this experiential workshop introducing emotion-focused chair-work scripts for individual therapy.
🔗 https://cvent.me/4DQOmw
🏷️ Save 26% with code JUN26

04/09/2026

🎉 Congratulations to Kay C. — winner of our April Share-to-Win contest!

Kay will be joining our Certificate in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) level 1: Foundational CBT training

A big thank you to everyone who participated.

📢 Stay tuned for more opportunities to win a spot in one of our upcoming trainings!

04/08/2026

Trauma-informed care requires reflection, insight, and practical tools.

Join us for Trauma-Informed Practice: A Strength-Based and Social Justice Approach for Supporting Diverse Communities, led by Karine Silverwoman, MSW, RSW.

This interactive training explores trauma, vicarious trauma, and trauma-informed care through social justice and strength-based lenses, helping professionals build confidence in their work with individuals and communities impacted by trauma.

Participants will learn to:

▪️ Understand how trauma impacts the brain, body, and nervous system
▪️ Examine connections between trauma, oppression, and systemic inequities
▪️ De-pathologize trauma through a strength-based framework
▪️ Apply trauma-informed strategies when working with diverse communities
▪️ Reflect on their own experiences and responses when supporting trauma-affected clients

This session includes reflection, discussion, and practical tools to support professionals, teams, and communities affected by trauma.

April 24, 2026 | 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. ET | 6 CE hours
🔗 https://cvent.me/VGkd1n
🏷️ Save 26% with code APR26

04/07/2026

Turn insight into practice with training designed to support real-world mental health care.

From trauma-informed practice and trauma counselling to grief, ACT, ADHD in motherhood, IPT, and working with self-harm in teenagers, our latest newsletter features practical, clinician-focused training to support children, youth, adults, and families across diverse needs.

🏷️ Save 26% with early access pricing
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