Blankenship Counseling Services

08/27/2025

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🚨IT'S NOT TOO LATE! 🚨

Teaching Neurodivergent-Friendly DBT Skills to Clients with ADHD and Autism
📅 Date: Wednesday, August 27th
🕓 Time: 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM EST
📍 Location: Virtual
🎤 Facilitator: Stacy Blankenship, LCSW
💲 45

Join us for a dynamic and validating virtual workshop focused on adapting Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills for neurodivergent individuals. Facilitated by Stacy Blankenship, LCSW, this 90-minute training explores how traditional DBT tools like emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and mindfulness can be adjusted to be more inclusive, accessible, and effective for those with ADHD, Autism, sensory sensitivities, and other neurodivergent identities.

We’ll explore:
The unique experiences and needs of neurodivergent individuals
Challenges with traditional DBT approaches
Neurodivergent-affirming strategies for skill-building
Practical, strengths-based adaptations of core DBT skills

Agenda:
Go over the basics of skills modules in DBT
Discuss an overview of neurodiversity
Develop an ability to teach some neurodivergent-friendly DBT skills to clients in session

🎓 1.5 CE credits available for Social Workers; LMHC certificate of completion provided.
💻 Online format
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08/04/2025

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NEW TRAININGS JUST POSTED!

Including Lunch and Learns and Self-Paced Workshops!

Looking for CEU's at a time convenient for you? Look no further!

Calm and Focused Therapy is now offering numerous chances to get a couple of CEU hours during standard lunch hours OR on your own time, with interactive online opportunities!

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08/04/2025

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Amazing training!!!

🚨 It’s Back! 🚨
Due to high demand, we’re offering “What’s Wrong With Her?” Understanding Mom Rage in Clinical Practice again — and registration is officially open!

Presented by Jenna Desrosiers, MSW, LCSW, PMH-C, this essential training gives clinicians the tools to recognize, explore, and treat the complex and often stigmatized experience of Mom Rage.

🔍 In this training, you’ll gain:
🧠 A deeper understanding of the roots of maternal anger
📊 Assessment tools and evidence-based interventions
🤝 Insight into cultural and systemic contributors
💬 Strategies to help clients process anger without shame

📅 Don’t miss your chance to join this important conversation.
👉 Register here: https://tinyurl.com/CFTMomRage
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This is for the professionals who want to meet mothers where they are — with compassion, curiosity, and clinical confidence.

07/09/2025

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🦄MEET THE GENDER UNICORN

The Gender Unicorn is a Simple Visual Displaying these aspects: identity (who we are) and expression (how we show up).

Gender identity and expression, attraction, and s*x assigned at birth are all different parts of who we are—understanding the difference matters.

Everyone has an identity And Everyone deserves the space to explore it.

Need to Chat With Someone About YOUR Identity?

DM us today to get Calm and Focused.

06/23/2025

Come hang out with us in Fuquay-Varina this Saturday and grab some cool swag as well! Some made by yours truly. 🙂

04/12/2025

Hey y’all! Still time to sign up for my training. Learn how to implement DBT skills in any type of therapeutic setting to help clients walk away with tangible, practical and useful skills to manage every type of situation. Sign up for one or all! We will have fun and engage with one another for an hour and a half of continuing education.