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Business 101 for Ethical Clinicians: Starting a Private Practice

· July 13, 2026 ·

Starting a private practice can feel both exciting and overwhelming—especially for clinicians who want to build a business that aligns with their ethics, values, and commitment to social impact. This 4-session series is designed for helping professionals who are ready to explore entrepreneurship through a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and advocacy-centered lens.

Participants will gain a foundational understanding of the essential legal, ethical, financial, and operational steps involved in launching and sustaining a private practice. The workshop will examine key business decisions, including insurance-based versus private-pay models, marketing strategies, and client engagement practices, while centering accessibility, equity, and community care.

In addition to practical business tools, attendees will explore the emotional and relational aspects of entrepreneurship, including common limiting beliefs around money, visibility, and professional worth. Through reflection, discussion, and applied planning activities, participants will begin developing a values-driven business and marketing plan that supports both professional sustainability and meaningful community impact.

Whether you are considering private practice for the first time or preparing to take the next step toward launch, this workshop offers an empowering introduction to building a practice that is ethical, sustainable, and aligned with your mission as a clinician.

Session Topics Include:
– Business 101: Building the Foundation
– Insurance vs. Private Pay: Ethics, Access, and Autonomy
– Money Mindset and the Therapist’s Relationship with Abundance
– Authentic Marketing and Client Relationships, Marketing with Integrity and Purpose

Session Information:
Four (90 minute) Bi-weekly sessions on Thursdays:
Thursday, Sept. 17th, 2026
Thursday, Oct. 1st, 2026
Thursday, Oct. 15th, 2026
Thursday, Oct. 29th, 2026

Learning Goals

Describe how entrepreneurship and private practice can serve as advocacy and social change tools.
Identify the legal, ethical, and financial steps to establish and sustain a private practice.
Compare insurance-based and private-pay models from accessibility, ethical, and financial perspectives.
Apply trauma-informed and culturally responsive approaches to business building and client engagement.
Reframe limiting money beliefs to promote professional sustainability and empowerment.
Develop a business and marketing plan that reflects advocacy, ethics, and community impact.

Instructor

Cecily Moore

PhD, LPC-MHSP, LMHC

Dr. Moore is a faculty member in the AUNE counseling department. Currently, Dr. Moore lives in Fort Walton Beach, Florida, with her spouse and two children. Dr. Moore is a military spouse and owns an online counseling practice working with Black professional mothers. Dr. Moore specializes in addressing the SBW narrative, depression, career-related stressors, career trauma, and perinatal mental health concerns. Dr. Moore is trained in EMDR, play therapy, solution-focused therapy, and perinatal mental health treatment protocols. Dr. Moore loves to read and considers herself a lifelong learner.

(CE Credit) Shifting the Caregiving Conversation in the US Through Inclusion (In partnership with Blue Star Families)

· July 13, 2026 ·

Participants of Melinda Kavanaugh’s Shifting the Caregiving Conversation in the US Through Inclusion Keynote can register on 7/13/2026 for an NBCC/CAMFT approved CE credit certificate through Antioch University for 1 CE credit. CE certificates will be issued only to participants whom have attended in full, filled out the attendance sheet, and completed the workshop evaluation. Certificates will be issued when attendance is verified. Please allow time to processing.

Directions:

Attend event. Please check your email for registration confirmation and zoom link.
Fill out attendance sheet.
Complete workshop evaluation.
Register for CE credit through this page. | $35 |

For questions, please reach out to [email protected].

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Tarot Journaling: The Wheel of Fortune

· May 20, 2026 ·

A journaling and writing inspiration workshop. In this six-week workshop, we explore how The Wheel of Fortune, Major Arcanum X, symbolizes ways we view, manifest, and experience the state of thriving.

The four Minor Arcana Tens in the tarot deck offer a chance to reflect on the questions about how we’ve experienced The Wheel of Fortune in the past and the opportunities to deepen our engagement heading into the present and future:

How do we celebrate the peak joys and wonders of the heart with family and community? (Ten of Cups)

How do we connect to our wealth of ancestral legacy and prosperity? (Ten of Disks)

How do we recognize when a challenge has run its course and there’s nothing left to do but let go? (Ten of Swords)

How do we tap into universal and community life force for help when we’ve drained our own? (Ten of Wands)

These are the kinds of in-depth questions we will address in writing and discussion. You will learn a method for tarot journaling and a handful of other simple tools designed to help you begin and deepen your relationship to tarot. You’ll have the optional opportunity to create a personal tarot card using your own personal symbols that resonate for you. No prior experience with the tarot or with art-making is necessary. Tarot images from a variety of decks will be provided, though you are welcome to work with your own deck of choice.

Learning Goals

Develop a personal tarot journaling practice
Interpret and integrate the symbolic lessons of the Wheel of Fortune and the Four Tens.
Create a personalized symbolic tarot card as a tool for self-expression

Instructor

Tania Pryputniewicz

Tania is a heart-centered writing teacher, poet, and tarot muse passionate about cross-pollination and hybrid forms from poetry movies to tarot haiku. Once trapped in a loveless romance in her early twenties as an undergraduate English Major, Tania found a tarot deck in a bookshelf that saved her soul and set her feet firmly on the Royal Road. She brings over twenty-five years as a writing teacher and practicing tarot reader to her tarot-inspired writing classes.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Tania is the author of the poetry collection, November Butterfly (Saddle Road Press, 2014), the tarot workbook, Heart’s Compass Tarot (Two Fine Crows Books, 2021), and a memoir-in-poems, The Fool in the Corn (Saddle Road Press, 2022).

Recent poems appeared in America, We Call Your Name: Poems of Resistance and Resilience (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2018), NILVX: A Book of Magic (Tarot Series), The Rockvale Review and at SWWIM online. She teaches tarot journaling and poetry at San Diego Writers, Ink and lives in Coronado with her husband, three children, one blue-eyed Siberian Husky and a formerly feral feline named Luna. Her on-line home is: www.taniapryputniewicz.com

Assessing Suicide & Safety Risk in Military Veterans: Best Practices

· May 18, 2026 ·

This workshop equips clinical mental health counselors with the knowledge and tools to conduct effective risk assessments through a military- and veteran-specific lens. Participants will gain a deeper appreciation and understanding of military culture, exploring how this population’s unique strengths and experiences intersect with potential clinical risk factors. Drawing from both lived military experience and research on military-veteran mental health, this session challenges traditional assumptions and expands perspectives on working with veterans and their families.

Through case examples and applied learning, counselors will enhance their ability to identify and assess military-specific risk factors, apply evidence-based assessment tools, and develop culturally responsive safety plans that align with veterans’ values and help-seeking patterns.

Learning Goals

Identify and assess military-specific risk factors
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to identify at least 5 unique risk factors common to military-veteran populations
(such as combat exposure, moral injury, transition stress, and access to firearms) and integrate these factors into comprehensive
suicide and violence risk assessments.
Apply evidence-based risk assessment tools adapted for veteran populations
Participants will be able to select and administer at least 2 validated risk assessment instruments appropriate for military-veteran
clients (such as the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale or veteran-specific screening tools) and interpret results within the context
of military culture and experience.
Develop culturally responsive safety planning and intervention strategies
Participants will be able to create tailored safety plans and risk management interventions that account for military values, veteran
help-seeking behaviors, and available veteran-specific resources (including VA services, veteran peer support, and crisis lines), while
addressing barriers to care unique to this population.

Instructor

Dr. David Gosling

PhD, LPC (VA, WI), NCC

Dr. David Gosling is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Assistant Professor and the Director of Military Counseling in the counseling program at William & Mary’s School of Education. David previously served as a core faculty member in the Counseling, Psychology, and Therapy Department at Antioch University, where he was the co-founder and director of the Military, Veterans & Families (MVF) Counseling Certificate, as well as the Military Connected Student Support Liaison for Antioch University’s five nationwide campuses.

David is a proud alum of William & Mary’s Counselor Education and Supervision program, a former Airborne Ranger-qualified Infantry Officer in the U.S. Army and combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom 06-08, the Honor Graduate of the 2009 Rhode Island State Police Academy and the Distinguished Military Graduate of the University of Colorado’s Army ROTC program in 2004. His other professional pursuits beyond the military, law enforcement and counselor education have included working as an Outward Bound wilderness guide for troubled teens, operating an Islamic nonprofit farm and retreat center and working in veterans advocacy on Capitol Hill.

Trauma Informed Creative Arts Therapy Program (CE Credit Registration)

· May 7, 2026 ·

Participants of Lucy Barbera’s Trauma-Informed Creative Art Therapy Workshop Program can register on this webpage for an NBCC, CAMFT approved CE credit certificate through Antioch University for 30 CE credits.

Click here for more information and to register for the full program.

“Trauma is perhaps the most avoided, ignored, belittled, denied, misunderstood, and untreated cause of human suffering.”
– Peter Levine, PhD

DATES:
September 19th, October 10th & 17th, November 7th & 21st, and December 12th, 2026
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm ET (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm lunch break) Program participants must complete 30 hours to receive certificate.

HYBRID Facilitation: LIVE in PERSON in Kingston, NY and simultaneously over ZOOM

This unique program was designed to assist helping professionals in treating complex trauma, using a multi-modal creative arts approach for integration and healing. The program provides helping professionals instruction on HOW to immediately apply creative methods, within the context of their practice with diverse populations and WHEN to utilize the Creative Arts Therapies when working with individuals and/or groups, using the following modalities: visual arts, creative writing, movement, music, and the dramatic arts, safely without re-traumatization, within the Window of Time-Tolerance-Reconsolidation.

The TRAUMA-INFORMED Creative Arts Therapy program is open to mental health professionals, human-service providers, teaching artists, and educators who want to understand the neuroscience of trauma and the vital role the creative arts therapies play in mitigating the negative effects of trauma.

WHAT: The Trauma- Informed Creative Arts Therapy Program consists of 30 Training hours and 6 (built-in hours for one make-up day, should that be necessary for any reason.

WHERE: This Program will be conducted face-to-face in the Creative Arts Therapy Studio, in Kingston, New York & via ZOOM simultaneously!

PRICE:
Training | Click here to register
Payment can be made in 2 installments: one half to hold your space and the second half is due on the first day of the program).
Cost includes: All ART SUPPLIES (mailed to you if you are not attending in person)

CE Credits through Antioch University | $35 | Click “Add to Cart” on this page. Registration for CE credits will remain open until Sunday, December 13th, 2026.
If you have already registered for the training, you can request a Continuing Education certificate through Antioch University by clicking “Add to Cart” on this page.

Instructor

Lucy Barbera

PhD, LCAT

Lucy Barbera, PhD, LCAT, is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist, whose clinical work spans the medical, psychiatric, and special education settings, as a Creative Arts Therapist, Art Teacher, and Special Education Principal. For over twenty years, Dr. Barbera has served on the faculty of The Humanistic Multicultural Education Graduate Program, at SUNY, New Paltz, where she developed and taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Expressive Arts Therapy and Expressive Arts Leadership & Social Justice. Dr. Barbera is the Founder of the Trauma-Informed Creative Arts Therapy Certificate Program, at U Albany’s School of Social Welfare and an Associate Faculty Member of The Person-Centered Expressive Arts Therapy Program, founded by Dr. Natalie Rogers. Dr. Barbera lectures widely on the healing power of the arts, and curates exhibitions of patient/client expressive art, bringing awareness of the healing power of the arts to the community. Dr. Barbera maintains a private practice in Creative Arts Therapy, using a trauma-informed approach to creative arts therapies.