Continuing Education Trainings for Local Therapists

Shine a Light Counseling Center is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs,LCSWs, and LPCCs. Please sign up on our email list to receive information on classes and workshops designed to help you broaden or deepen your therapeutic skill set. Also let us know if you have a workshop you would like to offer. We need presenters for in-service trainings to our eager-to-learn staff, as well as workshops valuable to the local therapist community.

Hakomi Character Strategies

Learning Clinicial Tools and Somatic Practices for working with patterns of early human development and character formation

with Julie Murphy, LMFT

Saturday April 18th, 2026  10 am-4 pm

Santa Cruz, CA

Previous CEU Topics:

Therapy with Teens Training
Jessica Zover LMFT

Breathwork Emergence Training
Dylan Brody

Internal Family Systems
Jane Farrar

Essentials of Ericksonian Hypnosis
Lindasue Marshall

Therapy with Teens: Navigating Parental Involvement
Jessica Zovar

Parent Education Gems
Tim Hartnett

Use of Metaphor in Therapy
Lindasue Marshall

Eating Disorders 101
Jenn Farley

Brief Solution-Focused Therapy,
Lindasue Marshall

The Foundation of Empathy in Therapy,
Tim Hartnett

Experiential Expressive Arts Therapy
Jennifer Alexander

Ethics & Boundaries in Psychotherapy
Lisa Herendeen

Introduction to Experiential Play Therapy
Alison Harre

Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions
Jessica Zovar

Gender Diversity Basics
Anthony Ross 

Effective Therapy with Reactive Couples, Melissa Fritchle 

Attachment-Based Couples Therapy,
Tim Hartnett

Co-Parent Counseling & Mediation
Tim Hartnett

Mindfulness Interventions for Trauma
Melissa Fritchle

Facilitating Communication with NVC
Tim Hartnett

Supporting Healthy Sexual Development in Children & Teens
Melissa Fritchle

Sexual Desire Discrepancy & Incompatibility in Couples Therapy
Melissa Fritchle

Fundamentals of Supervision,
Mark Zalona

Starting a Private Practice,
Julia Pinsky

Relationship Repair After Infidelity
Melissa Fritchle

Being with Our Client’s Suffering While in Our Own
Melissa Fritchle