Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Eduardo Viezca, PhD, LCSW is a therapist, educator, and scholar whose work integrates depth psychology, decolonial studies, and culturally responsive mental health care. He serves as an affiliate and instructor at the Denver Family Institute and as an adjunct professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where he teaches graduate-level courses on Jungian psychology, decoloniality, and systemic therapy. His research and writing focus on liberatory approaches to psychotherapy, including Jotería psychologies and arts-based, participatory methods, and he regularly presents on identity, culture, and healing in academic and clinical spaces.

Dr. Viezca specializes in working with queer, trans, neurodivergent, and BIPOC individuals, couples, and families. His approach is relational, trauma-informed, and culturally affirming, integrating somatic, creative, and community-based practices to support meaningful change. A bilingual (Spanish-English) clinician, he is committed to creating spaces where clients can explore identity, relationships, and personal transformation in ways that honor their lived experiences.

This Train & Gain offers a historical overview of the past 200 years of American mental health discourse, focusing on how ideas about gender, sexuality, race, and childhood behavior have been constructed and challenged over time. Participants will explore how social, cultural, and political forces have shaped dominant understandings of normality and pathology. We will examine key moments in which these shifting perceptions influenced clinical frameworks, including revisions to the DSM over time. The role of social movements in challenging pathologizing narratives and advancing more inclusive understandings of human development and identity will also be explored. By placing systemic family therapy within this broader historical context, participants will be able to deepen their ability to think intersectionally and link social movements with clinical practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify key historical moments that shaped U.S. mental health discourse related to gender, sexuality, race, and childhood behavior.

2. Describe how social movements influenced changes in psychiatric diagnosis, including shifts in the DSM related to sexuality.

3. Apply historical insight to deepen intersectional awareness in contemporary marriage and family therapy practice.

Please note that many regulatory boards accept AAMFT course attendance to fulfill CE requirements, but do not have a pre-approval process. If in doubt, check with the board.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Dr. Priyanka Rao is a Licensed Psychologist and the founder of Asha Mental Health, a neurodiversity affirming therapy and assessment practice in Minneapolis. She specializes in working with late-diagnosed ADHD and autistic adults, with a clinical emphasis on trauma, identity development, and the lifelong impact of masking and chronic self-blame. Dr. Rao is known for her strengths-based, culturally responsive approach that helps clients rewrite internalized narratives and develop sustainable, shame-free systems that reflect how their brains work. In addition to her clinical practice, she leads Asha Coaching & Consulting, where she supports ADHD professionals and entrepreneurs in building executive function skills and creating work lives aligned with their neurodivergent wiring. Dr. Rao brings both lived experience and deep clinical expertise to her work, making her a trusted voice in adult ADHD, neurodiversity, and compassionate behavior change.

Adult ADHD is often misunderstood in clinical practice, leading many clients to be overlooked, misdiagnosed, or unsupported until well into adulthood. This presentation reframes ADHD through a neurodiversity affirming lens and equips therapists with evidence-informed strategies to recognize diverse presentations and support clients before and after diagnosis. We will address the shame, trauma, and identity shifts common among late-diagnosed adults and demonstrate how targeted psychoeducation can dramatically improve insight and functioning. Attendees will leave with concrete tools they can implement immediately in therapy, including energy mapping, interest-based planning, externalized executive function supports, and flexible habit-building strategies.

Learning Objectives
1. Describe key principles of a neurodiversity affirming approach to adult ADHD and differentiate this framework from deficit-based models.

2. Identify common but underrecognized ADHD presentations in adults, particularly among women, BIPOC clients, and high-achieving individuals.

3. Explain the emotional and psychological impact of late ADHD diagnosis, including shame, grief, trauma responses, and identity shifts.

4. Apply relationship-based strategies to support clients experiencing rejection sensitivity dysphoria and internalized narratives shaped by years of masking.

5. Implement at least three practical, evidence-informed tools (such as interest-based planning, energy mapping, and externalized executive function supports) to help clients improve daily functioning and reduce overwhelm.

Please note that many regulatory boards accept AAMFT course attendance to fulfill CE requirements, but do not have a pre-approval process. If in doubt, check with the board.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby, PhD, LMFT, BCC, is a clinical psychologist, licensed marriage and family therapist, board-certified coach, AAMFT-approved clinical supervisor, founder of Growing Self Counseling & Coaching, founder of the first NBCC-accredited coach credentialing program exclusively for therapists, and the host of the Love, Happiness and Success for Therapists Podcast.

This training provides a clear, essential breakdown of the legal, ethical, and practical differences between therapy and coaching for licensed mental health professionals. You'll learn why coaching is considered an unregulated field, why therapists are held to a different standard than self-appointed coaches, and how those differences create unique risks for clinicians who offer coaching without the proper structure.

The workshop walks you through how to distinguish therapy from coaching, how to appropriately screen clients for coaching services, and the common mistakes that lead to licensing board complaints. You’ll leave with a clear action plan to protect your license, serve clients ethically, and confidently integrate coaching into your practice—while staying safely within scope.

1. Crystal clarity on the differences between coaching and therapy.

2. How to screen clients for coaching appropriateness

3. The mistakes therapists make that get them in trouble

4. A clear action plan to protect yourself and your clients

Please note that many regulatory boards accept AAMFT course attendance to fulfill CE requirements, but do not have a pre-approval process. If in doubt, check with the board.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

After the RMFTN conference on 10/11, we heard your feedback that so many of you are running solo practices, and that your needs look very different from those in group settings. We want this upcoming Train & Gain to reflect that.

We’ve created a short survey so we can hear directly from you about the challenges coming up in your work now and what you see ahead. Your answers will guide our next session and help us bring you the most relevant, supportive content possible with a reprised and tailored presentation from James Childress, CPA.

Please take a moment to complete this quick survey, your input directly shapes this upcoming session.

We appreciate your voice and look forward to supporting you.

Please note that many regulatory boards accept AAMFT course attendance to fulfill CE requirements, but do not have a pre-approval process. If in doubt, check with the board.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Join State Representative Rebekah Stewart, the first board-certified music therapist elected to a State Legislature in the US, to provide a unique perspective to the legislative process, highlighted legislation from the 2025 session, and tips on being an effective clinician advocate. 

Rebekah has dedicated her life to fighting for people who continually fall through the cracks–both as a music therapist and healthcare advocate, and now as a Lakewood City Councilor.

Objectives: 

1. Participants will become familiar with important legislation that affects clinicians in the state of Colorado

2. Participants will become familiar with important legislation that affects populations served by mental health providers

2. Participants will identify 2 ways they can use their experience as clinicians to become effective advocates

Please note that many regulatory boards accept AAMFT course attendance to fulfill CE requirements, but do not have a pre-approval process. If in doubt, check with the board.

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Rosemary A. Leone, LMFT was often referred to as the “Encyclopedia of Systemic Theory” at Regis University, where she graduated from her MMFT program in 2021. She has been applauded for her unique application of systemic theory in ways that result in specific, desired, second-order change in her clients. Diving deep into systemic theory and the main influencers of such, has allowed her to identify the truly transformative principles in each. Her favorite theories to present on include Ambiguous Loss Theory, and Strategic Family Therapy.

As MFT’s, we are tempted to recycle the major therapies again and again in our practice, such as EFT, Gottman, and Bowen informed intervention. Sometimes in doing so, other proven, yet less popular techniques by other greats (Boszormenyi-Nagy, Michael White, and Rollo May) get overlooked despite their palpable abilities to create lasting and meaningful transformation. If your usual therapy habits are feeling stale, this “basics reimagined” presentation is for you.

Learning Objectives

1. Define the unique principles of Contextual Family Therapy, Reflecting Teams, and Existential Therapy that set them apart.

2. Specific, systemically centered ways to expand the ways you assess in couples or family therapy, based on Contextual Family Therapy

3. How Contextual Family Therapy can enhance feelings of understanding between your clients and help you join as a clinician.

4. How Existential Questions can enhance transformative outcomes, when combined with a systemic therapy you already use. In other words, create higher meaning around your usual behavior prescriptions to increase chances of client follow-through.

5. Why Reflecting Teams were invented, how their use can be uniquely beneficial for your clients, and how to get involved in one.

Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for our continuing education Train & Gain webinar series.

[60-minute presentation eligible for 1 CEU then an optional, 30-minute Q&A to follow]

Every 2nd Friday of the month, we host a 50-minute, virtual meet-up, designed to provide opportunities for support, connection, and conversation. Some months we'll have a theme, and others will be open-ended to provide room for any field-related discussions or case consultations.

Susan Sandoval has been a grant writer for seven years, beginning her journey at a nonprofit family center in her rural hometown of Burlington, CO. What started as a practical need for employment soon grew into a passion for securing funding to support vital community programs. Over time, Susan transitioned to pursuing a career in addiction counseling, blending her grant writing expertise with her dedication to making a difference in the lives of individuals and families affected by addiction.

The presentation, GET GRANTS – SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS, is an informative guide to navigating the grant process, divided into four essential sections:

1. Grant Funding: This section explores the basics of grant funding, including the current economic landscape, variations in foundation types, and the different categories of grants available. It provides insights into the diverse sources of funding and how to identify the best fit for specific needs.

2. Grant Writing Process: This part focuses on preparation and emphasizes the importance of research to align goals with funder priorities, reflection to refine objectives, and crafting a compelling case for support that resonates with potential funders.

3. Grant Application: This segment outlines the critical components of a successful application, including developing a clear narrative, assembling essential attachments, and writing a professional cover letter and summary. It also highlights best practices for presenting a polished and persuasive proposal.

4. Next Steps & Tips for Success: The final section offers strategies for post-application success, such as effective planning and grant management, and emphasizes the importance of relationship-building with funders to establish long-term partnerships.

Each session is designed to equip participants with practical skills and strategies to secure grants and achieve lasting success in their funding efforts

Join us on the 3rd Thursday of each month for our continuing education Train & Gain webinar series.

[60-minute presentation eligible for 1 CEU then an optional, 30-minute Q&A to follow]