Sally is a nationally-recognized speaker and trainer and provides continuing education on a number of mental health topics. She is conversational and pragmatic in her speaking style.
Speaking
To inquire about speaking topics, schedule a talk for your group or for a consultation, text, call, or email Sally: 816-226-8211, sallykingconsulting@gmail.com
Mental Health, Professional CEU, and Senior Community Topics include:
Diagnosis & Treatment
- An Introduction to Motivational Interviewing for Difficult Clients
- Deciphering the 3 Ds in Older Adult Mental Health — Depression, Delirium, and Dementia
- The Personal and Familial Impact of Cancer — Diagnostically and Emotionally
- Diagnosing Depression in Seniors with the DSM 5TR – What Every Professional in Aging Should Know
- An Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Caregiving Issues
- A Real-World look at the Concepts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Overcoming Life’s Challenges
- Beyond Stinkin’ Thinkin’ – An Introduction to Mindfulness-Based Mental Health Interventions
- Generational addiction – Older Adult Substance Abuse and Its Emotional, Physical, and Mental Toll
- Women and Mood Across the Lifespan — A Biopsychosocial Look at Pathology vs. Normal
- A Look at Loss as We Age – The Latest Research on Getting Through Grief
- An Intro to Hoarding Behaviors and Interventions
- When Grief Turns into Depression – How the DSM 5TR Differentiates the Two and Helping Seniors Cope with Loss
- Mental Illness 101 – How to Manage and Intervene with Troubled Patients and Their Families
- Personality vs. Pathology — Using the Enneagram to Understand Temperament and Personality Disorders
- The Origin of Emotion — Brain Science That’s Changing our View of One’s Emotional Blueprint and How to Reconcile this with the DSM 5
- A Look at PTSD and Developmental Trauma Through a Trauma-Informed Treatment Perspective
- Lowering Suicide Risk in Older Adult Clients — The Latest Stats, Tools, and Protective Factors
- Older Adult Anxiety and Its Relationship to Sleep and Incontinence Issues
- Integrating Meditation and Practical Mindfulness into Your Role as a Therapist
Ethics
- How to Advocate for Advanced Planning
- Love, Sex and Aging – Understanding the Relational Needs of Older Adults and How to Better Advocate
- Engaging Ethically in Clinical Settings – Boundaries, Self-care, and Liability issues with Clients
- Seniors and Ethics – Advocacy Challenges When Working with Depressed Older Adults
- An Introduction to the Diagnostic, Treatment, and Ethical Considerations of Working with Traumatized Older Adults
- Elder Justice – Advocacy Challenges When Working with Seniors who are isolated and institutionalized
- Advocating for A Good Death — The Ethics of Dispelling Funeral, Embalming, and End of Life Myths for Seniors and their Loved Ones
- Personal and Professional Ethics and Boundaries in the Age of Smart Phones – How Social Workers can Avoid Burnout and achieve balance When You’re always “on”
Suicide
- Suicide Survivorship: How to Help & Understand Those Left Behind
- Lowering Suicide Risk in Older Adult Clients — The Latest Stats, Tools, and Protective Factors
- Preventing Suicide — How to Assess Accurately and Cultivate Resiliency in High Risk Populations
Cultural Competency & Bias
- Love, Sex and Aging – Understanding Healthcare’s Cultural bias and How to Better Advocate
- Ageism in America – Understanding our Youth obsessed culture and How to End Bias in Healthcare
Mental Health & Aging
- The Cognitive and Psychological Changes Associated with Aging
- Exploring Mindfulness Practices in Counseling and Coaching
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality- What to Look for When Re-entering a Faith Community
- Playing Nice – Strategies for Managing Bullying in Senior Communities
- Calm Through the Storm — Coping Well Through a Pandemic
- Practical Mindfulness in Crisis
- Five Strategies for Caregivers to cope with weariness, worry, and loss
- An Introduction to the Trauma-Informed Care Movement — How Agencies and Communities Can Better Serve Those Who Struggle
- The Cost for Caring for Others — An Evidenced-based Look at the Science of Self-care for Caregivers and Professionals
- The Cycle of Trauma — Practical Insights on How and Why Trauma History gets Emulated in Work and Personal Relationships and how to Stop It
- Telomeres: How Diet and Exercise Impacts Genes and Vulnerability in Aging
- Stressed out Providers — Five Minute Meditation Skills to Lower Your (And Your Client’s) Depression and Anxiety Risk
- 6 Keys to Healthy Aging – How to Stay Mentally Strong Despite Setbacks
- Losing a Spouse Workshop – The Practical and Emotional Tasks at Hand
- Kindred Spirits – A look at What Research is Saying About Staying Social as we Age
- Genetics vs. Lifestyle – What Professionals Need to Know About What Determines Mental Health
- An Introduction to the Home and Green Funeral Movement – How Social Workers can Empower Their Clients to Bring Death Care back to the Home with Less Environmental Impact
- Embodiment — Submission, Emotion, and Spirituality – One-hour church talk.
- Isolation, Technology, and Sabbath – What Every Church Needs to Know
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