Sally is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer and provides continuing education on a number of mental health topics. To inquire about speaking topics, schedule a talk for your group or for a consultation, please contact me.
Mental Health, Professional CEU, and Senior Community Topics include:
- Calm Through the Storm — Coping Well Through a Pandemic
- Practical Mindfulness in Crisis
- Personality vs. Pathology — Using the Enneagram to Understand Temperament and Personality Disorders (Diagnosis CEUs)
- 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 (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Embodiment — Submission, Emotion, and Spirituality – One-hour church talk.
- 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
- A Look at PTSD and Developmental Trauma Through a Trauma-Informed Treatment Perspective (Diagnosis CEUs)
- 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
- Lowering Suicide Risk in Older Adult Clients — The Latest Stats, Tools, and Protective Factors (Diagnosis/Suicide CEUs)
- Stressed out Providers — Five Minute Meditation Skills to Lower Your (And Your Client’s) Depression and Anxiety Risk
- Older Adult Anxiety and It’s Relationship to Sleep and Incontinence Issues (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Integrating Meditation and Practical Mindfulness into Your Role as a Therapist (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Love, Sex and Aging – Understanding the Relational Needs of Older Adults and How to Better Advocate (Ethics CEUs)
- Engaging Ethically in Clinical Settings – Boundaries, Self-care, and Liability issues with Clients (Ethics CEUs)
- 6 Keys to Healthy Aging – How to Stay Mentally Strong Despite Setbacks
- The Cognitive and Psychological Changes Associated with Aging (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Isolation, Technology, and Sabbath – What Every Church Needs to Know
- Seniors and Ethics – Advocacy Challenges When Working with Depressed Older Adults (Ethics CEUs)
- An Introduction to the Diagnostic, Treatment, and Ethical Considerations of Working with Traumatized Older Adults (Diagnosis/Ethics CEUs)
- Losing a Spouse Workshop – The Practical and Emotional Tasks at Hand
- Mental Illness 101 — How to Manage and Intervene with Troubled Patients and Families (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Elder Justice – Advocacy Challenges When Working with Seniors who are isolated and institutionalized (Ethics CEUs)
- A Look at Loss as We Age – The Latest Research on Getting Through Grief (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Kindred Spirits – A look at What Research is Saying About Staying Social as we Age
- Tips for Senior Winter Wellness – How Seniors Can Avoid the Post-Holiday Blues (Diagnosis CEUs)
- The Latest in Alzheimer’s Dementia – News on Meds, Mood, and Prevention techniques (Diagnosis CEUs)
- An Introduction to Mindfulness and Yoga for Anxiety and Depression (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Alzheimer’s, Agitation & Depressive Ailments: Deciphering Symptoms in the Aging Population (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Genetics vs. Lifestyle – What Professionals Need to Know About What Determines Mental Health
- Hoarding 101 – The Latest Info on Why it Happens, How to Refer, and How to Help with the DSM 5 (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Diagnosing Depression in Seniors with the DSM 5 – What Every Professional in Aging Should Know (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Generational Addiction – Older Adult Substance Abuse and it’s Emotional, Physical, and Mental Toll (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Advocating for A Good Death — The Ethics of Dispelling Funeral, Embalming, and End of Life Myths for Seniors and their Loved Ones (Ethics CEUs)
- 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” (Ethics CEUs)
- When Grief Turns into Depression – How the DSM 5 Differentiates the Two and Helping Seniors Cope with Loss (Diagnosis CEUs)
- The Basics of Mental Illness and Suicide: Diagnosis, Assessments, and Referrals (Diagnosis/Suicide CEUs)
- Being Present – An Introduction to Mindfulness Based Mental Health Interventions (including Dialectical Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Community Based Approaches to Older Adult Depression Care – An introduction to HEALTHY IDEAS curriculum – Helping Seniors Decrease Depression Through Behavioral Change (Diagnosis CEUs)
- A Real World Look at the Concepts of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Overcoming Life’s Challenges – An introduction (Diagnosis CEUs)
- 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
- An Introduction to Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Caregiving Issues (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Playing Nice – Strategies for Managing Bullying in Senior Communities
- Women and Mood Across the Lifespan — A Biopsychosocial Diagnostic Look at Pathology vs. Normal (Diagnosis CEUs)
- Walking Outside of Fear — A Mental Health Journey Through Cancer (Diagnosis CEUs)