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Essential Mentoring Course

Take Your Career to the Next Level...

Graduate school enables you to start the journey to becoming a mental health professional. However, becoming a highly effective clinician requires far more than can be taught in a classroom or in supervision, which by definition focuses only on managing day-to-day issues of providing services. Furthermore, current supervision practices and ethical standards make it increasingly difficult to develop a robust mentoring relationship that meaningfully addresses all facets of taking one’s career to the next level. New professionals need to be the agents in choosing their path to create a career that they love. Mentoring, rather than supervision or YouTube, is the most effective and efficient way to do this.

The Curriculum

12 On-Demand Webinars, including

  1. THE FOUNDATION OF BECOMING A GREAT MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN: YOU
  2. BECOMING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE (AT EVERYTHING)
  3. NEUROLOGICALLY INFORMED APPROACH TO STRESS AND TRAUMA (INCLUDING LICENSING EXAMS)
  4. THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD ISSUE IN APPLIED MENTAL HEALTH 
  5. TREATMENT WITH ADULTS AND TEENS MADE SIMPLE
  6. FAMILY AND CHILD THERAPY MADE SIMPLE
  7. COUPLES THERAPY MADE SIMPLE
  8. POSTMODERN THEORIES: THE KEY TO CONNECTION AND LONG-TERM CHANGE
  9. SYSTEMIC FAMILY THEORIES: THE HARDEST TO MASTER
  10. COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THEORY: IDENTIFYING THE MISSING PIECE
  11. EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES: WHY FEW DO THEM WELL
  12. INCOME BUILDING (this one webinar does not count toward CE, but it will help you expand your earning potential)

Who is this program for?

This program is open to any new mental health professionals who want to:
  • Develop a high level of professional knowledge and skills quickly.
  • Becoming more effective, both personally and professionally.
  • Better understand how to create and maximize income opportunities.
  • Desires meaningful guidance as a new professional that cannot be provided in clinical supervision.
  • Pass their licensing exam on the first attempt.

Instructor: Dr. Diane Gehart, Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling Programs at California State University, Northridge. Author of Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers: A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy, and Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy.

Course Goals:

  • Identify how to strategically develop themselves personally to improve their use of self in clinical work.
  • Set a goal and successfully achieve it, including how to problem solve when issues arise.
  • Focus their conceptualization when working with adults, couples, and families/children.
  • Successfully employ essential key elements of four major clinical approaches to improve clinical outcomes.
  • Pursue opportunities to expand their practices, serve their community, and generate additional income.

Learning Objectives: 

  1. Participants will identify one area of personal growth to make them more effective in their clinical work.

  2.  Participants will identify one professional goal and know at least two strategies for ensuring the goal is achieved.

  3. Participants will be able to successfully implement at least one intervention from four different theoretical orientations.

  4.  Participants will be able to use 2-3 concepts to quickly assess/conceptualize three basic types of clients: individual adults, distressed couples, and families/children.

  5. Participants will be able to name at least one new means of generating income in the field.

CE Approval: This course has been approved for 12 hours of continuing education by the NBCC and CAMFT.

Diane R Gehart programs are offered for NBCC credit: NBCC ACEP No. 7125.

This course is approved for LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Diane R. Gehart, Ph.D., LMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs (Provider ID 42228).

Course CE certificates will be awarded via email within 24 hours upon completion of all course modules, course quiz, and course evaluation. 

Refunds: Because this is an entirely online course, no refunds are offered after purchase. 

Accommodations/Grievances: Requestions for accommodations and/or grievances related to the course should be directed to [email protected]. These communications will be responded to within 2 working days.

Access: Participants will have access to the course for a minimum of one year.