Ondemand recorded training: Ondemand means you take the training whenever you want. Registrants will receive an email receipt of purchase and the link for the recorded training to the email that you registered with when purchasing. Follow the 3 simple steps of watching the recording, taking a short quiz, and evaluation. Click on submit and receive your certificate within 24-48 hours.

Sleep Counseling: Helping Clients to Understand Sleep and Strategies to Support Mental Health and Substance Use Recovery

Hours: 3.5 Hours SS, EBT, PSY for NCASPPB

Cost and Approved Hours: $50 for 3.5 hours of continuing education, NCASPPB and NBCC approved for LCAS, CDAC, LCMHC.

Objectives:

1.      Participants will learn about the science of sleep based on current research and strategies for supporting the client to optimize their sleep time and depth of sleep.

2.      Participants will learn about brief assessments of sleep leading to sharing self-help strategies such as CBT-I and sleep coaching for optimizing sleep. Referral to outside resources for a sleep study and medication assessment will also be included.

3.      Participants will learn the benefits of reducing anxiety and other mental health symptoms through therapy to enhance sleep.

Description:

Participants will learn the neuroscience of “why we sleep”, the optimizing of good reparative sleep, the 3 levels of sleep and their purpose in the brain and body. Training will cover barriers to sleep, changes in sleep across the lifespan, and chronic conditions that can develop due to sleep deprivation. Training will also support counselors and clients to self-assess their sleep habits and barriers to sleep leading to an action plan for correction of thoughts and behaviors that cause insomnia.

Recommended by the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, CBT-I is the first line of treatment, also non-phamalogical, that addresses the underlying behaviors and thoughts that lead to chronic insomnia. Screening tools for sleep assessment will be explored as well as resources to address sleep disturbance. Participants will learn and explore the current DSM-5-TR Sleep Disorders criteria. Current CBT-I resources, both in person and online will be examined. This training supports counselors to understand the role of sleep in supporting substance use and mental health recovery as well as supporting their own sleep quality.

Instructor: Linda Harrison, LCMHCS, CCS, MAC

Refund policy:

We offer a 100% refund minus card processing fees for requests made inside 48 hours after the purchase. After 48 hours no cash refund or credits are given.

No refunds are made due to technology problems resulting from participants audiovisual equipment or personal internet failures. Arriving more than 20 minutes late to a virtual training may prevent receipt of full workshop hours. Participants must be on camera for the duration to receive credit for the training.  

National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) Approval Statement:

Asheville Counseling, Clinical Supervision and Training has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6957. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Asheville Counseling, Clinical Supervision and Training is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.