Continuing Education and Events
The NBASW develops, coordinates and promotes professional education opportunities to support members in meeting the continuing professional education requirements. The NBASW does this in five ways:
• Free NBASW Mandatory Ethics, Standards, and Guidelines Training for members
• Free NBASW & CASW Webinars for members
• Free and Discounted Social Work Resources
• NBASW Professional Development Fund
• Additional Continuing Education Opportunities
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Upcoming Events
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Certified Emotion Focused Therapy Trainings (CPEH)
Aug. 18 — Dec. 10, 2025
EFT for Individuals Level 1 - August 18, 19, 20, & 21, 2025
EFT for Individuals Level 2 - August 25, 26, 27, & 28, 2025
EFT for Couples Level 1 - September 2, 3, 9, & 10, 2025
EFT for Individuals Level 3 - October 15, 16, & 17, 2025
EFT for Individuals Level 1 - October 29, November 5, 12, & 19, 2025
EFT for Couples Level 2 - December 2, 3, 9, & 10, 2025
Emotion Focused Therapy (EFT) is an evidence-based therapy and has had a significant impact on the field of psychotherapy based on extensive research on client in-session processes that facilitate positive outcomes. EFT is also transdiagnostic psychotherapeutic approach as its interventions and principles can be adapted across different client populations and a variety of client issues. It has evolved into a comprehensive theory of functioning and clinical practice and focuses on working with a client's core underlying, painful emotions to transform emotional pain and suffering and promote enduring change.
This training is for licensed mental health professionals (example: psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers). Students with therapy training and pre-licensed therapists are welcome. No prior knowledge of Emotion Focused Therapy is required. If you are unsure if you are eligible to take the training, please contact us directly at training@cpeh.ca to inquire about your credentials and eligibility to take the trainings.
EFT for Individual Level 2 - Requires Completion of EFT for Individual Level 1
EFT for Individual Level 3 - Requires Completion of EFT for Individual Level 1 and Level 2
EFT for Couple Level 2: Requires Completion of EFT for Couple Level 1 or equivalent
Register: https://www.cpeh.ca/certified-eft-training-2
Use the code NBASW20 at checkout for a 20% discount. -
Comprehensive Clinical Group Facilitation Training
Aug. 18 — 20, 2025 9:00am — 4:00pm
The Atlantic Group & Trauma Training Center is offering a "retreat style" Comprehensive Clinical Group Facilitation Training in Debert, Nova Scotia. The course takes place from 9 AM - 4 PM ADT on 3 days: August 18, 19, and 20.
Mechanics specific to group work facilitation:
1.Types of group and specific considerations
2.Importance of co-facilitation in group
3.Developing a co-facilitation team
4.Fundamentals to starting the group
5.Group dynamics in every group
6.Understanding somatic markers
7.Differentiating between individual and group processing and facilitation
8.Freedom to learn, practice and explore with others who have a passion for working or specializing in group work process!
The course is offered by Derrick Lang, Paraprofessional, and Doug Allen, CD, SEP, MSW.
The registration fee is $900 ($300 per day). Training material is provided. Meals and accommodations are covered with the registration fee!
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5 Ways to Work with Emotions in Psychotherapy (CPEH)
Fri, Sep. 5, 2025 11:00am — 12:00pm
Date: September 5, 2025
Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM (Eastern Daylight Time)
Format: Live On Zoom
Registration Fee: Free Online Event
CPEH invites you to join this free one-hour workshop, Dr. Antonio Pascual-Leone will present five evidence-based ways to work with emotions in psychotherapy.
Drawing on universal principles of change from his upcoming book, Principles of Emotion Change: What Works and When in Psychotherapy and Everyday Life, Dr. Pascual-Leone will offer practical ways to promote emotional processing with clients across a range of presenting issues.
This is a transdiagnostic workshop: the skills presented can be integrated into any therapy approach, enriching your existing therapy practice. Video recordings of real therapy sessions will be used to illustrate client processes and interventions.
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Nervous System Recalibration Introductory Training
Sep. 8 — 9, 2025
The Atlantic Group & Trauma Training Center is offering a Nervous System Recalibration Introductory Training course in Dieppe, NB from September 8-9.
The two-day in-person clinical course covers trauma training that explains the latest research in the human stress response from a biosocial-neurological and somatic perspective. Learn the 5 key components to Nervous System Recalibration to quickly achieve stabilization within your clients so they can move into process. Master your skills in a supportive space with peers to ensure competency with your clients.
Nervous System Recalibration is a structured way of assessing the body and recalibrating it to operate more appropriately to the current environment in real time. Unlike “regulation”, it processes the physiology behind the psychology without dismissing or forcing the response to stop. This allows for clients to identify the signals from their body, reclaim agency in their nervous system response, and establish safety, connection and trust.
The course is facilitated by Trauma and nervous system expert, and author of “An Operator’s Guide to the Nervous System”, Doug Allen, CD. SEP. MSW.
The registration fee is $500 plus tax. To register or inquire, send your name and/or questions to info@agttc.org. -
Transference and countertransference: Training for mental health professionals
Wed, Sep. 24, 2025 9:00am — 4:00pm
Date: September 24, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Natalie Zlodre Choy, MSW, RSW.
CE hours: 6
This training is suitable for:
Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers
Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, family doctors
Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers
Level of training: Introductory
Client age category: For professionals who work with clients over the age of 18
Please note: Some of the material in this training is also covered in Certificate in trauma counselling for mental health professionals: Level 1.
Description: Trauma that is unhealed, unresolved and unintegrated into a healthy balance within the self has the potential to be repeated, reenacted, acted out, projected or externalized in relationships.
Working with human suffering on a daily basis and being sensitive to the despair, frustration and fear embodied in clients is an integral aspect of the work by mental health professionals. In order to be effective, professionals need to be aware of the clients and their own unconscious self-protective reactions (transference/projection). A professional who is unaware or unresponsive to countertransference experiences can be thrown into a cycle of reactivity – both within the specific client dynamic and within one’s own psyche.
In this webinar, we will understand the core features of the metapsychological phenomena: transference, projection, projective identification, and countertransference. We will use real case examples from direct service settings to illustrate the complex dialectic of balancing empathic attunement with experiences of empathic strain.
Learning objectives:
-Understand key self-protective strategies that clients use (transference, projection).
-Understand key self-protective strategies that professionals use (countertransference).
-Apply skills in “catching,” repairing and integrating the metapsychological phenomena.
Register here: https://web.cvent.com/event/242f336e-8dab-4691-be0d-a1878da3e494/summary -
Level 1 Theraplay Virtual Training: October
Oct. 3 — 24, 2025
Theraplay® is a short-term, structured therapy which focuses on enhancing attachments. It promotes self-esteem, language skills, behavioural skills, social skills as well as enhances relationships between significant others. Theraplay can be used with a single child, an entire family or with groups of children. Professionals around the world have been trained in Theraplay and are using Theraplay in a wide variety of settings and populations, including: Attachment therapy for foster/adopted children, Therapy for trauma and abuse victims, Therapy for children with behavioral and developmental problems, and Group settings such as schools and residential treatment facilities.
This 4-week ONLINE training is open to qualified, licensed, certified or registered professionals in a field that prepares them to work with children and families. Participants who have experience working with children and families, but who have not yet completed their post graduate professional degree (for example: those with degrees or diplomas in Teaching, Early Childhood Education or Child and Youth Work) can be admitted into Theraplay training and may become certified to the Foundation Level (when accepted into practicum). Opportunities to become fully certified as a Theraplay Therapist are outlined during this course. Course handouts are included.
Course includes 32 CEU hours AND includes:
• Online content is available starting September 26, 2025. Weekly live zoom sessions Fridays, 11:00am – 3:00pm EST starting October 3, 2025
• 4 hours of Independent online weekly assigned Webinars and readings and short assignments
• All topics from live Theraplay workshop will be covered during this online workshop
• PLUS how to use MIM and Theraplay VIRTUALLY
More info and registration here: https://www.theraplaycanada.ca/upcoming-training-gallery/blog-post-title-one-yytfy-sm57j -
Level 1 Theraplay Virtual Training: October
Oct. 3 — 24, 2025
Theraplay® is a short-term, structured therapy which focuses on enhancing attachments. It promotes self-esteem, language skills, behavioural skills, social skills as well as enhances relationships between significant others. Theraplay can be used with a single child, an entire family or with groups of children. Professionals around the world have been trained in Theraplay and are using Theraplay in a wide variety of settings and populations, including: Attachment therapy for foster/adopted children, Therapy for trauma and abuse victims, Therapy for children with behavioral and developmental problems, and Group settings such as schools and residential treatment facilities.
This 4-week ONLINE training is open to qualified, licensed, certified or registered professionals in a field that prepares them to work with children and families. Participants who have experience working with children and families, but who have not yet completed their post graduate professional degree (for example: those with degrees or diplomas in Teaching, Early Childhood Education or Child and Youth Work) can be admitted into Theraplay training and may become certified to the Foundation Level (when accepted into practicum). Opportunities to become fully certified as a Theraplay Therapist are outlined during this course. Course handouts are included.
Course includes 32 CEU hours AND includes:
• Online content is available starting September 26, 2025. Weekly live zoom sessions Fridays, 11:00am – 3:00pm EST starting October 3, 2025
• 4 hours of Independent online weekly assigned Webinars and readings and short assignments
• All topics from live Theraplay workshop will be covered during this online workshop
• PLUS how to use MIM and Theraplay VIRTUALLY
More info and registration here: https://www.theraplaycanada.ca/upcoming-training-gallery/blog-post-title-one-yytfy-sm57j -
Virtual Canadian Children’s Grief Symposium
Nov. 12 — 13, 2025
The Canadian Alliance for Children’s Grief (CACG) is hosting their FIFTH annual Virtual Canadian Children’s Grief Symposium for child serving professionals on November 12th and 13th, 2025. Offering over 16 virtual sessions from experienced practitioners and educators in Children’s Grief from across Canada, this two-day virtual Symposium will help you better support grieving children, youth, and their families.
On Wednesday, the Keynote Speaker this year is Dr. Lucy Hone with a session entitled “Resilient Grieving: Realistic Resilience Practices That Work”
On Thursday, the Plenary Speaker is Donna Schuurman with a session entitled "Drop the Dysfunction! Stop Resisting Open Conversations About Dying and Death."
Registration opens in August and is $175 for both days. One of the benefits of this national conference is that with registration, you will have digital access to all the recorded sessions, not just the ones you attended, which will be available to you for 3 months post conference until February 2026. Please note this includes access to *most session recording however a limited number of sessions will NOT be recorded.
The speakers and topics for this Symposium have been carefully selected to support professionals in education, healthcare, victim services, funeral homes, grief and bereavement, and other community organizations.
To register when registration opens: https://www.grievingchildrencanada.org/index.php/grief-symposium