As an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP) and an ASWB Approved Continuing Education (ACE) Provider, we offer high-quality, evidence-informed trainings that meet nationally recognized standards for professional continuing education. Whether you’re fulfilling licensure requirements, strengthening your clinical expertise, or investing in your professional growth, you can trust that our trainings are designed to provide both practical application and meaningful continuing education credit.
At Turning Point Counseling & Wellness Services, our trainings are rooted in The WELL, our philosophy of Well-being, Ethical Practice, Liberatory Care, and Long-Term Sustainability. Every workshop, consultation, and retreat is intentionally designed to help clinicians draw from the well, strengthening their clinical expertise while nurturing the resilience, reflection, and ethical foundation needed for a lasting career.
Whether you’re refining your diagnostic skills, developing as a supervisor, expanding your cultural competence, or exploring innovative therapeutic approaches, our goal is the same: to help you become not only a more effective clinician, but a more sustainable one.
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Ethics & Professional Practice
Strengthen your ethical decision-making and professional judgment to navigate complex clinical situations with confidence and integrity.
Are You Being Ethical? Counseling Marginalized Populations
We will provide a detailed overview of ACA Code of Ethics with a focus on our Professional Responsibility in cross-cultural counseling. Participants will learn how to ask questions using the Ethical Decision Making Model, and how to identify personal blind spots and choose providers to consult with that will best assist in your professional growth.
- Presented by: Dr. T’Airra Belcher, LPC-S & Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 3 hours of ethics continuing eduation
Beyond the Dollhouse: An Introduction to Cultural Competency in Play Therapy
Participants will explore how cultural values, family structures, language, and historical context shape children’s play and their caregivers’ expectations. Through accessible examples, real-life case studies, and reflective exercises, attendees will develop foundational skills to engage with clients from diverse backgrounds with sensitivity, humility, and respect.
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 2 hour of ethics & 1 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
Clinician Wellness & Sustainability
Learn practical strategies to prevent burnout, strengthen well-being, and build a sustainable career in the helping professions.
Sustaining the Self: Preventing Burnout Early in Your Career
Designed for graduate students, interns, and early-career professionals, this 3-hour CE training equips attendees with practical frameworks for identifying and preventing burnout before it takes hold. Learn how to navigate systemic pressures, balance empathy with boundaries, and cultivate a career that supports your longevity and joy in the helping professions.
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 1 hour of ethics & 2 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
Expressive Arts
Expand your therapeutic toolbox with creative, experiential approaches that promote healing, self-expression, and meaningful client engagement.
Support Healing Through the Power of Play
This training provides mental health professionals with the knowledge and practical skills needed to effectively incorporate play therapy techniques into trauma-focused treatment. Grounded in trauma-informed care principles, the course explores the intersection of play therapy and trauma, highlighting how creative, non-verbal modalities can help clients—especially children and adolescents—process traumatic experiences in developmentally appropriate ways.
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 3 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
The Tray as a Mirror: Exploring Trauma Through Sandtray
This experiential training is designed to equip mental health professionals with the knowledge and practical skills to effectively use sandtray therapy in the treatment of trauma. Rooted in expressive and depth-oriented approaches, sandtray therapy offers a powerful, nonverbal method for helping trauma survivors safely explore and process difficult experiences.
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 3 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
Multicultural Competence & Social Justice
Deepen your ability to provide culturally responsive, affirming, and equitable care across diverse identities, communities, and lived experiences.
What is Gender?
We will focus on providing psychoeducation on gender, sex, and sexuality. Participants will learn vocabulary, practice, identify and address patterns they may need to unlearn, and begin building a more inclusive provider referral list. During this conversation, we will examine our own biases around gender, sex and sexuality and learn how this can impact internalized homophobia. We will also discuss ways to be a more inclusive counselor, by making quick yet intentional changes to your websites, paperwork and other professional information and techniques to use to ensure clients feel welcomed.
- Presented by: Dr. T’Airra Belcher, LPC-S & Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 3 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
Systematic Oppression & Trauma
We will be exploring the different forms of oppression and how it impacts access to therapy and our clients. Participants will learn how to identify the systems that are oppressive to their clients, examine their own personal biases, and discuss the different dialects of English, along with ways to advocate for and decarcerate mental illness.
- Presented by: Dr. T’Airra Belcher, LPC-S & Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 1 hour of ethics & 2 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
The Ethics of Being A Kink-Affirming Therapist
The Ethics of Being a Kink-Affirming Therapist is a 3-hour virtual training designed to equip mental health professionals with the foundational knowledge, cultural sensitivity, and ethical framework needed to effectively support clients involved in kink, BDSM, and other consensual non-normative sexual practices.
- Presented by: Rose Sylvester, PLPC
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 1 hour of ethics & 2 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
From Re-Enactment to Reclamation: Kink & Trauma Scene Play in Clinical Practice
This 3-hour advanced training offered a deeper exploration of integrating kink practices into therapeutic work, helping clinicians move beyond awareness to confident, ethical application in session.
- Presented by: Rose Sylvester, PLPC
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB credit
- 1 hour of ethics & 2 hours of general/ clinical continuing education
Supervision
Develop the skills to mentor, supervise, and lead clinicians while fostering growth, accountability, and ethical practice.
How to Include Social Justice Advocacy in your Supervision Practice
This training invites supervisors and emerging leaders to explore the ethical and practical dimensions of integrating social justice into supervision. Participants will examine established models for socially responsive supervision, discuss best practices for weaving advocacy into supervisory relationships, and review what the ACA & ASWB Code of Ethics say about the counselor’s role in promoting equity and systemic change.
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB
- 3 hours of supervision continuing education
Play In Supervision
This is a dynamic virtual training designed for current and aspiring supervisors who want to incorporate play therapy principles into clinical supervision. Whether you’re supervising play therapists or want to deepen the supervisory relationship through expressive and experiential techniques, this training is for you!
- Presented by: Portia Gordon, LPC-S, RPT-S, ICST
- Approved for NBCC & ASWB
- 3 hours of supervision continuing education