Free November CEU: Recovery Gone Holiday

Clinical Tools for Helping Clients Navigate the Holiday Season

The holiday season can be a grueling marathon for anyone — and especially for clients in recovery. Family dynamics, grief, trauma cues, shame, people-pleasing, champagne flowing, routine disruption, and pressure to “just get through it” can all get louder at once. Whether a client’s family feels more like The Bear or It’s a Wonderful Life, people be peoplin’ — and clinicians need practical tools for helping clients stay grounded, connected, and recovery-first. This CEU is designed for mental health professionals supporting clients with substance use, co-occurring mental health concerns, and complex family dynamics during the holiday season. The training focuses on helping clinicians identify holiday relapse risk, coach clients through recovery-first decisions, and support family involvement without increasing shame, surveillance, or control. Participants will learn concrete tools for planning and sticking with boundaries, relapse-prevention conversations, emotional and nervous-system regulation, family/supporter coaching. Participants will leave with a simple framework they can teach clients for boundary coaching, relapse planning, and difficult conversations in real time - before shame, urgency, or old survival patterns take the wheel.

The presentation will be given by: Marissa Gilbert, LCSW, MS.

Lunch Provided by: TBD