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Training Services
My name is Lucy!
(she/her)
I have been an educator since 1987, when I began offering post-degree professional training courses through the University of California. Since that time, I have taught social work courses for Michigan State University and Saginaw Valley State University. I absolutely loves the process of teaching and learning!
My trainings are fully customizable and tailored to your preferred length, topic focus, group size, continuing education needs, and any other specific requirements needed to provide an effective learning experience.
Below is a partial list of trainings that I have developed and delivered for community agencies:
Implicit Bias
This training for professionals and non-professional staff addresses implicit bias, and can be customized for mental health, education, health care, older adult or children’s services. The training includes lecture, discussion, video, small group activities and question-and-answer sessions.
(This course fulfills the conditions for initial licensure or registration, or license / registration renewal as detailed in Rule 338.7001(c) of the Michigan Public Health Code.)
Sexual Abuse, Human Trafficking, & Stalking
This course is focused on understanding and intervening effectively with survivors of sexual abuse, human trafficking and stalking. Participants learn to identify and assess for these experiences, the impact on development and interpersonal relationships, and associated mental and physical health problems.
(Portions of this course fulfill the licensing requirements for Human Trafficking for health care professionals.)
Pain Management
This course addresses pain management with an emphasis on behavioral and mental health intervention. Participants learn about the neurophysiology of acute and chronic pain and learn to apply principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for intervention with chronic pain.
(This course fulfills the licensing requirement for Pain Management training for health care professionals.)
Ethics for Social Work Practice
This course provides an exploration of ethical practice for social workers, grounded in the NASW Code of Ethics and current professional standards. Participants examine core ethical principles, decision-making frameworks, and emerging issues shaping contemporary practice—including technology use, boundaries, cultural responsiveness, and complex practice dilemmas.
(This course fulfills the licensing requirement for Ethics training social workers.)
LGBTQIA+ Youth
This course helps helping professionals to understand the identities and experiences of young people who identify as LGBTQIA+. Person-centered and trauma-focused approaches to assessment and intervention, family work, and development of agency practices that affirm and support LGBTQIA+ clients and colleagues are emphasized.
ADHD in the Lives of Men, Women, & Children
This course builds understanding of how ADHD presents across the lifespan. Participants explore neuro-developmental foundations, gender-specific symptom patterns, and differences in the impact of ADHD for adults and children. Assessment strategies, diagnostic challenges, and evidence-based interventions for each group are presented and practiced in small groups.
Personality Disorders
This course provides a comprehensive review of personality disorders, including diagnostic criteria, associated features, development of personality disorders and differential diagnosis. Practice-focused exercises focus on skills needed to effectively assess and intervene with Cluster A, B and C personality disorders.
Parental Alienation
This course provides a research-informed framework for understanding parental alienation and responding with trauma-informed, attachment- focused interventions that support healthier parent-child relationships. Participants also learn about the unique ethical and legal challenges of working with disrupted family systems.
Eating Disorders
This course focuses on increasing knowledge about eating disorders by examining the characteristics of each diagnosis and of the people who experience the disorders. Emphasis on assessment and effective intervention helps participants to increase confidence in working with individuals and families.
Rural Social Work Practice
This course explores the unique challenges and opportunities of rural social work practice, with a focused lens on communities across Michigan. Participants will examine key issues such as limited service access, workforce shortages, transportation barriers, economic disparities, and the impact of rural culture on help-seeking. The course highlights evidence-based and community-driven solutions—including integrated care models, creative outreach strategies, cross-sector collaboration, and policy approaches that strengthen rural wellbeing.
Clinical Documentation
This course provides a practical, in-depth overview of clinical documentation for mental health providers, covering major documentation models, essential components of high quality records, and strategies for writing clear, defensible notes. Participants examine ethical and legal considerations, including confidentiality, informed consent, risk management, and compliance with professional standards.
Crisis and Suicide Assessment & Intervention
This course equips helping professionals with essential skills for assessing and responding to crisis situations, including suicide risk. Participants learn evidence-based frameworks for crisis evaluation, risk and protective factor identification, safety planning, and collaborative intervention. Also included are ethical and legal considerations, documentation standards, and culturally-responsive practice.
Narcissism & Parenting
This course addresses the impact of narcissistic parenting on children’s mental health, development and interpersonal relationships. Definitions of narcissism are examined with an emphasis on DSM diagnosis of disorder vs. traits. Patterns of family interactions will be explored via ‘rules’ of narcissistic families and common roles exhibited by members of dysfunctional family systems.
