Addiction Counseling Skills, 3 Days Live taught by teleconference 

January 13 - 15, 2025

In this three-day Technician live course we will provide a framework for a client-centered, counselor-directed counseling model effective in working with substance abuse clients. Students will learn the counseling skills needed to help clients move toward change utilizing a motivational style and spirit.

Addiction Counseling Skills

Live via teleconference April 2 - 4, 2025 

June 2 - 13, 2024

14 Hours of CAC Specialist credit taught over two weeks

This is a training designed to provide an overview of the specialized models of counseling for behavioral health environments that provide services to co-occurring mental health and addiction interventions. The purpose of the training is to provide information and instruction into those advanced models so that clinical supervisors will have the basic knowledge required to provide adequate support and supervision for these models. The focus of the training is to teach the structure, purpose, appropriate population, and practice details of each model that is covered in the training.

Advanced Motivational Interviewing

Live via Zoom June 19 - 20, 2025

Advanced Professional & Ethical Practice

Live on Zoom - May 15 - 16, 2025

14 hours of Specialist/LAC credit

Includes a comprehensive overview of ethical and risk management issues, professional conduct and professional boundaries, dual relationships, professional distance, healthy therapeutic boundaries and counselor self‐disclosure. Standards of care, licensing board regulations, case law, codes of ethics, and guidelines for ethical risk management will be presented along with the ethics of delivering professional counseling services to persons of culturally diverse backgrounds.

December 9 - 20, 2024

14 hours of Technician coursework offered over two weeks

This required CAC Technician class is designed to provide the counselor with an understanding of the client clinical record. Participants in this training will learn how to properly document for the clinical record including intake documents, assessments, referrals, releases of information, treatment plans, progress notes, and discharge summaries as well as report writing for mandated referral sources.

HYBRID course - one week online followed by two days live 

Online February 10 - 14, 2025

Live via teleconference February 20 - 21 OR February 27 - 28, 2025 (Please call 970-263-7775 or email at Denise@7cedarstraining.com and let us know which virtual session you prefer)

December 19 - 20, 2024

Live via teleconference 

CAC Specialist/LAC course, 2 days live

The key to supporting the use of Motivational Interviewing in counseling is supervisory feedback and coaching. This two-day live course features Motivational Interviewing Assessment: Supervisory Tools for Enhancing Proficiency (MIA: STEP), which trains supervisees to use Motivational Interviewing in client assessments for joining and engaging the client, receiving better and more accurate information during the assessment, and improving client commitment to treatment following the assessment.

April 7 - 18, 2025

14-hour Specialist class taught over two weeks.

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) is a treatment approach that has gained widespread application in the treatment of addictions and mental disorders. CBT has been extensively researched and has solid empirical support as an evidence-based treatment for addictions. CBT is structured, goal-oriented, and focused on the immediate problems faced by substance abusers entering treatment who are struggling to control their substance use. It is a flexible, individualized approach that can be adapted to a wide range of clients and a wide range of treatment settings and formats. It works well with individuals as well as group therapy. Participants in this course will learn and practice effective ways to integrate tools specific to CBT in a comprehensive treatment strategy.

 February 17 - 28, 2025

14 hours of Technician CAC credit offered over two weeks

The professional counselor has an obligation to understand the client’s context and learn to communicate in a manner that the client is likely to be able to hear, understand and accept. The counselor must have the courage and insight to explore their own biases and misconceptions of others with cultural and ethnic differences. This class will provide a basic foundation for understanding how cultural competence, awareness and sensitivity can improve quality of care and increase positive outcomes. Cultural variables and dynamics are not exclusive to race and ethnicity alone. Cultural variables to be considered will include age, gender, sexual orientation, religious affiliation, language, educational level, physical ability, economic status and social class as well as racial and ethnic backgrounds, all of which can be influential in the therapeutic process. Individual differences when considered in a cultural context can become strengths and resources for recovery.

This course is intended to provide participants with basic skills to recognize and respect the behavior, ideas, attitudes, values, beliefs, customs, language, rituals, ceremonies and practices characteristic of diverse groups of people. Course design will include definitions and descriptions of culture including concepts of assimilation and acculturation. Exercises will involve self-examination and discussion of the evolution of one’s own personal beliefs, values and attitudes.

February 3 - 14, 2025

14-Hour Technician Course offered online over two weeks

      Knowledge of ethics and jurisprudence for the addiction counselor is essential for safe practice. This class will present one day focused on ethical issues specific to the practice of addiction counseling and a second day focusing on jurisprudence, which is the law and the practice of psychotherapy in Colorado. The class will cover the Colorado Mental Health Practice Act that regulates the practice of psychotherapy in Colorado, and introduce the student to the regulatory system and the role of DORA (Dept of Regulatory Agencies) and OBH (Office of Behavioral Health) in the development and credentialing of the addiction counselor. There will be an emphasis on developing ethical decision making skills, knowledge of confidentiality and the prohibited activities in the Mental Health Practice Act. The addiction counselor will become familiar with the NAADAC Code of Ethics and acquire the tools for ethical and legal practice. 

HYBRID - Online February 24 - 28, 2025

Two days live via teleconference March 6 - 7, 2025

8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. both days 

21 Hours of Technician credit taught one week online and two days live

Often group counseling is more effective in treating substance abuse clients, due to the fact it reduces isolation, enables group members to have their experiences “normalized” by hearing others with stories similar to their own, and helps members to benefit from the recovery experiences of others. Groups provide positive peer support and reinforce social skills often lost during using. Effective group facilitation requires special skills and leadership qualities of the group leader. This course will provide instruction and practice for group counselors in the following areas: group therapy for the culturally diverse and special populations; actual group facilitation, including opening and closing groups, setting norms and goals, managing process, transitioning members in and out, moving groups through content and process, and managing difficult behaviors; plus appropriate charting techniques for group process.

One week of didactic preparation material will be delivered online over one week, followed by two days live.

March 24 - April 4, 2025

14 hour Specialist course offered over two weeks

In this training, the focus will be on the complex relationship between the client’s drugs of choice, lifestyle choices, and physiological health. Discussions will include immune system health, liver function, harm reduction and specific diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. Strategies will be presented for screening to determine level of risk, referral, and education about disease prevention and treatment.

Motivational Interviewing Hybrid

Online April 14 - 18, 2025

Live via teleconference April 24 - 25, 2025

Pharmacology 1

Online April 28 - May 9, 2025

Principles of Addiction Treatment

Online March 3 - 21, 2025

   January 13 - 24, 2025 

14 Hours of CAC Technician credit taught over two weeks

This Level II class will introduce the counselor to the concept of trauma-informed care, an approach that is being adopted more frequently within the human services fields based upon an increased awareness of the ways in which trauma impacts functioning.It will describe and define what trauma informed care is and ways in which a traditional treatment setting can be modified to increase the sense of safety experienced by consumers within this setting. Participants will learn how to incorporate trauma-informed practices into treatment with diverse populations, such as military veterans, women, people with co-occurring disorders and other groups. Although trauma treatment approaches will be considered this class will not teach how to do trauma-specific treatment.