Upcoming FREE Professional Development Opportunities
Whether you are a student, an applicant, or a social worker looking to develop your clinical skills, check out these upcoming trainings.
These are great opportunities to build your clinical skills, add a new training to your resume, and get ready for social work practice.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Certification Training
September 16–18 | Online
presented by Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, covers core DBT principles along with practical strategies that can be adapted for work with adults, youth, people who use substances, trauma survivors, and clients with more complex presentations.
Participants will receive three full days of live instruction, course materials, opportunities to ask questions during the training, and three-day access to the recordings after the event.
The training also provides the education component needed to pursue certification in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, although professional and clinical experience requirements apply. Continuing education credit and certification are available for an additional cost.
If DBT is an area you’ve been wanting to learn more about or build additional skills in, you can view the full training details and registration information below:
Register for DBT Certification Training
Neurodiversity in Women: Strategies for Empowering Women with Autism or ADHD
September 21, 2026
Presented by Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW, the training explores how autism and ADHD can present differently in women, including masking, late or missed diagnosis, self-worth, sensory needs, executive functioning, and the impact of years spent adapting to environments that may not have recognized their needs.
The training also introduces practical, strengths-based strategies informed by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT), and trauma-informed practice. Topics include supporting clients with safe unmasking, identity development, self-advocacy, rejection sensitivity, and building more supportive relationships and environments.
Register for Neurodiversity in Women Training
Narcissistic, Borderline, Antisocial & Histrionic Personality Disorders Treatment Strategies, Crisis Planning and Safety Protocols
October 14, 2026 | Online
This training provides a practical, evidence-informed foundation for working with clients who present with Cluster B personality disorders. Topics include case conceptualization, differential diagnosis, Borderline, Narcissistic, Histrionic, and Antisocial Personality Disorders, as well as risk assessment, crisis planning, boundaries, clinician safety, and countertransference.
Participants will strengthen their understanding of complex presentations and explore intervention strategies for navigating some of the clinical and relational challenges that can arise in this work.
EMDR & Parts Work for Treating Complex Trauma
October 22, 2026 | Online
Presented by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, this one-day training explores how elements of EMDR, parts work, somatic approaches, and relational strategies can be integrated when working with complex trauma.
Topics include trauma-informed assessment, dissociation and fragmentation, preparation for trauma processing, modified EMDR approaches, and strategies for supporting regulation, self-compassion, and resilience. Registration includes the live training, course materials, interactive Q&A, and three days of access to the recording. CE credit is available for an additional cost.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT)
October 29th and 30th | In person in Toronto + live online
This two-day training introduces Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) as an attachment-based approach to working with trauma and relational wounds. Participants will explore therapeutic safety, emotional processing, and more secure ways of relating, with a full live client demonstration led by EFIT co-founder Dr. Leanne Campbell.
The training also offers the opportunity to earn the Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) designation.
8 Affordable Therapy Trainings
Affordable therapy training can be hard to find, especially if you’re a student, new graduate, or helping professional trying to build practical skills on a budget.
That’s why PESI Canada has partnered with MSW Helper to offer 8 low-cost therapy trainings at exclusive MSW Helper pricing. These trainings cover in-demand topics like EMDR, trauma-informed CBT, DBT, somatic therapy, ACT, complex trauma, suicide assessment, and Motivational Interviewing — with each training available for under $200.
Through this partnership, you can access therapy trainings in:
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Training is offered by PESI. MSW Helper is sharing these opportunities for informational purposes and has not independently reviewed or endorsed these trainings.