Transforming Teen Therapy Series: Imminent Danger

Recorded: 2022

This new workshop series based on David’s original work and book will help you transform your practice with teens!

You don’t have to take all workshops in the series. Each workshop stands alone.

Topics related to imminent danger can be confusing, complicated, and frustrating – even for experienced therapists. This is especially true when working with teens. We’re required to follow state laws regarding confidentiality, treatment consent, and mandated reporting while also juggling developmental considerations, parental expectations, and our own clinical comfort zones. In this three-hour workshop, we’ll explore these challenges and other legal, ethical, and clinical issues related to working with teens who are engaging in high-risk behaviors.

EPDC CE Hours: 3
Presenter: Emily Hughes LMFT, SUDP, CMHS

Emily is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Substance Use Disorder Professional and a clinical supervisor with the state of Washington. Emily has a private practice that is telehealth based with an office in South King County. She sees adults, teens and couples. Emily has also been involved in training and teaching and has done so with NW ATTC, the Washington Mental Health Counselor’s Association, City University of Seattle and she has been a guest speaking at a variety of schools in the greater Seattle area. Throughout her career she has worked in crisis management and stabilization primarily with youth and young adults. This work was done in a community based mental health agency, as the lead for a crisis outreach team and as a mental health evaluator at Seattle Children’s Hospital emergency room. In her work with clients, her areas of expertise include working with teens, young adults, adults and couples in life transition and mood-related disorders, and around self-harm/suicide assessment, prevention, intervention, and management, the intersection of co-occurring disorders and in clinical supervision.