Transforming Teen Therapy Series: Facilitating Change

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 4 workshops in the series.  Each workshop stands alone.

Change is a process, not an event. Many teens enter counseling with little commitment to this process. Our goal is to help them find their own motivation to consider change and start moving forward. We’ll start this highly interactive workshop by examining core ideas from Motivational Interviewing and the Stages of Change model – two evidence-based approaches to facilitating lasting change. Then we’ll explore stage-specific interventions, strategies for integrating change-talk into sessions, and field-tested ideas for resolving ambivalence. Along the way, we’ll examine developmental considerations, common obstacles to change, and more.

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.