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Continuing Education Courses by B. Lourenco, LMHC
B Lourenco is a licensed mental health counselor, educator, advocate, and activist. B has been working in community support for 15 years and is committed to social change on all system levels. Seeing mental health as a way to serve the community, she earned a Master of Arts degree in Clinical Psychology, with a Systems Emphasis, in 2015 and began her private practice in 2017.
B has also worked in the public school system, providing support to students with behavioral issues that made attending school challenging for them. Highly trained in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), B became a district-wide expert in supporting neurodivergent students. It was during this work that she began to be critical of the current models of support for neurodivergence, including ABA. Making the shift from the medical to the affirming model has allowed her to finally identify her own neurodivergence, including Autism and ADHD.
Combining her lived experience of neurodivergence, along with years of anti-oppression work, B is passionate about helping others untangle themselves from harmful practices and align themselves with those that instead support marginalized communities. In addition to her work in neurodiversity, B is also a sex and relationship therapist, specializing in ethical non-monogamy and kink exploration. She has been a speaker on panels and podcasts, as well as facilitating therapeutic workshops in her area of Washington State.
EPDC CE Hours: 6
Neurodiversity Symposium Part 1: Neurodiversity and Relationships ADHD and Autism – and the Relationship to Sex What is PDA and How is it Impacting My Life? How Unmasking Exposes Grief
Purchase $150EPDC CE Hours: 6
This course will go over the basics of human sexuality, including sexual and gender identities, as well as the roles of desire, arousal, and libido. This course will also explore how certain types of traumas may affect your clients sexually and how to intervene in supportive, sex-positive ways.
Purchase $125EPDC CE Hours: 6
A large majority of clinicians don’t know how to talk to their clients about sexuality and, subsequently, aren’t able to help their clients with issues about their sex lives. Many clinicians also believe that conversations about sex are out of their scope of practice, and while this is true in rare cases, it's usually not true
Purchase $145EPDC CE Hours: 6
Have you noticed that more and more of your clients have begun to suspect that they are neurodivergent? During the past year-and-a-half of the Covid pandemic, many folks have had time to reflect and learn about themselves and others. That time of learning and increased self-reflection has led to what seems like an explosion of self-diagnosed Autistic and ADHD clients. It seems hard to believe that there are suddenly so many more people who are identifying as being neurodivergent. You may have asked yourself, “What is going on?”
Purchase $135EPDC CE Hours: 6
Every single person has a relationship with sexuality, whether they are asexual or very sexually experienced; it follows that everyone that we work with as therapists has a relationship with their sexuality. Therefore, it is imperative that we are committed to staying abreast of current research and remain culturally curious. As ethical practitioners, this commitment to learning and growing as practitioners means that we gain more cultural competence and are then able to offer tailored support.
Purchase $125EPDC CE Hours: 6
The Neurodiversity Symposium-Session 3: Neurodiversity and Co-Occurrences Differentials and Co-Occurrences in Autism and ADHD The Role of Addiction in ADHD and Autism Neurodivergence over the Lifetime
Purchase $150EPDC CE Hours: 4
Neurodiversity Symposium Part 2: Neurodiversity and Oppression Social Model of Disability Is ND Burnout Inevitable?
Purchase $100