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Description
Change can activate anxiety, grief, avoidance, identity disruption, and physiological distress—even when the transition is wanted or necessary. This interactive, evidence-informed training equips clinicians to help clients navigate uncertainty without rushing them toward acceptance, minimizing their circumstances, or relying on forced positivity. Participants will examine how intolerance of uncertainty, emotional dysregulation, experiential avoidance, and cultural or systemic pressures can influence clients’ responses to life transitions.
Using case examples, guided reflection, audience polling, and experiential practice, participants will learn culturally responsive strategies for recognizing dysregulation, distinguishing productive discomfort from overwhelm, and helping clients reconnect with strengths, meaning, relationships, and manageable action. Applications will include grief, career changes, caregiving, relationship transitions, identity development, health changes, and other periods of uncertainty. Attendees will leave with grounding, emotional-regulation, meaning-making, and positive-psychology tools that can be incorporated into assessment, treatment planning, and clinical interventions.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Tekeah “TC” Mason is a positive psychologist, licensed clinical social worker, author, speaker, and continuing-education trainer with more than 21 years of experience in behavioral health, clinical supervision, program leadership, mentoring, and group facilitation. She holds a PhD in Psychology and a Master of Social Work and maintains clinical social-work licenses in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Virginia. Dr. Mason’s work focuses on positive psychology, emotional regulation, resilience, gratitude, grief, life transitions, and sustainable flourishing. Her doctoral research explored how women used intentional positive activities to support flourishing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through Beautiful Weirdo Therapy & Consultation, she translates research into culturally responsive, practical strategies that help clients and helping professionals navigate discomfort, reconnect with their strengths, and create meaningful well-being without minimizing trauma, systemic barriers, or real-life challenges.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe at least three emotional, cognitive, behavioral, or physiological indicators that distinguish productive discomfort from dysregulation during significant life transitions.
- Apply at least three culturally responsive regulation strategies—including grounding, body awareness, strengths identification, and meaning-making—to a transition-related clinical case.
- Develop a brief client-centered regulation plan that integrates emotional regulation, positive psychology, cultural context, and manageable action during uncertainty.
Agenda:
Timed agenda
- 0:00–0:15: Welcome, introductions, participant poll, course objectives, and group agreements
- 0:15–0:30: Understanding transitions, uncertainty, discomfort, and the change response
- 0:30–0:45: Emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and physiological signs of dysregulation
- 0:45–1:00: Intolerance of uncertainty, experiential avoidance, and protective coping patterns
- 1:00–1:15: Guided case discussion: productive discomfort versus emotional overwhelm
- 1:15–1:30: Regulation foundations—grounding, paced breathing, body awareness, and orienting
- 1:30–1:45: Break
- 1:45–2:00: Culturally responsive assessment of transition-related distress
- 2:00–2:15: Strengths identification and positive-psychology practices without forced positivity
- 2:15–2:30: Meaning-making, values, relationships, and manageable action during uncertainty
- 2:30–2:45: Small-case application and development of a client regulation plan
- 2:45–3:00: Integration exercise, questions, post-assessment, and practice commitments
Accreditation - This Webinar Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
- CE You LLC, #1573, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 3/27/2024 - 3/27/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 3 continuing education credits.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program. - CE You LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0437
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0122.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0275.
This presentation is open to:
- Behavior Analysts
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
This online class is offered at an intermediate level, and is beneficial for an intermediate level clinician:
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Additional information
- Refunds: Registrants who are unable to attend a CeYou! Plus! seminar or live webinars may ask for, and will receive, a credit or refund (your choice). Refund requests will be processed within 3 business days. When an attendee knows in advance that they are unable to attend we ask that they inform CeYou! Plus! ahead of time by emailing [email protected] or by calling or texting 607-249-4585 this allows us to free up the spot in the training in the event that a training is at or near capacity.
- Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
- Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly.
- The grievance policy for trainings provided by CeYou! Plus! is available here
- Satisfactory Completion: Certificates are available after satisfactory course completion in your account or by clicking here
- Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
- System Requirements: Any device (such as a computer, tablet, or phone), Dual-Core 2 GHz or higher processor, and at least 4 GB of RAM capable of running a Zoom session, along with a stable internet connection.
- Although early registration is recommended for this class in order to ensure the best experience, attendees may register and join until the start of the program