Working with Self-Harming Teens: A Family-Centered Approach
Presented by Laura Rushing, LCSW
Promote positive lasting change in the lives of the teens you work with, learn to manage distressing emotions, and build connections between family members in this impactful training for licensed mental health professionals.
This presentation will enhance your professional skills in working with teens who self-harm, as well as access strategies to communicate with and connect with their parents/caregivers to provide supportive avenues for treatment.
Understand how to take marginalized identities and resource access into consideration when assessing risk and referring self-harming clients out to sometimes costly community or self-help resources. Learn to identify risk factors for self-harming behaviors, including for clients who identify as female, non-binary, or trans, and individuals with lower economic status, who are statistically disproportionately affected by self-harm and suicidal ideation.
By completing this training, you will feel confident in involving parents, caregivers and teens alike in building connection and breaking the disruptive cycle of self-injury.
This program will not only help social workers and counselors open up discussion of self-harm between teens and caregivers, but also give them hands-on interventions to use at home outside of sessions.
Details
Date - July 23, 2025
Time - 12:00pm - 1:00pm CT
Pricing - $30
Credits - 1 CE Credit
Location - Ensemble Therapy
Northwest Austin Location
4210 Spicewood Springs, Suite 203
Austin, Texas 78759
Training Objectives
This training will allow you to be able to:
Identify three risk factors for self-harming behaviors.
List at least three intervention questions to use when working with families of teens who self-harm.
Describe ways to disrupt self-defeating thoughts that can precede self-harming behaviors.
Explain how to use adolescent client expertise after relapses.
Laura Rushing, LCSW
Laura Rushing is a bilingual Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in private practice. She has a passion for working with tweens, teens, and women as they work towards healing and finding their worth.
She specializes in working with trauma, grief, and self-esteem. Prior to private practice, she worked as a school social worker at both elementary and middle schools. She loves incorporating sand-tray and creative therapies into sessions as much as possible. Before social work, she taught first grade in Bryan, Texas. She is a proud mother of two preschoolers and one puppy.
Good to Know
This is an in-person training and will not be recorded. Please dress comfortably, bring a water bottle, snacks, and anything else you need to feel comfortable in a classroom setting for the duration of our training.
This training will provide 1 CE Credit for licensed mental health professionals.
To receive credit, participants must attend the full presentation and complete the post-presentation evaluation.
Ensemble Therapy is an approved provider endorsed by an international organization and therefore trainings quality for the 50% CEs mandated by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council (BHEC) for LPC and LMFT.
It is the responsibility of the attendee to verify whether CE credit offered by the Ensemble Learning Center meets the regulations of the participant’s licensing/certification board.
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