Training | Katy Perkins

training modules

Katy has created training programs and content for work groups within large organizations. She has also identified knowledge gaps within the mental health industry, and addressed those gaps by creating and offering Continuing Education programs across the United States.

Unique training modules

How to Spot Violence in Adoptive and Foster Families

Based on recent local tragedies in foster/adoptive families, Katy and Lauren will examine missed opportunities for screening/intervention with adoptive families to prevent abuse and death of adopted youth.

Online

July 2023

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S and Lauren Butcher, LMSW

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Skeletons in the Closet: When DNA Exposes Difficult Truths

DNA testing and companies such as 23andMe, Ancestry, and MyHeritage are commonplace in our world now. Are you prepared for what your clients might discover?

Confronting and processing these issues is different than other types of counseling. It's a unique sub-specialty, and clinicians would be wise to familiarize themselves with the common challenges these clients face.

Online

Nov 2022

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S

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Adoption, Narcissism, and the Counseling Room

What is 'Adoption Competent', And How Do I Become That?

Part of the Adoption Competence Training Series

A functional knowledge of intersecting issues such as race, culture, international and transracial adoption, immigration status, search and reunion, self-harm, disordered eating, suicidality, personality disorders, enmeshed family systems, family secrets, complex post-traumatic stress – and more- is necessary to specialize.

Online

Nov 2022

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S

3-part series for 6 hours of online training

April | May | June 2022

Created and taught by Katy Perkins and JaeHee M. Chung-Sherman

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Adoption Competence for Eating Disorder Professionals

Part of the Adoption Competence Training Series

Adopted people frequently present with disordered eating habits. Learn how to support clients who have experienced family separation trauma.

Online

August 2022

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S

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Adoption, Narcissism, and the Counseling Room

This training series explored the concept of working with narcissistic family systems as a form of advanced adoption competency. Mental health practitioners, medical and child welfare professionals, adoption agency staff, and all others would benefit from this education, and are welcome to attend.

3-part series for 6 hours of online training

April | May | June 2022

Created and taught by Katy Perkins and JaeHee M. Chung-Sherman

#YourClientsToo: What Every Clinician Needs to Know About Sexual Trauma

Experiences of sexual violence and harassment are so widespread, clinicians have an ethical duty to understand the implications of survivorship for their clients.

Dallas, TX in July 2021

Denver, CO in Jan 2020

Chicago, IL in Jun 2019

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S

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But I Don't Work in Adoption: What Non-Adoption Professionals Need To Know

With so many people impacted by adoption or foster care, every clinician has or will come into contact with clients impacted by these issues during their career. Adoption and foster care is commonplace in our society, yet it is often misunderstood. Historical importance and clinical impact are frequently dismissed or minimized in social work and clinical settings.

Online

Since Jan 2019

Created and taught by Katy Perkins, LCSW-S