Owner & Training Development Officer
Thank you for trusting CE Training Workshops for your continuing education and professional development needs! I founded this company in 2017 after attending one too many unstimulating and, well, tedious training workshops in an endeavor to meet my continuing education goals. One of my many passions is bringing together a group of professionals and providing education while allowing them to share and explore their own knowledge. As such, CE Training Workshops are highly participatory and interactive!
I am trained in learning methodologies and instructing techniques as well as course development to meet any of your professional training needs. I have 20+ years of combined training & development and social services experience in the corporate sector, substance use recovery programs, and mental health, and have had the pleasure of working with large brand organizations as well as the homeless population.
Be prepared to learn, engage, and have your mind stimulated!
Sincerely,
Lorna Vanden Heuvel, Owner
Lorna Vanden Heuvel, LCSW, LCAS, CSS, CCTP
Owner & Continuing Education Development Officer
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Stacy Blankenship, MSW, LCSW
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Stacy Blankenship is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and an intensively trained in Dialectical Behavioral Therapist completing her training at The Linehan Institute in 2015. Her passion to empower others is enhanced by more than ten years of experience working with individuals and groups in a variety of therapeutic settings. Stacy is adept at matching various forms of clinical interventions to best meet the needs of each individual.
In her current professional capacity, Stacy designs and teaches group therapy sessions for people attending the IOP and PHP programs, administers clinical assessments, conducts individual and family therapy sessions and supervises interns. She has a wide range of knowledge and interests to supplement her clinical approach. Stacy is proficient in teaching Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Illness Management Recovery, Wellness Recovery Action Planning, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Mindful Self-Compassion, Positive Psychology and Emotional Agility techniques. Stacy has thorough knowledge of crisis management skills and has a certification in Critical Incident Stress Management.
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Leo DeBroeck,LMHC, Child Mental Health Specialist, CBT Plus Certified
Multi-discipline Masters Level Professional
Leo DeBroeck is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Child Mental Health Specialist in Washington State. He is CBT Plus certified through the University of Washington and Harborview Sexual Assault and Traumatic Stress Center. He has completed his Master’s of Science in Clinical Psychology. He has worked in several different levels of care for mental health treatment including long-term inpatient care, WISe wraparound intensive services, school-based therapy services, and outpatient clinical settings.
He has published peer-reviewed scientific research on young adults related to suicidality. He has written several children’s therapy books, which are self-published and available on Amazon.com, for use in therapy settings addressing grief, self-confidence, addiction, neglect, abuse, and others. He is the president and founder of Counselor’s Choice Award, LLC which reviews and promotes scientifically validated counseling products, therapeutic tools, and books.
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Dreya Blume, MA, LCSW
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Dreya Blume is a licensed clinical social worker, with her MSW from Radford University and an MA in anthropology from the University of Hawaii. Dreya has twenty years of experience working in mental health, from case management to intensive in-home services to leading groups for addicts in recovery. Dreya began a part-time counseling practice in 2004, and as a psychotherapist, her focus has been on serving the LGBTQ+ community. Dreya also has been a teacher for thirty years. Prior to her career in social work, she taught English in places such as Japan, Thailand, Australia, and Hawaii. Since 2010, Dreya has been an adjunct professor for Virginia Western Community College, preparing future social workers for the field.
In her spare time, Dreya loves to write. She is the author of a number of books (published under her former name, Andy Matzner), including “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” and “The Buddha Diet: A Guide to Creating a Positive Relationship with Food and Eating.”
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Ashley Esry, MSW, LCWSA, LCASA
Multi-discipline Masters Level Professional
Ashley is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker Associate and Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist Associate in North Carolina. She received her Bachelors in Counseling with a concentration in Expressive Arts Therapy from Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She earned her Masters of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ashley’s nine years of experience include working at inpatient, residential, and outpatient levels of care, specializing in addiction and mental health.
Ashley’s training includes Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and Internal Family Systems. In her current private practice, Ashley works with adolescents and adults with a focus on developmental trauma, attachment wounds, and anxiety. Ashley is passionate about trauma-informed care and a whole-person approach to healing. She brings to CE Training Workshops a diverse range of modalities and experiences and an excitement for learning and teaching.
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Dr. Paul Hardy, D. Min, CSAC, NMAC
Multi-discipline Doctorate Level Professional
Paul Hardy is a National Master Addictions Counselor (NAADAC) with a Doctor of Ministry degree in Pastoral Counseling from Liberty University. Dr. Paul has thirty years of experience in pastoral counseling, substance use work, trauma recovery, and anger management work. He founded the Recovery for Life Treatment Center in Virginia Beach, VA in 2008. He has developed solution-focused programs, and substance use treatment group curricula, and is a provider for the Alcohol Safety Action Program. He and his team provide assessments and treatment groups for the State of Virginia. He focuses on helping people get “unstuck” from lifelong habits and limiting behaviors.
Dr. Paul is an educator at heart and loves to develop counseling curricula. He has written numerous books addressing topics such as Working with Prolonged Grief, Working with Families of Addicted Youth, Anger Management, Solution-Focused Substance Use Treatment, and the impact of Marijuana Use on Youths.
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Deeariah King, LCSW
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Deeariah King is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of North Carolina. She graduated from Coastal Carolina University in 2015 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology. She returned to school that same year and obtained her Masters of Social Work Degree from the University of South Carolina. Deeariah has provided therapy services for 5 years in various settings; including outpatient, inpatient, and college campuses. Her therapeutic approach is to meet the clients where they are and ensure the healing process leads to an improved quality of life. Deeariah prides herself on bringing her true self to sessions as an attempt to model authenticity for her clients. Deeariah specializes in working with individuals living with depression, anxiety, and adjustment disorders. She focuses on a strengths-based therapeutic approach to promote self-love and growth. When Deeariah is not providing services to clients, she enjoys spending time with her family, baking, traveling, and making relatable therapy content on Tik Tok.
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Kelli Underwood, LCSW
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Kelli Underwood is a seasoned speaker, consultant, and psychotherapist, specializing in the field of trauma since 1996. Kelli was the Director of Child and Family Programs in Chicago at the Center for Contextual Change for fifteen years and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Chicago’s Master’s in Social Work Program for seven years, prior to launching her own business in 2013. Kelli has specialized in facilitating healing from all forms of traumatic experiences for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families. She provides powerful healing retreats and trainings in Transformative Insight Imagery, a holistic treatment approach. She is a consultant for school districts across North Carolina. on restorative justice circles, the impact of trauma, concerning behaviors, and mental health.
As a speaker and consultant, Kelli inspires desired changes for individuals, teams, and organizations. She cultivates dynamic trainings and speaking experiences with her charisma, contagious energy, and her skillfulness in teaching you HOW. She conducts numerous, powerful trainings on a variety of topics surrounding trauma, mental health, compassion fatigue, and organizational change to healthcare professionals, medical professionals, childcare providers, educators, students, and parents.
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Erica Blystone, LCSW
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Erica Blystone is a licensed clinical social worker with over 20 years in the field. She received her MSW from UNC-Chapel Hill and owns Wake Adult Counseling in Raleigh, NC. Erica works with adults and has specialized in relationship resolution and dissolution for the past ten years. She is trained through Gottman Level 2. She is a certified Discernment Counselor through the Doherty Relationship Institute. She provides divorce consulting, helping parents separate in as smooth and healthy a way as possible. She is a co-parenting therapist, working with parents anywhere on the continuum from hostile to amicable to becoming a parenting team for their children. She is a Child Specialist in Collaborative Divorce and was a Parenting Coordinator for NC family courts for several years. She has served on the Board of the Center for Cooperative Parenting. Erica is also trained in CPT for trauma.
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Dr. Christina Marsack-Topolewski, LMSW, Ph.D.
Multi-discipline Doctorate Level Professional
Christina Marsack-Topolewski is an associate professor of Social Work at Eastern Michigan University. She received her Bachelors degree in Special Education from Wayne State University. She trained under a specialized fellowship at the University of Michigan, receiving her Masters in Social Work and specializing in both school social work and aging. Christina received her Ph.D. in Social Work with a dual title in Gerontology from Wayne State University. She has worked with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) for over 20 years and published several peer-reviewed journals and encyclopedias.
Christina’s research focuses on individuals with IDD, their caregivers, caregiver burden, advance care planning, service delivery, and service utilization. Her work has been presented locally, nationally, and internationally. Christina has led multiple grant-funded programs tailoring services to individuals with disabilities and older adults. In 2019, she was appointed as a board member of the National Task Group on Intellectual Disability and Dementia Practices. She provides ongoing legislative testimony in her home state (Michigan), using her expertise to advocate for proposed house bills that would provide protection against abuse, neglect, and exploitation for vulnerable adults.
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Dr. Jillian Graves, MSW, LCSW, Ph.D.
Social Work Doctorate Level Professional
Jillian Graves, LCSW, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Eastern Michigan University in the School of Social Work. Her scholarly work has focused on the experiences of family caregivers, especially siblings, in adolescent and emerging adult development, in reflexivity in qualitative research methodology, and in trauma-reactive violence. Her most recent research has been on the impact of COVID-19 on retail workers’ mental health and the use of relational coordination as a mitigating factor. She is currently the co-director of the IPE Center in the College of Health and Human Services.
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Dr. Kathyrn Hughesdon, Ph.D., RN
Philosophy in Nursing Doctorate Level Professional
Dr. Kathryn Hughesdon is an Assistant Professor at Eastern Michigan University School of Nursing. She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Michigan School of Nursing. She went on from her BSN to pursue her Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Michigan as a Hillman Scholar in Nursing Innovation. Her dissertation focused on interpersonal problems in adolescents with trauma histories.
Dr. Hughesdon is passionate about the education and implementation of trauma-informed care into practice to improve client outcomes. She has practiced as an RN in child and adolescent psychiatry and has experience implementing trauma-informed care principles into practice. She has several publications in national and international journals focused on trauma and mental health. In addition, she has presented her work locally, regionally, and nationally. Dr. Hughesdon is co-lead faculty for the Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing program at Eastern Michigan University School of Nursing.
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Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCW-S
Masters Level Social Work Professional
Diane Bigler, LCSW, LSCSW, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Missouri and Kansas with over 25 years of experience in the mental health field. She has held clinical positions as an outpatient and in-home therapist, and clinical supervisor. Diane was an Adjunct Professor of Social Work for 10 years at The University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare, and a Field Liaison and Field Instructor. She has also held administrative positions as a Program Director and Coordinator. Diane is a popular local and national trainer on a wide variety of mental health and workplace development topics for clinicians and corporations. Diane is most passionate about providing quality professional development to clinicians, employees, and leaders. For fun, Diane loves to spoil her four Dachshunds and rock out to 80’s music.
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Chris McDonald, LCMHC
Masters Level Counseling Professional
Chris McDonald is a LCMHCS, Holistic Licensed Therapist, Yogi, Meditation Teacher, and Author. She is Certified in Brainspotting, is a 200-hour Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT), and offers gentle yoga to clients in sessions. In her group practice, she specializes in the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and grief in young adults. Chris also offers Therapy for Therapists, Clinical Supervision and is the host of “The Holistic Counseling Podcast.” She is a Meditation Teacher on the Aura app and Insight Timer. Her favorite holistic daily routines include yoga and meditation.
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Yolanda Brown-Spidell, MA, CTRT
Masters Level Counseling Professional & Certified Trauma Resilience Trainer
Yolanda Brown-Spidell is a mom, educator, sociologist, parent advocate, and the Executive Director of Eaglets Educational Consulting Firm, LLC. She has been an educator for over 20 years. She completed her undergraduate studies at Eastern Michigan University in psychology and holds a Master’s degree from National University in human behavioral psychology. She is a sociology professor, a certificated state of Michigan K-12 administrator, a Certified Trauma and Resilience Trainer (CTRT), and a Michigan ACE Community Champion Presenter (MACC). Her passion is to be impactful in the lives of everyone she encounters! Her areas of coaching/consulting include: DEI, trauma, resilience, and coaching people through life transitions in the areas of parenting, creating and maintaining authentic relationships, parental care and loss (the sandwich generation) and work/life balance.
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Tonya M. Logan, LICSW and LCSW-C
Masters Level Counseling Professional & CEO of Kayla’s Village
Tonya M. Logan, LICSW and LCSW-C, has over 30 years of professional clinical experience working with those managing conflict and trauma. A native Washingtonian, she received her bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Virginia and her master’s degree in social work from the University of Maryland at Baltimore. Ms. Logan spent the bulk of her career, in D.C. and Maryland, working with biological parents and foster parents by securing permanency whether via reunification, adoption, or independent living. She was the clinical director of a program which provided in-home services to families at-risk of abuse and/or neglect in an attempt to strengthen and stabilize them so they would be diverted from the child welfare system. Ms. Logan was a contractor with an organization in which she facilitated 10-week grief groups for those impacted by homicide following her certification as a grief recovery specialist. She transitioned to being the supervisory social worker in a non-public school for students diagnosed with learning differences, emotional challenges, and/or autism.
Ms. Logan is the Founder and CEO of Kayla’s Village, begun in July 2007, which strives to be the premier provider of innovative seminars and supportive resources for individuals, families, professionals, and communities. Additionally, she is a clinician providing counseling to individuals and couples, provides contractual supervision, teaches Family Violence and Child Abuse as an adjunct professor at Trinity Washington University, and serves on the Advisory Committee of the Center for Infant and Child Loss. Ms. Logan is an active church member of Trinity AME Zion Church and published author, “Mommie’s Bright Sunshine,” speaking to the reality that we can move beyond our trials, tragedies, and trauma without allowing it to define our future. Ms. Logan is the parent of two children, one by adoption and one by birth, and has hosted two exchange students. Obviously, she tries to tailor her life to help others in need.
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Zumrad Ahmedjanova, LCSW-S, LCAS, CCS (she/her)
Masters Level Counseling Professional
Zumrad Ahmedjanova, LCSW-S, LCAS, CCS (she/her) is a mentor, speaker, business owner, licensed clinical social worker and Board-Approved Social Work and Substance Abuse Supervisor with 15 years of experience and a wide range of areas of expertise. Zumrad is a LGBTQ+ ally and trauma-informed psychotherapist in private practice who works with a diverse population including immigrants and first-generation Americans.
As a speaker and a supervisor, Zumrad shares her knowledge on the bio-psychosocial perspective and strategies for emotional well-being, connecting with diverse audiences and clients in a meaningful way. In the ever-evolving field of therapy and healing, Zumrad stands out as a powerfully effective therapist and leader, enriched by her deep understanding of cultural identity.
Her group practice Art of Wellness Counseling has a goal not only assisting clients to gain insight into their problems but also empowering them to make the desired changes they seek to make in their lives. She is a board member of Pro-Bono Counseling Network. Prior to working in private practice, Zumrad managed the Opioid Treatment Program in Durham.
