Introduction to Harm Reduction

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Introduction to Harm Reduction: Beyond All-or-Nothing Approaches to Substance Use Disorders

DATE: Thursday, July 17, 2025

TIME: 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. ET // 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. CT // 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. PT // 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. MT

PLATFORM: Via Zoom Webinar

COST: $39

FEATURES:

Live & Interactive Webinar
Presentation Slides PDF & Additional Resources Included
Provides for 2 CE hours of Clinical

This is a foundational workshop for psychotherapists seeking to expand their approach to working with clients who use substances. This webinar explores harm reduction as a compassionate, client-centered framework that prioritizes safety, autonomy, and incremental change over rigid abstinence-based models. You will learn practical strategies for reducing harm, fostering engagement, and addressing substance use in a nonjudgmental, collaborative manner. Through case studies, discussion, and experiential exercises, you will gain confidence in applying harm reduction principles to support clients in making meaningful progress toward their self-defined goals while maintaining a strong therapeutic alliance.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Identify the keys components of harm reduction
Identify how to introduce harm reduction to clients
Implement therapeutic strategies that are harm-reduction based

$39.00

Categories: Clinical, Live Webinars, Substance Specific

2 CE Hours of Clinical Continuing education
NBCC #7091 & ASWB #1770 Approved Provider

Target Audience: Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialists, Certified Alcohol & Drug Counselors, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapists

Course Level: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

NBCC ACEP # 7091, CE Training Workshops has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #7091. Programs that do not qualify are clearly identified. CE Training Workshops is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CE Training Workshops designates this continuing education activity for 2 continuing education hours.

CE Training Workshops, LLC, #1770, 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: 07/02/2022 – 07/02/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 Clinical continuing education credits.

Purchase Instructions

Registration Deadline: Register up until the start time!

Cost Includes: A PDF of the presentation slides/supplemental training materials and a certificate of completion.

Evaluation / Certificate: Within 4 hours of completing the webinar, participants will receive an email with a link to complete an evaluation. Once completed, the participant can download/print the certificate.

System Requirements: Internet and the ability to log into Zoom webinars when provided a meeting link, which will be sent upon registration.

Interactive Webinar: This is a live & interactive webinar, which means that participants can interact with other participants and the instructor in live time. Participants must be signed in by the webinar start time, attend the entire course, and complete the course evaluation to receive CE credit. Partial credit is not provided.

Additional information can be found on the FAQs webpage AND on the Company & Approving Boards Policies webpage.

Meet Your Facilitator

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.”