Incorporating Journaling and Expressive Writing

Incorporating Journaling and Expressive Writing into Clinical Practice

DATE: Friday, May 23, 2025

TIME: 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST // 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. CT // 7:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. PT // 8:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. MT

PLATFORM: Via Zoom Webinar

COST: $119

FEATURES:

Live & Interactive Webinar
Presentation Slides PDF & Additional Resources Included
Provides for 6 hours of Clinical training

Journaling and expressive writing are powerful therapeutic tools that help clients process emotions, gain insight, and foster resilience. This training will provide you with practical strategies to integrate these techniques into clinical practice, drawing from research in narrative therapy, cognitive-behavioral approaches, and trauma-informed care. Participants will explore different types of journaling exercises, including structured prompts, free writing, and guided reflection, to support clients in enhancing self-awareness, regulating emotions, and reframing distressing experiences.

Through experiential activities, you will learn how to tailor expressive writing interventions to diverse client needs, whether working with anxiety, depression, trauma, or personal growth. Ethical considerations, confidentiality, and ways to navigate resistance will also be addressed. By the end of the training, you will have a toolkit of evidence-based writing techniques to confidently incorporate into your sessions, empowering clients to use writing as a vehicle for healing and transformation.

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

Define “journaling therapy” and “expressive writing”
Describe the clinical benefits of expressive writing
Analyze various types of expressive writing
Identify the best ways to introduce expressive writing to clients
Describe which types of expressive writing are most appropriate depending on the client’s presenting issues
Describe common obstacles to client engagement with expressive writing and how to manage them

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6 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 6 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 6 Clinical continuing education credits.

Purchase Instructions

Registration Deadline: Register up until the start time!

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

Evaluation / Certificate: Within 4 hours of the webinar’s completion, 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 and interactive webinar, which means that participants can interact with other participants and the instructor in real-time. To receive CE credit, participants must be signed in by the webinar start time, attend the entire course, and complete the evaluation. Partial credit is not provided.

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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 developed a 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. Before 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.”