Accessing Cognitions of Choice $499.00 

25-Hr CE Course

If you’d like to know more call Clare Steffen, Ed.D., ND, CADCII, ICADC, CNHP, CMH, NCC, BCC at 541.221.3408

This course offers a 25-hour training (4-one hour phone or webinar sessions and 21-hours in CECircuit, our online education learning system).

In this course you will:

  • Learn a New Choice Thinking Model that you can easily teach to your clients
  • Learn how to apply the Cognitions of Choice to assist your clients in developing critical and creative thinking
  • Acquire a universal system of coaching that can be utilized and applied to any client
  • Understand personality traits and be able to guide your clients in learning more about their own personality traits
  • Assist your clients in learning how to access their choice cognitions to improve their lives
  • Teach your clients how to restructure unhealthy habits, patterns of thinking or feeling
  • Teach your clients how to invite, investigate, and initiate change
  • Teach your clients how to access automatic thought, meta-thinking, and mindfulness
  • Help clients explore critical and creative thinking
  • Assist your clients in learning how to reach their goals
  • Learn a new counseling tool,  Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment to focus collaborative counseling efforts
  • Consider Universal Design in all Counseling Settings
  • Assess yourself using the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment and learn how to interpret the assessment
  • Assess two clients the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment and learn how to interpret the assessment
  • Gain the confidence to utilize New Choice Thinking, Cognitions of Choice, and the Creating Confidence Thinking Assessment with your clients

Choice, Trauma & Resilience  $229.00

10-Hr CE Course

If you’d like to know more call Clare Steffen, Ed.D., ND, CNHP, CMH, CADCII, ICADC, NCC, BCC at 541.221.3408

This course offers a 10-hour training (1-one hour phone or webinar sessions and 9-hours in CECircuit, our online education learning system).

In this course you will:

  • Learn how people adapt to trauma
  • Explore how trauma can disrupt development
  • Understand how trauma impacts attachment
  • Consider how to incorporate emotional regulation into treatment
  • Examine how dissociation works and why it may serve to protect the brain
  • Connect health and wellness and promote choice in healing
  • Retrain the brain to improve choice
  • Learn how to communicate the effects of Post-traumatic growth
  • Be alerted to vicarious trauma
  • Be equipped to provide trauma-informed counseling

Active Neurodiversity Counseling $279.00


15-HR CEcourse with 13-hours on online education and two hours of training with Dr. Clare Steffen.

Course Content:

Assessing LOSS
Sensory Stimulation Systems
Attention Systems
Memory Functions
Communication Systems
The Power of Different
Why Can’t I Be “Normal”
Neurodiverse Tribes
Creating a Balanced Brain
Choice and The Future of Neurodiversity

Neurodiversity occurs in individuals for a multitude of reasons and is a complex picture which can make counseling difficult and challenging. You will have access to Dr. Clare Steffen’s assessment, Limitations of Sensory Systems (LOSS) and learn how to apply it and have a deeper understanding of clients who are neurodiverse. These differences result in an array of strengths and limitations. Many of these limitations are viewed as losses; socially, emotionally, and cognitively, but perhaps there is another way in which they can be viewed. Regardless, the experience of these losses are real for the individual and their families and must be accurately assessed if acceptance is to occur. Once acknowledged, there is an opportunity to reframe these losses as we search for the strengths within the individual. At times, these losses result in brain imbalances, which require attention to re-balance. Understanding brain wiring and in specific the sensory, attention, and memory systems and how they work collectively will allow your counseling to have more depth than the average approach to counseling for disability as compared to ability. We have numerous social examples of individuals who are or were neurodiverse who made great contributions in various fields of intellectual development. Social and cultural changes appear to be creating shifts in brain structure and therefore are changing the terrain of what is considered “normal.” The tribal view of groups of diverse individuals who gravitate toward one another for acceptance is activating a social and cultural shift. The approach to counseling must be active as well as proactive, as a stagnant approach will not support the brain differences that are a reality in these individuals. The influences of technology and changes in brain wiring have impacted communication. The melding of diversity within a culture that defines “normal” in a manner that does not fully assimilate these differences can result in individual stress and brain imbalances. Offering techniques to the brain and calm the brain is a necessity if the picture of neurodiversity is to be fully appreciated. Supporting a hopeful future that is not limited and acknowledges choice as a key component assists in creating movement toward acceptance for diversity, appreciation, and acknowledgment of the power of difference.