The Neuroscience Roadmap: Guiding Principles for Clinical Application

4 CEUs - may be counted as Clinical

Friday, May 30th, 2025 11:30am - 3:45pm CT via Zoom
4 CEUs
Hosted by: NASW-MN, NASW-MN, and NASW-TX
Presenters: Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC, Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

This four-hour core clinical program will provide important information in a systematic, readily understandable and easily digestible way about how to integrate emerging neuroscience into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. We will uncover and explore the foundational knowledge base of emerging affective neuroscience that is fundamentally reshaping the field of mental health practice and changing what is considered best practices in the 21st Century.

This new information will not overwrite or negate the approaches and techniques you are already using effectively in your clinical work, but will rather expand and enhance your effectiveness with a deeper understanding about what works and why it works – while also providing new treatment options based upon newer science.

This is the second program of a series of programs designed to help master’s level clinicians advance their knowledge base in the integration of neuroscience into their practice.


About the Presenters
Charles D. Safford, LCSW is the President and owner of yourceus.com, Inc., a company that develops and markets web-based and live continuing education training for mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Having graduated from the Boston University School of Social Work in 1981, Mr. Safford has served as a clinician in private practice since 1990. Mr. Safford has been developing and delivering innovative training programs since 2001, when he merged his training and therapy skills to create yourceus.com, Inc., a company that teaches and trains mental health clinicians on a nationwide basis. Working in collaborative relationships with numerous state chapters of NASW, he has been offering both live and web-based programs encompassing the best and most recent knowledge and skills in the field of mental health and has delivered dozens of programs on various aspects of ethical practice. For the past 15 years, Mr. Safford has been building a comprehensive program to bridge neuroscience and clinical practice to help clinicians around the country meet their ethical obligations to remain current with emerging areas of knowledge relevant to clinical practice.

Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA is an EMDR certified clinician with over 30 years of experience providing clinical services with specialization in Complex PTSD, integrating body-oriented psychotherapy, ego state psychotherapy with attention to attachment, and neuroscience underpinnings to healing trauma. She has served as a facilitator with the EMDR Institute since 1999 and has presented numerous workshops addressing neuroscience and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She was the co-developer of a training program on neuroscience and domestic violence for the Maine Chapter of NASW.

Dr Louis Boynton, PhD, LPC is a graduate of the doctoral program at the University of West Georgia and currently works as a clinician in private practice. He has served as the Western district chairperson and ethics chair for the Licensed Professional Counselor Association and presented numerous continuing education programs on both ethics and clinical topics. His instructional work has included presenting papers at several national and international conferences, and in 2011 was awarded the Humanistic Psychologist Award at the University of West Georgia. For the past eight years, he has delivered a radio program to the public on mental health called the Health Happiness and Harmony Hour and has served as a web consultant and research advisor to the University of West Georgia. He has served as a co-developer of a program designed to more quickly elevate the competency of newer clinicians called the Comprehensive Professional Development Program, integrating emerging knowledge from neuroscience with best practice clinical approaches and techniques.

Pricing & Registration
NASW Member $50
NASW Not-Yet-Member $85
NASW Student $25
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