Neuroscience Pathways to Healing: Cutting Edge Interventions for Depressive Disorders

3 CEUs

Friday, January 30th, 2026 12:00pm - 3:15pm CST via Zoom
3 CEUs 
Hosted by: NASW-MN, NASW-VT, and NASW-TX
Presenters: Charles D. Safford, LCSW and Celia Grand, LCSW, BCD, PA

This three-hour core clinical program will provide important information about how to integrate emerging neuroscience concerned with depression and depressive disorders into your clinical practice in a clinically appropriate and ethically compliant manner. Designed to bring the 21st Century clinician up to date on current research related to advances in our understanding of depression-related disorders - etiology, assessment and treatment - this course will provide practical tools and approaches to assist the clinician in providing more effective treatment for clients addressing depressive disorders. 

This program is part of a series 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.

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