Training Programs
Anxiety-Alcohol Loop
Explore how anxiety is learned, how alcohol temporarily relieves it, and how that relief reinforces the cycle in this specialized training on anxiety and substance use.
4.5 CE Hours (MCBAP Specific)
This clinician-focused training from Ginger Kramer Trainings explores the relationship between anxiety and alcohol use to support more effective treatment in clinical practice.
Grounded in CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing, the training focuses on the patterns that maintain anxiety and substance use—not just symptom reduction.
What This Training Covers
- How anxiety is learned and reinforced
- The Anxiety Alarm Loop™ and its clinical application
- The Anxiety–Alcohol Loop™ as a model for substance use
- Why relief drives repetition and dependence
- Avoidance, safety behaviors, and negative reinforcement
- Why insight alone does not create change
- Practical CBT, DBT, and MI interventions
- Clinical frameworks for treatment planning
While alcohol is the primary focus, these same reinforcement patterns apply to other substances and relief-based behaviors.
Designed for Real Clinical Application
- Nervous-system informed
- Clear, teachable client frameworks
- Practical and session-ready
- Built for therapists working with anxiety and substance use
Includes
- 4.5-hour training manual
- Clinical exercises and frameworks
- Post-test assessment
- Certificate of completion (4.5 MCBAP specific CE hours)
Training Programs
Ethics Across the Continuum of Care
Develop stronger ethical reasoning and professional judgment for the complex situations behavioral health professionals face in real clinical practice.
6 CE Hours (MCBAP RELATED)
This graduate-level continuing education training from Ginger Kramer Trainings goes beyond reviewing ethical codes to examine how ethical responsibilities are applied across behavioral health and substance use disorder services.
The training focuses on situations where ethics, law, organizational expectations, client autonomy, professional judgment, and clinical responsibility intersect—and where the right answer may not always be obvious.
What This Training Covers
- Foundational ethical principles in behavioral health practice
- Ethics, law, regulation, and organizational requirements
- Structured ethical decision-making for complex situations
- Professional boundaries and multiple relationships
- Confidentiality and information sharing
- Documentation and professional accountability
- Ethical issues involving technology and artificial intelligence
- Interdisciplinary practice, consultation, and professional responsibility
- Recovery-oriented, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive ethical practice
- Strategies for lifelong ethical practice and professional resilience
Designed for Real Clinical Application
- Complex behavioral health and substance use disorder case examples
- Structured ethical decision-making frameworks
- Guided professional reflection and ethical reasoning
- Practical application across diverse behavioral health settings
- Built for professionals making real-world ethical decisions
Includes
- 6-hour graduate-level training
- Comprehensive clinical case studies
- Ethical decision-making exercises and frameworks
- Module knowledge assessments
- 25-question final assessment
- Certificate of completion
