Understanding and Treating Addiction: A Comprehensive Clinical Training
Support Recovery — Don’t Just Treat Symptoms
Addiction is complex, deeply human, and often misunderstood. To help clients and families heal, clinicians need more than basic knowledge — they need a comprehensive understanding of the biological, psychological, and social forces that drive substance use and recovery.
This 15-hour CE training provides a complete framework for understanding, assessing, and treating substance use disorders (SUDs). Grounded in evidence-based theory and trauma-informed practice, you’ll learn how to assess risk, recognize addiction’s impact across systems, and guide individuals and families toward sustainable recovery.
What You’ll Learn
By the end of this training, you’ll be able to confidently:
✅ Define and evaluate alcoholism, substance abuse, and chemical dependency
✅ Understand the medical, psychological, and neurological aspects of addiction
✅ Explain and apply major theories of addiction etiology
✅ Identify family and systemic dynamics that sustain or enable use
✅ Compare major treatment approaches and match clients to appropriate levels of care (RTC, PHP, IOP, outpatient)
✅ Understand and apply ASAM criteria for assessment and placement
✅ Integrate trauma-informed, compassion-based care into treatment planning
✅ Navigate the legal and ethical considerations in addiction treatment
✅ Recognize and support high-risk populations
✅ Locate and refer to community-based resources for clients and families
✅ Incorporate prevention and psychoeducation into your work with individuals and groups
Why This Training Matters
Comprehensive & Clinically Relevant: Meets state CE content requirements and prepares you for real-world application.
Integrative Approach: Connects trauma, nervous system regulation, and addiction treatment.
Systems-Focused: Addresses the full context of addiction — individual, family, and community.
Practical & Engaging: Learn through case examples, experiential activities, and discussion that translate directly to practice.
Training Details
Dates: January 10 & 11, 2026
Time: 8am -5pm PST
Location: (in person and virtual options available): 3822 Campus Dr Suite 500, Newport Beach, CA 92660
Online via Zoom
Cost: $300
There will be a 1 hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks, this time is not included in CE time.
Sign up now!Meet Your Trainers
Lynn Jimenez, LCSW, PPSC is the founder of CFG and has ~20 years in the field. Her clinical specialties include: trauma, nervous system dysregulation, attachment, and substance abuse use. Personally, Lynn has witnessed the devastation addiction causes families and the hope recovery provides.
Tara Wright, CADC -II has over a decade of experience in substance use and dual diagnosis programs. Tara specializes in trauma-related addiction, chronic relapse, codependency, and family dynamics. Active in her own recovery, she brings lived experience and leadership to her work.
This course meets the qualifications for 15 hours of CE credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Lunch and breaks are excluded from CE time.
Certificates awarded within 48 hours of completion.
Non BBS registered participants are welcome to attend, CE credits will not be awarded.
Lynn Jimenez dba Connect Flow Grow is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for school mental health professionals. Lynn Jimenez dba CFG maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content
CAMFT approval #1032823
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