Live Webinar Day: Clinician in Marketing Summer Sprint
Continuing Education (CE) credits provided through ACE, ASWB’s Approved Continuing Education Program.
Continuing Education (CE) credits provided through ACE, ASWB’s Approved Continuing Education Program.
This 6-hour, live, interactive Zoom webinar was designed for private practice owners and social work professionals. Please see below for a detailed agenda with timing.
Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentations and participate in instructor-led discussions. Registration will be open until two days prior to the event, with fees paid via the online registration link directly.
Timed Course Agenda & Details
Course Title: Scope of Practice: The Ethical Dangers of Scarcity Mindset
Time: 9:00-10:30 am Central
Instructor: Jessica Tappana, LCSW
Level: Beginning to Intermediate
CE Credits: 1.5, Ethics
Course Description: Many clinicians in private practice worry about where the next client will come from. Unfortunately, the danger is that this fear can lead to working with clients who are outside a clinician’s area of competence. In this training, clinicians will discuss the importance of considering your areas of competence in everything you do including clinical work, marketing, and day-to-day decision-making as a professional.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will be able to define scarcity mindset, identify ways it can show up in private practice, and describe the potential impact it can have on clients
Participants will compare ways professional codes of ethics (NASW, APA, etc) address issues of competence
Participants will give examples of their own areas of competence and incompetence
Participants will apply their ethical standards related to competence to how they market their services
Course Title: The Evidence-Based Practices People ARE and ARE NOT Searching for By Name
Time: 10:45-12:15 pm Central
Instructor: Jessica Tappana, LCSW
Level: Intermediate
CE Credits: 1.5, Clinical
Course Description: More and more clinicians are receiving training and even certification for clinical interventions that are supported by research. This training will provide a basic definition of evidence-based practice, a discussion of common evidence-based interventions, and a discussion about what clients who will benefit from those interventions are looking for when they need your services.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will define evidence-based practice
Participants will create a list of evidence-based practices they are familiar with as well as ones they hope to receive future trainings on
Participants will be able to provide a general description of several different evidence-based treatments
Participants will identify what potential clients who will benefit from their interventions may describe what they are looking for
Course Title: How to Ethically Represent Yourself on Your Website
Time: 12:45-2:15 pm Central
Instructor: Danica Wolf, MSW
Level: Intermediate
CE Credits: 1.5, Ethics
Course Description: Balancing the demands of modern marketing methods and maintaining professional boundaries is a difficult area for many clinicians. Brand representation for solo and group practice clinicians is often key to ethical professional representation, especially on a website. This session will involve an honest and robust discussion about the professional self, and how to ethically represent this professional self in an authentic and appropriate way on a website. Topics and technical assistance will include; creating compelling and compassionate copy, professional & personal photo boundaries, choosing keywords and key phrases with search intent in mind, serving multiple locations, etc.
Learning Objectives:
Participants will identify areas of their identity and professional self that are most salient to their work and client experiences
Participants will begin to choose and categorize specific keywords that their ideal clients are searching for, with specificity, and taking into account search intent
Participants will discover and discuss ways to incorporate photos, phrases, and locations that should be used for clarity of the message
Participants will analyze all variables discussed in order to create an implementation plan for improving their self and brand representation on website
Course Title: Using Your Website to Reach Diverse and Representative Populations
Time: 2:30-4:00 pm Central
Instructor: Danica Wolf, MSW
Level: Intermediate to Advanced
CE Credits: 1.5, Social & Cultural Competence
Course Description: SEO is a powerful strategy to use one of your most powerful practice tools: your website. Client psychoeducation and expectation management can happen from their first engagement with a clinician’s or practice’s website. This session will build upon prior workshop courses to focus on how to leverage your messaging, photos, videos, and technical aspects of your website in a way that will boost SEO for your ideal clients in your ideal location(s).
Learning Objectives:
Participants will review and discuss access and accessibility issues as related to website presence and content.
Participants will more fully understand and be able to acknowledge their role in influencing the clinical culture in which they exist and practice.
Participants will more fully understand and be able to acknowledge their role in influencing the clinical culture in which they exist and practice.
Participants will identify their local, state, and/or regional focus areas for ideal clients
Participants will determine where and how to target appropriate language (keywords) and locations
Participants will integrate these keywords and location indicators into existing and new website elements
CE Details
Target Audience: Social Workers, Mental Health Clinicians, and Private Practice Owners
CE Info & Course Completion Requirements: To earn CE credit, social workers must log in at the scheduled time, attend the entire course with video on, and complete an online course evaluation provided and submitted via Google Form within 24 hours of course completion. Certificates of completion will be emailed to eligible participants within 30 days of course completion. Please see our CE Grievance Policy for complaints and other details, if needed.
*Please note: if you are only able to attend certain sessions, you are not eligible for CE credit. Please consider our “Fall Clinician in Marketing Webinar Series” instead, as a way to register for individual courses.
For questions, concerns or to request special accommodations, please email Contact@simplifiedseoconsulting.com at least 24 hours prior to the workshop.
Registration must be completed up to 24 hours before the course start time. However, refunds must be requested at least 72 hours before the course starts and may incur a processing fee. Please see our CE Grievance Policy for full refund policy and other details. If cancellation and/or rescheduling is needed by Simplifed SEO Consulting, all registered participants will be notified of the new date/time as soon as possible and will receive a credit for the rescheduled or canceled course.
Simplified SEO Consulting, #1874, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 7/18/2023 – 7/18/2024. Social workers completing this webinar will receive 6 total continuing education credits.
System Requirements
For any additional questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please email: Contact@simplifiedseoconsulting.com, addressed to Danica Wolf, CE Director.
Most up-to-date system requirements for attending a Zoom webinar can be found here. However, general technology requirements for a live, interactive Zoom webinar include:
A working computer, desktop, or laptop running an updated operating system
An internet connection – broadband wired or wireless (3G, 4G/LTE, or 5G)
Speakers and a microphone – built-in, USB plug-in, or wireless Bluetooth
A webcam or HD webcam – built-in or USB plug-in
Jessica is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, a therapist passionate about providing evidence-based practice, the owner of a medium-sized private pay group practice, the founder/owner/CEO of Simplified SEO Consulting, and an international speaker.
Jessica is trained in DBT, Cognitive Processing Therapy, EMDR, and Exposure & Response Prevention and specializes in evidence-based treatment of PTSD, anxiety & OCD. She finds sticky ethical situations fascinating and loves learning about the nuanced differences between various codes of ethics and is a member of the Missouri NASW Ethics Committee.
As a professional and leader, Jessica has discovered her own unique leadership style that involves building upon the strengths her employees already have. As her team has grown in size and skills/trust/systems, Jessica is expanding the training and speaking she does as she seeks to give back more to the mental health community.
Danica owns Harmony Birth Services of Missouri and is the Chief Operating Officer of Simplified SEO Consulting. She is an engaging and thoughtful trainer and educator with extensive experience presenting to groups of all sizes. From small, intimate gatherings for birth education and postpartum preparation, to classrooms of undergraduate and graduate students as Adjunct Faculty, to auditoriums and arenas of parents, professionals, and Administrators nationally and internationally. Danica’s unique style of blending informative, persuasive, and narrative speaking allows for even the most difficult topics to be presented in an accessible and encouraging way.
Danica has been an advocate and educator since 2005, with expertise in trauma, bystander intervention, mindfulness-based stress reduction, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, full-spectrum doula support, SEO, content marketing, and strengths-based leadership development. As a business owner, multi-passionate entrepreneur, and personnel administrator, Danica values strategic and effective leadership with an individualistic lens. Her passion for meeting each human being where they are and providing creative strategies for success has enhanced the lives of countless people throughout the years.
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Simplified SEO Consulting, #1874, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 7/18/2023 – 7/18/2024. Social workers completing this webinar will receive 6 total continuing education credits.