October 24, 2025
9:00 am – 12:15 pm Eastern US
Live, interactive webinar
3 CE credits
Price: $75
This workshop is designed to augment doctoral level education in working with suicide ideation in therapy. It builds on foundational training in ethical principles and deepens self-awareness of the challenges to staying present and grounded in current standards of care when fear and stress are evoked for the therapist. Current relevant research and literature in this area will be utilized as a framework to introducing this approach. Much is asked of mental health providers in treating suicidality in clients. Close adherence to the complex interplay of professional standards of care, laws, risk management strategies, and the APA Code of Ethics, including the principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, justice, and respecting patient autonomy to ensure competent care is important. Given the stressful nature of the work, strengthening the skills needed to remain present, reflective, collaborative, and self-aware, mindfulness practices can be an important tool in enhancing the treatment of patients with suicide ideation. This program will discuss ways to apply mindfulness skills in working with suicide ideation both in the exploration of the therapist’s own reactions to suicidal clients and to ensure intentional interventions that are grounded in the literature, collaborative, transparent, and adhere to ethical standards. There will be opportunities for group discussion as well as practice and exercises for individual reflection to strengthen learning.
Target audience: Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists.
Instructional level of activity: Intermediate
The content and materials in this program may include interventions and treatment modalities that are beyond the scope and practice of your profession. You are responsible for reviewing and knowing the scope and practice of your profession, as defined by law and your profession’s standards.
Participants will be able to:
9:00 – 10:15 am
– Introduction to current literature on collaborative and relational approaches to working with suicide ideation.
– Overview of relevant ethical principles to this framework
– Introduction to mindfulness practice and research on the connection between a mindfulness approach to therapeutic intervention and improved therapy outcome and alliance building
– Introduction to specific mindfulness skills
10:15 – 10:30 am Break (does not count toward CE credit time)
10:30 – 12:15 pm
– Guided exercise to practice mindfulness skills
– Guided individual reflection exercise to identify reactions/attitudes toward working with suicide ideation
– Exercise to apply ethical principles to a case vignette, using the principle of respecting patient autonomy as the goal/intention
– Individual exercise to use insights to make a plan/guide for approaching suicide ideation from a mindful, ethically-grounded, and collaborative perspective
– Ethical considerations, limitations of the research, potential risks, and discussion
Marilia Marien, PhDMarilia Marien is a licensed psychologist in private practice with over 25 years of experience. Dr. Marien offers training and coaching to mental health and allied healthcare professionals who want to learn mindfulness to enhance their well-being and/or to integrate it into their professional work. She has extensive experience in supervision and training including coordinating a psychology extern training program for over 20 years. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Arcadia University, and Villanova University. Dr. Marien is a certified teacher of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction and certified Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy facilitator. Dr. Marien has been teaching mindfulness individually and in groups for over 12 years and has had a personal meditation practice for over 20 years. She develops and leads mindfulness-based groups, courses, workshops, retreats, and trainings.
Cancellation/Refund Policy:
Should you choose to cancel your registration, program fees are 100% refundable up to 72 hours before the start of the program. There are no refunds for cancellations made less than 72 hours before the program and no shows. Cancellations must be made in writing and sent via email.
Registrations cannot be postponed and fees cannot be transferred to future events.
If for any reason the program is cancelled, the liability of Marilia Marien shall be limited to a full refund of registration fees.
CE Credit:
To receive credit for this program, you must attend it in it’s entirety. No partial credit will be awarded. To receive credit for this program, a participant may arrive no more than 10 minutes late and may not leave more than 10 minutes early. There will be no exceptions.
Your CE certificate will be emailed to you within a week of the program. It takes a few days to verify your attendance and for those who are required, give you the opportunity to complete your evaluation form.
CE credit is not provided to program participants watching in groups. Participants must register and login individually to receive credit. Please email marilia@mariliamarien.com if you have additional questions.
Disclosure of potential conflicts of interest and financial support:
There is no financial support or any potential conflict of interest or commercial support related to this program. No individuals who have the ability to control or influence the content of this program have a relevant relationship with any commercial interest, including but not limited to members of the continuing education committee, speakers, presenters, authors, and/or content reviewers.
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Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Professional Counselors
In Pennsylvania, you can receive continuing education from continuing education providers approved by the American Psychological Association. Since Marilia Marien is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education, licensed social workers, licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and licensed professional counselors will be able to fulfill their continuing education requirement by attending continuing education programs sponsored by Marilia Marien.
To learn more about this, contact your state licensing board. You can also read more by going to the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors.