We design learning spaces that invite curiosity, courage, reflection, and connection across identities, disciplines, and systems.
Whether you join a live workshop, dive into self-paced eLearning, or partner with us as a course creator, our aim is the same: to support ethical, embodied, and justice-oriented professional practice.
LOVEWELL INITIATIVES
Mission, Values & Framework
Our Mission
To provide continuing education that strengthens relational integrity, deepens systemic awareness, and supports practitioners in developing equitable, trauma-informed, and culturally attuned care.
Guiding Values
Relational &
Reflexive Practice
We cultivate authenticity, presence, and systemic self-awareness—inviting learners to examine how their personal history, privilege, and positionality shape their professional work (Aponte & Kissil, 2016).
Decolonized
Learning
We challenge hierarchical and colonial norms in education, drawing from liberatory teaching traditions that value dialogue, collaboration, and shared power (Hooks, 1994; Freire, 1970).
Anti-Racist &
Anti-Oppressive Practice
We actively resist racism, sexism, ableism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and all systems of oppression. Our spaces emphasize dignity, equity, and collective care (Kendi, 2019; Sue et al., 2007).
Community &
Reciprocity
Knowledge is co-created. We center lived experience and collective wisdom as essential sources of professional learning.
Trauma-Informed
Andragogy
Our programs prioritize safety, empowerment, and consent in alignment with trauma-informed principles (SAMHSA, 2014; Knowles et al., 2015).
Accessibility
& Inclusion
We ensure equitable participation in compliance with the ADA and the Washington Law Against Discrimination (WLAD; RCW 49.60). Accessibility is built into our design, not added later.
Our Framework:
Trauma-Informed Andragogy
Andragogy (Knowles, 1984) refers to how adults learn—through collaboration, relevance, and lived experience.
Trauma-informed andragogy recognizes that adults learn best when they feel emotionally safe, culturally honored, and empowered to participate at their own pace (Bloom, 1995; SAMHSA, 2014).
What clinicians say
Trusted by the clinicians we serve
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I've attended several Lovewell trainings, and each time I come away feeling like your CE team knew what I needed to learn even before I did. Bravo!
Jordan Klekamp, LMHC, WA
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Teachings from the Lovewell Initiatives are excellent! I would recommend them to any colleagues. The presenters are informed, engaging, and create thoughtful opportunities to explore how the material can be applied to your own lived experiences.
Austin Cresap, LMFT, WA
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I felt both appropriately challenged and encouraged in my training with Lovewell. Run by therapists who approach therapy and learning from a systemic lens, I finally have a training that I could use right away to improve my work with clients.
Elizabeth Lemon, LMFT, WA & CO
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What a phenomenal training, it felt like real education, which is a funny way to describe a training but I really gained so much from this. It was true insight into the struggles our clients may be feeling and how often systemic factors dismiss and isolate and what we can serve as providers.
Ramona Jones, LMFT, WA
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I always get a lot out of Lovewell Trainings - I trust them implicitly!
Anonymous, LMFT, WA
Our CE Services
Live Workshops & Events
Our live trainings bring learners together for experiential, embodied, community-centered continuing education. Each program integrates reflection, creativity, and clear clinical relevance.
See every upcoming date on our training calendar, with CE hours, Washington requirement designations, presenters, and pricing in one place.
Building Cultures of Safety in Mental Health Practice: Workplace Violence Prevention & Response
CE Credits: 1.25 NBCC CE hours
Available on demand, start anytime. The live spring cohorts have completed.
Menopause and Mental Health: Understanding Hormonal Change in the Therapy Room
6 CE hours · NBCC & AASECT approved
This in-person training was last offered June 2026 and may return next spring.
When Neurodiversity Is the ‘Problem’
Self-paced course: 3 NBCC CE hours · Live training: 3 NBCC CE hours and 3 hours WA DOH Health Equity CE
The self-paced version is open for pre-order now and releases in November. Last offered live in July 2026.
Professional Roles and Boundaries: Consent, Power, and Practice
CE Credits: 2 NBCC CE hours · 2 AASECT CE credits · Meets WA DOH Roles & Boundaries requirement
Available on demand, start anytime.
Professional Roles & Boundaries in Practice: Self-Awareness, Clinical Consent, and Ethical Decision-Making
CE Credits: 3 NBCC CE hours · 3 AASECT CE credits · Meets WA DOH Roles & Boundaries requirement
Live on Zoom · Friday, November 13, 2026, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific · registration open
Missed and Mistaken: Assessing and Treating OCD in Neurodivergent Clients
CE Credits: 3 NBCC CE hours · 2 hours meet the WA DOH health equity requirement
Live on Zoom · Friday, November 6, 2026, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific · registration open
Tarot & Sex Therapy: Exploring Sexuality and Desire Through Archetype, Intuition, and Creative Metaphor
CE Credits: 6 NBCC CE hours · 6 AASECT CE credits
In person, White Center, Seattle · last offered Friday, October 16, 2026 · next session to be announced
Dollars & Differentiation: A Developmental Approach to Financial Conflict in Relationship Therapy
CE Credits: 3 NBCC CE hours
Live on Zoom · Friday, February 26, 2027, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific · early bird pricing through January 29, 2027
Becoming an Approved Supervisor: A Relational Supervision Intensive
CE Credits: 15 NBCC CE hours · 6 hours professional law and ethics · 2 hours roles and boundaries · 2 hours health equity
Meets the Washington 15-hour clinical supervision training requirement (WAC 246-809)
In person, Federal Way · last offered Friday and Saturday, September 11 and 12, 2026 · next cohort to be announced
Partner With Us
Create Your Own CE Course
(Launching soon)
We’re expanding our services to support clinicians, educators, and subject-matter experts who want to turn their expertise into a high-quality CE course—without needing to become an approved provider themselves.
Why Train With Lovewell?
Continuing Education Compliance
Lovewell Initiatives is an NBCC Approved Continuing Education Provider™ (ACEP No. 7776) and an AASECT Approved Continuing Education Provider (Provider No. 25-0609-LI, approval valid through June 30, 2027). Lovewell Initiatives, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7776. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Lovewell Initiatives, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
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