Date: Thursday, September 11, 2025
Time: 11:00 am – 2:15 pm ET / 8:00 am – 11:15 am PT

Presented by: Landis Bejar, LMHC-D, LPC
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To be eligible for a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire live training and complete an evaluation form within 24 hours following the live event.

Please note: This training is not eligible for CE credits.

Online Training Description:

Reentering society after incarceration is a complex process, particularly for justice-involved individuals with histories of sexual offending, intimate partner violence, or other behaviors that place them at risk of perpetrating harm. Professionals in the field play a crucial role in supporting these individuals as they work to rebuild trust, connection, and healthy relationships. Grounded in relational, trauma-informed, and accountability-centered frameworks, this training offers participants a compassionate approach to working with justice-involved clients and the crucial skills that help prevent further harmful behavior.

Through a blend of psychoeducation, interactive discussion, and hands-on skill-building, participants learn how to accompany clients in an exploration of boundary setting, consent, attachment dynamics, shame resilience, and the impact of social stigma on relational development. Special attention is given to navigating dating, disclosure, and emotional vulnerability in ways that prioritize both client safety and community responsibility.

Bejar also addresses the internalized narratives that justice-involved individuals may carry about themselves as partners or community members—narratives that often interfere with their capacity for intimacy and connection.

As a result of this training, participants will be able to:

1) Identify key relational and psychological challenges that justice-involved individuals face during reintegration, particularly in social and romantic contexts.
2) Apply trauma-informed and accountability-centered clinical strategies to support clients in building safe, respectful, and consensual relationships.
3) Demonstrate core healthy relationship skills—including setting boundaries, communicating effectively, regulating emotions, and navigating vulnerability—to clients who may lack previous models of safe and supportive partnership.
4) Express client support in exploring their self-concept and identity reconstruction, with an emphasis on reducing shame and fostering self-awareness, self-respect, and relational integrity.
5) Describe the practical and emotional complexities of dating post-incarceration, including decision-making, disclosure, consent, rejection resilience, and developing respectful approaches to initiating and sustaining connection.

Interactive Follow-Up Meeting

Attendees are invited to join an open discussion 15 minutes following the end of the training, where you can engage with fellow attendees by turning on your camera and microphone. This is an opportunity to share your experiences and contribute to a meaningful exchange of ideas. Time will be allocated to address questions or insights from the training. Please note that attendance is optional and will not affect your eligibility for a training certificate.

We can refund your training fee up to 24 hours prior to the start of the training.

To view all training details and review our list of frequently asked questions, please click here to visit the promotional page.