Upcoming Region Five Training
September 2025
Safety Planning and Lethal Means Counseling

Location
- Online
- Zoom
Category
Learning Objectives:
At the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- – Identify the two leading theories of suicide, their core components, and how they directly shape safety planning and lethal means counseling.
- – Implement evidenced-based suicide safety planning tools.
- – Describe an environmentally based approach to suicide care, including specific strategies to apply this approach.
Date: September 16th, 2025 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Trainer: Adam Graham
Adam Graham is a licensed professional counselor and clinical consultant with TBD Solutions. With over 15 years of experience in the community mental health system, Adam has served in roles ranging from crisis counselor to Director of Emergency Psychiatric Services with Mental Health Cooperative in Nashville, TN. During these 15 years Adam partnered with the FBI, Secret Service, and Department of Homeland Security to enhance crisis treatment and prevent violence for individuals interacting with federal law enforcement and were experiencing a behavioral health crisis.
Additionally, Adam has worked as a contract behavioral health threat assessment consultant with Google and YouTube, as an adjunct professor in Vanderbilt University’s graduate counselor program, as a private practice counselor, and as an international volunteer aid worker.
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Clinical Supervision: Fostering Clinical Excellence

Location
- Online
- Zoom
Category
Through this training, learners will:
- – Explore the basics of clinical supervision including what it is, who it is for, who can provide it, and what it requires.
- – Enhance their understanding of the supervision relationship by considering rapport, conflicts of interest, and mutual commitment to the learning process.
- – Learn techniques, useful tools, and gain practical resources for supervision provision, improving confidence in your ability to provide clinical guidance and support.
2.5 CEUs are available!
Date: September 24th, 2025 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Virtual via Zoom
Trainer: Michelle McCarthy LPC, NCC
Michelle McCarthy currently serves as a clinical administrator at the WTCSB, overseeing a variety of teams including outpatient counseling, mental health case management, internship coordination and internal/regional training coordination. Since completing her Master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Regent University, Michelle has both provided and supervised clinical care in a variety of capacities including outpatient counseling and community-based services.
Having obtained her LPC in 2020, Michelle has had the pleasure of providing licensure supervision as well as administrative supervision to clinical staff, expanding her skills as a clinical supervisor along the way. Michelle is passionate about the provision of quality client care, believing that investing in the growth and never-ending development of ourselves and the staff providing these services is the key to high quality client care.