Cally Sullivan is a licensed mental health counselor in the states of
Massachusetts and Florida. She currently works as a trauma therapist at Inverted Dawn Counseling in Gainesville, Florida, and provides training to other mental health professionals on maintaining suicidal youth in the community. Previously, she worked in a variety of settings, including as a member of the Child Focused Team with North Suffolk Mental Health Association’s section of the Boston Emergency Services Team providing assessment and stabilization services to suicidal youth in Boston, MA and the surrounding communities. Additionally, she has worked in community-based teams and residential facilities for youth that have experienced trauma, or have otherwise been involved in the child welfare system.
Stabilization of Adolescent Suicidality and Self-Harm
This course is designed to empower outpatient therapists to better service the adolescent population involved with suicidal thoughts and self-injury. The goals of the course will be for clinicians to learn the Stabilization of Adolescent Suicidality and Self-Harm Model. This model addresses suicidal ideation and/ or self-harm actions as symptoms that require specific stabilization at the beginning of treatment, rather than the ongoing treatment concern. The wrap around model is designed to ensure that youth, caregiver, and clinician have a clear understanding of the volatility of the safety co...Read morencerns, awareness of specific triggers, effective coping tools, and appropriate roles of the treatment team in treating suicidality in adolescents. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Define a child with a serious emotional disturbance (SED).
- Define an individual with a serious mental illness (SMI).
- Determine the key (3) differences between SED and SMI.
- List five common treatment errors in addressing suicidal or self-harming youth in outpatient therapy.
- List available the five levels of care and define their use in overall treatment.
- Define "imminent risk" regarding mental health, and it's relation to involuntary commitment
- Define the role of the caregiver in treatment.
- Define the role of the youth in treatment.
- Identify and explain the use of the nine S.A.S.S documents
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.
Learning Levels
- This training is open to all independently licensed clinicians, registered interns, or students working with the adolescent population. Clinicians that have graduated from accredited programs should have at least one year of experience working with the adolescent population in any setting.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
Live Interactive Webinar
09:00 AM EST - 04:00 AM EST
EARN 6 CE Credit Hours
About the speaker
Cally Sullivan, LMHC
Owner, Inverted Dawn Counseling
Agenda
09:00am- 12:00pm Suicidality, Adolescents, and General Risk
12:00pm- 01:00pm Lunch
01:00pm- 03:00pm SASS Protocols Overview
03:00pm- 04:00pm SASS Role Plays
CE Information - Earn 6 CE Credit Hours including
0 Youth Mental Health Treatment Hour
0 Suicide Prevention Hour
0 Counselor Training Hour
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FACULTY
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Consultant - AbbVie, ANeuroTech (division of Anima BV), Signant Health, Magstim, Inc., Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc., EMA Wellness, Sage, Silo Pharma, Engrail Therapeutics, Pasithea Therapeutic Corp., GoodCap Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Senseye, Clexio, Ninnion Therapeutics, EmbarkNeuro, SynapseBio, BioXcel Therapeutics, Relmada Therapeutics
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Advisor - ANeuroTech (division of Anima BV), Brain and Behavior Research Foundation (BBRF), Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA), Skyland Trail, Signant Health, Laureate Institute for Brain Research (LIBR), Inc., Heading Health, Pasithea Therapeutic Corp., Sage
Executive Role - Gratitude America, ADAA, Lucy Scientific Discovery, Inc.
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