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Clinical Documentation: Introduction to the Golden Thread (3.5 CEUs)
Spend the day nurturing your heart + mind, as we explore the heavier sides of our work and tend to one another in community (4 CEUs)
Session Focus: Provider Sustainability (4 CE hours)
Taborspace Portland, OR
Friday, November 6 • 9 AM - 1 PM
Overview
Mental Health Providers - Refresh your clinical documentation skills as we explore and learn to integrate the Golden Thread (3.5 CEUs)
Join Us In Person for Continuing Education exploring the Golden Thread within Documentation!
This program is designed to help clinicians understand what the “Golden Thread” is and how to effectively integrate it into clinical documentation throughout the treatment process. The course connects the essential components of assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress notes, highlighting how each must align to support ethical, legal, and clinically effective care.
Eligible for 3.5 CEUs
Required: Participants must be a current mental health provider to attend, registered with a state licensing board or enrolled in an clinical program.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Define the “Golden Thread” approach and explain its role in connecting assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and session documentation throughout the treatment process
Identify legal and ethical requirements related to clinical documentation and apply them to real-world counseling scenarios. Apply strategies for documenting client progress in a way that supports medical necessity and clearly justifies ongoing care.
Demonstrate how to construct a treatment plan that aligns with an accurate diagnosis and incorporates measurable goals informed by the client's presenting concerns and cultural context.
Discuss the responsibility of providers to balance between maintaining comprehensive, ethically sound documentation and protecting the client’s autonomy, dignity, and confidentiality in the clinical record.
Skills development through practice writing documentation samples (e.g., progress notes or treatment plans) that reflect the Golden Thread and integrate cultural and contextual awareness.
Continuing Education will be provided through NBCC. Sankofa Counseling is approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7962. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sankofa Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Sankofa Counseling, LLC is a culturally specific behavioral health organization located in Portland, Oregon. We were founded in 2017 to address persistent mental health inequities impacting Black and African American communities in Oregon. Our mission is to reduce mental health disparities by increasing access to highly skilled, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care while strengthening and sustaining the behavioral health workforce.
Our vision is a behavioral health system in which racial justice, clinical excellence, and workforce sustainability coexist — where providers are resourced, supported, and equipped to deliver care that reflects the lived realities of the communities they serve.
We center our work in the values of liberation psychology, cultural humility, stewardship, transparency, racial equity, community care, integrity, and courage. These values guide not only our clinical services but also our leadership development, workforce training, and community facing programs. We believe that sustainable change requires both theory and operationalization — aligning policy, workflow, and decision-making structures with culturally centered and equity-driven practice. Learn more at www.SankofaCounseling.org or on Instagram @SankofaCounseling
Vanessa Washington is the Founder + Clinic Director of Sankofa Counseling, a culturally specific group practice in Portland, Oregon committed to individual and collective healing. She is licensed in Oregon (LPC) and Washington (LMHC), and a Clinical Supervisor with 15+ years providing direct mental health care to individuals, youth and families; she also provides consultation and continuing education for healthcare professionals, educators, and executive leadership across industries.
Vanessa approaches mental health through a structural lens, building community-based healing initiatives designed to address systemic stress and trauma that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. Her approach bridges nervous system regulation, systems analysis, and liberatory frameworks to ensure that individuals and teams are resourced internally while advancing equity externally.
Vanessa holds a BA in Psychology & Spanish, MA in Clinical Counseling, with post-graduate studies in Attachment Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) and various Somatic interventions for trauma recovery (nervous system regulation, co-regulating touch, somatic resilience + regulation), Cross-cultural effectiveness, facilitating Critical Conversations around Race, and Coaching for Equity.
Have questions? Contact us at vanessa.washington@sankofacounseling.org
Spend the day nurturing your heart + mind, as we explore the heavier sides of our work and tend to one another in community (4 CEUs)
Session Focus: Provider Sustainability (4 CE hours)
Taborspace Portland, OR
Friday, November 6 • 9 AM - 1 PM
Overview
Mental Health Providers - Refresh your clinical documentation skills as we explore and learn to integrate the Golden Thread (3.5 CEUs)
Join Us In Person for Continuing Education exploring the Golden Thread within Documentation!
This program is designed to help clinicians understand what the “Golden Thread” is and how to effectively integrate it into clinical documentation throughout the treatment process. The course connects the essential components of assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and progress notes, highlighting how each must align to support ethical, legal, and clinically effective care.
Eligible for 3.5 CEUs
Required: Participants must be a current mental health provider to attend, registered with a state licensing board or enrolled in an clinical program.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
Define the “Golden Thread” approach and explain its role in connecting assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and session documentation throughout the treatment process
Identify legal and ethical requirements related to clinical documentation and apply them to real-world counseling scenarios. Apply strategies for documenting client progress in a way that supports medical necessity and clearly justifies ongoing care.
Demonstrate how to construct a treatment plan that aligns with an accurate diagnosis and incorporates measurable goals informed by the client's presenting concerns and cultural context.
Discuss the responsibility of providers to balance between maintaining comprehensive, ethically sound documentation and protecting the client’s autonomy, dignity, and confidentiality in the clinical record.
Skills development through practice writing documentation samples (e.g., progress notes or treatment plans) that reflect the Golden Thread and integrate cultural and contextual awareness.
Continuing Education will be provided through NBCC. Sankofa Counseling is approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7962. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Sankofa Counseling is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.
Sankofa Counseling, LLC is a culturally specific behavioral health organization located in Portland, Oregon. We were founded in 2017 to address persistent mental health inequities impacting Black and African American communities in Oregon. Our mission is to reduce mental health disparities by increasing access to highly skilled, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive care while strengthening and sustaining the behavioral health workforce.
Our vision is a behavioral health system in which racial justice, clinical excellence, and workforce sustainability coexist — where providers are resourced, supported, and equipped to deliver care that reflects the lived realities of the communities they serve.
We center our work in the values of liberation psychology, cultural humility, stewardship, transparency, racial equity, community care, integrity, and courage. These values guide not only our clinical services but also our leadership development, workforce training, and community facing programs. We believe that sustainable change requires both theory and operationalization — aligning policy, workflow, and decision-making structures with culturally centered and equity-driven practice. Learn more at www.SankofaCounseling.org or on Instagram @SankofaCounseling
Vanessa Washington is the Founder + Clinic Director of Sankofa Counseling, a culturally specific group practice in Portland, Oregon committed to individual and collective healing. She is licensed in Oregon (LPC) and Washington (LMHC), and a Clinical Supervisor with 15+ years providing direct mental health care to individuals, youth and families; she also provides consultation and continuing education for healthcare professionals, educators, and executive leadership across industries.
Vanessa approaches mental health through a structural lens, building community-based healing initiatives designed to address systemic stress and trauma that disproportionately impacts marginalized communities. Her approach bridges nervous system regulation, systems analysis, and liberatory frameworks to ensure that individuals and teams are resourced internally while advancing equity externally.
Vanessa holds a BA in Psychology & Spanish, MA in Clinical Counseling, with post-graduate studies in Attachment Focused EMDR (AF-EMDR) and various Somatic interventions for trauma recovery (nervous system regulation, co-regulating touch, somatic resilience + regulation), Cross-cultural effectiveness, facilitating Critical Conversations around Race, and Coaching for Equity.
Have questions? Contact us at vanessa.washington@sankofacounseling.org