Suicide and Crisis: What Clinicians Need to Know

Suicide and Crisis: What Clinicians Need to Know

Working with clients who are suicidal or in acute crisis can feel daunting — even for experienced clinicians. This 2-hour training is designed to increase confidence, clarity, and clinical groundedness when assessing risk and responding to suicidal ideation.

The course offers an overview of suicide in the United States, including current CDC statistics, core risk factors and warning signs, common myths and misconceptions, and evidence-informed intervention strategies. Equally important, we will explore the personal and professional impact of suicide work on clinicians — including our own beliefs, experiences, and emotional responses — within a supportive and reflective learning environment.

The training blends didactic content with group discussion, case reflection, and Q&A, supporting both skill development and professional self-awareness.

$25.00

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Monday, January 5th
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9-11am Eastern online via Zoom (link sent after registration)
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Join Jeannie Ingram and the Imago Center DC for a 2-hour clinical training on suicide risk, warning signs, myths, and intervention strategies — with space for reflection, discussion, and Q&A.

Agenda

  • Centering and check-in

  • Overview of suicide in America (CDC statistics)

  • Exploring suicide’s personal and professional impact

  • Risk factors, warning signs, myths, and facts

  • Assessment and intervention model

  • Group discussion and Q&A

  • Wrap-up: one takeaway and one felt experience

  • Closing

Learning Objectives

Participants will:

  • Understand and define a clinical crisis and its possible outcomes

  • Identify key warning signs and risk factors for suicide

  • Distinguish common myths from evidence-based truths about suicide

  • Learn effective assessment and intervention strategies for working with suicidal clients

This training is appropriate for clinicians at all stages of practice who want to strengthen both their clinical skills and their internal steadiness when working with high-risk situations.

About Jeannie

Jeannie Ingram is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Relationship Therapist, and Faculty / Clinical Instructor for the Imago International Training Institute. She specializes in Relationships, providing private sessions, Getting the Love You Want Workshops and Premarital Seminars for couples, as well as Workshops for Individuals. She helps couples move beyond negative, painful patterns to restore connection and dramatically improve communication. Feeling deeply understood is a power aphrodisiac. When we learn to unpack the deep desire that lives under every frustration, we can live and love without defenses, and enjoy more positive, fulfilling, satisfying relationships.

She has a Bachelors Degree in Psychology and a Masters in Counseling from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Marriage and Family Therapy from Capella University. She loves training new Imago Relationship Therapists, teaching Imago theory and coaching the skills for helping couples reconnect. Jeannie loves traveling, cooking, writing, hiking, kayaking, and sailing. Most of all, she is dedicated to helping people find joy, meaning, success and connection through the practice of mindful, intentional living and loving.

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