Beyond Low, Moderate, High - SUICIDE MASTERCLASS SERIES

Everything Clinicians Were Never Fully Taught — And Desperately Need

A Monthly 2-Hour Advanced Seminar for Clinicians

12 Months | Sequential | Transformational

Suicide work is not just about risk scores, checklists, or fear-driven protocols.

It’s about presence under pressure, clarity in ambiguity, and human connection when everything feels fragile.

This monthly masterclass is designed to do what most suicide trainings don’t:

build real clinical mastery over time.

Each session is deeply practical, emotionally grounded, and layered across the Four Layers of Transformation (conscious, pre-conscious, unconscious, existential). You will leave every month more confident, more precise, and more human in your suicide work.

Date: Thursday, March 26, 2026

Time: 12-2pm (EDT)

CEUs: 2

Online via Zoom

This course is eligible for 2 CEUs for Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, and Psychologists in New York State

For more information about CEU approval, please click here.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this 12-month series, participants will be able to:

•        Conduct suicide assessments with greater confidence, clarity, and clinical precision 

•        Formulate suicide risk dynamically using contextual, protective, and exacerbating factors 

•        Ask direct questions about suicidal thoughts, intent, plans, and means without increasing risk 

•        Develop collaborative, personalized safety plans that extend beyond compliance 

•        Differentiate acute, chronic, and situational suicidality and respond appropriately 

•        Document suicide risk, clinical reasoning, and decision-making in a defensible and ethical manner 

•        Navigate high-stakes decisions regarding hospitalization, confidentiality, and system involvement 

•        Engage families and supports in ways that enhance safety without disempowerment 

•        Provide evidence-informed post-attempt and post-discharge follow-up care 

•        Recognize and manage clinician countertransference, fear, and burnout related to suicide work 

•        Integrate suicide prevention skills into a coherent, sustainable clinical identity 

THE 12-MONTH ARC

•        Wednesday, February 25, 2026 — Suicide Is Communication, Not Just Risk

Reframing suicidality as meaning, signal, and survival strategy, and how this changes everything.

•        Thursday, March 26, 2026 — Beyond Low, Moderate, High

Risk formulation clinicians can actually use: dynamic, contextual, and clinically intelligent.

•        Tuesday, April 28, 2026 — Asking the Questions That Save Lives

How to ask directly, clearly, and without fear , and what shuts people down.

•        Wednesday, May 27, 2026 — Safety Planning That Actually Works

Moving from performative paperwork to collaborative, personalized protection.

•        Thursday, June 25, 2026 — Chronic Suicidal Ideation Without Burnout

How to work with ongoing SI without overreacting, underreacting, or collapsing.

•        Tuesday, July 28, 2026 — Documentation as Clinical Reasoning

Writing notes that reflect thinking, protect clinicians, and support continuity of care.

•        Wednesday, August 26, 2026 — When Suicide Hides Inside Other Diagnoses

Substance use, psychosis, trauma, pain, insomnia, and personality patterns.

•        Thursday, September 24, 2026 — The Hardest Calls Clinicians Make

Hospitalize or not? Break confidentiality or not? Deciding under pressure.

•        Tuesday, October 27, 2026 — Family, Supports, and System Involvement

Engaging others without disempowering the client or escalating risk.

•        Wednesday, November 25, 2026 — The Most Dangerous Period Is After

Post-attempt care, discharge risk, and follow-up that truly reduces mortality.

•        Thursday, December 17, 2026 — The Clinician Is Part of the Equation

Fear, rescue fantasies, anger, numbness — and how unexamined reactions increase risk.

•        January 26, 2027 — Integration, Mastery, and Clinical Identity

Case-based integration across all layers — how you now practice suicide care.

WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT

•        Live demonstrations and rewinds

•        Language that lowers shame and opens disclosure

•        Real tools clinicians actually use

•        Deep attention to clinician nervous systems

•        No platitudes, fear-based training, or shortcuts.

This is suicide work done with rigor, compassion, and courage.

It is for clinicians who want more than protocols, and for clinicians who want to be steady when it matters most.

Here's what attendees have been saying about SWEET seminars:

"My overall experience with SWEET has been one of intellectual, emotional, and clinical growth." - Anne-Elizabeth, LCSW-R

"All SWEET webinars are helpful and informative." - Adaiah, LCSW-R

"Karen is a very knowledgeable and wonderful presenter." - Dixie, PsyD