Continuing Education Workshops for Mental Health Professionals
The Professional Development Network (PDN) is a New Orleans, Louisiana based mental health training resource founded by Social Workers. PDN’s mission is to provide high quality programming at affordable prices. We utilize local professionals from a variety of disciplines to offer training at our annual continuing education workshops. Aimed towards Social Workers and Licensed Professional Counselors, but also open to teachers, medical professionals and lay people, our courses span a variety of topics and offer exceptional resources.
Participants praise for PDN:
About Erin Dugan
Erin has a great depth of knowledge. She is a clear and effective communicator who is engaging and thorough in her explanations. I especially like how hands-on Erin is and her use of examples from actual clients.
About Christina Roux
Wonderful presenter! Christina is very warm and sincere and connects well with an audience.
About Lauren Gehman
Lauren is so bright and knowledgeable but her sincerity and ease in presenting make her a really enjoyable presenter. She relates well with an audience and is engaging and easy to follow.
About Deena Gerber
Deena presented a wealth of useful information regarding the aging process with clarity and compassion.
The workshops have been great, as usual. Deena Gerber on Mindfulness was especially wonderful.
Information was very accessible and interesting and covered a wide range of issues. Handouts were excellent.
About Dawn Treigle
Dawn is an excellent and extremely knowledgeable presenter.
Excellent content/clear delivery/artwork. Best presenter ever!
Presenter was very clear and direct with good examples.
About PDN
Hands down one of the best workshops I have ever been to; the presenters were wonderful!
About Stephen Phillippi
He’s a wonderful presenter very engaging.
Excellent speaker with lots of great information and a great way of delivering it.
Speaker was easy to listen to, engaging and interesting.
About PDN
One of the best ethics workshops I’ve attended!
About Carol Miles
I have been licensed since 1988 and find it difficult to find a seminar topic I haven’t heard over and over. Carol was excellent, knowledgeable and interesting and I really enjoyed the three hours I had with her.
About Jamie Jones
Jamie Jones is knowledgeable and does a great job describing how to utilize interventions effectively in practice. She is authentic and engaging as a presenter.
About Angie Wood
Really well organized, timed out and balanced, as far as material vs. practicing.
About PDN
The conferences were excellent yesterday.
Your presentations are always very professional and the information is very useful.
I am so glad that I found out about Professional Development Network.