The TeleBehavioral Health training series is a free monthly webinar open to anyone providing services to individuals who live with mental health and substance use issues.
This Zoom-based series takes place the third Friday of each month, January through December, from 11 am – 12 pm (PT).
The TeleBehavioral Health training series is intended to provide comprehensive, practical and up-to-date information and guidance for providing standard of care telebehavioral health services:
- TeleBehavioral Health 101 series introduced the fundamentals of conducting telebehavioral health services; session #1 meets the Washington State Telehealth Training requirement.
- TeleBehavioral Health 201, 301, 401 and 501 series focused on developing a broad knowledge base and skills for telebehavioral health care, exploring leveraging telebehavioral health care to enhance quality of care, across various clinical areas, for specific patient populations and services, and providing insights into evolving virtual care modalities, technologies and policies.
- TeleBehavioral Health 2025 is currently offered via live interactive webinar (see the TeleBH 2025 Series tab below for more information.
- TeleBehavioral Health 2026 is currently offered via live interactive webinar (see the TeleBH 2026 Series tab below for more information.
To view past webinars (for no credit) from this series, visit our Past Presentations page.
To engage in the on-demand version of the TeleBehavioral Health Training series, which offers a Certificate of Completion (no cost) and Continuing Medical Education credits (nominal processing fee), please go to the On-Demand TeleBehavioral Health Training page.
TeleBehavioral Health Series
We are pleased to partner with the Northwest Regional Telehealth Resource Center to offer the monthly TeleBehavioral Health Webinar Series, where we dive deeper into TeleBehavioral Health, with a focus on innovation, and enhancing the quality of care for specific patient populations and services, as well as providing updates on telehealth technologies and policy. This series will provide valuable insights, whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, and all are welcome to join this exploration of the evolving landscape of TeleBehavioral Health.
Upon completion of each webinar evaluation, a Certificate of Completion and CEUs are available at no cost. This series is also accredited for Continuing Medical Education (credits are available for a nominal fee). Please visit the Continuing Education & Accreditation page.
You are welcome to attend any of the monthly sessions, regardless of whether you have attended the 101, 201, 301, 401, 501, 2025 or 2026 series.
The 2026 TeleBehavioral Health series includes:
Date |
Title |
Speaker |
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January 16, 2026 |
Telehealth and TeleBehavioral/TeleMental Health Policy Update |
Mei Kwong, JD |
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February 20 |
Digital Literacy across Healthcare Systems |
Christina Armstrong, PhD |
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March 20 |
Virtual Care for Eating Disorders: Screening, assessment, and brief interventions |
Megan Riddle, MD, MS, PhD |
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April 17 |
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy over Telehealth |
Ashley Maliken, PhD |
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May 15 |
Telehealth with Neurodivergent Patients |
Gary Stobbe, MD |
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June 12 |
Firearms, Culture & Suicide Care over Telehealth |
Jeffery Sung, MD |
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July 17 |
Digital Health and AI in the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders |
Mark Duncan, MD |
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August 21 |
Supporting School Behavioral Health Through Telehealth |
Aaron J. Fischer, PhD, BCBA-D, LP, LBA |
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September 18 |
Clinical Considerations in Behavioral Health Treatment in the Age of AI chatbots |
Adam Kuczynski, PhD |
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October 16 |
Trauma Focused Therapies via Telehealth |
Michele Bedard-Gilligan, PhD |
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November 20 |
Assessment of Cognition in Older Adults |
Emily Trittschuh, PhD Stephen Thielke, MD |
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December 18 |
From Text to Touch: Managing Professional Boundaries in Modern Healthcare |
Jennifer Piel, MD, JD |
2027 Webinar Series |
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January 15, 2027 |
The Telehealth Policy Landscape for 2027 |
Mei Wa Kwong, JD |
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February 19 |
Being Together While Working Apart: Telehealth, burnout, and social connection |
David Kopacz, MD |
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March 19 |
Doing Rural Psychiatry: the Merger of Technology and Community |
Richard Lawrence (Larry) Merkel, Jr. MD, PhD |
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April 16 |
Interjurisdictional Telehealth |
Sara Smucker Barnwell, PhD |
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May 21 |
Technology and Exposure Therapies |
Sara Smucker Barnwell, PhD |
To view past webinars from this series, visit our Recorded Presentations page.
TeleBehavioral Health Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, attendees should be able to:
- Describe ways that TeleBehavioral Health and virtual/digital skills can be tailored to provide care to a variety of patient populations.
- Describe methods that can be utilized when providing TeleBehavioral Health and virtual/digital care while maintaining professional standards of care.
- Describe and incorporate current policies with latest telehealth technologies to provide effective care.
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TeleBehavioral Health Planning Team
Many people contribute to our TeleBehavioral Health series. Our Core Team works on the long-term, weekly, and day-of aspects of the series, and includes:
Bradford Felker, MD, Clinical Lead, bfelker@uw.edu
Cara Towle, RN, MSN, Program Lead, ctowle@uw.edu
Topher Jerome, Zoom Lead, jerchris@uw.edu