Laura Goldstein is a licensed clinical marriage and family therapist in Rockville MD. She is the founder and Executive Director of Montgomery County Counseling Center and the founder of TheraCourses! She has worked across multiple settings including in-home behavioral health services, IOPS for adolescent dual diagnosis treatment and young adults struggling to launch, and her private practice.
Laura is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) from Behavioral Tech and has been fine tuning the application of DBT into individual therapy, parent coaching, and family therapy. She also trained in 2017 with The Gottman Couples Method, which is a seamless integration of DBT concepts when working with couples. With over 12 years of experience in the field, Laura has established herself as a local expert in relationship therapy, public speaking, and therapy practice management.
In 2022, she launched TheraCourses, an e-course platform with innovative solutions to address the obstacles of accessing affordable psychoeducation that parents need in order to prevent and/or treat the adolescent mental health crisis we face today.
From Session to Note: Best Practices for Clinical Documentation
Clinical documentation is a core professional responsibility for therapists, yet many clinicians receive limited formal training in how to write notes that are both clinically meaningful and legally sound. This training introduces practical strategies for translating the work that occurs in session into concise, effective documentation. Participants will explore the purposes of clinical notes, key components that should be included in documentation, and common pitfalls that can create clinical, ethical, or legal risk. The training will also review common note structures (such as DAP and SOAP f...Read moreormats) and provide guidance on documenting risk assessment, interventions, and treatment progress while maintaining client privacy and relevance. Through examples and practice scenarios, clinicians will learn how to write notes that clearly demonstrate clinical reasoning, link interventions to treatment goals, and protect both the client and the clinician. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Identify the primary purposes of clinical documentation.
- Describe the essential components of an effective clinical note.
- Apply best-practice strategies for writing concise, clinically relevant documentation
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, and MFT's.
Learning Levels
- Beginner
- Intermediate
Friday, April 10, 2026
Live Interactive Webinar
11:00 AM EDT - 12:00 PM EDT
$20.00
EARN 1 CE Credit Hours
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About the speaker
Laura Goldstein, LCMFT
Owner and Therapist, Montgomery County Counseling Center and TheraCourses
Agenda
What’s the purpose of clinical note?What TO include (and why)
What NOT to include (and why not)
Formatting (DAP vs SOAP)
Practice Scenarios
CE Information - Earn 1 CE Credit Hour
CE Approvals
Association of Social Work Boards
Montgomery County Counseling Center Provider #1935, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continue Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continued education credit. ACE provider approval period: (7/22/2024-7/22/2028). Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credits.
CE Process Info
Before the event, you will receive an email from CE-Go with access to the virtual event. After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link and access to the virtual event will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.
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- Complete evaluation forms for the event
- Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format
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Disclosure
This training is intended for educational purposes only and is designed to provide general guidance on clinical documentation for licensed/pre-licensed clinicians and other helping professionals. The content shared reflects the presenter’s professional experience and is not a substitute for individualized clinical judgment, supervision, consultation, legal advice, or organization-specific decision-making.Participation in this training does not create a therapeutic, supervisory, consultative, or other professional relationship with the presenter or practice.
This program is being offered as a live training and may later be converted into a self-paced training through the recorded session. One (1) continuing education (CE) credit is available for eligible participants who meet all stated attendance and completion requirements.
By attending, participants acknowledge that the session may be recorded and that chat comments, Q&A activity, and participant names may be visible during the training and may appear in the recorded version.
The presenter has no relevant conflicts of interest or commercial support to disclose unless otherwise stated.