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Workshops & Training

Clinical learning for curious minds
and resident mad scientists.

Bring your curiosity. We'll bring the frameworks, tools, games, patterns, and permission to experiment.

What Workshops Are For

Learn to think
in patterns.

Understand patterns beyond diagnosis

Learn to see what's actually driving a presentation — not just what category it fits into.

Explore neurodivergent & high-masking presentations

Real clinical content on masking, processing styles, and what most diagnostic frameworks miss.

Learn practical approaches for stuck cases

Tools and frameworks you can take back to the room the next day — not just theory.

Two Workshop Formats

Clinical deep dives.
And geeky ones too.

Geeky Labs

Geeky Labs

Games, pop culture, media, creativity, and everyday interests become the doorway into deeper clinical learning.

These trainings explore how the things clients already care about can help clinicians think about identity, agency, regulation, relationships, trauma, meaning, and intervention design.

Fun on purpose. Clinically useful on purpose.
Games · Media · Pop Culture · Creative Tools
Clinical Labs

Clinical Labs

Pattern-based clinical learning for cases, presentations, and questions that need more than another diagnostic checklist.

These spaces focus on practical frameworks, neurodivergent-affirming perspectives, clinical reasoning, case conceptualization, and tools clinicians can actually take back into the room.

Deep clinical thinking. Practical application.
Patterns · Frameworks · Case Consultation · Neurodivergence
Lab Schedule

See what's happening
in the Lab next.

Purple = Geeky Labs. Teal = Clinical Labs. Pick your experiment.

🟣 Geeky Lab
September 19 + 26 · 11:00 AM ET

Using The Sims for Clinical Conceptualization & Intervention Design

An Applied Introduction to the Clinical Sandbox Framework

2-Part Applied Training. Build a sandbox-based intervention, test it through independent gameplay, then return to the Lab to translate what happened back into clinical thinking.

Format2-Part Applied Training
GameThe Sims 4 (Base Game) — free to download
Price$50
Registration Open
Clinical Sandbox Framework — Applied Skills Certificate

Available upon demonstrated application of the framework.

Learn more about the skills assessment and certificate on the registration page.
Enter the Sandbox →
🔵 Clinical Lab
Tuesday, October 20 · 6:30 PM ET

Lab Drop-In

A live, low-pressure clinical consultation space. Bring a case, stuck point, pattern, intervention question, or something you're trying to make sense of. We'll think through it together using the Lab's pattern-based process, and participants receive the completed Clarity Map after the session.

IncludesCompleted Group Clarity Map
Price$25
Registration Open Join the Drop-In →
🔵 Clinical Lab
Tuesday, November 17 · 10:00 AM ET

Free Intro Lab Drop-In

Your first visit to The Alchemist's Lab. Experience the Lab's pattern-based case consultation process, work through a clinical example, and learn how future Lab Drop-Ins work.

EligibilityFirst-time participants only
PriceFree
Registration Coming Soon

New to the Lab? Start with the Free Intro. Been here before? Come back for a $25 Lab Drop-In whenever you need another brain at the table.

December 2026

The Lab Is Resting.

No live training this month. Go experiment with something else.

🟣 Geeky Lab
January 2027

Pinterest IS the Vision Board

Using digital curation for identity, values, patterns, and clinical exploration.

Go beyond the traditional vision board and explore Pinterest as a visual, interest-based clinical tool for identity exploration, emotional language, values, pattern recognition, future thinking, and therapeutic reflection.

Coming Soon
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From Past Attendees

What clinicians
walk away with.

100%

of attendees reported gaining new clinical knowledge or skills — verified across all 17 evaluations

5.0/5

average presenter knowledge rating — every attendee gave the highest mark

4.94/5

average clarity rating — attendees across all experience levels reported content was clear and applicable

🧪 Practical & Immediately Applicable
"The worksheet is incredibly helpful for setting up with my own clients — something I've found difficult in the past with using games."
"The worksheet was very thorough."
🧪 Applicable Beyond the Game
"Even though I do not specifically use the Sims, there was tons of stuff and ideas that I can use outside of that game!"

This is the point. The interest is the doorway — not the intervention.

🧪 Engaging & Collaborative
"I liked that the room was engaging and lively."
"I really appreciated the attention to the chat — this felt incredibly collaborative."
🧪 Presenter Impact
"Best presentation I've seen thus far."
"I'd attend any and every training you'd present in the future."

Even though I do not specifically use the Sims, there was tons of stuff and ideas that I can use outside of that game!

— Verified attendee · Sims: Identity & Agency in Therapy