Dr. Michael Eiden has provided extensive continuing education (CEU) training and professional workshops from 2019 through 2026, covering various specialized topics. These educational programs have reached diverse audiences across the United States and Canada, including professional conferences, mental health symposiums, schools, healthcare settings, judicial commissions, and community-based events.
Key Topics Presented:
Sex Addiction and Sex Offending
Training on identification, differential diagnosis, covert incest, sexual offending, and modern approaches to treating sex and pornography addiction.
Internet and Screen Addiction
Multiple presentations addressing problematic internet, gaming, pornography, and excessive screen use among adolescents and young adults. Included specialized sessions on attachment theory, developmental impact, polyvagal theory applications, and legal implications of sexting behaviors.
Complex and Intergenerational Trauma
Workshops on traumatic bonding, experiential therapy approaches, treating comorbid trauma and substance use disorders, intergenerational trauma recovery, resilience, and dissociation.
Attachment Theory Applications
Explored attachment as it relates to addictions, problematic screen use, and therapeutic interventions designed around attachment-based models.
Gambling Addiction
Sessions dedicated to neuroscience-informed approaches to gambling addiction, online sports betting, and targeted interventions for youth and young adults.
Family System Dynamics
Education regarding dysfunctional family system recovery, family roles, rules, boundaries, and treatment implications.
Notable Presentation Locations Include:
Professional Conferences and Symposiums:
Clinical Applications of Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse Conference (CAPTASA), Lexington, KY
Journey Together Conference, Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals, Franklin, TN
Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health Symposium, Louisville, KY
Annual Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Symposium, Lexington, KY
NCCDP Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC
North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference, Asheville, NC
Kentucky Prevention Network Fall Conference, Lexington, KY
PreventionFIRST! Coalition Academy and OCAM Conference, Cincinnati, OH
Starship Care Conferences, Kentucky
Mississippi Opioid Summit Oxford, MS
Addiction Resource Council Webinar Series
Healthcare Facilities and Organizations:
The Brook Hospital KMI, Louisville, KY
Central Clinic Behavioral Health, Cincinnati, OH
Baptist Health and Kentucky Care Symposium, Paducah, KY
Norton Behavioral Health and Norton Healthcare Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY
Tennessee Dental Wellness Foundation, Murfreesboro, TN
Therapeutic Family Care Program, Ontario, Canada
Educational and Community Settings:
Kelly Elementary School, Boone County, KY
Prospect Wellness Center, Louisville, KY
NKY Institute for Strategic Prevention, Kentucky
Operation Parent, Oldham County, KY
Palo Alto University Department of Continuing and Professional Studies
Texas A&M University
Tipton County Schools, Tipton, TN
Full Presentation Portfolio
2026
Eiden, M. (2025, October). Treating Dissociation in SUD populations: Assessment, Integrating Parts Work, and Enhancing Integrative Capacity [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Love and Sex Addiction in Recovering Populations: Relationship Compulsivity in Early Recovery, Dating Apps, and Traumatic Bonding [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [4-hour CE training]. Palo Alto University Department of Continuing and Professional Studies. Palo Alto, CA.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Best Practices in Telehealth [2-hour CE training]. Eiden Integrative Counseling. Portland, OR.
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Effective Group Psychotherapy: Focus on addictions and complex trauma [2-hour CE training]. Addiction Resource Council 2025 Webinar Series
Eiden, M. (2026, January). Digital Mirrors: The role of technology in identity formation in young children [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, KY.
2025
Eiden, M. (2025, December). Treating Enmeshment and Covert Incest [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Kentucky.
Eiden, M. (2025, November). Treating Problematic Internet Use: Focus on pornography, social media, gaming, and gambling [1-hour CE training]. NASW Chapters Virtual Conference: Mental Health Compassion + Action, Virtual.
Eiden, M. (2025, November). Treating problematic screen use: Focus on social media [1-hour guest lecture]. Texas A&M University Social Problems Course, College Station, TX.
Eiden, M. (2025, October). Treating Internet Addiction: Navigating clinical care at the intersection of AI, pornography, social media, and gaming [4-hour CE training]. Baptist Healthcare Annual Behavioral Health Summit, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [1-hour CE training]. 20th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Shame reduction & building resilience [1-hour CE training]. 20th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2025, September). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [2-hour CE training]. Kentucky Association of Addiction Professionals Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, August). Understanding Internet Addiction: Tools for the classroom and developmental consequences of tech [2-hour training]. Tipton County Schools & Tipton Prevents, Tipton, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, August). Screen addiction: How to parent during a tech revolution [1.5-hour community presentation]. Tipton Prevents, Tipton, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Psychological effects of cyberbullying & social media [30-minute CE training]. Norton Just for Kids Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Addictive social media use [1-hour CE training]. ECHO Hennepin Healthcare System, Albuquerque, NM.
Eiden, M. (2025, July). Developmental impact of cyberbullying, social media, pornography, and addictive internet use[1-hour CE training]. Cumberland Family Medical Pediatric Behavioral Symposium, Virtual.
Eiden, M. (2025, June). Understanding mental health through polyvagal and attachment theory: Trauma, tech, and dysregulation [1.5-hour prevention training]. Weakley County Prevention Coalition, Martin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, June). Treating problematic screen and Internet use [4-hour CE training]. Cumberland Heights Treatment Center, Nashville, TN.
Eiden, M. (2025, March). Treating Internet addiction: Focus on gaming, pornography, social media, and gambling[1-hour CE training]. Mississippi Opioid Summit, Oxford, MS.
Eiden, M. (2025, March). Shame reduction & building resilience [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Treating traumatic bonding & intergenerational trauma: Experiential approaches [3-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Treating sex and pornography addiction [3-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Shame reduction & building resilience [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Dysfunctional family system recovery: Rules, roles, and boundaries [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2025, January). Gambling addiction in young adults: Neuroscience, online sports betting, and treatment approaches [2-hour CE training]. Starship Care, Louisville, KY.
2024
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [4-hour CE webinar]. Eiden Integrative Counseling, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [1-hour CE training]. Kentucky Prevention Network Fall Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [1-hour CE training]. Offices of Paul Dalton Mental Health & Addiction Symposium, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Treating problematic screen and internet use [75-minute prevention training]. Prevention FIRST! Coalition Academy, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2024, October). Problematic screen use in youth: Treatment & prevention [1-hour CE training]. Norton Pediatric Mental Health Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating trauma with experiential therapies: Traumatic bonding & intergenerational trauma [3-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating sex addiction in the modern era [1.5-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating problematic screen use: Attachment & polyvagal theory [1.5-hour CE training]. Journey Together Conference (TAAP), Franklin, TN.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Traumatic bonding & abandonment [1-hour training]. North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Jake Thorpe Conference, Asheville, NC.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Gambling addiction [1-hour training]. North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals Jake Thorpe Conference, Asheville, NC.
Eiden, M. (2024, September). Treating youth screen addiction [1-hour CE webinar]. Prevention FIRST!, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2024, July). Screen & internet addiction: Identification and management [1-hour CE training]. Norton Healthcare Just for Kids Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, July). Screen addiction: Impact on development [Community education]. Prospect Wellness Center, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, May). Truths of youth screen addiction [1-hour webinar]. Operation Parent, Oldham County, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, April). Screen & internet addiction: Impact on development [1-hour CE training]. NKY Institute for Strategic Prevention, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, March). Treating problematic screen and internet use [3-hour CE training]. Therapeutic Family Care Program, Ontario, Canada.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating traumatic bonding & comorbid substance use disorder [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating intergenerational trauma in substance use disorder patients [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
Eiden, M. (2024, January). Treating problematic screen and internet use [4-hour CE webinar]. Eiden Integrative Counseling.
2023
Eiden, M. (2023, October). Scary truths of youth screen addiction [1.5-hour CE training]. Prevention FIRST! OCAM Conference, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2023, October). Updates in pediatrics: Screen addiction [1-hour CE training]. Norton Behavioral Health Pediatric Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen use & attachment [1.5-hour CE training]. Tennessee Dental Wellness Foundation, Murfreesboro, TN.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen and internet addiction [2-hour training]. NCCDP Fall Conference, Wrightsville Beach, NC.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Screen use & mental health [1-hour CE podcast]. Norton Behavioral Health, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, September). Problematic screen & internet use in adolescents [1.5-hour CE training]. The Brook Hospital, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, May). Screen addiction & legal implications of sexting [1-hour CE training]. Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health Symposium, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, April). Parent education program [Educational program]. Kelly Elementary School, Boone County, KY.
Eiden, M. (2023, March). Parent education program [Educational program]. Kelly Elementary School, Boone County, KY.
2022
Eiden, M. (2022, September). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [2.5-hour CE training]. Central Clinic Behavioral Health, Cincinnati, OH.
Eiden, M. (2022, July). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [3-hour CE training]. The Brook Hospital KMI, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2022, January). Pornography, gaming, & screen addictions [1-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
2020
Eiden, M. (2020, April). Sex addiction & differential diagnosis [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2020, March). Traumatic bonding [8-week intensive]. Private Program.
Eiden, M. (2020, January). Sex addiction and sexual offending [2-hour CE training]. CAPTASA Conference, Lexington, KY.
2019
Eiden, M. (2019, October). Introduction to sex addiction & covert incest [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.
Eiden, M. (2019, March). Introduction to sex addiction & covert incest [3-hour CE training]. University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council, Louisville, KY.