Presentation Portfolio

Michael Eiden has provided extensive continuing education (CEU) training and professional workshops from 2019 through 2025, 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 shame reduction.

• 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

• 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

Full Presentation Portfolio

• 3 hour CEU training titled “Introduction to Sex Addiction and Covert Incest” for the University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council in March and October 2019

• 2 hour CEU training titled “Sex Addiction and Sexual Offending” at Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse Conference (CAPTASA) January 2020

• Co-facilitated “Traumatic Bonding” 8 week therapeutic intensive March 2020

• 3 hour CEU training titled “Sex Addiction & Differential Diagnosis” for the University of Louisville Kent School Alumni Council April 2020

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Pornography, gaming, and screen addictions” at Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse Conference (CAPTASA) January 2022

• 3 hour CEU training titled “Pornography, gaming, and screen addictions” at The Brook Hospital KMI in Louisville, KY July 2022

• 2.5 hour CEU training titled “Pornography, gaming, and screen addictions” for Central Clinic Behavioral Health Cincinnati, OH September 2022

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Pornography, gaming, and screen addictions” for Annual Mental Health and Addiction Treatment Symposium October 2022 in Lexington, KY

• 2 hour CEU training titled “Attachment & Pornography, Gaming, and Screen Addiction” for Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) January 2023 in Lexington, KY

• 1 hour Educational Program for parents at Kelly Elementary School Boone County, KY 3-16-23

• 1 hour Educational Program for parents at Kelly Elementary School Boone County, KY 4-11-23

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Screen Addiction and Legal Implications of Sexting” for Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health Symposium (Hosted by Administrative Office of the Courts) in Louisville, KY May 2023

• 1.5 hour CEU training titled “Problematic Screen & Internet Use in Adolescents” hosted by the Brook Hospital in Louisville, KY September 2023

• 1 hour CEU podcast titled “Screen Use and Mental Health” for Norton Behavioral Health in Louisville, KY September 2023

• 2 hour training titled “Screen and Internet Addiction” presented at the 18th Annual NCCDP Fall Conference in Wrightsville Beach, NC September 2023

• 1.5 hour CEU training titled “Screen Use and Attachment” for Tennessee Dental Wellness Foundation in Murfreesboro, TN September 2023

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Updates in Pediatrics: Screen Addiction” for Norton Behavioral Health in Louisville, KY October 2023

• 1.5 hour CEU training titled “Scary Truths of Youth Screen Addiction” for PreventionFirst! OCAM Conference Cincinatti, OH October 2023

• 2 hour CEU training titled “Treating Screen Addiction Through the Lens of Attachment and Polyvagal Theory” for Baptist Health and Kentucky Care Addiction & Compulsive Behaviors Symposium Paducah, KY November 2023

• 4 hour CEU webinar training titled “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” hosted by Eiden Integrative Counseling January 2024

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Treating Traumatic Bonding and Comorbid Substance Use Disorder” for Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) January 2024 in Lexington, KY

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Treating Intergenerational Trauma in Subtance Use Disorder Patients” for Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) January 2024 in Lexington, KY

• 3 hour CEU training titled “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” for Therapeutic Family Care Program Ontario, Canada March 2024

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Screen and Internet Addiction: Impact on Development” for NKY Institute for Strategic Prevention April 2024

• 1 hour CEU webinar titled “Truths of Youth Screen Addiction” for Operation Parent Oldham County, KY May 2024

• 1 hour community education at Prospect Wellness Center titled “Screen Addiction: Impact on Development” Louisville, KY July 2024

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Screen and Internet Addiction: Identification and Management” for Norton Healthcare Just for Kids Pediatric Symposium July 2024

• 3 hour CEU training titled “Treating Trauma with Experential Therapies: Traumatic Bonding and Intergenerational Trauma in Substance Use Disorder Patients” for Journey Together Conference hosted by Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals Franklin, TN September 2024

• 1.5 hour CEU training titled “Treating Sex Addiction in the Modern Era” for Journey Together Conference hosted by Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals Franklin, TN September 2024

• 1.5 hour CEU training titled “Treating Problematic Screen Use: Focus on Attachment and Polyvagal Theory” for Journey Together Conference hosted by Tennessee Association for Addiction Professionals Franklin, TN September 2024

• 1 hour training titled “Traumatic Bonding and Abandonment” for North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals 19th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference Asheville, NC September 2024

• 1 hour training titled “Gambling Addiction” for North Carolina Caring Dental Professionals 19th Annual Jake Thorpe Fall Conference Asheville, NC September 2024

• 1 hour CEU webinar training titled “Treating Youth Screen Addiction” for PreventionFIRST! Cincinatti, OH September 2024

• 4 hour CEU webinar training titled “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” hosted by Eiden Integrative Counseling Louisville, KY October 2024

• 1 hour CEU training titled “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” for the Kentucky Prevention Network Fall Conference in Lexington, KY October 2024

• 1 hour CEU training “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” for Offices of Paul Dalton 9th Annual Mental Health and Addiction Symposium Lexington, KY October 2024

• 75 minute prevention education titled “Treating Problematic Screen and Internet Use” for PreventionFIRST! Coalition Academy Cincinatti, OH October 2024

• 1 hour CEU presentation titled “Problematic Screen Use in Youth: Treatment and Prevention” for Norton Healthcare 13th Annual Pediatric Behavioral and Mental Health Symposium “Combatting Isolation in Children and Adolescents” October 2024 Louisville, KY 

• 2 hour CEU presentation titled “Gambling Addiction in Young Adults: Neuroscience, Online Sports Betting, and Treatment Approaches” for Starship Care January 2025 KY

• 1 hr CEU presentation titled “Dysfunctional Family System Recovery: Rules, Roles, and Boundaries” for Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) January 2025 Lexington, KY

• 1 hr CEU presentation titled “Shame Reduction and Building Resilience” for Clinical Applications of the Principles in Treatment of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CAPTASA) January 2025 Lexington, KY

• 3 hour CEU presentation titled “Treating Sex and Pornography Addiction” for Starship Care January 2025

• 3 hour CEU presentation titled “Treating Traumatic Bonding and Intergenerational Trauma: Focus on experiential therapies” for Starship Care January 2025

• 2 hour CEU presentation titled “Shame Reduction and Building Resilience” for Starship Care March 2025

• 1 hour CEU presentation titled “Treating Internet Addiction: Focus on Gaming, Pornography, Social Media, and Gambling” for Mississippi Opioid Summit in Oxford, MS March 2025