A Guide to Specialized Instruction in the Mental Health Field
Click on web addresses below for further information on each program.
Effective Trauma Resolution
Enroll in an intensive, interactive 4 day training in Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR). Co-sponsored by Applied Metapsychology International. Effective in resolving painful aftereffects of injury, childhood trauma, bereavement, abuse, medical trauma, any severe and shocking event for the majority of people, TIR is person-centered, client-titrated, and results oriented. Trainings scheduled in many cities across North America: See www.tir.org/training/gbcalendar.html. You can also contact trainers to deliver TIR training in your area. Continuing education credit is available for many trainings
See www.tir.org/training/ced.html. TIR has been accepted for review for SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices. info@tir.org
www.tir.org
Mind-Body Medicine
Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, 2012, San Antonio, TX
Learn the Science & Techniques for:
Clinical Practice
Medical Education
Trauma Healing
Teaching thousands to heal millions: www.cmbm.org
 
The Premier Source for Continuing Education in Psychology
Complex trauma, PTSD, dissociation, and emotional dysregulation are key features of traumatic response and critical targets of effective trauma treatment. The American Psychological Association’s Office of Continuing Education in Psychology offers programs which explore the frontiers of the contemporary science and practice of trauma treatment in military and non-military contexts. Online programs include:
• Frontiers of Trauma Treatment
• Traumatic Dissociation: Neurobiological, Assessment, and Treatment Implications--II
• Ethics of Trauma Treatment
CE credits are offered for each program. For detailed descriptions and more programs on trauma, visit: http://tinyurl.com/apace-trauma
www.apa.org/ed/ce/
Couples Therapy Training: A Developmental Lens Provides Direction for You
Would you like to comfortably manage the intensity of volatile couples, resolve the pain of infidelity, and facilitate empathy and trust when there is deep distancing? All this, plus more, is possible when you join "The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy: Integrating Attachment, Differentiation, and Neuroscience" with Dr. Ellyn Bader. This 12-month course by Internet and telephone includes 24 written lessons, conference calls and ongoing personalized answers for your unique challenges. CE hours available for most mental healthcare professionals. For more detailed information and a free audio training session on working with Angry Couples, visit the website below or call (877) 327-5915.
The Four Winds Society, Light Body School
Transforming Psychotherapy with Shamanic Energy Medicine Workshop
Earn 17 CE Hours with NASW and CA Board of Behavioral Sciences. The doorway of Shamanic Energy Medicine transforms psychotherapy to take us beyond the mental-emotion level of healing – the level of emotional and somatic expression and cognitive understanding and reorganization. Discover the power of Shamanic Energy medicine to increase your ability to sense on the energetic level, gain greater understanding of your client’s issues, add new intervention skills, learn a soul retrieval journey that you can use for yourself and with your clients, and create deeper healing.
Intensive Trauma Therapy, Inc.
Learn what you didn’t learn in graduate school! Enhance your clinical skills with practical methods to deal with PTSD and other trauma-related conditions. Our training enables you to: treat nightmares, flashbacks, emotional
numbing, and dissociation; safely process traumatic memories
without re-living; address chronic suicidal thinking; deal with self-mutilation; and stop command hallucinations. The course is four days (30 hours) of experiential and didactic sessions (lectures, case presentations, and video examples) and a week-long practicum in our clinic during which you follow a patient through his/her individual intensive trauma therapy. Located in West Virginia, an easy drive from Washington or Pittsburgh. www.traumatherapy.us
www.traumatherapy.us
LifeForce Yoga®
Practitioner Training for Anxiety & Depression
Offers clinicians Yogic practices supported by current research appropriate for the treatment room. Learn ancient tools to help your client clear away the chronic tensions, constricting beliefs, and limiting emotions that may be keeping her from realizing her fullest potential and sustaining her optimum mental health. Psychotherapists find they can offer clients an alternative and/or adjunct treatment to medication, and provide them with skills for internal mood-regulation and self-care. Two training levels & mentoring. Led by Amy Weintraub, MFA, ERYT500, author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton), along with a faculty of yoga teachers and mental health professionals. CEU’s.
www.yogafordepression.com
Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education
Enhancing Empathy and Efficacy Through Education
Our mission is to provide mental health professionals with state-of-the-art continuing education in a teaching environment that is professional, nurturing, supportive, and fun. Our trainings encourage clinicians to re-frame and de-pathologize symptoms, while focusing on clients’ resiliency and strengths. Clinical topics include: treatment of trauma survivors; eating disorders and other self-injurious behaviors; addiction; separation, divorce, and remarriage; dissociative disorders; parenting issues; couples counseling; hypnosis; group therapy; professional burn-out; the challenges of adolescence; and working with elderly clients. Visit our website below for more info.
Traumatology Institute
Working with Trauma Survivors? Clinical Traumatologist Training ONLINE E-Learning at your own Time & Place. Build your Post-Trauma Intervention Tool Kit • Use the T.I. Assessment Protocol • Provide Skilled Post-Trauma Therapy • Transform your practice! Care for Yourself! Visit www.ticlearn.comTrauma Therapy: Traumaline1 – Post your Professional Trauma Care Profile Online. Find a Trauma Therapist Now. Visit www.traumaline1.com. Prefer a Self-Help Approach? Recovery Now Trauma is available at www.psychink.com For more information: info@psychink.com. Specialists showcase services online to increase client referrals at www.TraumaLine1.com.
Washington, D.C. Training Institute For Couples Therapy
Director: Jette Simon
Realize Your Full Potential as a Couples Therapist
12-Day Training in Imago Relationship Therapy with Jette Simon
Learn an approach that avoids shame and blame while quickly getting to the heart of couples’ conflict. For more information, go to: www.jettesimon.com
- Basic Clinical Training, Washington, DC: July 16-19, 2012, September 20-23, 2012, December 3-6, 2012
- Couples Workshop (Presenter Training for Imago Therapists) November 26-28, 2012, March 4-6, 2013, July 8-19, 2013
To register, contact: Betty Williams, training@imagorelationships.org
Relational Self Psychology Study Center
The Relational Self Psychology Study Center is dedicated to providing therapists with a grounded home base for developing and deepening clinical skills. Evening courses in basic and cutting-edge psychoanalytic relational theories. Lively, interactive, experience-near discussions in intimate settings. Programs include: 1. 2-Year Training in Relational Self Psychology (newer clinicians) 2. Advanced Program (graduates of the 2-year program and experienced clinicians) 3. Workshops, Clinical Presentations, Gatherings • Intersubjective Systems Theory • Psychoanalytic Relational Theory • Trauma Theory • Infant Research and Development • Attachment Theory For more information: RSPStudyCenter@gmail.com; 100 West Houston Street, # 3F, New York, NY 10012. (212) 924-9656
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Founded/Directed by Pat Ogden, Ph.D. The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy™ Training for the Treatment of Trauma answers the need for a psychotherapy that addresses the physiological responses driving post-traumatic symptoms such as numbing, hypervigilance, emotional overwhelm, immobilization, and impulsivity. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy can be easily and effectively integrated into psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and EMDR-focused treatments. SP is a body-oriented talking therapy that draws from principles of interpersonal neurobiology and is informed by contemporary research on trauma, neuroscience, dissociation and attachment. The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute offers trainings throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. SPI trainers teach effective, accessible somatic interventions for working with the legacy of both trauma and attachment disturbance. Visit our website for more information.
www.sensorimotor.org
WIN Family Services
The Family Strengthening Practice model (FSP) is a holistic model that encourages a family systems approach to resolving the issues of healthy relationships. Derived from the core competencies of the Structural Family Therapy, it involves specific skill sets that address issues through strengths, rather than pathology. More importantly, the model empowers individuals and families to ultimately do the healing work themselves. The Family Strengthening Practice trainings are a process-oriented and highly interactive professional development option for all helping professionals. Communication and intervention skills are imparted that aid helping professionals to established authentic client interactions and responses that produce sustainable, measurable, and actualized change. More information: please contact Nadirah Smith at (410) 578-8003 OR nsmith@winfamilyservices.org.
Relationship Coaching Institute
Looking for comprehensive Life Coach or Relationship Coach training programs? Established in 1997, RCI is the world's first and largest relationship coach training organization, offering certificate coach training programs, including: • Life Coach Foundations training (80 hours) • Specialty Relationship Coach training programs: • Singles Coach training (54 hours) • Couples Coach training (64 hours) • Family (Parent/Teen) Coach training (54 hours) • Business Relationships Coach training (54 hours) • Business Building training (54 hours) Visit our website to access our FREE training programs: • How to Build a Six Figure Relationship Coaching Business • Demystifying Coaching • Parent/Teen Coaching www.RelationshipCoachingInstitute.com
SC Institute for Systemic Experiential Therapy
Workshop in Le Pointreau, FranceLars Brok, MD, psychiatrist, and Russell Haber, PhD, psychologist, will co-lead a 5 1/2 day residential workshop, from August 19-24 2012, for developing a more expanded use of self in systemic therapy. Dr. Brok has completed a book on the subject and Dr. Haber has published many papers on this topic. The beautiful setting is in Le Pointreau, France, which is in the Bordeaux region (visit website below). The cost of the training, room, and board for participants willing to share a space is $1,300 or 1,000E, extra charges apply for those who want their own room. The training will be limited to 14 participants. Non-participants welcome. Further communication: Russell Haber, 1816 Bull Street, Columbia, SC 29209 USA or Email russdeuce@bellsouth.net
Professional Training in Holistic Therapy
Director: Karyne B. Wilner, PsyD
Participate in a Core Energetic Certification Program integrating mind, body, spirit, and emotion through Core Living Therapy. The training focuses on energy psychology, body therapy, mindfulness, and spiritual counseling. The program promotes personal responsibility, healthy relationships, and helps clients with issues involving, body image, sexuality, trauma, stress, PTSD, enmeshment, and willfulness. By using body therapy techniques to promote wellness and body readings for assessment, transformation is facilitated and trainees learn to see the beauty and not just the wounding of the client. Five, 3-day modules, per year. Experienced Faculty. CEU's available. For information visit website below or call (401) 316-7041.
Center for Financial Social Work
Help clients take control of their money and lives with Financial Social Work certification, a behavioral model incorporating ongoing education, motivation and support. Available to MFTs, psychologists, counselors, social workers and non-social workers, this interactive, introspective, psychosocial approach is now taught at college/university level; CEUs are available. Graduates across the country and around the world use the work professionally (and personally) to help clients create sustainable, longterm financial behavioral change. Reeta Wolfsohn, CMSW, founder of the discipline, also created a client workbook program to be used individually or in groups: “Taking Charge: of your money, your life and your future.” (800) 707-1002
www.financialsocialwork.com
Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute
APA and Other CEs Available! Somatic Experiencing® (SE), developed by Peter A. Levine, PhD,
is the highly effective, naturalistic approach to the prevention and resolution of PTSD, developmental, and shock trauma. Supported by leading-edge neuroscience, SE’s body-focused approach models a wild prey animal’s innate resilience to stress. By restoring the inherent, self-correcting, self-regulating mechanisms of the human nervous system, SE® enhances your clients’ capacity to fully enjoy a wide spectrum of human experience. Our professional training, taught in 15 countries, offers mental health professionals a comprehensive, clinical understanding of our biological capacity to heal trauma and the skills necessary to facilitate this natural process. Gently heal trauma without re-traumatization. (303) 652-4035; Info@TraumaHealing.com
www.TraumaHealing.com
Presence-Based Coaching
Leading edge personal/professional development Year-round retreats in Asheville, NC Doug Silsbee offers rigorous, experiential, pragmatic coach training for seasoned professionals who see presence as foundational to human development. Presence-Based Coaching derives meaning from the context of integral development and evolution, and expression through embodied awareness, choice, and resilience. • Develop a strong signature coaching presence. • Practice somatically-based, whole-brain coaching methods. • Coach clients towards effectiveness, leadership presence, and resilience. • Accelerate your development and that of your clients. • Ground your work in a robust model of human development. Credits towards ICF coach certification available.
www.dougsilsbee.com
 
Encounter-centered Couples Therapy (ECCT)
Presented by the Tikkun Learning Center
Join Hedy Schleifer, MA, LMHC as she presents her newest training in ECCT. ECCT combines at its essence, a vibrant synergetic integration of the “I AND THOU” philosophy of Martin Buber, the principles of Imago Relationship Theory and Therapy, the “Appreciative Eye” from the Appreciative Inquiry mythology, and the latest finding of Relational Neurobiology. Learn about the transformation that couples experience when they embrace the “three invisible connectors”: the Space, the Bridge, and the Encounter. You will leave with a renewed sense of “presence,” ease, and competence in your work with couples. To learn more about this new approach, and for information about our global calendar of training programs and workshops, visit the website below or call (305) 604-0010.
www.HedyYumi.com • www.TikkunLearningCenter.com
MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument)
The MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) is the most comprehensive psychological assessment that exists today. It is a Jungian-based instrument based on symbols, colors and developmental stages that literally reveals a “picture” of the psyche. It is a remarkably accurate assessment that accesses all four aspects of consciousness. It passes beneath the filters of the ego to reveal the true Self. The concept of wholeness is inherent in both the instrument and the training. It provides information that spans the traditional and transpersonal perspectives and provides 28 CEUs (NBCC and NASW). Visit our website below to view an introductory video.
SACRED CENTERS
SACRED CENTERS uses the map of the chakra system for embodied awakening of individual awareness and evolution of global consciousness. Founded by Anodea Judith, PhD, author of Wheels of Life; Eastern Body, Western Mind; and Waking the Global Heart. Check out Anodea’s acclaimed upcoming workshops: • Techniques of Mind-Body Integration, Dallas, TX 3/23-27 For therapists who want to learn a more body-based approach • Annual Immersion, Petaluma, CA 5/4-5/17 Annual retreats for diving deeper into advanced curriculum •Psychology of the Chakras, Lenox, MA 8/3-10 A life-changing journey into the architecture of the soul.
CEU approved. More workshops, books, & info at website below.
www.sacredcenters.com
The Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy
Enhance your clinical practice by becoming a trauma resolution therapist. The Institute for Rapid Resolution Therapy provides intensive training and consultation for mental health and medical professionals to assist them in eliminating the psychological and physiological effects of trauma.
The Institute provides professional training and certification in Clinical Hypnosis with Rapid Trauma Resolution® and Rapid Resolution Therapy® developed by Dr. Jon Connelly. Trainings occur over 3-day weekends in destination cities throughout the United States. Mental health practitioners earn 25 continuing education contact hours per weekend. For more information, call (800) 587-2623 or visit website below.
www.cleartrauma.com
American Hypnosis Training Academy
Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Brief Psychotherapy provides a powerful range of clinical interventions for promoting profound therapeutic results. The acquisition of these highly effective methods will strengthen your professional expertise. Your training will consist of lectures, live demonstrations, and practice in small groups, which will reinforce your learning. Attend this training and you'll gain the skills you need to immediately use Ericksonian Hypnosis and Brief Psychotherapy effectively. You want excellent training...this is excellent training. The American Hypnosis Training Academy has provided outstanding instruction for more than 32 years to more than 6,000 satisfied professionals. Call (301) 565-0103 or (800) 343-9915; aims@erols.com
www.ahtainc.com
Center for Self Leadership
IFS offers a clear, empowering and non-pathologizing view of human cognitive and emotional life, providing a dynamic therapeutic approach that allows therapists and clients to enter transformational relationships in which healing occurs. As a Level 1 training participant you will learn both IFS theory and technique, gaining the conceptual understanding and practical skills you need to successfully implement the IFS model with individuals, couples, children, families and groups. The Center for Self Leadership is dedicated to the healing transformation of lives and cultures and serves as a critical link between therapeutic professionals and the wider community. CSL provides a variety of learning opportunities for mental health and human services practitioners, medical and bodywork professionals, and students of the healing arts and sciences.
www.selfleadership.org
The Enneagram for Therapists
With its accurate descriptions of nine unique personality types and their core issues, the Enneagram is a powerful clinical tool to enhance your therapy process and provide a path for effective treatment. Our trainings in the Narrative Tradition, with type representatives sharing their personal stories, provide deep self-understanding and insights about how and why your clients think, feel and act as they do. Enneagram Professional Training Program Founded in 1988 by Helen Palmer and David Daniels, MD Menlo Park, CA – February 2012 • The Enneagram Intensive, February 4-9, 42 CEUs • The Typing Process, February 13-15, 22 CEUs Mention this offer and save $100 off tuition. See our 2012 worldwide schedule online or call (866) 366-8973.
www.EnneagramWorldwide.com
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