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Intensive Training Programs

A Guide to Specialized Instruction in the Mental Health Field

Click on web addresses below for further information on each program.

 

Karyne WilnerKaryne Wilner

Karyne Wilner's Core Energetics

Participate in a certification program based upon the world renowned Core Energetics Method. Mental health professionals will become certified in a comprehensive energy-renewing method that helps their patients:

  • Overcome and heal deeply stored, inhibiting, emotional imprints left in the body from earlier unresolved painful experiences.
  • Refresh and enhance the natural flow of life energy and love so they can enjoy a more integrated and harmonious life.

New Two-Year Professional Training in Core Energetics begins October 18, 2013 in Newport, RI. For more information visit the website below or call (401) 316-7041.

www.corevibrations.com

 

UMSHC

University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program (UMSHCP)

The University of Michigan Sexual Health Certificate Program (UMSHCP) provides comprehensive sexual health education and training for educators, health professionals, and mental health professionals. The 15-month certificate program utilizes the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists (AASECT) recommended standards of learning to prepare professionals in the areas of sexuality education, sexuality counseling, and sex therapy. Coursework blends distance learning with weekend minicourses held on the campus of University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. Now enrolling for the July 2013 program start date. Continuing Education hours (CE) available. Visit website below or contact UMSHCP Director Sallie Foley at (734) 764-4074, smfoley@umich.edu

www.ssw.umich.edu/programs/ce/UMSHC

 

PACT

Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy

Dr. Stan Tatkin, author of Wired for Love and Love and War, presents PACT – a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy. PACT, a fusion of attachment, arousal regulation, and neuroscience, is quickly gaining a reputation for effectively treating couples typically thought of as untreatable. PACT Level I and Level II training is available in Austin, Berkeley, Boulder, Los Angeles, and Seattle and features clinical video presentations, multimedia and didactic delivery, group discussion, case consultation, experiential exercises, and live case enactments. Workshops deepen knowledge of attachment, arousal regulation, neurobiological deficits, and therapeutic enactments. CE credits offered.

More information, program dates, prices, and registration available at our website below.

www.stantatkin.com

 

Center For Contextual ChangeMary Jo Barrett

Center for Contextual Change

Mary Jo Barrett and other seasoned clinicians from the Center for Contextual Change offer trainings on a variety of topics that can be tailored to the specific needs of your staff and done on site. All of our trainings put a particular focus on the Collaborative Stage Model, a 3 stage model proven to create real and meaningful change. Topics include DBT, PTSD, Compassion Fatigue, Complex Trauma and more. Our trainers are well versed in both in-patient and out-patient settings and with clinicians working in private practice. Committed to the importance of sharing knowledge with the therapeutic community, we offer a comprehensive curriculum of professional trainings and consultations for mental health clinicians and educators. For more information visit our website below or call (847) 676-4447, x336.

www.centerforcontextualchange.org

 

APA

Clinician's Corner Workshops

The APA Office of Continuing Education in Psychology offers monthly workshops, which are held at the APA building (Washington, DC) and webcast live. Each 3-hour workshop includes three CE credits and features experts in the field:
The Food Pollution/Addiction Model for Treating Eating Disorders and Obesity (May 17)
Diagnosis with DSM-5 and ICD (June 14)
SLD Determination Under IDEA (June 21)
Advanced Assessment and Treatment of Attention Deficit Disorders (July 19)
APA Members: $65 | Nonmembers: $80. Live webcast: http://apa.bizvision.com (select "Clinician's Corner Webcasts"). On-site workshop: Call (800) 374-2721, ext. 5991, option 3.

http://apa.bizvision.com

 

Al Pesso

Al Pesso

Don't Miss This Chance to Learn From Al Pesso

Al Pesso, widely considered a visionary pioneer and one of three living masters of body psychotherapy and the 2012 lifetime achievement award winner for the US Association for Body Psychotherapy. Learn the latest techniques of the most advanced therapeutic system available for emotional re-education, Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP), the ground-breaking body psychotherapy that he co-founded.

The following topics will be covered in the programs:

  • Mind body Integration
  • Micro-Tracking Present Conscious
  • Creating New Memories that satisfy Maturational Needs
  • Trauma Healing Techniques
  • Holes in Roles: A Way to reduce Client Negative Transference and Resistance 

Level 1: June 30–July 6
Level 2: July 7–13
Level 3: July 14–20 in Boston, MA
Call (603) 934-2737 or email contact@pbsp.com to register.

www.pbsp.com

 

Philadelphia Child & Family Therapy Training Center

Philadelphia Child & Family Therapy Training Center

The Philadelphia Child and Family Therapy Training Center, Inc. was created in the late 1990s to continue the training programs previously conducted at Philadelphia Child Guidance Center directed by Salvador Minuchin. Under the leadership of Dr. Marion Lindblad-Goldberg, the training center is known for its development of an updated clinical model, Ecosystemic Structural Family Therapy. The Center's traveling faculty conduct training in institutions nationally and abroad. The Center runs a three-year COAMFTE-accredited post-graduate program, a one-year Extern Program, and a three-week June Summer Practicum with live supervision with patients, AAMFT-Approved Supervision Mentoring Course and a Refresher Course, and correspondence courses. Visit the Center's website below.

www.philafamily.com

 

Art With Heart

Art with Heart

Use Creativity to Reach Teens

Art with Heart’s CHILL & SPILL INTENSIVE TRAINING provides a roadmap for the Chill & Spill Program, a proven prevention and intervention tool that is based in cognitive behavioral, narrative and art therapies and fosters social and emotional learning through the therapeutic use of art. This 1.5-day course prepares participants to bring the C&S Program to their adolescent clients and includes lecture, demonstration, hands-on artistic activities in a variety of media, and group discussion.

October 21st & 22nd, Seattle, Washington
$250 early bird registration ($300 after September 20th)
11 Clock Hours or CEUs (fees apply)

www.artwithheart.org/events

 

LifeForce Yoga

LifeForce Yoga®

Practitioner Training for Anxiety & Depression

Offers clinicians Yogic practices supported by current research appropriate for the treatment room. Learn yoga skills (no mat required!) 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. The evidence-based LifeForce Yoga protocol is used in health care settings internationally. Two training levels & mentoring. Led by Amy Weintraub, MFA, ERYT500, author of Yoga for Depression and Yoga Skills for Therapists (W.W. Norton), and a faculty of yoga teachers and mental health professionals. CEU’s.

www.yogafordepression.com/practitioner-training

 

League of Therapists

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

 

Inner Canvas

Inner Canvas Art Retreats and Artfix:
The Online Class

Access and utilize your therapeutic skills with less effort by learning to intentionally partner with your creativity. Learn to navigate all 5 stages of your creative process and play with basic art materials. Think more creatively, be a better problem solver, tolerate uncomfortable feelings. Finding your creative flow, you will leave with inspiration and engagement for your clients like you've never felt before. Lisa Mitchell, MFT, ATR., registered art therapist and owner/director of The Art Therapy Studio facilitates retreats that have been described as “bubbly fun plus Zen”! Her forthcoming book is Bold Bursts of Creative Inspiration: Partner with You Creativity and Be an Even Better Therapist or Coach.

www.innercanvas.com

 

Mari Creative Resources

MARI

Learn MARI, get 20 CEs and cruise the Caribbean in January! The MARI (Mandala Assessment Research Instrument) is a whole-brained instrument based in the concept of wholeness, and is the most comprehensive psychological assessment that exists today. It is a Jungian-oriented instrument based on symbols, colors and developmental stages that literally reveals a remarkably accurate “picture” of the psyche. Accessing all four aspects of consciousness, MARI passes beneath the filters of the ego to reveal the true Self. MARI information spans the traditional and transpersonal perspectives and provides contact and ethics hours approved by APA, ACA, NBCC and NASW. Live and self-paced, online classes available.

www.maricreativeresources.com

 

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

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