Trauma & Grief Dual Certification Course

Full Course Description

2-Day Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Workshop: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving

Transform your practice with this intensive Certification Workshop that will provide you with effective strategies and interventions from EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy so you can take your trauma treatment to the next level!

You’ll learn how to properly assess clients, effectively stabilize them in preparation for treatment, help them safely reprocess traumatic memories, and develop the resources they need to achieve and maintain recovery. You’ll also get detailed guidance on overcoming scenarios involving anger, resistance, and suicidality that can leave you exhausted and uncertain of how to move your most challenging clients forward.

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of trauma counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for details.

Purchase today, get the proven tools and techniques needed to end the suffering of your clients and move them from surviving to thriving!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Describe the brain regions involved in trauma.
  2. Communicate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
  3. Establish how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
  4. Characterize how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety in clients.
  5. Evaluate methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
  6. Describe how narrative therapy exercises can be employed in session to help clients talk about hotspots.
  7. Determine how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma survivors.
  8. Integrate techniques that can be used to “slow” emotions in clients.
  9. Communicate how EMDR-based techniques can be used with clients to resolve traumatic memories.
  10. Differentiate between EMDR, EFT and neuromodulation approaches.
  11. Utilize techniques for working with anger, resistance, and suicidality in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
  12. Communicate the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.

Outline

The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change

Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools

Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work

Proven Skills and Techniques from Evidence-Based Approaches:

Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks

Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth

Research, Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

Copyright : 04/18/2024

The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox


Grieving clients have some of the most heartbreaking stories that we see as clinicians. Your client’s world has been toppled following the loss of a loved one, and in addition to missing that person, your client is now questioning what they know about themselves and the world. Paralyzing grief has made even the simplest tasks difficult for them, and you’re overwhelmed because nothing that you do seems to help.

Join Dr. Erica Sirrine, Ph.D., LCSW, FT, as she walks you through over 60 interventions that you can use to help your grieving clients find hope and heal. Drawing on her expertise as a bereavement counselor and educator, Dr. Sirrine blends remarkable case studies with creative intervention strategies for an engaging and unforgettable workshop that will arm you with the skills you need to be an effective therapist for grieving clients.

Whether your client is experiencing feelings of premature grief due to the anticipated death of a loved one, pain and loss following a divorce, or feelings of disbelief and shock following a traumatic death, this workshop will prepare you to skillfully intervene.

Attend this seminar and discover:

 

Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Grief Informed Professional (CGP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of grief counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CGP for details.

Sign- up to discover the ultimate grief treatment toolbox and revolutionize your treatment of grieving clients!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
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Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the differences in the clinical presentation of depression as compared to bereavement.
  2. Evaluate developmentally appropriate grief symptomology across the lifespan and assess for clinical concerns.
  3. Design individualized therapeutic interventions for bereaved children, adolescents, adults and families using various modalities.
  4. Assess continuing bonds after death and their relevance to clinical practice with bereaved clients.
  5. Demonstrate how to create a support group for bereaved children, adolescents, and/or adults with corresponding therapeutic activities.
  6. Employ therapeutic techniques to address client grief associated with other forms of loss including divorce, chronic illness, military deployment and termination of parental rights.

Outline

Types of Grief & Their Implications for Treatment

Assessment: Intake Considerations for Grieving Clients
Assessment of Grief & Loss in Children & Adolescents
Interventions & Strategies for Anticipatory Grief
OVER 60 INTERVENTIONS TO PROMOTE HEALING WHEN IT’S TOO HARD TO TALK

Therapeutic Games
Art with Children, Adolescents & Adults
Poetry, Writing & Music Interventions for All Ages
Memorialization Rituals
Interactive Activities for Healing as a Family
Grief & Loss Support Groups for Children, Adolescents & Adults

Target Audience

Copyright : 10/12/2023

The Neuroscience of Grief

Why does grief hurt so much? Why does death, the permanent absence of a person with whom you are bonded, result in such devastating feelings and lead to behavior and beliefs that are inexplicable, even to the grieving person? Neuroscience and cognitive psychology can provide some answers beyond what grief feels like—tackling the questions of why. Some of the answers to our questions about grief can be found in the brain, the seat of our thoughts and feelings, motivations, and behaviors. By looking at grief from the perspective of the brain, we will discuss the contemporary neuroscience of how bonded relationships are encoded in order to better understand the why of grief. Considering grieving to be a form of learning is helpful to understanding the trajectory of adaptation during bereavement. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Describe how the neurobiological attachment system encodes close relationships and the separation response to loss. 
  2. Compare separation in pair-bonded animals to the neurobiological effects of acute grief in humans. 
  3. Explain how rumination and avoidance can interfere with the grieving process, preventing learning how to restore a meaningful life. 

Outline

Neurobiology of grief and grieving 

Prolonged Grief Disorder (PGD) 

Grieving as a form of learning 

Toolkit of coping strategies and psychotherapeutic intervention 

Target Audience

Copyright : 04/25/2024

Traumatic Grief: Cognitive, Behavioral and Somatic Approaches

Loss is hard.  Grief is hard.  The challenge of accommodating loss and mitigating the strong feelings of grief is difficult with any loss in our lives.  However, it can be significantly compounded when the loss is traumatic and unexpected.  Loss of a loved one to a traumatic experience such as an acute illness (e.g., COVID; heart attack; sepsis), an accident, a natural disaster, or human-caused circumstances can produce an outcome of “traumatic grief”.  People who experience traumatic grief can rapidly cycle between experiences of acute and overwhelming grief to serious posttraumatic stress symptoms of intrusion, avoidance, distorted perception and heightened arousal.  Without intentional treatment designed to address both the grief and trauma simultaneously—just like we have learned is necessary with a co-occurring substance use disorder and traumatic stress—there is the possibility of the loss metastasizing into hard-to-heal complicated bereavement and PTSD.  This short program provides early intervention skills for clinicians to help their clients effectively address loss/grief simultaneously with posttraumatic stress symptoms in a simple, relationally driven, cognitive-behavioral-somatic process that catalyzes safe expression and externalization of grief while lessening posttraumatic stress symptoms.  All these skills are easily adapted into a telehealth delivery.  This is an excellent course for those clinicians working with survivors who have lost a loved one to COVID-19.

Program Information

Outline

How does grief become “traumatic grief”?  What are the signs and symptoms?

How to use CBS (Cognitive-Behavioral-Somatic) treatment to lessen symptoms and enhance functioning

Objectives

  1. Articulate the etiological factors for Traumatic Grief.
  2. Identify signs and symptoms of Traumatic Grief.
  3. Utilize Worden’s “Tasks of Mourning” to conceptualize the navigation of treatment for all forms of bereavement:  simple, complicated and traumatic.
  4. Utilize cognitive, behavioral and somatic techniques to lessen symptoms and enhance functioning for those suffering with Traumatic Grief.

Target Audience

Copyright : 04/30/2021

Cultivating Post-Traumatic Growth: Hope from the Very First Sessions

Have you ever been working with a traumatized client, compassionately bearing witness to their symptoms, but unable to shake the feeling that you’re overly focusing on their pain? You’re not alone. We all want clients who’ve survived trauma to chart a path forward. Fortunately, there are ways to help them heal and grow while still acknowledging what happened to them---even in the very first sessions. In this experiential recording, we’ll explore creative ways to help trauma survivors navigate the impact of traumatic events while guiding them to a place of newfound hope, resiliency, and healing. You’ll learn:

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the concept of post-traumatic growth and how it relates to traumatic stress.
  2. Evaluate at least three examples of meaning making that exacerbate trauma and three examples of meaning making that mitigate the sequala of trauma.
  3. Practice at least three strategies designed to increase self-compassion.
  4. Catalogue and describe the five arenas of post-traumatic growth.
  5. Demonstrate at least four creative strategies to enhance the arenas of post-traumatic growth that are identified in the PTG Inventory.

Outline

Target Audience

Copyright : 03/10/2022

Reproductive Trauma, Infertility, & Loss

Many of our clients cope with profound experiences of loss and trauma as they try to conceive and grow their families while also facing obstacles such as problems with fertility. For these reasons, reproductive mental health is a fast-growing specialty. Understanding the complexity of family building options is a crucial aspect to helping clients navigate the emotional toll, decision fatigue, and communication impasses these decisions can create. In this workshop, we’ll explore the profound emotional, psychological, and existential impact of these reproductive experiences on clients’ sense of purpose, meaning, identity, and self-worth, as well as how to sensitively navigate these challenges in therapy. You’ll learn: 
 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Identify the psychological impact of infertility for individuals and couples. 
  2. Articulate key questions to effectively assess a client’s reproductive journey and narrative. 
  3. Discuss the implications regarding reproductive loss and trauma and it relates to both the individual and couple. 

Outline

The context of fertility counseling 

 

Working with clients 

 

Clinical considerations 

Target Audience

Copyright : 03/23/2024

The Grief of Medical Trauma, Injury and Illness: Strategies and Supports for Coping and Adaptation

A line forever between what was and what will be, those impacted by medical trauma and chronic illnesses feel every loss. Struck with a sudden or gradual forfeiture of abilities, independence, self-esteem, freedom, comfort, hope and so much more, the grief of what has been taken from them can make a path forward seem unattainable. In this timely session, Dr. Sacha McBain will show you how clinicians can work with the grief that often follows medical trauma, help clients cope with and adapt to their losses, and support them as they shape a new sense of identity and purpose for themselves.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Utilize the ecological model of medical trauma to develop a trauma-informed case formulation.
  2. Tailor trauma-informed and trauma-focused treatment to the address the unique loss and grief experienced by medical trauma survivors and their families.
  3. Utilize clinical strategies from the fields of health and rehabilitation psychology to target health-related factors that contribute to difficulty with adjustment to illness or injury and perpetuate complicated grief.

Outline

Target Audience

Copyright : 04/14/2023

Disenfranchised Grief

When it comes to treating grief in clients from diverse cultures, the last thing you want to do is minimize their experiences or avoid acknowledging them. Lack of support and validation can lead them to experience Disenfranchised Grief, which will only complicate treatment and prolong healing. Led by Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, FT, this session will illuminate interactions and events connecting members of diverse subcultures and immigrants to Disenfranchised Grief and will give you an eclectic approach to identifying validating language to better help your clients. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Differentiate disenfranchised grief types to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions 
  2. Examine common triggers of disenfranchised grief in diverse subcultures to improve treatment outcomes 
  3. Identify migratory grief experiences in immigrants as it relates to case conceptualization 
  4. Utilize validating language for disenfranchised grief symptom management in session 

Outline

Categories of Disenfranchised Grief 

Ways subcultures experience Disenfranchised Grief 

Research on common Immigrant experiences that can lead to Migratory Grief

An eclectic approach to identify validating language to combat Disenfranchised Grief 

The value of a healthy support system 

Target Audience

Copyright : 04/26/2024