This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

Although trauma seriously impacts children, there is also hope for healing

Explore different types of traumas and learn how trauma affects children’s emotional and physical well-being with a licensed therapist

Trauma is defined by the emotional and psychological effect an event has on people, and less by the event itself. Explore the science of trauma and discuss how trauma impacts physical & mental health with a licensed therapist.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

This support group is a weekly online group designed to provide support, education and guidance for past or current traumatic experiences.

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The Trauma Informed Practice Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education. If you are interested in receiving CE credits for your participation in this workshop, please be sure to add this option to your registration.

This workshop will be held online via Zoom. The link to the room will be sent out 48 hours prior to the start of the workshop.

Learning Objectives:

This workshop builds on the knowledge acquired during Level 1 regarding Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). This experiential workshop focuses primarily on the acquisition and demonstration of skills and techniques that adhere to TIP indicators which assist clients in their healing process.

Upon completion, learners will be able to:

1. Apply a variety of integrative mind-body techniques in order to engage and release embodied emotions (e.g., tapping, movement, breathing)
2. Demonstrate the ability to utilize metaphors in sessions to depict client experiences of trauma
3. Develop and expand metaphors to include traumatic material and track the history of emotions for clients
4. Describe the importance of using visualizations to assist clients in accessing embodied emotions
5. Utilize a variety of methods for resourcing clients (i.e., keeping clients within their window of tolerance)

A large number of studies now provide strong evidence that psychosis is often an understandable reaction to trauma, abuse, and other difficult life experiences. This training will introduce you to a science based yet humanistic conceptualization of extreme human experiences that can be related to trauma, and will demonstrate how to help people change their relationship with these experiences, for example, by collaborating with them in building coherent and compassionate self narratives that can set the stage for a strong recovery.

Dissociation can be a normal response to traumatic stress and can, in its more extreme forms and when misinterpreted, easily lead to psychosis. Drawing on this understanding, the possibility of addressing dissociation and misinterpretations of dissociation using methods drawn from diverse sources such as CBT, the Hearing Voices Movement, mindfulness, and psychodynamic approaches will be presented. These approaches can help people to regain perspective and personal power and create an opportunity to resolve internal conflicts rather than remaining stuck in endless efforts to suppress whatever is disturbing them.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify possible interrelationships between trauma, dissociation, and psychosis, including ways that psychosis itself, and reactions to psychosis by others, can be traumatizing

• Describe a possible causal route from trauma to psychotic experiences, and describe the role of dissociation within that process

• Plan to integrate CBT for psychosis with various trauma therapies to effectively treat clients who have experienced both trauma and psychosis

• Demonstrate a collaborate approach to helping clients develop coherent and compassionate stories of trauma and recovery which provide an alternative to both fragmented “psychotic” stories, and to helplessness-inducing “mental illness” stories.

About the instructor: (Ron Unger LCSW): “I’m a therapist who has been practicing CBTp for almost two decades, and during that time I have led many seminars on CBTp at a variety of universities and agencies in the US and Canada. These seminars present CBTp as part of a deeply humanistic and open-minded approach to difficult experiences that can otherwise be too easily framed as “not understandable.” I am the author of 3 prerecorded “online courses” related to CBT for psychosis (these courses cover some of the same material that will be covered in these live seminars.) I am chair of the educational committee for the US Chapter of the International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS-US) and am a blogger at recoveryfromschizophrenia.org and www.madinamerica.com.”

3.5 hours of Continuation Credit for many US professionals will be provided: for information about that please see https://recoveryfromschizophrenia.org/home/ce_info/

Schedule: 9:00am-12:30pm Pacific Time / (12:00-3:30pm Eastern Time).

Target audience: Mental health professionals, especially psychologists, social workers, and counselors.

Level: Intermediate

Accommodations for the Differently Abled: Individuals needing special accommodations, please contact: Ron Unger LCSW, [email protected], 541-513-1811.

There is no known commercial support nor conflict of interest for this program.

Trauma is defined by the emotional and psychological effect an event has on people, and less by the event itself. Explore the science of trauma and discuss how trauma effects physical & mental health in this one-hour webinar.

Certificates of attendance are provided at no cost.

About the instructor: Jaymi Dormaier, LMSW, holds a master's degree in social work from Michigan State University. In Jaymi's career as a social worker and therapist she has worked with a diverse population focusing on a variety of issues, including homelessness, depression, anxiety, grief, trauma, foster care, adoption, and addiction. She is passionate about helping others live a life they love.

Jaymi is on the board of a non-profit organization focused on bringing more happiness to the world through random acts of kindness. In her free time Jaymi enjoys spending time with her dog, volunteering in her community, and camping.

Speaker: Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S

 

About the Speaker: Lori Kucharski, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC, CEDS-S is a licensed therapist practicing since 2004 in residential treatment facilities, crisis and outpatient mental health, and private practice. She owns and operates an EMDR training, consulting, and clinical program and provides supervision for LMFT and LPC candidates. She is an AAMFT-Approved Supervisor, a Certified Eating Disorders Specialist/Supervisor, and the EMDR regional network coordinator for Colorado Springs, CO. She taught MFT and Counseling courses in graduate programs since 2013. Lori specializes in complex trauma, attachment, disordered eating, dissociation, and body image with all ages from a systems perspective. She presents locally and nationally on these topics and advocates for ending social and cultural stigma and discrimination around body size, ability, and appearance.

 

Objectives:

1. Attendees will gain an understanding of the etiology, symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment of complex trauma, attachment disrupt, abuse/neglect issues, the dissociative continuum, and how presentations are demonstrated through the lifespan.

2. Attendees will gain skills for working with "treatment-resistant" clients, personality disorders, and other expressions of complex trauma and attachment disrupt.

3. Attendees will gain a foundational understanding of "parts work" and evidence-based practices used for complex trauma and attachment disrupt.

 

Time: 10AM-12PM MST

2 Continuing Education Credits will be provided for attending this training.

 

The Recovery Village at Palmer Lake has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7011. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Recovery Village at Palmer Lake is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

For questions regarding Continuing Education Events please contact Event Director, Ashley at [email protected].

Workshop Details

This workshop will be held online via Zoom. The link to the room will be sent out 48 hours prior to the start of the workshop.

Learning Objectives:

This workshop builds on the knowledge acquired during Level 1 regarding Trauma Informed Practice (TIP). This experiential workshop focuses primarily on the acquisition and demonstration of skills and techniques that adhere to TIP indicators which assist clients in their healing process.

Upon completion, learners will be able to:

1. Apply a variety of integrative mind-body techniques in order to engage and release embodied emotions (e.g., tapping, movement, breathing)
2. Demonstrate the ability to utilize metaphors in sessions to depict client experiences of trauma
3. Develop and expand metaphors to include traumatic material and track the history of emotions for clients
4. Describe the importance of using visualizations to assist clients in accessing embodied emotions
5. Utilize a variety of methods for resourcing clients (i.e., keeping clients within their window of tolerance)

Topics Covered:

• Role of Mindfulness
• Tracking the History of Emotions
• Connecting Emotions to Negative Self-Talk, Core Beliefs, and Patterns of Behavior
• Metaphor Development in Experiential Unity Model (Quinn, 2012)
• Role of Tapping and Other Mind-Body Techniques in the Release of Trauma
• Practice Sessions: How to Process a Client’s Trauma Whilst Keeping Within the Window of Tolerance (e.g., noticing micro movements).
• Effective Resolutions in Counselling Sessions (i.e., getting to the root of the issue while maintaining client’s Window of Tolerance)
• Resourcing Clients
• Role of Visualizations

Intended Audience:

Anyone with an interest in Trauma Informed Practice, both professionally and personally, is invited to attend the training. This program is designed to assist individuals with some expertise in the content area, as well as graduate students in relevant disciplines. Therefore, prior training in the theoretical foundation of TIP is required. We strongly recommend attending the Level 1 training; however, prior academic training on this topic may also be suitable.

Typical Workshop Schedule:

• 9:30 AM: Registration Opens for 'CE Credit' Attendees
• 9:45 AM: General Registration Opens
• 10:00 AM: Workshop Starts
• 12:00-12:30 PM: Lunch Break (approximate time only)
• 4:00 PM: Workshop Ends

Continuing Education Credits (Optional):

This workshop is approved for 5.5 CE credits from the Canadian Psychological Association upon successful demonstration of mindfulness, metaphor, and tracking the history of emotions within dyad work.

Important: If you are interested in receiving CE credits for your participation in this workshop, please be sure to add this option to your registration and follow the specified instructions (e.g., early registration). More details will be provided prior to the start of the workshop.

CPA Disclaimer: "The Trauma Informed Practice Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Trauma Informed Practice Institute maintains responsibility for the program."

For further inquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Facilitators:

Alyson Quinn, MSW, RPC

Alyson has been an adjunct professor at UBC School of Social work for 7 years and is presently teaching in the Department of Educational & Counselling Psychology. She has been a counsellor for 30 years specializing in group therapy, trauma therapy, and conflict resolution. She is a clinical counsellor with a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia and a Diploma in Conflict Resolution from Royal Roads University. Alyson has taught students in a Trauma Informed Counselling class, in a group work class, and also in an Integrative Seminar and has a great deal of experience as an individual and couples counsellor. She is an author of 3 published books. Alyson’s Pedagogy for an Integrative Practice is published in the textbook, Holistic Engagement: Transformative Social Work Education in the 21st Century. Her textbook, Experiential Unity Theory and Model: Reclaiming Your Soul, published in 2012, is aligned with the principles of a Trauma Informed Practice. Alyson has taught her model at both International and Canadian conferences. Alyson was born in Zimbabwe and trained as a social worker in South Africa. She launched her social work career in London, England and then emigrated to Vancouver, Canada. Her self-help book, Reclaim Your Soul: Your Path to Healing, published in 2014, also builds on trauma informed principles. Her website is alysonquinnwrites.com.

Robbie Ruddell, MA, RCC

Robbie completed a Master of Arts in Psychology and Italian at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Following this, he started his counsellor education at the University of Cambridge, UK where he attended specialized training in working therapeutically through the use of creative arts. From there he returned home to Vancouver, Canada where he completed his Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at the University of British Columbia. His master’s thesis investigated the construct of self-esteem and how it is measured in the counselling field. Robbie completed part of his practicum degree requirements at the Adult Mental Health and Substance Use Services with the Fraser Health Authority. During this placement, Robbie had the exciting opportunity to work alongside Alyson Quinn, implementing her Experiential Unity Theory and Model to co-facilitate several crisis stabilization groups for individuals experiencing acute emotional distress. Robbie and Alyson are currently in the process of writing a book with the aim of supporting clinicians to integrate Quinn’s model into their practices. Alongside his graduate program, Robbie had been working as a Career Advisor with the Centre for Student Involvement and Careers at UBC. He was also working as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Psychology at UBC, supporting students with their multidisciplinary research projects and statistical analyses. He has further assisted teaching for courses on developmental, social, personality, and clinical psychology. In Robbie’s clinical work with clients, he utilizes a trauma informed lens including right brain orientation of the clinician to the right brain orientation of the client, bottom-up processing, and an emphasis on integrative modalities that assist clients in relying on the inherent wisdom of their bodies to guide the therapeutic work.

Neringa Dainaraviciute, MSW, RSW

Neringa was born in Lithuania, where she pursued her Master of Social Work. Her clinical practice includes 20 years of experience in mental health, both in inpatient and community settings. She presently works as a social worker at Vancouver Coastal Health. In her work, Neringa integrates the Experiential Theory and Model to assist individuals healing from trauma and experiencing grief and anxiety. Neringa is also completing her Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology, while working as a researcher in the Child Study Lab at UBC. Her primary area of interest is resilience and vulnerability in the context of multiculturalism, oppression and historical trauma. Her scholarly contributions include a number of publications in peer-reviewed journals, as well as presentations at national and international conferences on the topics of resilience, global perspectives on trauma and healing, and life transitions in early childhood and older adults. She has taught at the departments of social work at a university in Vilnius, and later at the University of British Columbia.

Feedback Received from Past Participants of this Training:

“Thank you, Alyson! You have helped me achieve my goal of growing my practice and becoming a more informed clinician.”

“Appreciated the practicality and concrete skills.”

“I really enjoyed the experiential focus of this workshop. It was extremely helpful to practice in pairs and explore something new. I felt like I was challenged in ways that helped me grow and become more connected with myself.”

“I loved the step-by-step walk through of how to identify and acknowledge trauma, and how to feel it and release it. We had a great amount of practice time.” “Everything about this workshop was excellent.”

“Thank you for the most fantastic workshop I have ever attended!”

“The instructor was very skilled. Overall excellent. Learned a great deal of practical skills. Would love to learn more. Experiential – thank you! Loved it! Thank you, Alyson!”

“A safe place to practice and learn.”

“Appreciated your honesty. That you didn’t sugar coat things. That you adapted the tempo and material to match the energy in the room.”