The Ultimate Trauma Treatment Certification (CCTP/CCTPII) Course

Full Course Description

Trauma Treatment Certification Training | Part I

Get the therapist’s toolkit you need to optimize your work with clients facing their traumatic pasts.

Watch trauma expert Daphne Fatter, PhD, who has almost 20 years of experience providing trauma treatment and completed her postdoctoral fellowship in clinical psychology under the direct supervision of world-renowned trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk.

Certified in EMDR, IFS and trained in CPT, Dr. Fatter will provide you with a guide on how you can better attune to trauma clients, elicit more stability prior to deeper work, and utilize an evidence-based Three Phase Model to help you create appropriate treatment plans to meet your clients' unique needs.

Dr. Fatter’s training will give you a roadmap to providing quality trauma treatment based on today’s most in-demand treatment modalities so you can:

PLUS, when you complete this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications at no additional cost.

Don’t miss this chance to get the expert guidance and interventions you need to make your trauma treatment toolbox more robust than ever before.

Register now!

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion of the program.

*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Assess clients for indicators of unprocessed traumatic memories.  
  2. Utilize CAPS-5, PCL-5 and other appropriate clinical evidence-based assessments to identify traumatic events and PTSD diagnosis. 
  3. Assess clients for racial trauma and/or stress from discrimination. 
  4. Differentiate between hyper-arousal and hypo arousal signals in clients. 
  5. Employ an evidence-based Three Phase Model in trauma treatment that begins with establishing safety.  
  6. Analyze how therapeutic presence facilitates positive therapeutic relationships and effective therapy through the lens of Polyvagal Theory. 
  7. Determine how clinicians can utilize adjunctive interventions like yoga to help clients regulate arousal and stabilize.  
  8. Employ breathing and somatic interventions clients can use when they are in acute distress. 
  9. Apply culturally relevant information to treatment plans and to build working alliance with clients before trauma processing.  
  10. Assess clients to determine which are good candidates for trauma processing. 
  11. Analyze factors to consider in choosing the appropriate trauma processing model for a client.  
  12. Integrate effective adaptions when working with bi-lingual clients or neurodiverse clients. 
  13. Evaluate signs that clients are making progress during trauma processing. 
  14. Differentiate the benefits and potential drawbacks of EMDR, CPT, IFS and PE to establish which might best fit a particular client’s needs.  
  15. Determine what to include in your clinical documentation when working with PTSD.

Outline

How the Neuroscience of Traumatic Stress Informs Your Treatment Plan

Trauma Assessment Tools

Creating Treatment Plans Focused on Arousal Regulation

Employing the Phase-Oriented Treatment Model: A Roadmap to Safe and Effective Trauma Processing and Resolution

Adjunctive Interventions: 4 Proven Tools to Reduce Symptomology, Enhance Calm, and Improve Functioning

Navigating Acute Distress for State Change In and Out of Session

Trauma Processing: Accessing Trauma Memory Networks, Managing Triggers, and More

Is Your Client Ready? Contraindications for Trauma Processing

Cultural & Relational Factors in Trauma Treatment

Prolonged Exposure and Cognitive Processing Therapy: 2 of the Best-Validated Top-Down Models for Trauma Resolution

EMDR and IFS: Evidenced-Based Bottom-Up Models to Heal Trauma

Choosing the Right Trauma Processing Model for Your Client

Specific Considerations & Future Directions in Trauma Treatment

Target Audience

Copyright : 07/27/2023

Trauma Treatment Certification Training | Part III

Copyright : 07/27/2023

Complex Trauma Certification Training | Part I

Many clinicians are trained in the treatment of single traumatic events, but are not fully equipment to treat Complex PTSD. The traditional approaches to the treatment of PTSD can fall short when working with clients with Complex PTSD. Watch this workshop to learn how you can adapt your therapeutic approach to help clients diagnosed with Complex PTSD achieve more successful outcomes.

The most common question asked when treating Complex PTSD is, “where do I start?”. In this training, you will develop confidence in your ability to successfully organize and prioritize your client’s treatment goals. You will learn how to compassionately and effectively work with clients who have experienced multiple traumatic events and prolonged trauma exposure.

Successful treatment requires a compassionate therapeutic relationship and effective, research-based interventions. After this training you will learn how to:

Watch Dr. Arielle Schwartz, trauma expert, trainer and author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, in this engaging and interactive seminar to learn valuable strategies that will allow you to successfully address the dysregulated affect and arousal states that accompany Complex PTSD. You will leave this seminar with practical tools that facilitate a strength-based approach to trauma recovery and increased resilience in clients.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Distinguish key contributing factors to the development of Complex PTSD as it relates to client case conceptualization. 
  2. Analyze the impact of Complex PTSD on the cognitive, emotional, and physical health of the client.
  3. Determine how to assess clients for Complex PTSD symptoms within other diagnoses, including personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dissociative disorders.
  4. Incorporate into clinical treatment practical mind-body therapy tools to help clients feel resourced and prepared for trauma processing.
  5. Articulate the six stages of trauma responses within the neurobiology of Complex PTSD as it relates to clinical treatment.
  6. Utilize assessment tools to properly assess for Complex PTSD to better inform treatment planning.
  7. Analyze implicit memory foundations of preverbal and nonverbal memories.
  8. Breakdown how mutual regulation within the therapeutic relationship teaches clients self-regulation strategies that help them develop new interpersonal strengths that help with the treatment process.
  9. Analyze parts work from Structural Dissociation, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt perspectives.
  10. Evaluate the basic principles of a unified approach to somatic psychology.
  11. Implement mindfulness-based techniques into trauma treatment.
  12. Integrate interventions for the treatment of Complex PTSD drawn from CBT, DBT, EMDR Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and mind-body therapies.
  13. Determine how the neuroscience of interpersonal neurobiology provides insight into the psychobiological changes possible within trauma treatment. 
  14. Analyze how working within the “Window of Tolerance” can help reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization.
  15. Assess how “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions can speed up or slow down the pacing of trauma treatment.
  16. Differentiate past experience from present moment experience as it relates to the treatment of trauma.
  17. Employ resilience as a strength-based approach that fosters growth and integration of a positive sense of self-identity in clients.
  18. Evaluate the role of neuroplasticity in treating trauma.
  19. Determine resilience and protective factors to aid against the development of PTSD.
  20. Demonstrate effective strategies for working with clients' preverbal memories.
  21. Utilize relational interventions for shame.
  22. Utilize EFT, Havening Technique, and other “neuromodulation” strategies for trauma recovery.
  23. Apply techniques of focusing and resourcing to prepare clients for trauma reprocessing.
  24. Analyze somatic cues to determine level of internal trauma processing. 
  25. Employ coregulation to reduce level of client distress.
  26. Adapt standard trauma therapy to the increased demands of complex PTSD.

Outline

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder vs. Complex PTSD: Understand the Difference

The Neurobiology of PTSD: Beyond Fight and Flight

Psychological and Physiological Repercussions of Complex PTSD: A Deeper Understanding for Accurate Assessment

Therapeutic Interventions for Complex PTSD: Summary of Effective Therapies

Integrative Treatment for Complex PTSD: Putting it All Together for an Effective Treatment Plan

Experiential Interventions: Mind-Body Practices for Clients with Complex PTSD

Special Considerations in Complex Trauma Treatment

Fostering Resilience: For Post-Traumatic Growth and Healing

Vicarious Trauma: Improve Client Outcomes Through Effective Self-Care

Clinical Vignette – Wendy

Trauma history of neglect, grandmother suicide, father inappropriate sexually

Integrative Approach to Trauma Reprocessing

Deepening the work

Top down and bottom up

Somatic repatterning and reprocessing

Integration:  A path to self-regulation

Target Audience

Copyright : 11/30/2020

The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook

Traumatic life experiences can be devastating and they inevitably shape who you are. Such events can also become a powerful force that awakens you to an undercurrent of your own aliveness. Trauma recovery involves learning to trust in your capacity for new growth. In order to grow, we must make use of our suffering in order to find our happiness.

Within these pages, you will find an invitation to see yourself as the hero or heroine of your own life journey. A hero’s journey involves walking into the darkness on a quest for wholeness. This interactive format calls for journaling and self-reflection, with practices that guide you beyond the pain of your past and help you discover a sense of meaning and purpose in your life. Successful navigation of a hero’s journey provides opportunities to discover that you are more powerful than you had previously realized.

Written by Dr. Arielle Schwartz, bestselling author of The Complex PTSD Workbook, this healing guide provides a step-by-step approach to trauma recovery that integrates:

The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual

Clinicians working with complex trauma are honored with the most sacred of tasks: to bear witness to clients’ suffering and to attend compassionately to their wounds.

In The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, clinicians will find the road map they need to conduct successful therapy with clients who have experienced prolonged exposure to traumatic events. Combining the science and art of therapy, Dr. Arielle Schwartz seamlessly integrates research-based interventions with the essentials of healing to create a whole-person approach to trauma treatment.

Drawing from her years of experience in working with trauma survivors, Dr. Schwartz provides clinicians with the tools they need to become a trustworthy companion to trauma survivors and become capable of guiding a healing journey for clients with a history of abuse or neglect. Within these pages, you will find: