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Digital Seminar

Forgiveness in Trauma Therapy

A Step-by-Step Training on If, When and How to Address the "F" Word in Trauma Processing

Speaker:
Amanda Gregory, LCPC
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Dec 16, 2025
Product Code:
POS150492
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

  • What forgiveness is – and what it’s not – in trauma therapy
  • Avoid clinical missteps that can hurt clients and derail progress
  • Strategies that welcome anger and embrace appropriate blame
  • Elective forgiveness interventions that are client-led and never forced or premature
  • Includes a printable client’s guide and survivor’s workbook

 

In trauma work, forgiveness often comes up with clients. They’ve heard things like “you need to forgive to heal.”

If you’re like most therapists you’re not sure there’s even a clear definition of forgiveness – or what role if any it should play in treatment.

Here’s the thing. If you get forgiveness in therapy wrong you can do a lot of damage … especially if clients think you’re asking them to “let it go”, make peace with an abuser, or that forgiveness is some kind of “required step” on the journey to trauma recovery.

But when explored gently and on the client’s terms – forgiveness can become a powerful tool. The key is knowing if, when, and how to bring it into the work.

Now with this one-day training Amanda Ann Gregory, author of You Don’t Need to Forgive: Trauma Recovery on Your Own Terms will help make it all clear with the clinical insights and practical strategies you need to navigate forgiveness in a way that supports, rather than derails, your clients’ healing.

When you purchase, you’ll get

  • A clear understanding of what forgiveness is – and what it’s not – in trauma therapy
  • The latest research on forgiveness, where it helps and where it harms
  • Guidance on if, when and how forgiveness should even be explored with your client
  • Strategies that welcome anger and embrace appropriate blame
  • Forgiveness interventions that are client-led and never forced or premature

Forgiveness will come up in therapy, and you can’t afford to get it wrong.

Purchase now and get what you need to navigate it with confidence and skill!

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



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CE hours may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

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**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



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Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.


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Objectives

  1. Examine common myths about the use and impact of forgiveness in trauma therapy.
  2. Distinguish between forgiveness as an elective experience in trauma therapy and the practice of requiring forgiveness in forgiveness therapy.
  3. Identify four reasons why the use of mandatory forgiveness in trauma therapy is unsupported by empirical evidence.
  4. Identify the clinical limitations of forgiveness therapy in trauma recovery.
  5. Define six specific ways that requiring forgiveness can harm trauma survivors in therapy.
  6. Utilize six trauma therapy interventions that incorporate elective forgiveness.

Outline

Do We Even Agree on What Forgiveness Means?

  • Define forgiveness operationally
  • Review forgiveness research in wellness
  • Explore the origins of forgiveness in psychology

The Role of Forgiveness in Trauma Therapy

  • Define clinical trauma
  • Forgiveness therapy vs. forgiveness in therapy
  • Forgiveness therapy modalities
  • Common myths about forgiveness

Research, Risk and Limitations

  • Lack of standardized definitions
  • How safety is compromised
  • Identify methods that restrict emotional processing

Required Forgiveness: Impacts on Clients, the Therapeutic Relationship, and More

  • Discover the negative impacts on the counseling relationships
  • Recognize how anger processing is restricted
  • Explore how gender and racial stereotypes are promoted
  • Detect how the wishes of offenders/bystanders are reinforced
  • Learn how religious trauma responses are activated
  • Identify failures to acknowledge culture and religious beliefs

Elective Forgiveness Interventions: How to Get Forgiveness Right in Trauma Therapy

  • Provide elective forgiveness psychoeducation
  • Asses the impact of mandatory forgiveness
  • Explore religious/spiritual and cultural beliefs
  • Create realistic forgiveness-focused treatment plans
  • Welcome rage, resentment, and anger
  • Utilize techniques to assess and assign appropriate blame

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physicians
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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