Certified Clinical
Trauma Professional
Training
Learn a research-informed four-stage framework for trauma treatment — and walk away with the CCTP credential included. Featuring internationally recognized expert J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP.
Effective Trauma Treatment Can Be Simple…
But It’s Not Easy
After decades of treating traumatic stress, we have learned that effective treatment can be simple… but it’s not easy.
Studies indicate that there are four key elements to effective trauma treatment. When you accomplish these four key elements in treatment with your clients, you will be able to reduce their symptoms and improve clinical outcomes. Attend this workshop and you will walk away with a step-by-step four-stage framework for navigating essential elements of trauma treatment with your traumatized clients.
The essential elements are common to all evidence-based trauma treatments, you will learn how you can integrate this framework with your current approach or methodology to improve how you treat trauma. Watch J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP as he shows you how this trauma competency training can give you tools and techniques for your clinical practice and help improve your trauma treatment outcomes, just as he has for other clinicians around the world.
Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications.*
Comprehensive Two-Day Curriculum
A clinically rich curriculum spanning the full spectrum of traumatic stress — from neurobiology to evidence-based interventions and posttraumatic growth.
- Systemic traumatic stress
- Symptom review for DSM-5-TR diagnosis
- Review of effective treatments
- Tri-phasic model
- Most used clinician friendly instruments to assess traumatic stress
- Precipitating events
- Meaning making
- Physiology of trauma
- Perception
- Research of impact of trauma on the brain
- The biochemical, affective, and cognitive impact
- Affective volatility
- “Active Ingredients” of all trauma treatments
- Cognitive Restructuring & Psychoeducation
- Therapeutic Relationship & Positive Expectancy
- Self-Regulation & Relaxation
- Exposure (in vivo & imaginal)
- Overview of research to support framework
- Strengths and systemic perspective
- Cognitive behavioral techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
- EMDR & bilateral stimulation
- In vivo exposure
- Energy/tapping techniques
- Somatic Experiencing & sensorimotor
- Limitations and weaknesses of evidence-based trauma treatment models
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA
- DSM-5-TR® changes and limitations
- ACE & developmental trauma
- Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5
- ACES (screening & psychoeduction)
- TRS (treatment planning and monitoring)
- Relaxation/self-regulation
- Grounding
- Containment
- In vivo and imaginal exposure
- Writing/journaling
- Drawing art
- Healing metaphors
- Transitional objects
- Psychoeducation/cognitive restructuring
- Trauma adaptation
- Systemic influences
- Emotional & psychological stressors
- Information processing model
- Psychosocial model
- Posttraumatic growth & resilience
- Cognitive behavioral techniques
- In vivo exposure protocols to begin healing immediately
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Bilateral stimulation
- Traumagenesis
- Traumaddiction
- Comorbidity
Learning Objectives
- Evaluate the causes of posttraumatic stress and how events turn into posttraumatic symptoms.
- Determine the common elements for treating posttraumatic stress to have better treatment outcomes.
- Identify the clinical application of various theoretical treatment models for traumatic stress and how the common elements are embedded in these models.
- Evaluate traumatic stress from neurobiological, biochemical, psychological, social & spiritual perspectives.
- Integrate evidence-based skills for developing, maintaining, and enhancing your therapeutic relationship for more successful outcomes.
- Utilize ACES as an important tool in cognitive restructuring and evolving identity away from shame towards self-compassion.
- Utilize specific psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximizing engagement and participation in early treatment.
- Analyze the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention and to integrate throughout trauma treatment.
- Integrate CBT techniques to promote the development of stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities in traumatized clients.
- Utilize empirical markers to know when it is both necessary and safe to transition from the safety/stabilization phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises.
- Assess the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.
- Integrate skills of neuroception, interoception and acute relaxation to interrupt physiological threat response.
- Develop skills for safety, stabilization, grounding and containment in trauma treatment.
Earn Your CCTP — Included Free With Registration
Upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to earn the Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) credential through Evergreen Certifications — a nationally recognized designation that demonstrates your commitment to advanced, evidence-informed trauma practice.
*Professional standards apply. Visit evergreencertifications.com/CCTP
Transforming Clinical Practice Worldwide
This training gave me a framework I’ve been looking for throughout my entire career. The content was evidence-based, clinically relevant, and Dr. Gentry’s delivery made even the hardest concepts feel accessible and hopeful.
Best CEU course I have ever done!! I am using so much of his methods in my clinical practice now. Dr. Gentry delivers complex material in a way that is clinically applicable and deeply human.
This training gave me a framework I’ve been looking for throughout my entire career. The content was evidence-based, clinically relevant, and Dr. Gentry’s delivery made even the hardest concepts feel accessible and hopeful.
Florida State University
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP
J. Eric Gentry is an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. He earned his PhD from Florida State University, where he studied under Professor Charles Figley — a pioneer in these fields.
In 1997, Dr. Gentry co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for compassion fatigue — one of the first evidence-based treatment protocols developed for the condition. The following year, he introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training.
A Master Traumatologist with over 35 years of clinical experience in trauma, Complex PTSD, personality disorders, and dissociation, Dr. Gentry is president and CEO of The Forward Facing® Institute and owner of Compassion Unlimited in Phoenix, AZ.
Click here for information about J. Eric Gentry
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I earn the CCTP certification?
Ready to formalize your trauma training with a recognized credential?
There are just three steps: watch this training, complete the CE quiz and print your certificate, then submit the Certification Questionnaire included in this training.*
*Professional standards apply. Click here to learn more about CCTP certification requirements.
Who should attend this training?
This training is designed for licensed mental health professionals who work with clients affected by trauma, PTSD, or traumatic stress — including psychologists, LCSWs, LPCs, LMFTs, LMHCs, psychiatric nurses, addiction counselors, school counselors, and more.
Does this apply to my setting, or is it built for private practice?
Attendees come from private practice, community mental health, hospital and IOP settings, school counseling, addictions treatment, nursing, and psychiatric practice. The four-stage framework is designed to layer over whatever methodology you’re already using.
What can I use with clients the moment I’m back in session?
Attendees leave with self-regulation and relaxation techniques, grounding exercises, bilateral stimulation, and psychoeducation frameworks for explaining trauma responses to clients — tools ready to use Monday morning.
What is the full schedule?
All times are Central Time. Both days — November 19 and November 20, 2026.
Please note: For live CE credit, you must watch the live presentation in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
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Oklahoma City Will Rogers Airport
Make the most of your trip — the Embassy Suites is just minutes from Will Rogers World Airport with a complimentary roundtrip shuttle. Start each training day with a complimentary buffet breakfast, unwind at the daily evening reception, and retreat to your own spacious guestroom after a full day of learning.
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