“Time heals all wounds” is a familiar colloquialism that often leads one to believe that healing is an unconscious process, requiring little to no effort on one’s part. Healing, and posttraumatic healing especially, is referenced all the time – but what does healing actually look like in practice?

Healing doesn’t just happen- it is an active process that requires intentional mental, emotional and physical energy. Another common falsehood about healing is attaining mental and emotional erasure of psychological suffering or distress. Many don’t believe healing is “complete” unless they no longer mentally, or physiologically remember or experience related suffering. This course will challenge the societal notion that you’re only healed when the memory and related suffering has disappeared. In reality, our minds are physiologically wired to keep a blueprint of everything that resulted in a wound, as a means of future protection.

The healing journey empowers both clients and clinicians to discuss the different degrees of woundedness, and the different degrees of healing – with the understanding that healing doesn’t require mental and emotional amnesia. This seminar will explore three distinct categories of “hurts” or “wounds” that can be incurred over a lifespan. Practitioners will learn how to assist themselves and clients in level-setting expectations for an attainable healing journey. We will draw from research in the fields of psychology, sociology, physiology, somatics, and cultural experiences.

 

 

Attendance and Location Details

 

Date and Time

 

**This is a 4-CE online seminar delivered virtually in real-time via an industry-standard webinar platform**

 

Friday, September 19, 2025 10:00am to 2:00pm CST / 11:00am to 3:00pm EST / 8:00am to 12:00pm PST

 

*Live Webinar Attendees: Zoom link and course materials will be made available to you 24-48 hours prior to event date

 

 

Agenda:

00:00 – 00:10: Introduction
00:10 – 01:00: Wound continuum
01:00 – 01:05: Movement break
01:05 – 02:00: Interwoven use of coping mechanisms
02:00 – 02:05: Movement break
02:05 – 03:00: The role time plays in healing and “scar therapy”
03:00 – 03:05: Movement break
03:05 – 04:00: How clinicians can help or harm

Objectives:

This training will provide participants clinical knowledge and tools to:

a). After completing this training, participants will be able to describe and differentiate between intergenerational trauma, foundational fractures and cultural moral injury.

b). After completing this training, participants will be able to recognize that along the healing continuum both adaptive and maladaptive coping mechanisms do develop and are often a part of the healing process.

c). After completing this training, participants will be able to identify and acknowledge that some wounds will require lifelong wound management.

d). After completing this training, participants will be able to discern how some clinical modalities – along with a lack of acknowledging different lived experiences in some populations – can not only increase harm, but may shatter the therapeutic alliance.

Target Audience:

The target audience for this live webinar event includes psychologists, social workers, counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.

 

Instructional Level: Intermediate

Instructor(s): Bernadette Spooner Thompson, Ed.S., LPC-S, LCPC, CSC

Material Author(s): Bernadette Spooner Thompson, Ed.S., LPC-S, LCPC, CSC

For additional information about this course, the instructors, or the material authors, please contact Content Assistance at content@onlinececredits.com.

Course Materials & Delivery Method:

 

• Course materials (including the link to view the scheduled live webinar) are made available to all registered attendees 24-48 hours before the event start time. 
• This training is interactive and provides opportunities to ask direct questions to the trainer as well as request immediate help from staff if needed. The attendee will view the presentation in real-time from their connected device via an industry-standard internet webinar platform.

 

CE Approvals:

 

Online CE Credits has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6795. Programs that do not quality for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Online CE Credits is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

 

Mind Works Professional Education, Inc. DBA Online CE Credits, #1974, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: July 23, 2024 – July 23, 2025. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.

 

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