Trauma Treatment On-Demand CEU Courses
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“Reefer Renaissance”: Marijuana Use & PTSD – Implications for Treatment
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Attitudes about marijuana are shifting, and we are seeing increasing rates of legal consumption for both recreational and health reasons. Recent widespread use of marijuana has many clinicians wondering "how does daily marijuana use impact PTSD and our ability to treat it?" Dr. Jennifer Sweeton will discuss marijuana's effect on the brain and its overall impact on the effectiveness of therapy!
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CEs: 1.75 CE Credit(s)
“Out of It”: Trauma-Related Dissociation & Powerful Tools to Promote Reconnection
Instructor: Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Many trauma courses touch on dissociation as a symptom, but very few trainings dive into dissociation as its own phenomenon, exploring its common presentations, various drivers, and targeted interventions. Dissociation is mysterious and can be intimidating to work with, but it doesn't have to be with the right training and practice!
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CEs: 5.75 CE Credit(s)
ACT for Moral Injury: From Violated Values to Fostering Forgiveness
Instructor: Wyatt Evans, PhD, ABPP
Suffering moral injury can be psychologically devastating, especially in the most extreme circumstances (e.g. a cop taking the life of a child, a soldier killing the enemy). Learn how to use Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to facilitate healing for the most crippling and mentally destructive moral wounds your clients may suffer.
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CEs: 3.75 CE Credit(s)
ACT for Trauma & PTSD: Integrative Neuroscience-Informed Applications
Instructor: Emily Wharton, PsyD
More recent research is exploring Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) as an effective approach alongside exposure-based strategies in the treatment of trauma & PTSD. Join Stanford psychologist Dr. Emily Wharton as she teaches you intuitive ACT skills you can use to drive better therapeutic engagement, compliance, and lasting trauma recovery!
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CEs: 5.75 CE Credit(s)
Addiction, Trauma, & the Family: Treatment Tools for Change
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
We'll journey into family systems and dynamics to examine how we best support individuals struggling with addiction in a way that will promote long term recovery and family healing.
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CEs: 5.25 CE Credit(s)
Advanced EMDR Skills for Complex Trauma
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This course builds on basic skill-building EMDR courses, teaching clinicians how to work with complex trauma utilizing EMDR. We recommend taking "EMDR Skills for Trauma Treatment" first.
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CEs: 6 CE Credit(s)
Autism Treatment From a Trauma Perspective
Instructor: Robert Cox, LPC
We'll dive deep into autism and its diagnosis and treatment, including case studies from speaker Robert Cox's own history with the disorder. Assessment, treatment modalities (including play therapy), and methods for improving outcomes will also be covered.
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CEs: 4.5 CE Credit(s)
Brain-Based Trauma Treatment
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Neuroscience research is providing insight into why, when, and with whom specific psychotherapeutic approaches may be beneficial. However, translating neuroscience research into practice can be a daunting task.
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CEs: 5.5 CE Credit(s)
Clients Numbed to & Disconnected from Feelings: Treatment Strategies & Considerations
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
Learn about clients with Alexithymia (i.e. difficulty identifying, describing, and experiencing emotion), what other conditions it may be linked to, and how to screen for and treat this unique presentation. We'll cover screening, intervention, and delve into case studies and research findings.
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CEs: 1.75 CE Credit(s)
Clinically Interviewing Trauma Clients Without Retraumatization
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
Enhance your clinical interviewing skills through a trauma-informed framework. We'll examine the core principles of trauma-informed care and trauma-informed interviewing practices to vastly improve your information-gathering without retraumatizing clients.
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CEs: 1.75 CE Credit(s)
Cognitive Therapy Techniques for Trauma, PTSD, & Co-Occurring Addiction
Instructor: Jeff Riggenbach, Ph.D.
People with unresolved trauma and emotional wounds often turn to substances as a way to self-medicate; And, people with addictions may drive while impaired, gravitate towards toxic relationships, or generally engage in behaviors that increase their risk of being traumatized. Learn straightforward and effective cognitive strategies you can use in practice tomorrow to help these clients reclaim adaptive life control.
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CEs: 2.75 CE Credit(s)
Complex Trauma: Screening, Treatment Considerations, & Common Concerns
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
Get up-to-date on your research knowledge around the development of complex trauma and its effects on mental health. Learn the impacts of complex trauma on the family system, how to screen for CT, common resulting disorders, and treatment considerations.
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CEs: 1.75 CE Credit(s)
Criminal Offenders & Adverse Childhood Experiences – Complex Trauma Screening & Interventions
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
The CDC-Kaiser ACEs study of the mid-90's was one of the largest studies ever conducted to measure the prevalence and make-up of childhood abuse and neglect. The core of the study - the effect of early childhood abuse - informs virtually EVERY aspect of modern trauma treatment. These early experiences are also a significant contributing factor to criminal offending behavior, a problem of epidemic proportion that deserves our clinical time and attention.
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
Death by a Thousand Nicks: Healing the Wounds of Racial Trauma
Instructor: Crystal Rozelle–Bennett, LMSW
This workshop will utilize the ACE's studies to discuss how racial trauma impacts the physical, social, and psychological health of individuals and communities. Participants will recognize systemic oppression, confront implicit bias and engage in dialogue around racial healing.
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CEs: 5 CE Credit(s)
Diagnosing PTSD and Other Trauma or Stressor-Related Disorders
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This 2.75-CE seminar focuses on common diagnosis pitfalls and challenges, and helps clinicians accurately diagnose these disorders for clinical or forensic purposes.
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CEs: 2.75 CE Credit(s)
Early Trauma, Attachment, and Repair
Instructor: Robert Cox, LPC
This course covers how trauma affects brain development, associated early attachment and attunement issues, and brain plasticity's role in healing psychological trauma.
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CEs: 5.5 CE Credit(s)
EMDR Skills for Trauma Treatment
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This affordable 2-day course introduces attendees to the original 8-phase model of EMDR and teaches participants how to conduct each of the eight phases.
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CEs: 8.75 CE Credit(s)
Erotic Self-Expansion for Sexual Trauma Survivors
Instructor: Rafaella Smith-Fiallo, LCSW
Many standard approaches to sexual trauma treatment largely neglect substantial focus on repairing connection to desire and sexual embodiment as a part of the journey to overall wellness. Help your clients find what may be missing with the erotic self-expansion model.
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CEs: 2.5 CE Credit(s)
Eye Movements and Eye Placements in Psychotherapy: Fast Tools for Desensitization
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Learn several practical, eye-based desensitization and processing skills used in trauma treatment that can immediately be integrated with almost any psychotherapy approach!
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
How Sleep Relates to Trauma and Promotes Resilience
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
We'll examine how adequate sleep promotes resilience following exposure to a traumatic event. Learn consequences associated with poor sleep and strategies/techniques that may improve overall sleep quality among trauma survivors. We'll cover implications for screening and intervention.
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CEs: 1.25 CE Credit(s)
Introduction to Prolonged Exposure Therapy Skills: A Step-By-Step
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
We'll introduce attendees to PE, and provide step-by-step experiential training in this exposure-based modality. Learn how to integrate exposure therapy skills to help traumatized clients! All materials, including instructions for key PE skills, are included with the course!
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CEs: 11 CE Credit(s)
Memory Reconsolidation Techniques and Interventions for Trauma
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
This course provides an overview of the neuroscience of memory systems and PTSD, and the memory reconsolidation techniques that have been shown to facilitate recovery from PTSD.
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
Neuroscience Implications and Intensive Treatment for Complex Trauma
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
We'll cover the neuroscience of trauma and complex trauma, diagnosis and assessment, stabilization techniques, and evidence-based treatments for complex trauma. Learn strategies and interventions from EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy.
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CEs: 11.75 CE Credit(s)
Neuroscience of Complex Trauma – Treatment Tools
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Learn about the neural bases of childhood (developmental/complex) trauma and the sequelae of such trauma. Course provides roadmaps for treating complex trauma in both adult survivors of childhood trauma and traumatized children.
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CEs: 5 CE Credit(s)
Personality and Dissociative Disorders: Trauma, Coping and Repair
Instructor: Robert Cox, LPC
This workshop will explore the link between trauma, dissociation and both dissociative and personality disorders. We will discuss how the brain is changed by trauma and how dissociative and personality disorders develop through attachment and attunement disruptions early in life.
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CEs: 4.5 CE Credit(s)
Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth: Healing from Loss and Trauma
Instructor: Linda Graham, MFT
You'll learn the basics of harnessing the brain’s neuroplasticity to help clients learn more flexible and adaptive coping strategies and rewire negative coping patterns. Learn the techniques that reverse the impacts of stress and trauma, shift the brain out of reactivity, contraction, dissociation into more receptivity and openness to learning.
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CEs: 4 CE Credit(s)
Sensorimotor Therapy Techniques for Trauma Treatment: Practical Skills*
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Research is increasingly showing the importance of working with the body when treating trauma. Many evidence-based therapies de-emphasize somatic work, focusing instead on cognitive techniques. When clients can re-connect with their own bodies, a sense of safety is restored, making the traditional top-down approaches more effective.
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CEs: 5.5 CE Credit(s)
Sexual Trauma & How it Leads to Grief: Treating the “Other Side” of Trauma
Instructor: Tiffani Dilworth, LCPC, CGCS
What is the difference between PTSD and grief? How does grief relate to sexual trauma specifically and why is it important to know how grief plays into sexual trauma? Learn interventions and therapies that will help you address grief in the context of sexual trauma, moving your clients into resilience and long term healing.
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CEs: 1.75 CE Credit(s)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Skills for Trauma Treatment
Instructor: Jodi Ann Geis-Crowder, MS, LPC, ACS
Learn evidence-informed solution-focused brief therapy tools and techniques that can be used with clients who have experienced trauma. Help clients effectively develop and consistently deploy healthy coping mechanisms when trauma triggers reoccur.
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CEs: 2.5 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Assessment and Treatment Planning: Ethical Considerations
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
An overview of ethical considerations associated with the assessment and treatment of trauma and stressor-related disorders in adults. We'll cover multiple trauma-focused assessment tools and strategies, diagnostic considerations, and treatment planning for traumatized clients.
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Exposure and Sleep Disturbances
Instructor: Jerrod Brown, PhD, MA, MS, MS, MS
We'll provide attendees with a working understanding of the definitions, causes, and consequences of trauma and its impact on sleep health. We'll expand into executive and adaptive functioning, ACE's, attachment, substance use disorders, and mental illness.
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CEs: 1.25 CE Credit(s)
Trauma in the Family: Concrete Skills to Achieve Long-term Healing & Stability
Instructor: Nathan Croy, MA, LCMFT
Trauma is pervasive, and it can even jeopardize the health and function of an entire family. How do we treat this situation, where do we start?!! This course offers concrete strategies, comprehensive plans, insights, and treatment approaches to help you move families forward with results.
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CEs: 11.25 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Recovery After Loss Post-COVID: Skills for Diagnosis & Treatment
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
In partnership with the Grief Support Network, Dr. Jennifer Sweeton explains how neuroscience can be used to help clients recover from devastating traumatic grief. She'll share evidence-informed techniques rooted in brain science that can be used to help your clients thrive after loss.
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CEs: 5.5 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Treatment and Teletherapy: Ethical Considerations and Tools
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Learn more about ways to ethically help clients recover from trauma while staying home. Keep the therapeutic alliance strong via video teleconferencing and help clients implement go-to, brain-healing techniques on a busy schedule.
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Treatment Skills for Survivors of Domestic Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence
Instructor: Christiane Sanderson, BSc., MSc.
Join internationally known British trauma psychologist, trainer, BBC TV consultant, and author Christiane Sanderson for a deep dive into her Power Threat Meaning Framework and Trauma Informed Practice. Learn modern research informed best practice for treating survivors of domestic abuse and intimate partner violence.
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CEs: 5.25 CE Credit(s)
Trauma Treatment Without Retraumatization: Ethical Considerations
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Learn trauma techniques that "do no harm" and promote stabilization and healing, even when processing the heaviest of traumas. Easily integrate these techniques into the therapy modalities you're already using!
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CEs: 3 CE Credit(s)
Treating Complex Trauma With Internal Family Systems: Evidence-Based Tools
Instructor: Frank Anderson, MD
Join Harvard psychiatrist, trauma expert, and leading IFS trainer Dr. Frank Anderson as he teaches using "parts" to help your trauma clients heal organically using their natural strengths and protective factors. Full-day workshop includes experiential training to put IFS theory into effective practice!
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CEs: 5.75 CE Credit(s)
Treating Trauma Using Somatic Experiencing
Instructor: Tonya Miles, PsyD
Somatic Experiencing, created by Peter Levine, is a method of treatment for trauma symptoms to develop nervous system regulation. The focus is on the mind-body connection and incorporates the physical (somatic) sensations and experiences to process and integrate trauma.
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CEs: 2.75 CE Credit(s)
When Trauma is Current: Treating Clients with Ongoing Traumatic Stressors
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
When most of us think of trauma treatment, we think of our clients who've suffered a difficult childhood or event that occurred in the past - but what about trauma happening right now? Learn to deploy the best techniques to treat ongoing trauma: racism, sexism, systemic inequalities, current events, etc.
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CEs: 2.5 CE Credit(s)
Why Race Matters: Understanding Racial Identity and Racial Trauma
Instructor: Lea Vincent, MA, PLPC, NCC
We'll cover the dynamics of racial identity for African Americans and white Americans, as well as dissect how racial trauma has impacted that formation. Such subjects as discrimination and implicit bias will be explored along with suggestions on how to utilize this information in practice.
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CEs: 2.5 CE Credit(s)
Working With Post-Trauma Guilt and Moral Injury
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Overwhelming feelings of self-blame and shame present some of the toughest treatment challenges working with trauma survivors. Learn nine steps for addressing, managing, and reducing moral injury, which can occur when clients believe that a trauma was a result of their own actions.
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CEs: 1.5 CE Credit(s)
Written Exposure Therapy: Evidence-Based Tools for Trauma & PTSD
Instructor: Jennifer Sweeton, PsyD, MS, MA
Not many people know that Written Exposure Therapy (WET) is an evidence-based brief trauma approach that was recently declared a first-line PTSD therapy in the VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines. Extra useful for both online therapy and in-person therapy, take away tools to induce exposure in a novel and controlled fashion your clients can get behind!
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CEs: 5.75 CE Credit(s)
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