Online Course: Clinical Interventions for Religious & Spiritual Trauma
A self-paced recorded training course that provides mental health professionals with the practical skills and clinical interventions they need to competently work with survivors of religious trauma and spiritual abuse. Get 6.0 NBCC-approved CEs.
TIME & LOCATION
Self-Paced
Online Course
EVENT DETAILS
Length: This course will take approximately 6 hours to complete.
Facilitator: Anna Clark Miller, LPC-S, LMHC-S
Intended Audience: Helping professionals including counselors, psychologists, social workers, and community leaders.
Description
This clinical training will provide you with practical skills and clinical interventions needed to competently work with survivors of religious trauma and spiritual abuse. You'll learn to assess the unique impacts of these experiences and use trauma-informed, client-centered approaches to facilitate healing and growth. Useful in-session tools will be shared throughout the training to provide attendees with practical applications. The content will be organized in four sections including (1) Clinical Competencies, (2) Interviewing and Assessment, (3) Treatment Goals, and (4) Theories and Modalities. Facilitator, Anna Clark Miller, takes a religiously neutral approach designed to offer clients the freedom to seek healing on their own terms.
Learning Objectives
Participants will gain an understanding of the crucial clinical competencies and unique cultural considerations for treating religious and spiritual trauma.
Participants will be equipped with formal and informal assessment strategies to inform conceptualization and treatment planning for religious and spiritual trauma clients.
Participants will learn about evidence-based therapy modalities and a variety of practical therapeutic interventions for the treatment of religious and spiritual trauma.
Course Content
The content and materials for this course will include PDF downloads of the presentation slides, two video recordings (details below), links to research sources and additional resources, a required post-training assessment, and a link to the anonymous program evaluation form.
Video 1
Part 1: Clinical Competencies - Key terminology, primary symptoms, prevalence, retraumatization risks, and considerations for the therapeutic relationship.
Part 2: Interviewing and Assessment - Formal and informal assessment tools for exploring client experiences and symptoms.
Part 3: Treatment Goals - General recovery goals and priorities for religious and spiritual trauma clients.
Video 2
Part 3: Treatment Goals (continued) - Strategies for adapting treatment to unique survivor populations
Part 4: Theories and Modalities - Evidence-based clinical approaches and practical in-session tools and interventions.
Sources
Research sources that inform this presentation can be found here: www.empathyparadigm.com/sources. Specific citations will be included in the course.
Presenter Qualifications
Anna Clark Miller, LPC-S, LMHC-S, NCC, is a licensed counselor and clinical supervisor practicing in Texas, Washington, and Oregon. She has a masters degree in counseling psychology and has worked in the counseling field since 2015. As a counseling graduate student, she learned about religious trauma and its impacts on people from high-control religious communities, igniting her interest in this specialty. Today she specializes in treating survivors of religious and spiritual trauma and training the mental health professionals who work with them. She is the author of For God's Sake: Recovering From Religious Trauma, which offers a path to healing from high-control religious experiences. Through her company, Empathy Paradigm, Anna manages the Religious Trauma Therapist Directory and a library of other practical resources for religious trauma survivors and mental health professionals. Licensing: LPC Texas #75728, LPC Oregon #C8578, LMHC Washington #LH61328702, NCC #718936.
Continuing Education Credits
This home study course provides 6.0 NBCC-approved continuing education hours. Your CE certificate will be emailed to you within 30 days once you've completed the training and passed the post-training assessment.
Empathy Paradigm has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7921. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Empathy Paradigm is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Additional Information
If you have questions or accommodation requests, please contact Empathy Paradigm here:
Email: info@empathyparadigm.com
Phone: 509-720-7292
Pricing
$150: Includes the recorded training and materials, a certificate of completion, and 6.0 NBCC-Approved CEs