This training has reached capacity. Please email astephenson@richmont.edu to be added to a waiting list.
This event is not sponsored by the Richmont Institute of Traumatology and thus does not fall under the benefits of Founding Membership status.
When: August 26, 2016 / 9:45am – 1pm
Where: Richmont Graduate University- Chattanooga Campus- 1815 McCallie Ave
Continuing Education: 3 NBCC CE Clock Hours Awarded. 3 CE Clock Hours for Psychologists.
Target Audience: Counseling Professionals, Psychologists, & Graduate-Level Students
Fees:
Presenter: Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP
Courtney Armstrong, LPC, MHSP has over 20 years’ experience and who has trained thousands of mental health professionals nationally and internationally in creative, brain-based strategies for healing trauma. She is a bestselling author of the book, The Therapeutic “Aha!: 10 Strategies for Getting Clients Unstuck and Transforming Traumatic Grief, and contributes to publications such as the Psychotherapy Networker, Counseling, Today, and The Neuropsychotherapist. She has been featured as a trauma and grief expert on national television and radio programs and is the owner/director of Tamarisk: A Center Mind-Body Therapy in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Topic: Surprising neuroscience discoveries have revealed essential keys for healing traumatic memories that are changing the way therapists treat trauma. In this workshop, you’ll get up to date on these exciting brain science discoveries and learn how to apply them. In addition, you’ll learn a simple 5-step protocol for reprocessing traumatic memories that all effective trauma therapies have in common and how to adapt it based on your client’s needs.
More important, we’ll discuss the art of trauma therapy, which lies in the therapist’s ability to create an attuned, synergistic relationship with each client. You’ll learn how to connect with each of the 4-attchment styles and get a variety of creative tools you can use right away.
Learning Objectives: As a result of attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
Agenda:
9:45 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Neurobiology of trauma and attachment
10:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Memory reconsolidation protocols w/demonstration
11:15 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Break
11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. How to assess and connect with the 4 attachment styles
12:15 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. Creative, experiential strategies for healing trauma
For questions concerning registration or Continuing Education, please contact Autumn Stephenson at astephenson@richmont.edu
Refunds must be requested prior to the start of the course.
Richmont Graduate University has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 4534. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Richmont Graduate University is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
Richmont Graduate University is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Richmont Graduate University maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
