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Digital Seminar

Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving


Speaker:
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT
Duration:
Approx. 15 Hours
Copyright:
May 21, 2025
Product Code:
POS150064
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: In-Person Seminar | Live Webcast



Description

Transform your practice with this intensive Certification Workshop that will provide you with effective strategies and interventions from EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy so you can take your trauma treatment to the next level!

You’ll learn how to properly assess clients, effectively stabilize them in preparation for treatment, help them safely reprocess traumatic memories, and develop the resources they need to achieve and maintain recovery. You’ll also get detailed guidance on overcoming scenarios involving anger, resistance, and suicidality that can leave you exhausted and uncertain of how to move your most challenging clients forward.

Best of all, upon completion of this seminar, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of trauma counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for details.

Purchase today, get the proven tools and techniques needed to end the suffering of your clients and move them from surviving to thriving!


CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

  • No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
  • Simply complete this training and the included post-event evaluation, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.

*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.

Credit

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



* Credit Note - CE Information Coming Soon

Continuing education credit information is coming soon for this non-interactive self-study package.

CEs may be available for select professions, as listed in the target audience. Hours will be dependent on the actual recording time. Please check with your state licensing board or organization for specific requirements. 

There may be an additional fee for CE certificates. Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-844-8260 for more details. 

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.



Speaker

Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT's Profile

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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, is a clinical psychologist, internationally sought-out teacher, therapeutic yoga instructor, and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma. She is the author of six books based upon her integrative, mind-body approach to trauma recovery: The Complex PTSD Workbook; The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook; A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD; EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery. Her unique blend of spirituality and science can be found in her writings, guided trauma recovery programs, and applied Polyvagal Theory in yoga for trauma recovery.

Dr. Schwartz is an accomplished teacher who guides therapists in the application of EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of trauma and complex trauma. She has a succinct way of speaking about very complex topics. She is a longtime meditation and yoga practitioner with a passion for the outdoors; all of which she incorporates into her work as founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy in Boulder, Colorado where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. Dr. Schwartz believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart. Discover more at drarielleschwartz.com.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz maintains a private practice and is a trainer with Advanced EMDR Therapy Trainings. She receives royalties as a published author and receives compensation as an international presenter and a yoga instructor. Dr. Schwartz is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She receives speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Yoga Alliance.


Additional Info

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

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Objectives

  1. Identify the brain regions involved in trauma.
  2. Determine the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
  3. Determine how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
  4. Evaluate how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety.
  5. Evaluate methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
  6. Utilize polyvagal theory as coregulation in psychotherapy.
  7. Choose narrative therapy exercises to talk about hotspots.
  8. Determine how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma.
  9. Choose CBT techniques to “slow” emotions.
  10. Use EMDR-based techniques to resolve traumatic memories.
  11. Differentiate between EMDR, EFT, and neuromodulation approaches.
  12. Utilize parts work therapy techniques for working with anger in trauma treatment.
  13. Integrate EMDR interventions in the treatment of Complex PTSD.
  14. Develop resilience and personal growth through reintegration strategies.
  15. Identify the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.

Outline

Community Building Activity

Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools

  • Simple vs. complex trauma
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
  • CAPS-5 and PCL-5
  • Primary Care PTSD Screen
  • Dual diagnosis

Mindfulness & Mindful Movement

The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change

  • Key brain areas involved in trauma
  • Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
  • Clinical implications of the freeze response
  • The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy

Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work

  • Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
  • Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
  • Self-soothing techniques
  • Grounding strategies
  • Breathwork
  • Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work

The Therapeutic Alliance as a Brain-Based Approach

  • Explore the power of right brain psychotherapy
  • Applied polyvagal theory as co-regulation in psychotherapy
  • Embedded relational mindfulness as a foundation of presence

Dyad Work

  • Explore proximity awareness between therapist and client
  • Skillfully work with push-pull dynamics with clients

Mindfulness & Mindful Movement

EMDR vs EFT vs Neuromodulation Including Gratitude Practice

  • Practices to enhance vagal tone
  • Practice EFT tapping for Trauma Recovery

Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences with Small Group Integration

  • Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
  • Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
  • Awareness and closure - create life stories

Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks

  • How to handle the angry client
  • Strategies for the resistant trauma client
  • Boundary concerns
  • Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use
  • How parts, ego states and defenses create walls to change
  • Compassionate strategies for “Resistant” clients
  • Skill: Understand emotional dysregulation as a “part”
  • Skill: Build allies for a part of self
  • Skill: Connect to the adult self
  • Skill: Facilitate repair scenarios

Session Demos, Video Demos

  • Strategies to help clients manage emotional dysregulation in session
  • Describe the co-regulation tools of pacing and orienting for resource development

Practice Time

  • Put your knowledge into action with practicum opportunities
  • Develop your confidence in applying parts work into clinical work

Group discussion

  • Deepen your knowledge of the application of this work as applied to your practice sessions
  • Explore how to bring mind-body interventions into your clinical work

Somatic Movement to Integration

  • Somatic repatterning movements for trauma recovery
  • Discover the satisfaction cycle from body-mind psychotherapy

Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma

  • Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
  • Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
  • Teach body awareness
  • Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
  • Resourcing strategies to create a safe space

CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions

  • Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
  • Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
  • Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
  • Memory reconstruction techniques
  • Develop emotion regulation strategies to build resilience

EMDR-Based Techniques: Resolve Traumatic Memories

  • Adaptive Information Processing Theory
  • EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
  • Resourcing strategies
  • Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
  • Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma

Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth with Practice work & Small Group Discussion

  • Better than normal – the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
  • The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
  • The power of forgiveness in moving forward
  • Meaning making exercises
  • Cultivating resilience and personal growth through reintegration strategies

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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