Stronger Together is a couples workshop built on PREP 8.0, a research-supported relationship education program. Over 10 weeks, couples learn practical skills to communicate more clearly, handle conflict with care,...
Even after life transitions or losses, growth remains possible. Explore how we adapt, heal, and rediscover ourselves through changing seasons of life. With guidance from a therapist experienced in renewal...
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This hands-on training helps clinicians identify the recurring patterns that keep couples and families stuck and use enactments to create meaningful change in session. Through video demonstrations, case discussions, and small-group role-play, participants will learn when and how to safely facilitate structured enactments, coach clients toward healthier ways of connecting, and build practical skills they can use in their very next session.
Faith can be a source of deep harm or deep healing for LGBTQIA clients, and sometimes both. This training helps therapists explore how religion, spirituality, and their absence shape a queer client’s sense of self, God, and community, including the lasting effects of the “clobber passages.” Participants will examine how faith experiences affect attachment, reflect on their own responses to clients’ beliefs, and gain strategies, resources, and referral options for addressing religious harm. They will also learn how to recognize truly affirming faith communities.
Grief rarely follows a straight line. This training uses a relational, family-systems lens to explore ambiguous loss, disenfranchised grief, and prolonged grief, and how loss reshapes identity and family roles. Drawing on clinical examples and Sara Corse’s Cradled All the While, clinicians will learn to tell typical grief apart from Prolonged Grief Disorder and depression. They will also practice evidence-informed approaches that support meaning-making and connection, without imposing a timeline for healing.
This training will focus on a review of basic ethical documentation requirements for therapists, emphasizing key standards and best practices. Participants will explore the principles of accurate and protective documentation to ensure clinical clarity and legal compliance. Additionally, the course will cover practical strategies for maintaining confidential records while supporting high-quality client care.
Clients with personality disorder traits are among the most stigmatized in mental health care, and that stigma has consequences: clinician distancing is linked to early dropout, dismissive crisis care, and poorer outcomes for a population at high risk of suicide. This training reframes these traits as adaptations to attachment injury. Participants will learn to understand emotional intensity, fear of abandonment, and mistrust in attachment terms, recognize and manage their own countertransference, and apply attachment-informed interventions that help them become the secure base these clients need to heal.
