Trauma CE Courses for Counseling

This course will cover imperative skills for supporting clients with PTSD. Part 1 will address how to assess trauma histories and symptoms, recognize activation, and resource clients with tools for self-soothing, containment, discharging, and dissociation.

The impact of early developmental trauma can have devastating effects on children throughout childhood and well into adulthood. This webinar seeks to examine how trauma organizes into the developing brain and addresses strategies for trauma-informed intervention.

The separation of children from their families and placement in foster care is a traumatic experience for both children and parents. When children are separated from their parents and placed in care, they are not only separated from their parents but often separated from siblings, communities, schools, etc. This webinar explores the impact that separation has on children with a specific emphasis on the ways that children often adapt to family separation and foster care placement.

This course will identify best intervention practices to assist clinicians with how to properly navigate mothers who have experienced PPD and parental loss. In addition, it will identify implications for practice and recommendations when working with postnatal patients.

This course dives more deeply into working with fight, flight, freeze, and collapse in PTSD with concrete, effective strategies. In Part 2 participants will gain competency in treating PTSD through video demonstrations and experiential learning.

This intermediate course provides therapists with foundational knowledge and skills for opening up conversations about sex with children and adolescents. The course outlines sexual development in children and adolescents, discusses fundamentals of effective sex education with youth, and describes methods for ensuring that sex education is both trauma-informed and LGBT-inclusive. Ethical considerations and guidelines for clinical practice are discussed.

This course offers an overview of LGBTQ dating violence, focusing on recognition, identification, and some response strategies. This course explores the unique dynamics and challenges faced by LGBTQ individuals in dating relationships, including barriers to seeking help and accessing support services. In addition, this course will provide strategies for providing culturally competent and inclusive support to LGBTQ survivors, as well as resources available for prevention and intervention.

Teen dating violence (TDV) is a prevalent and concerning issue affecting adolescents worldwide. This course provides a brief overview of TDV, including its definition, prevalence, risk factors, and impact on adolescents. Participants gain a deeper understanding of the dynamics of TDV and the importance of prevention and intervention strategies. This course aims to empower participants with the knowledge and skills needed to recognize and respond to teens dealing with dating violence.

Our clients’ childhood environment shapes the foundation for their sense of self, how they feel about the world, and how they relate to others. If they experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Therefore, many of the reasons why clients come to see us have to do with their traumatic experiences, especially relational traumas. This webinar explores evidence-based techniques for working with survivors navigating the repercussions of family trauma.

This course focuses on educating clinicians on interventions for trauma informed care. This course briefly delves into empirically researched interventions to help trauma survivors achieve growth after trauma.