Continuing Education

  • Continuing Educational Credits available at conferences and workshop events
  • CEU workshops are sponsored by CARE-EDU Approved CCAPP-EI Provider #05-16-242-0220

For more information or to request a training workshop or speaking event-
[email protected]   ~   (530)262-7142

Addiction and Trauma Re-enactment

~ 6 CEH for Addiction Professionals

For many trauma survivors, it feels impossible to stop the self-harm patterns manifest in alcohol/drug abuse, self-harm, and high-risk or dangerous relationships that recreate the destruction of traumatic experiences.  This faith-based trauma informed training  will equip treatment providers and recovery workers with tools to help survivor’s access strength to manage stressors and find restoration for soul, spirit, and body.You can help survivors to be overcomers.

 Goals and Objectives: To access skills to identify…

  • client’s need for trauma-informed care within the delivery of services.
  • client’s self-awareness of any deeper unresolved issues and unmet needs that perpetuate addiction and self-harming behavior.
  • client to increase capacity to break through the lifestyle patterns and barriers that sustain and perpetuate addictive self-harm and unhealthy high risk relationship patterns.
  • client to find strength to sustain emotional presence beyond the barriers of self-defeating patterns and be available for authentic relationship.
  • helping clients to manage stressors, prevent relapse, and access restoration for their soul, spirit, and body.

Trauma Impact and Counselor Self-Care

~2 CEH for Addiction Professionals

Addiction counselors are faced with an emotionally and professionally demanding job. Those working with trauma survivors are subject to additional stressors due to close connection with the pain and suffering of other’s traumatic experiences. This course examines the important strengths of a substance abuse counselor and how those strengths, when neglected, can cause burnout and fatigue.  It addresses both the issue and offers a guide to take the necessary steps toward counselor self-care and wellness.

Goals and Objectives: To learn how to identify…

  • counselor strengths that are vulnerable to burnout
  • impact of traumatic experiences
  • risk factors for substance abuse counselors working with trauma survivors
  • countertransference and professional boundaries
  • burnout vs stress
  • self-care and wellness approaches
  • action steps toward a wellness lifestyle

Trauma-Informed Relapse Prevention Strategies

~6 CEH for Addiction Professionals

Unresolved traumatic experience is a contributing factor to the addict’s inability to maintain sobriety even when there is a commitment not to use.  Post-traumatic stress and triggers create high risk situations that, without management or resolve, will perpetuate urges to escape. This faith-based trauma-informed training will equip treatment providers and recovery workers with tools to help survivor’s access the strength to manage the urges to use AOD while finding help for unresolved  post-traumatic experience.

 Goals and Objectives: To access skills to identify…

  • client’s need for trauma-informed care within the delivery of services
  • client’s self-awareness of any deeper unresolved issues and unmet needs that perpetuate addiction and self-harming behavior
  • client’s strengths to manage the thoughts, feelings, and urges that put them at risk for relapse
  • client strength to stay present in relationship
  • helping clients to access their strengths and authentic identity to create healthy boundaries, core values and lifestyle changes

Trauma, Sexual Exploitation, Addictive Self-Harm

~8 CEH for Addiction Professionals

Trauma symptoms and addictive self-harm are often the results of unmanageable internal conflict due to trauma or exploitive experiences in life. This 2 day faith-based trauma informed training will provide treatment providers, recovery workers, and ministries with greater insight and tools to help survivor’s access restoration for soul, spirit, and body.
In the aftermath of trauma, sexual exploitation, and the associated addiction and addictive self-harm, you can help survivors to be overcomers.

 Goals and Objectives: To identify…

  • a continuum of care for trauma survivors with addiction issues.
  • client’s need for trauma-informed care within the delivery of services.
  • help our client’s identify trauma and exploitive experience that may impact their problems, relationships and addictive cycles.
  • client’s self-awareness of any deeper unresolved issues and unmet needs that perpetuate addiction and self-harming behavior.
  • addictive behavior that recreates the dissociation of trauma experience.
  • skills that help client increase capacity to break through the lifestyle patterns and barriers that sustain and perpetuate addictive self-harm and unhealthy high risk relationship patterns.
  • skills that help clients find strength to sustain emotional presence beyond the barriers of self-defeating patterns and be available for authentic relationship.
  • skills that will help our clients manage stressors, prevent relapse, and access restoration for their soul, spirit, and body.