Nature Guided Focusing Oriented Therapy Training – Starting March 2023
Experience how Nature and Play Deepen Inner Wisdom
Are you a therapist who would like to learn more about Nature Guided Focusing Oriented
Therapy?
Would you like to experience how Nature and Play can support you and your clients to
access Wonder and Awe?
Are you ready to help your clients access their own inner wisdom?
Hearth Place is offering a two-year Nature Guided Focusing Oriented Therapy Training
Starting March 2023
CLICK HERE for more info!
Level 2 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST) – March 10, 11, 12 | April 14, 15, 16 | May 5, 6, 7 | June 16, 17, 18 | September 8, 9, 10 | October 6, 7, 8, 2023

March 10, 11, 12, April 14, 15, 16, May 5, 6, 7, June 16, 17, 18, September 8, 9, 10,
October 6, 7, 8, 2023
2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Pacific Time online Via Zoom
81 Continuing Education hours of online training (18 days over 8 months )
Level 2 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
The focus of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 2 program is to improve participants’ competence, congruence, and confidence in doing transformational, experiential, systemic change therapy. The course leader will utilize lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, experiential learning, and skill practice sessions to assist participants to move their therapy into a positively directional, change focused, experiential process.
The emphasis will be on bringing about transformational change in individual therapy, couples’ therapy and family therapy. As well, some attention will be given to working with specific symptoms in therapy.
Pre-requisite STST Level 1 or an equivalent program approved by the Director of training.
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Navigating the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Approach to Working with Complex Trauma – ONLINE March 23 & 24, 2023
Navigating the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Approach to Working with Complex Trauma with Deb Dana, LCSW
March 23 & 24, 2023, 12:00PM – 3:15PM (ET)
Online via Zoom
Join us for our upcoming 6.5-hour online training over two days led by Deb Dana, LCSW to better understand how to work with the autonomic nervous system in treating complex trauma utilizing Polyvagal Theory.
REGISTER ONLINE HERE
About the Workshop
The autonomic nervous system is at the heart of daily living powerfully shaping our clients’ experiences of safety and influencing their capacity for connection. Polyvagal Theory, through the organizing principles of hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, has revolutionized our understanding of how this system works. Guided by Polyvagal Theory, we have a deep appreciation of the ways trauma shapes the nervous system and of the pathways that lead to healing. Trauma interrupts the development of autonomic regulation and sidetracks building the circuitry of safe connection. Without intervention, adaptive survival responses become habitual autonomic patterns and pathways of connection are replaced with patterns of protection. With an updated map of the autonomic circuits that underlie behaviors and beliefs, we have a new understanding of the characteristic post-traumatic patterns of hyperarousal, hypervigilance, disconnection, and numbing and can reliably lead our clients out of adaptive survival responses into the autonomically regulated state of safety that is necessary for successful treatment.
Working with the autonomic nervous system brings the science of safety into practical application with ways to help clients identify and interrupt their habitual survival patterns and strategies to shape their systems toward connection. In this two-part series, participants will engage in experiential practices to develop an embodied understanding of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory and bring the principles alive in clinical work.
Target Audience
All health care professionals seeking to gain knowledge of and refine their skills in working with complex trauma.
For more information and to register, visit our website HERE.
Click here to view the flyer (PDF).
Please contact us with any inquires at [email protected].
Essentials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Level 1): Friday, March 24 to April 28, 2023 (9:00am-12:00pm)
Essentials of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (Level 1):
(18 CEC for CCPA Members)
Friday, March 24 to April 28, 2023 (9:00am-12:00pm)
Online
This course (Level I) will focus on teaching the essentials of CBT through a series of weekly experiential training sessions. Topics covered will include CBT model, behavioural activation, cognitive restructuring, behavioural experiments, and introduction to exposure-based treatment.
Facilitator: Over the past 12 years, Dr. Pete Kelly, C.Psych., has provided CBT training to mental health students and professionals in private and hospital settings.
For further information and to register please visit: https://excellenceinpractice.simplesignup.ca
Phone: 613-820-9931 x: 0
Email: [email protected]
EMDR 5-Day In-person Intensive Training-March 27 to 31, 2023 Inclusive
EMDR 5-Day In-person Intensive Training
Parts 1 and 2 / 5-Day Intensive Standard Fee: $1495.00 USD*
*includes the required 10 hours of group consultation in the fee Parts 1 and 2 / 5-Day Intensive Student Fee: $1295.00 USD* *includes the required 10 hours of group consultation in the fee Fee includes: All-in-one training manual; A video link of the entire training
Date: March 27 to 31, 2023 Inclusive
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Trainer: Sharon Meredith with Bailey Puchyr-Chartier, Kirsten Ferguson, Brittany Meredith, Daniella Sosdjan and Kyle Poon
Institute: EMDR Consulting – Roy Kiessling
Click HERE to register and for more info!
Feminist Supervision is for Everybody – March 30th, 2023
Peak Resilience is excited to present: Feminist Supervision is for Everybody, a 40-hour hybrid course
facilitated by Dr. Laura Brown and Peak Resilience’s clinical director Jennifer Hollinshead.
This advanced supervision course will highlight and deconstruct some of the obvious and sneaky ways clinical supervision can be oppressive (or even harmful) to mental health clinicians and their clients. The course is informed by multiple supervisors practising therapy and supervision from an antiracist, socially just, queer lens.
The course will be happening from Thu, 30 Mar 2023, 10:00 AM – Thu, 11 May 2023, 2:00 PM PDT, online and in-person at Peak Resilience (#601- 808 Nelson Street)
Two-tiered pricing is available; participants may select a ticket fee at their own discretion.
If you have questions, you can reach us at [email protected]; 604-682-7325
Visit this page to register.
UPCOMING GOTTMAN THERAPIST TRAINING – April 17-21, 2023
UPCOMING GOTTMAN THERAPIST TRAINING
L1 & L2 – Edmonton, AB April 17-21, 2023
Approved for 37.5 CEC Credits
Would you like to have a toolbox of interventions to give couples – that they love to use? With these proven strategies, help couples in your practice manage conflict and deepen intimacy!
Join us for a dynamic experience of interactive live training with Lawrence Stoyanowski and Darren Wilk, Master Trainers of Level 1, 2 & 3 Gottman Clinical Trainings. They are highly endorsed by the Gottman Institute and have trained thousands of clinicians in Canada and all over the world, in all levels of Gottman Certification since 2006. They are among the top 5 Master Trainers in the world.
Click here for more info.
Evidence-based Insomnia Disorder Treatment for Adults with – Live-Streamed Workshop Friday April 21, 2023

Evidence-based Insomnia Disorder Treatment for Adults with Depression and Anxiety
Colleen E. Carney, Ph.D., C.Psych.
Associate Professor and Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Live-Streamed Workshop Friday April 21, 2023 10 am-5:30 pm ET and On-Demand
Outline
There is considerable dated misinformation about insomnia treatment in the media and on the internet (e.g., Sleep hygiene is an effective treatment for insomnia, melatonin is an effective sleep aide sleep, avoid blue light). This makes it difficult for non-sleep specialist clinicians to know how to effectively treat a frequently co-occurring disorder like insomnia disorder, in their clients with depression and anxiety. Cognitive Behavioural Insomnia Therapy (CBT-I) is an effective, brief treatment with strategies that are complementary to cognitive behavioural treatments for depression and anxiety.
This workshop will begin with an overview of insomnia and its causes, followed by a detailed presentation of how sleep problems can be effectively assessed outside of the sleep laboratory setting. Attendees will receive a brief, easy-to-understand background in sleep regulation in order to effectively troubleshoot problems. You will learn how to implement CBT-I in those with commonly co-occurring disorders such as depressive or anxiety disorders. In addition to training in the basics of CBT-I for insomnia, this workshop will cover whether adjustments to CBT may be necessary in the context of trauma, mood, and anxiety disorders.
The workshop will combine didactic components with interactive elements as attendees will be provided case vignettes and sleep log examples. Attendees will receive a comprehensive handout, including copies of slides and a complete list of recommended readings
Learning objectives
You will learn to:
- Conduct a sleep assessment in a non-sleep specialty setting
- Recommend strategies for managing rumination and an overactive mind at night
- How to identify and modify behaviours that interfere with the build-up of deep sleep drive
- Options for free apps to collaboratively derive an optimal time-in-bed prescription and “sleep window”
- Help clients re-associate the bed with sleep
- Avoid arguing: How to design behavioural experiments that challenge sleep beliefs
- Troubleshoot issues relating to anxiety, depression, and trauma
- Present an integrated case formulation of anxiety, depression and sleep difficulties, and select complimentary evidence-based strategies
- Explore fatigue management strategies with clients
Audience
Anyone who sees adults with insomnia as one of the co-occuring conditions should attend.
Bio
Dr. Colleen E. Carney is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Toronto Metropolitan University, where they are the Director of the Sleep and Depression Laboratory. With over 100 publications and hundreds of workshops, Dr. Carney is one of Canada’s leading experts in psychological treatments for insomnia, particularly in the context of co-occurring mental health issues. Dr. Carney is a passionate advocate for improving the availability of treatment for those with insomnia and other health problems.
References
Buysse, D. J., Ancoli-Israel, S., Edinger, J. D., Lichstein, K. L., & Morin, C. M. (2006). Recommendations for a standard research assessment of insomnia. Sleep, 29(9), 1155-1173.
Edinger, J. D., Arnedt, J. T., Bertisch, S. M., Carney, C. E., Harrington, J. J., Lichstein, K. L., … & Martin, J. L. (2021). Behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE assessment. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(2), 263-298.
Edinger, J. D., Arnedt, J. T., Bertisch, S. M., Carney, C. E., Harrington, J. J., Lichstein, K. L., … & Martin, J. L. (2021). Behavioral and psychological treatments for chronic insomnia disorder in adults: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine clinical practice guideline. Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, 17(2), 255-262
Harvey, A. G. (2002). A cognitive model of insomnia. Behaviour research and therapy, 40(8), 869-893.
Hiller, R. M., Johnston, A., Dohnt, H., Lovato, N., & Gradisar, M. (2015). Assessing cognitive processes related to insomnia: a review and measurement guide for Harvey’s cognitive model for the maintenance of insomnia. Sleep Medicine Reviews, 23, 46-53.
WELLNESS RETREAT FOR COUNSELLORS – Sparkling Hills Resort, Vernon – April 26-28, 2023

As counsellors and group clinic owners, we have certainly had a few challenging years. As our caseload complexities increase and resources are limited, we risk being focused on the care of others a don’t prioritize time to reflect on our own practice and ask where are we nourishing ourselves. We may lose touch with our values around our clinical work and start to lose touch with our own wellness.
We invite you to an experiential time away for moments of reflection, self-care, personal exploration around personal and clinical values, as well as business development strategies.
The goal of these retreats is to help you look inward to reflect on the type of practice and clients that invigorate your work. We want to help you explore how to find energy and joy in your work and re-vitalize your desire to offer clients your best self in counselling and business.
You can expect to nestle yourself into the beautiful setting and nourish in surroundings while connecting with like-minded practitioners. We will focus on self-care tools, evaluating our values, and envisioning our dream practice.
The retreat will include:
- 2 nights stay at Sparkling Hill resort with valet parking
- 2 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 1 delicious three course dinner
- Access to all the amenities, which include the tea rooms, yoga space, 7 steam/sauna rooms, infinity pool, hot tub, and more!
- Beautiful meeting rooms for our group work
- Yoga session
- Mindfulness and Nature Walks
- Wellness Circuits in Spas
- Wine & Cheese Gathering
$1250 for shared accommodation
$1675 for private accommodations
*partners welcome to join and stay at the resort (and not participate in the retreat functions) for $175 extra
To Register – Please contact us directly at 250 718 9291 or via email [email protected] or visit us https://okclinical.com/wellness-retreat/

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD)– ONLINE April & May, 2023

Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (DBT-PTSD) ONLINE April & May, 2023 (Including April 17+18, 24+25; May 1+2, 8+9) with Drs. Marin Bohus & Shelley McMain
Mondays and Tuesdays, April & May, 2023 (Including April 17+18, 24+25; May 1+2, 8+9) 9:00am – 1:00pm EDT
Online via Zoom
Join this dynamic and interactive online course offered through Centre for MindBody Health, featuring two internationally renowned DBT clinicians and researchers.
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW
About the Training
This 4-week (32 hours) course provides a comprehensive examination of DBT-PTSD based on a psycho-social model. Within this model, dysfunctional behaviours are understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation or sexual arousal. The model posits that these emotions are corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions and dysfunctional behaviours such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation or intoxication and that problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts which impair quality of life.
Target Audience
Multi-disciplinary mental health professionals interested in treating complex PTSD using evidence-based principles and procedures. Basic knowledge of DBT is recommended.
For more information and to register, visit our website HERE.
Click here to view the flyer (PDF).
Please contact us with any inquires at [email protected].
The Parent Hope Project: A Clinical Intervention for Parents to Improve Parent Confidence and Outcomes for Struggling Children – ONLINE April 17, 2023
The Parent Hope Project: A Clinical Intervention for Parents to Improve Parent Confidence and Outcomes for Struggling Children
ONLINE April 17, 2023
This conference will present the research and theory that has shaped a new manualized program, The Parent Hope Project. It will present data on parent and child outcomes from a program that aims to promote parent self-discovery, redirect anxious energy away from the child, and reduce their reliance on outside experts. This conference is primarily for helping professionals who may wish to explore this way of working with parents. However, it is open to parents and the public.
Click HERE for more information.

EMDR Parent-Child Attachment Specialist Intensive Certificate Program – Alberta, Canada – May 15 – May 19
The Systemic, EMDR- Attachment Based Program to Heal Intergenerational Trauma & Repair the Parent-Child Attachment Bond”
Program includes:
9 hours of online training
36 hours of in person training
Cost: $1250 USD A total of 45 EMDRIA CEUs
Click Here for More Information!
Register to The Restorative Wellness Retreat at Lake Louise That Takes Place On May 29th-June 2nd, 202

There’s still time to register for our restorative wellness retreat at Lake Louise!
Lori Gill, International Trauma Specialist and Lisa Scandolari, Yoga and Mindfulness Specialist will guide participants through this immersive trauma, mindfulness and yoga wellness training and retreat. Take a deeper dive into the neurobiology of trauma and stress, the nervous system and applied and immersive techniques for promoting regulation. The body holds memory of trauma and as a result engaging the body is critical for healing trauma and stress and promoting well-being. Rebalancing is so very needed, now more than ever, for helpers but the retreat is open to anyone looking to focus on wellness and emotional regulation. We will explore leading edge approaches with hands on access to treatment resources such as neurofeedback, biofeedback, virtual reality, noninvasive brain stimulation etc. After the whirlwind and busyness of the pandemic we need time to rejuvenate, nourish and heal. I do hope you can join us. This will be a very small retreat to support the experiential nature of it.
As an added bonus participants will also have access to a wellness platform as a gift to participants which will include access to part 1 of ATTCH’s trauma and attachment core training (prerecorded) which is a $480+ value and they will also have access to several of Lisa’s videos with guided practices and several other guided practices for continued use as preferred. Our goal is to make sure participants leave with a variety of new skills and tools that you can use and a wellness plan you can carry forward into your life and practice.
This event is eligible for 25 CEC hour(s) with CCPA
Click HERE to learn more.
Click HERE to register.
Neuroscience & Satir in the Sand Tray (NSST)™ Foundations Certificate Course Cohort 2 Feb 2023 – Dec 2023
Playful Dyads Presents:
Neuroscience & Satir in the Sand Tray (NSST)™
Foundations Certificate Course
A live, interactive online certification course in the NSST technique. Course includes 12 live-training sessions, group practice sessions, optional interactive mentor-led sessions, and inclusion in the NSST online community. Successful completion qualifies participants for a foundation level certification in NSST™.
Instructor: Dr. Madeleine De Little
February 2023 – December 2023
Click Here to Apply
The Empowered Supervisor: 30 hours of directed learning in clinical supervision – February 10th – March 10th 2023
The Empowered Supervisor: 30 hours of directed learning in clinical supervision
February 10th – March 10th 2023
NEXT TRAINING STARTS Friday February 10th at 10am EST ONLINE!
30 hours of Directed Learning in Clinical Supervision: Are you a clinical supervisor or thinking about becoming one soon? This training is for you!
For more information and to register, click HERE!
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST) – February 18, 19,/March 18, 19 / April 22, 23 / May 13, 14 / June 3, 4, 24, 25 / August 26, 27 / September 16, 17 / October 14, 15, 2023

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
February 18, 19, March 18, 19, April 22, 23, May 13, 14, June 3, 4, June 24, 25, August 26, 27, September 16, 17, and October 14, 15, 2023
2:00 pm to 7:30 pm Pacific Time online Via Zoom
81 Continuing Education hours of online training (9 Saturday/Sunday over 9 months)
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
STST is based on the work and Wisdom of world renown psychotherapist Virginia Satir, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 program offers:
- Deepening the experience of “how to” facilitate change and transformational change with clients
- Experience the profound process of growth as a professional and in your personal life
- Opportunities to expand the internal resources of Self and congruently connecting with clients
In addition, STST offers evidence based experiential therapy, and a process that is experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused; resulting in neurological changes in the individual.
Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Rhythm2Recovery Facilitator Training, Music for Social & Emotional Health – Starting April 2023

A two-day course that provides attendees with the practical tools and skills to introduce music into their practice in order to address the social and emotional challenges faced by their clients or students. No previous music skills are required.
The R2R model of rhythmic music linked to reflective discussions, is used by counsellors and educators around the world, working in diverse fields including trauma, mental health, behavioural education, custodial facilities, child protection and refugee integration.
Vancouver, BC – 15 – 16 April Calgary, AB – 22 – 23 April
Edmonton, AB – 29 – 30 April Halifax, NS – 6 – 7 May
The training includes comprehensive resources, including a 100-page workbook and over 200 training videos of exercises suitable for individual, family & group therapy.
This training is a treasure. It’s a must do for anyone working in a therapeutic or educational context. When words get in the way, tune in to the principles that Rhythm2Recovery offers in this pack filled workshop.
Dr Daryl Chow, MA,PhD (Psych) Counselling Psychologist, Senior Associate & Trainer, International Center for Clinical Excellence
Cost – $ 450 Register Here https://cvent.me/YbBBmq
Further information at http://www.rhythm2recovery.com/
Contact – [email protected]
ONLINE LGBTQ+ CENTERED EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY EXTERNSHIP – June 13/14 2023 & June 20/21, 2023
ONLINE LGBTQ+ CENTERED EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY EXTERNSHIP
We are excited to be offering this online Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) Externship focused on LGBTQ+ relationships and endorsed by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (ICEEFT).
The EFT Externship is an introductory 28-hour training in Emotionally Focused Therapy. The main focus is working with relationships, primarily in couples, whilst we also recognize that relationships come in many forms. Taking place over 4 days, this training includes the observation of live and video recorded couple and individual therapy sessions, presentations of theory and clinical techniques, skill training exercises, and discussions of cases, clinical material, and related issues.
In this training, we will be discussing, showing, demonstrating, and generally exploring EFT with a focus on LGBTQ+ relationships.
Dates: June 13/14 & June 20/21, 2023
Click here to learn more!
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST) – July 17 – 27. 2023

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
July 17 – 27. 2023
10 day Residential Experiential Training Program (Commuter Rates available)
Held at Bethlehem Retreat Center, Nanaimo, BC Canada
60 CEC/CEU
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
Family Therapy Training
Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) Level I training program is for practicing counsellors and therapists, and for other helping professionals who are presently working with clients. The focus of the program is on learning and practicing Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy to bring about deep and lasting change with individuals, couples and families.
This program is very experiential, with lecturettes, small group discussions, structured exercises, demonstrations, and skill practice sessions as part of the training. Participants will be required to work in triads between sessions to practice what they have been learning in the program.
Satir’s Transformational Systemic Therapy Model (STST) is unique in encompassing both the intrapsychic and interactive components of therapy. Much therapy of the past has been focused only on clients’ behaviour, cognition or affect. This model is focused on the whole human being, bringing about transformational change by tapping the internal resources and universal yearnings of individuals within their personal, family, and social systems. The process requires that the therapist has a high level of therapeutic competence and congruence.
STST processes are supported by recent therapeutic and neurobiological research. Evidence-based research supports therapeutic processes that are experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused in providing neurological changes in clients. The model’s focus on the congruence of the therapist is supported in research supporting how important it is that therapists provide the conditions for attachment, hope, positive possibilities and safety in order for clients to achieve deep and lasting change.
The experiential processes provided by the training program give participants the opportunity to have both personal and professional growth. The program will provide several therapy demonstrations and skill development opportunities.
Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Advanced Applications of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST) – August 1 – 9, 2023

Advanced Applications of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST)
August 1 – 9, 2023
8 day Residential Experiential Training Program (Commuter Rates available)
Held at Bethlehem Retreat Center, Nanaimo, BC Canada
48 CEC/CEU
Advanced Applications of Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST)
SIP’s Advanced Applications of STST program is for advanced Satir Model practitioners. While most Satir Model practice has been at the process level, advanced practitioners need to incorporate the deeper levels of meaning and energy in their work. We will focus on how to bring about change at these levels with our therapeutic clients.
This program will look at aspects of therapy where clients are working with impacts of depression, anxiety, pain, attachment and Use of Self. We can understand and work with individuals beyond the D.S.M. (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of APA), looking at working successfully with the root causes instead of symptoms.
Let’s go back to the roots of the Satir Model and explore what is now possible with all the increased understanding of the healing process.
This program will also look at how the Satir Model has changed, evolved, and developed over time, as well as looking at what has been added from other schools and authorities to mix with the Satir Model.
We will have eight days including evening trio work, “becoming more fully human” and deepening our therapeutic work with clients.
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST) – September 16, 17 | October 14, 15, 15 | November 4, 5, 6 | December 2, 3, 2023

Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
September 16, 17, October 14, 15, 15, November 4, 5, 6, and December 2, 3, 2023
10 day Experiential Training Program
Held at CoWorks by Elevate, Langley, BC
60 CEC/CEU
Level 1 Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Training Program (STST)
Family Therapy Training
STST is based on the work and Wisdom of world renown psychotherapist Virginia Satir, Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy Level 1 program offers:
- Deepening the experience of “how to” facilitate change and transformational change with clients
- Experience the profound process of growth as a professional and in your personal life
- Opportunities to expand the internal resources of Self and congruently connecting with clients
In addition, STST offers evidence based experiential therapy, and a process that is experiential, systemic, positively directional and change focused, resulting in neurological changes in the individual.
Counsellors and therapist will learn how to use experiential process throughout their therapy sessions to access healing Life Energy; explore and facilitate change in clients’ intrapsychic and relational systems; make contact with clients’ internal experience and create safety quickly and deeply; surface clients’ survival communication and coping patterns and help clients experientially choose more positive possibilities; collaboratively with the client, begin to set positively directional, intrapsychic therapeutic goals for change; help clients access, accept and utilize their internal strengths and resources in the change process; map the internal processes of clients and help them access and change their behaviours, feelings, perceptions and expectations and help clients integrate and maintain their changes
Sponsored by the Satir Institute of the Pacific
Mindfulness Everyday: Free online space to come together to engage in self-care and practice mindfulness
Embedding Sleep: A Targeted and Pragmatic Program for Hypnotherapists to help their Clients Sleep
Hypnosis is often used to treat sleep problems, but most published scripts are targeted towards simple insomnia – difficulty falling asleep in the absence of significant sleep or co-morbid mental health challenges. Most of our clients are much more complex, but few doctors or therapists have more than superficial knowledge of sleep and little or no training in the treatment of sleep disorders.
Embedding Sleep is a 7 week, online course that offers an introduction to sleep disorders (both primary and secondary to other mental health challenges), research about the effectiveness of hypnotic strategies for treatment, tools for evaluating sleep, and scripts to address specific sleep problems. In addition, you will learn practical, psychoeducational, and hypnotic strategies to treat complex sleep problems.
Cost: $397 + applicable tax
For more information, please visit https://embeddingsleep.cambiumed.ca/
Contact: Linda Tilley at [email protected]
CTRI Online Training: Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health & More
The Certified Executor Advisor Designation Program (CEA)
The Certified Executor Advisor designation program (CEA) is appropriate for counsellors working with Canadians to help them through the myriad of emotions and challenges that may present on the death of a loved one, the stress of being overwhelmed with work they’re not prepared for, simmering conflicts with spouses and siblings, financial problems arising from inheritances, risk of personal litigation and those working in mediation for any of the above.
CEA candidates come from the seventeen professions executors may turn to in the course of their duties. This means there are sixteen professions working with executors and their families across Canada looking for counselling services when problems arise. Naturally, they’re looking for counsellors who understand executor related issues.
Visit https://www.cicea.ca/en/CCPA to register and receive the CCPA member discount of $200 off the regular price of $1,495. Join us by becoming a CEA and join an amazing business network helping Canadians.
FEI International Crisis Responder Network Training and CEU’s

As an international leader in crisis management services, we regularly recruit trauma specialists to join our crisis responder network. Crisis responders participate in short-term contract work in response to mass casualty events such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks and aviation accidents.
To become part of the network, individuals must be trained by FEI and will be required to attend the FEI Crisis Responder Training. This training is facilitated via webinar and those who complete the training are eligible to earn up to 8 continuing education units (CEU’s).
When deployed to provide support during a crisis, the trauma specialists will be compensated at an hourly rate ranging from $75-$90 USD/hour (depending on the level of support required for those impacted and as requested by our customer).
If you are interested in learning more about the training and the opportunity to become a member of our International Crisis Responder Network, please contact us at:414-359-6571 or you may see details on the training and register at the link below:
https://alliance1.org/web/events/webinar/crisis-management-responders.aspx
FEI Behavioral Health has been a leader in providing humanitarian support for over 40 years to our customers, their family members and, their communities following a critical event. At times the crisis may require organizational support such as an on-site debriefing. At other times, we may be asked to provide support on a larger scale due to a mass casualty event. In those situations, basic psychological first aid is provided.
FEI has experienced an increase in the requests for critical incident support from our customers. Additionally, with the escalation and threat of terrorism and natural disasters, FEI would like to invite your agency, and your clinicians, to join our elite network focused on providing the necessary support at the most critical times.
First Responder Health – Online Training Now Available
Recent research indicates that over 40% of Canada’s first responders struggle with symptoms consistent with one or more psychological disorders. The gap between mental health clinicians and first responders leave many to struggle in silence and work wounded. Our unique training opportunity is designed to change this.
We are proud to announce that Level 1 and Level 2 of our Occupational Awareness Training Program is now available online! Our courses have been designed for any healthcare professional interested in expanding their skill set in working with public safety personnel. They include customized lectures by top subject matter experts in the field of public safety mental health.
Our courses are also recognized for Continuing Education Credits. Purchase each course separately or get a special bundle price for both.
It is a difficult time for both clinicians and first responders, thank you for what you do.
Email Contact: [email protected]
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August 19th – Breaking the ADHD Code: A Novel, Neurologically Based Treatment Program for ADHD

Apart from using medication, treatment for ADHD symptoms has largely focused on symptom management. But even with medication, many people with ADHD continue to struggle with anxiety, conflict, emotional regulation, behavioural addictions, and health management. Many people unconsciously use adrenaline-producing behaviours to increase dopamine functioning, a pattern that may be effective in the short term but is quite destructive in the long term. This pattern has been conceptualized into the Adrenaline Addiction in ADHD model. (https://aaa.cambiumed.ca)
“Breaking the ADHD Code” is a program for therapists to learn the Adrenaline Addiction in ADHD model, and how to implement it with clients. The program involves approximately 6 hours of videos, which are to be previewed before the webinar, and a full day live webinar. There is also a follow-up two hour webinar three weeks after the initial webinar to help implement the program. For more information, please visit https://cambiumed.ca and click on the Breaking the ADHD Code logo.
Cost: $367 + applicable tax
Contact: Linda Tilley – [email protected]
The PEI Breast Cancer Support Group is a survivor driven group dedicated to providing support to those affected by breast cancer
The PEI Breast Cancer Support Group is a survivor driven group dedicated to providing support to those affected by breast cancer.
The PEI Breast Cancer Support Group provides:
• group support
• a voice of solidarity for Island breast cancer survivors
• education
• one on one support
• advocacy
Regular meetings are held on the first Monday of each month, unless a holiday and held the following Monday.
For more information, click HERE!
For details contact:
Judy 902-569-3496 | Teri 902-218-1621
[email protected]
1-800-685-8820