Join our Trauma Training Course

FOR THERAPISTS

You've come to this field because you want to make a difference in the world but you feel like you have hit the glass ceiling in your knowledge, your skillset, or something else is missing.

Your clients have been sticking around because they are holding onto hope, but you are not feeling solid enough in your skill-set to support them through all of the cumulative trauma that has been impacting the world these days. You want the tools to be able to carry them through to a place of inner resonance and self-healing. You want to rediscover your passion for complexities in trauma work while also feeling more confident and clear about how you can help.

It’s time to step up..learn new skills, build your confidence and deepen your identity as a trauma therapist.

WHAT WILL YOU GAIN FROM THIS TRAUMA TRAINING COURSE?

● ReFocus Your Trauma Lens

● The Three Primary Trauma Types and How To Treat Them

● Ways to Improve Your Clinical Outcomes

● The Four Phase Trauma Model

● Three Scientific Evidence Based Trauma Assessments

● Four Interventions for Each Phase Of Trauma Healing (using somatic, parts work, cognitive work and creative methods.)

➡️ Skills and knowledge to become a more sensitive and informed trauma therapist

➡️ A deeper understanding of how trauma impacts mind-body health and emotional wellbeing

➡️ A deeper understanding of different types of trauma

➡️ A non-pathologizing approach to treatment of trauma

➡️ The history and evolution of effective trauma treatments

● A rich toolkit of psychoeducational images and exclusive worksheets to utilize in session as interventions!

How does this Six Month Exclusive Online Trauma Training Group Program work?

Transformation Goal:

This training is going to impact you by providing you with a deeper understanding of trauma, clarity on ways to provide trauma treatment, and an overall feeling of confidence and clarity that you’ll bring to your work. The wisdom and skills acquired will help you maximize each and every session with your clients.

As your clinical outcomes improve and soar, you will get more ideal clients referred to you. You’ll feel more confident about when to dive deeper, when to refer out, when to get consultation, and know exactly what to do to get to the next level with your clients.

LEARNING FORMAT:

Asynchronous Learning: Signing up for this training will give you full access to our online platform where you get to dive into ONE module each week where you will get strategies to help you maximize your skills in the therapy room.

You will have access instructional videos, tools, templates and downloads for you to use in your practice immediately. These trainings are ones you can listen to at anytime and are so rich, you may want to re-watch them throughout your learning.

Time Investment for Online Course:

Plan to Spend one hour a week: half an hour on reading the week’s booklet and half an hour on watching the weekly videos.

Synchronous Learning: This is an interactive training and consultation group that consists of 6 Months of 90 minutes BI-WEEKLY face-to-face sessions (12 total) with Trauma Specialist, Esther Goldstein. This time is for you and your cohort to ask questions, real-time implementation and clarification.

Consultation is imperative so you can personalize the knowledge and can use your newfound skills and wisdom with ease in your next session. You will also get to present your cases and get clinical input and guidance so you deepen your impact and provide more aligned clinical work.

Time investment for LIVE Consultation:

We meet every other week, for 90 minutes, to dive into your clinical questions, to clarify concepts, and to practice interventions and skills, in realtime.

Great Question! This course is loaded with practical interventions!

Theory and education are important, but when push comes to shove, you need skills! When you’re sitting across of a client who feels frightened, who is out of their window of tolerance, or is needing a shift before they leave your therapy room, you need to provide something tangible.

Interventions and tools are vital in this work. Often, clients walks in holding a lot, and though we don’t offer a one-time-cure, we can guide them to an exercise, or engage them in an activity so that they feel met and understood. Using a skillful intervention can allow for transformation to take place (a wee little one or a big one, depending on where your client is at in the work).

At the end of every single module we have a downloadable worksheet for you! 

You will get practice using each of the worksheets in the training, so that you get a feel for how to use it effectively. The interventions were made with you and your client in mind. They are meant to be printable so that you can use them in your very next session! 

Interventions include:

● Window of Tolerance

● Body Scan

● Guided Meditation

● Grounding Exercises

● Boundary Setting 

● Distancing Techniques

● Resource/Strengths Building

● Parts Mapping (parts work) We have a really creative art activity to go along with this one! 

● Working with the Inner Child

● Somatic (mind-body) Processing

● Attachment Informed Interventions

● Cognitive and Dialectical Interventions

●And a whole lot more..

Is this course really for you?

You are…

● Looking to expand your professional skill set in treating clients with simple to multifaceted trauma. 

● Wanting to identify and implement clear boundaries that support the client- therapist relationship. 

● Unsure how to keep therapeutic treatment on track when a client is facing a blockage.

● Feeling insecure in your work and wondering if your clients are experiencing adequate relief.

This course will assist you in improving your clinical outcomes by giving you the opportunities to: 

● Confidently utilize assessments and interventions to skillfully navigate the nuances of providing trauma treatment. 

● Show up to sessions with patience, flexibility and confidence in your practice. 

● Invite your clients’ body posture to soften, as they feel understood and “gotten" by you.

● Know how to identify stuck points, and gracefully move with, through, and past them.

● Normalize clients’ trauma symptoms and provide tools to assist in their recovery. 

● Become skilled in setting attainable treatment plans and goals.

You are making an important decision about choosing to sign up for this course. 

These Q&As can help you decide if this course can be helpful to you and what you are hoping to gain. 

+ Who is this training for?

This training is for mental health professionals who work with people, one on one, in a group setting or in any other therapeutic role. Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners (working clinically), Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Art Therapists...

This is right for you if you are:

1. Looking to expand your professional skill set in treating clients with simple to multifaceted trauma.
2. Wanting to identify and implement clear boundaries that support the client- therapist relationship.
3. Unsure how to keep therapeutic treatment on track when a client is facing a blockage
4. Feeling insecure in your work and wondering if your clients are experiencing adequate relief.
5. Need accountability and community in order to grow into your role as a trauma specialist.

+ What will I get out of this course?

You will get a deep understanding of how to work with trauma, how to pick up on the nuances of trauma in your clients (the ones who present with it and are conscious of it, and those who are not), and be able to provide better clinical care.

Good therapy is not only about intervention, it is also about assessments and attunement of the therapist who knows how to identify the primary treatment needs of the client. This training will help you develop a Trauma Informed Lens so that you create a treatment plan that allows for more efficient and effective therapy.

You will also learn interventions including mind-body somatic interventions, cognitive interventions, "parts work" as well as expressive arts and attachment informed interventions. Each module has exercises and handouts for you to use as psychoeducation as well as tools and ideas to use in your very next session!

+ You mention Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, EMDR and IFS, do you offer full certification?

This is such a great question! I have studied advanced methods over the last decade. In addition, I've acquired thousands of hours of personal and group consult from leading experts in trauma. Regarding the trainings; most of the trainings have taken me 2-3 years to get full certification, so I can't possibly teach you all of the skills in a 6 month training. However, this course gives you access to the golden nuggets of wisdom as I've taken notes for the last decade and am sharing those notes here, with you!

This course is to give you a good, solid trauma framework to help you really solidify your knowledge, as well as you getting access to some advanced interventions that I've learned that are incredible powerful.

If you want to get advanced certification in one specific area, I can happily suggest some ideas based on what would be good for you.

This training is one that I wish I had ten years ago when I shopped around and took so many trainings until I finally acquired many solid trauma foundational aspects as well as some advanced skills, wisdom and interventions. I created this as a "cheat sheet" to good trauma work. I've done trainings like these over the years and continue to do so, as each training deepens my learning and confidence..and helps me grow.

I believe you will learn a lot here!

+ How long is each training?

This Trauma Therapist Training and Consultation is a commitment to a 6 month training. You can watch the trauma course online, in a self-paced way, and digest the knowledge over time. As well, you join the twice a month 90 minute consultation meetings where we provide personalized consultation and support to the clinical complexities you're wanting support and guidance on.

+ Will you be doing any other trainings?

Absolutely! I am creating more advanced trainings on working with specific clinical issues and will publish them when they are ready.

"The Wounded Healer- How To Do Good Work When You've Been Broken"

"Shame- The Invisible Monster- And How To Work with It"

"Silly Putty Anxiety- Working with Anxiety That Won't Budge"

"Earned Secure Attachment-What Is It and How Do You Cultivate it?"

"Working with Complex Trauma and Dissociation-Here's What You Need To Know"

"Lessons Learned from Over a Decade of Working With Trauma Survivors"

Those are just some ideas....stay tuned!

+ I'm not a therapist, can I sign up?

I did not forget about you! Yes we have a sister program coming out in the next few weeks that will be offering a lot of similar information. This non-therapist training will be for you if you're currently in therapy or just are someone who loves to grow and learn and are committed to personal growth.

You'll get a lot of similar content (minus some of the boring science and research stuff) and a workbook with lots of ideas and activities!

+ How are you tracking our learning experience?

I'm so glad you asked! At the beginning of the course, we have you fill out a self assessment so we get a real sense of where you're at, what you're hoping to gain and what you're already really skilled at. We re-administer the assessment at the end of the course to track your growth, and what you gained in this course.

We want to help you notice your own growth as you expand your confidence, wisdom and skills. We also want you to be able to notice the smaller, yet equally significant, gains of deepening the knowledge you may have already known, while solidifying your clinical voice.

We are open to feedback and input as we want to be sure you are getting exactly what you need from this course.

I know that from the courses I've taken, there was some information that I already knew, and some information that was new to me.

I've found repetition to be helpful as it helps truly own the information, and utilize it more organically in session. For some of you, some of this will be a deepening of what you know, while gaining new skills, and for others, this will all be new and you'll digest it at a pace that's right for you.

This course is designed and formatted to help you deepen your clinical intuition and expand your skillset, while adding new tools to your toolkit- yes, even those of you in the field for a while!

+ How long will I have access to the information for?

You will have access to the information for as long as the course runs. If you miss a week, you can carve out time the following week to catch up on the recordings! And be sure to hop on the Zoom calls so I can help you digest and apply the information!

The downloads and PDFs are downloadable and saveable so you'll have that content for forever.

+ Do you offer payment plans?

Yes, you can pay the full fee upfront - 4.3k, or you can pay per month- 780/month.

+ What is your favorite part of running this course?

Getting to know how many thirsty and passionate therapists are out there, committed to growing, blossoming and evolving as humans..it's inspiring! And, seeing the devotion of soulful therapists who know how their investment outside of session really allows for significant shifts. This is all humbling to see.

WELCOME TO THE TRAUMA TRIBE. WE ARE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU ABOARD!

I look forward to training and growing with you! - Esther

Kind testimonials

"Myself + my lovely team joined Esther’s course because we are really believe that every single therapist that works with a human should be trauma informed. Which means they should understand what tools and skills are necessary when working with someone who has been impacted by any kind of trauma. One of the things I got from Esther’s Trauma Course (among many other things) was real tools, a comprehensive list of so many different tips+tricks that can help myself, as well as my team learn how to effectively help those that are dealing with trauma.”

Michali Friedman LCSW-C Founder of Embrace Therapy

Website: www.embracetherapy.net

“This course is well thought out, and has information in both written form and visual aids. The person behind this course is just awesome, her name is Esther Goldstein, and the thing I like about her the most is that she cares, she really gets it and loves to offer her expertise + information. If you are interested in learning more about mental health disorders or the depths of trauma, then this is a course you do not want to miss!”

Amy Peters, Physicians Associate & Founder of The Tattered Seed Organization

Website: thetatteredseed.org

“I have known Esther for several years and have always been deeply grateful for her understanding of and expertise in working with trauma. When she announced the launch of this course I eagerly reached out to her to get more information and to sign up all my clinicians. We were all quite impressed with the knowledge and practical application this course holds. It is not only essential for therapists to be trauma informed in this current environment, they must also have a variety of practical tools ready to help the wounded souls in our care journey toward healing. This course is a must for any therapist who wants to deepen knowledge of trauma. Even those of us who are seasoned trauma specialists can still benefit from the reminders this course has to offer. And for the newer clinician - I would say this is utterly essential for competent practice. I cannot recommend this course highly enough.”

Tabitha Westbrook LMFT, LCMCH, LPC, Founder & CEO of The Journey + The Process

Website: www.thejourneyandtheprocess.com

“ I’ve known Esther as a colleague for well over a decade. I’ve had the privilege to witness up close her evolvement from committed learner pursuing the gold-standard specialized training, to innovative educator and creator of her own therapeutic methods blending both scientific based skills and the creative arts. 

Esther is an expert in the field of anxiety and trauma treatment and has been in a leadership role of teaching therapists how to combines natural skill, innate creativity, and compassion with cutting edge evidence-based technique. 

It is my pure delight to share a glowing recommendation ….”

- Rikki Davies, Trauma Expert, IFS, EMDR - Supervisor and Trauma Consultant

“Esther is just amazing at taking complex concepts and breaking them down into a no-psychobabble kind of way that I know is so appreciated and useful for individuals seeking therapy. I have no doubt that her clients feel quickly at ease and safe in her presence.”

- Leah Subar, Experiential Psychotherapist

“Esther is a colleague who uses the most effective, evidence-based approaches to healing trauma in a way that is compassionate and wise. I also appreciate the humor she brings into the room, which is also very healing. I can’t recommend her enough!”

- Yolanda Harper, owner Harper Therapy http://www.harpertherapy.com/