Description
LIVE STREAM: July 7, 2026 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Canmore, AB) Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
ON-DEMAND: Recorded footage & course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until August 16, 2026. Please allow 3 – 10 business days for footage to be processed. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
July 7, 2026 | Day One
Post-Traumatic Growth: Healing Emotional & Psychological Trauma
8:30am – 11:45am
In this transformative workshop, Dr. Carissa Muth challenges the traditional clinical focus on symptom reduction, inviting psychotherapists to explore the potential for profound positive change following adversity. “Post-Traumatic Growth” (PTG) is not about returning to baseline; it is about the paradoxical experience of gaining strength, wisdom, and purpose through the struggle with trauma. Dr. Muth guides participants through the theoretical and practical applications of PTG, moving beyond the medical model of “disorder” to a humanistic model of “transformation.” The session distinguishes clearly between resilience (bouncing back) and growth (bouncing forward), providing clinicians with the tools to identify the five domains of PTG in their clients. Through narrative reconstruction and existential inquiry, therapists will learn how to facilitate the “rumination to reflection” shift, helping clients mine their painful experiences for new meaning. This workshop equips providers to hold space for suffering while simultaneously illuminating the path toward a richer, more authentic life.
The Clinical Power Couple: Integrating CBT and DBT Strategies for Trauma, Addictions, Anxiety, Depression, OCD, and Chronic Pain
12:45pm – 4:00pm
In this high-impact training, Dr. Carissa Muth demonstrates how to merge the two most established modalities in mental health—Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)—into a unified, transdiagnostic toolkit. While CBT offers powerful strategies for cognitive change and exposure, it often fails with clients who lack the emotional regulation skills to tolerate the work. Conversely, DBT provides excellent stabilization but may not sufficiently address the core schemas driving chronic disorders. This workshop bridges that gap. Dr. Muth will guide participants through a “Stabilize-Then-Process” framework, showing how to use DBT skills to widen the window of tolerance in clients with complex trauma, addiction, and chronic pain, before applying CBT interventions to restructure maladaptive beliefs and behaviours. Participants will learn to move fluidly between the “Change” focus of CBT and the “Acceptance” focus of DBT, specifically addressing the overlapping mechanisms of avoidance and dysregulation found in OCD, depression, and anxiety.
Module 1: Beyond the Diagnosis – Defining PTG
- The Shattered Vase Metaphor: Why we can’t just “glue it back together” (recovery) but must create a mosaic (growth).
- The Paradox of PTG: Understanding that growth and distress often coexist; one does not cancel out the other.
- The Neurobiology of Change: How the disruption of core schemas forces the brain to accommodate new, more complex understandings of the world.
Module 2: The Five Domains of Growth
- Personal Strength: “I survived the worst, so I can handle anything.”
- New Possibilities: Identifying doors that opened only because others closed.
- Relating to Others: The deepening of empathy and connection through shared suffering.
- Appreciation of Life: The shift from “taking things for granted” to mindful gratitude.
- Spiritual/Existential Change: Grappling with big questions and finding deeper purpose.
Module 3: From Rumination to Reflection
- The Engine of PTG: Why we need to think about the trauma to grow from it.
- Intrusive vs. Deliberate: Teaching clients to grab the wheel of their thinking.
- Clinical Tool: Structured writing exercises to move from “Why me?” (victim) to “What now?” (survivor).
Module 4: Narrative Reconstruction
- The “Before” and “After” Self: Integrating the split caused by trauma.
- Double Listening: Training therapists to hear the story of suffering and the story of resistance simultaneously.
- Legacy Work: Helping clients decide how this chapter fits into the whole book of their life.
Module 5: The Therapist as “Expert Companion”
- Avoiding Toxic Positivity: The danger of pushing for growth too soon.
- Timing the Intervention: Recognizing the “readiness cues” for meaning-making work.
- Vicarious Growth: How witnessing a client’s transformation can positively impact the therapist’s own worldview.
Module 6: Closing & Application
Clinical Professionals: All mental health professionals including, but not limited to Clinical Counsellors, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Hospice and Palliative Care Workers, School Counsellors, Youth Workers, Mental Health Workers, Addiction Specialists, Marital & Family Therapists, Speech Language Pathologists, Vocational Rehabilitation Consultants and all professionals looking to enhance their therapeutic skills.
| Registration | Early bird Fee | Regular Fee |
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| Individual 1 Day Enrollment | $229.00 | N/A |
| 1 Day Group 3 - 7 | $169.00 | N/A |
| 1 Day Group 8 - 15 | $119.00 | N/A |
| 1 Day Group 15+ | $99.00 | N/A |
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| Individual 2 Day Enrollment | $399.00 | N/A |
| 2 Day Group 3 - 7 | $295.00 | N/A |
| 2 Day Group 8 - 15 | $208.00 | N/A |
| 2 Day Group 15+ | $173.00 | N/A |
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| Individual 3 Day Enrollment | $569.00 | N/A |
| 3 Day Group 3 - 7 | $420.00 | N/A |
| 3 Day Group 8 - 15 | $296.00 | N/A |
| 3 Day Group 15+ | $246.00 | N/A |
All fees are in Canadian dollars ($CAD) and per person.
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