Description
Deepen your clinical expertise with this comprehensive training bundle designed to elevate your understanding and treatment of trauma and related mental health challenges. This exclusive package combines four of our most impactful workshops, offering a rich blend of research-driven insights, practical interventions, and cutting-edge developments in psychotherapy.
Included Courses:
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Addressing Childhood and Developmental Trauma including ACE Study with Dr. Carissa Muth
Explore the lasting impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and gain actionable strategies for diagnosing and treating complex trauma and developmental wounds. -
A Holistic Approach to Treating Trauma, Addiction & Other Mental Health Disorders
Join us in Kelowna—or online—for a 4-day immersive training integrating neuroscience, positive psychology, and a biopsychosocial-spiritual approach to mental health and addiction recovery. -
Clinical Supervision for Lasting Impact with Dr. Carissa Muth
Learn a structured, evidence-based framework for supervision that not only enhances the skills of your supervisees but also improves your own clinical effectiveness. -
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD: Improving Social Connectedness with Sara Klinkhamer
Discover the emerging science and therapeutic promise of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy and its unique ability to address PTSD by restoring social connection.
Why Choose This Bundle?
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Expand your clinical toolkit with practical, evidence-based interventions.
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Stay at the forefront of research on trauma, supervision, and psychedelic-assisted therapies.
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Access a flexible mix of live and recorded content, available until late summer 2025.
Whether you’re looking to sharpen your practice, enhance supervision skills, or explore innovative modalities like MDMA-assisted therapy, this bundle offers a well-rounded, in-depth training experience for today’s mental health professional.
Addressing Childhood and Developmental Trauma including ACE Study: Brief Strategies and Interventions
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on June 26, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until July 27, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on June 25, 2025.
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In the late 1990’s, the CDC in combination with Kaiser Permanente studied the link between childhood abuse and adult rates of death. This study firmly established a link between childhood experiences and long term mental and physical health outcomes. As 67% of individuals experiences at least one ACE, continued studies have investigated which factors or how many factors are the most influential. In this webinar, Dr. Carissa Muth will present updated data regarding childhood and developmental trauma with a focus on utilizing the research to effectively conceptualize and treat client symptoms. This will include a diagnostic explanation of complex posttraumatic stress disorder and staged treatment methods and interventions. As often the most complex clients have high ACE scores, knowing how to identify and treat these clients can provide hope for those that may feel disregarded.
Why Attend?
- Increased awareness- Childhood trauma can manifest in adulthood in a myriad of ways and sometimes covertly. As such, knowing the signs and impact of ACEs can aid in treating seemingly treatment resistant clients.
- Improved resources- Some would argue that personality disorders almost exclusively manifest from childhood abuse. These clients can be disregarded by professionals as noncompliant or too difficult to manage. Understanding roots to behaviours rather than just considering the manifestations of underlying issues can provide additional tools and hope for these typically complex individuals.
A Holistic Approach to Treating Trauma and Addiction & Other Mental Health Disorders
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on July 14 – 17, 2025 from 8:15am – 12:30pm (Kelowna, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until August 25, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on July 13, 2025.
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Join us for an immersive 4-day destination workshop in Kelowna, BC where breathtaking views and world-class therapeutic training come together. In a world of misinformation and information overload, this intensive presents a systematic, practical, evidenced-based approach to treating trauma, addictions, depression, and anxiety. Integrating the latest research in neuroscience, behavioural economics, and psychology, this intensive presents an encompassing and practical method for helping clients reach the change they desire.
Therapists are being asked more and more to provide evidence and results for their work and often under the pressure of less funding and shorter session times. This can lead to burnout and a tendency to look for quick fixes for clients. This intensive will present a research grounded framework that can be utilized with every client and embraces this shift in the field requiring increased accountability, interdisciplinary cooperation, and results.
Why Attend?
- Research Based: The average professional becomes outdated on research ten years after graduating. However, research continues to expand and help us understand placebo versus effective treatments and how to best help clients. This intensive is rooted in the latest scientific research on trauma and will present a balanced perspective of various thoughts in the psychology field.
- Expansion of tools: Application of therapeutic methodology and intervention can be confusing and leave a gap between knowledge and application. This seminar will provide practical therapeutic interventions, grounded in well-established methodology that therapists can implement immediately.
- Holistic Approach: Psychological, biological, social, and spiritual factors all interact to answer the question why do people do what they do? Answering this question is at the core of case conceptualizing and treating clients. This intensive will cover all aspects of being human and includes teachings on Positive Psychology and Neuroscience.
Clinical Supervision for Lasting Impact: A Research-Based Framework to Elevate Psychotherapy Practice
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on June 11 – 12, 2025 from 8:30am – 4:00pm (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until July 21, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on June 10, 2025.
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Research has shown that proficiency does not automatically increase with experience. Contrary to many professions, most psychotherapists do not increase in their effectiveness no matter how long they are practicing! Also, supervision, while a longstanding requirement in the field of psychotherapy, has not been shown to be innately impactful in improving the effectiveness of psychotherapists. For those that have practiced for a long time or supervised students these research results may be discouraging. However, psychotherapists such as Dr. Wampold have dedicated themselves to providing guidance for how psychotherapists can move from good to great. For example, Dr. Wampold has demonstrated that what is necessary for improvement is intentional and structured clinical supervision and ongoing practice feedback. In this webinar, Dr. Carissa Muth will present and evidence-based framework for providing clinical supervision to both students and practicing psychotherapists in order to defeat the common effect of skill stagnation. The webinar will be practical and focused on skills that can be implemented immediately so participants can leave with tools to improve their own practice and the practice of those they supervise.
Why Attend?
- Improved supervision skills- Whether formally supervising students or experienced psychotherapists, this webinar will present a framework for ensuring supervision processes actually create impactful change.
- Enhanced psychotherapy skills- Given that objective measures indicate many psychotherapist don’t improve with time, learning skills to intentionally improve will also increase the effectiveness of the supervisors psychotherapeutic practice. Attendees will walk away with skills they can also apply to their own practice based on research on effective methods of improvement.
MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD: Improving Social Connectedness
This workshop will be live streaming to online participants on June 17, 2025 from 8:30am – 11:45am (Vancouver, BC)
Please adjust your start time according to your specific time zone.
Recorded footage and all course content (certificate, videos, quiz) will be available until July 28, 2025. Extensions cannot be granted under any circumstances.
Please allow 3 – 10 business days after the course airs for recorded footage to become available.
Registration will close on June 16, 2025.
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Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy is making a comeback, and this time it doesn’t look like it is going anywhere despite some significant controversies and a major setback this past August when the FDA did not approve MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. To the surprise and dismay of many in the field the FDA asked for additional Phase 3 trails, but the general consensus seems to be that it is just a matter of time before approval comes. Already here in Canada many people have received treatment through the Special Access Program (SAP) and expanded access is on the horizon. For this 3-hour workshop, Sara Klinkhamer will focus on MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, which has also been the focus of the PhD she is currently completing through the California Institute of Integral Studies. She will make the case that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is particularly effective for treating PTSD because it improves one’s sense of social connectedness and social connectedness moderates PTSD symptom severity. A brief history and context will situate these claims. The talk will also include a discussion of the possibility that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy improves one’s sense of connectedness in general and may be effective for treating various ‘maladies of disconnection’ including addiction, depression, relationship problems and other existential issues.
