2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training
- Speaker:
- J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP
- Duration:
- 12 Hours 37 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Copyright:
-
Sep 19, 2024
- Product Code:
- POS059081
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
After decades of treating traumatic stress, we have learned that effective treatment can be simple… but it’s not easy.
Studies indicate that there are four key elements to effective trauma treatment. When you accomplish these four key elements in treatment with your clients, you will be able to reduce their symptoms and improve clinical outcomes. Attend this workshop and you will walk away with a step-by-step four-stage framework for navigating essential elements of trauma treatment with your traumatised clients.
The essential elements are common to all evidence-based trauma treatments, you will learn how you can integrate this framework with your current approach or methodology to improve how you treat trauma. Watch J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP as he shows you how this trauma competency training can give you tools and techniques for your clinical practice and help improve your trauma treatment outcomes, just as he has for other clinicians around the world.
Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and clients know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of trauma counselling. Professional standards apply. Visit ca.evgcert.com/cctp for details.
CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
- No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99.99 USD value)!
- Simply complete this training and the included post-event evaluation, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
*Professional standards apply. Visit ca.evgcert.com/cctp for professional requirements.
Credit
Program Information
Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationshipsAll members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Earn up to 12.5 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 12.5 credit hours.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 12.5 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2026 - January 27, 2029. Social workers completing this course receive 12.5 Clinical continuing education credits.
Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities offered by providers approved by the ASWB ACE program for ongoing professional development.
This self-study activity qualifies for 12.5 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - 2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training (7.9 MB) | 115 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training - French (7.9 MB) | 115 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training - Italian (7.9 MB) | 115 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training - German (7.9 MB) | 115 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - 2-Day Certified Clinical Trauma Professional Training - Spanish (7.9 MB) | 115 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP Related seminars and products
Compassion Unlimited
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP, is an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. His PhD is from Florida State University where he studied with Professor Charles Figley – a pioneer of these two fields. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for compassion fatigue – the world’s only evidence-based treatment protocol for compassion fatigue. In 1998, he introduced the Certified Compassion Fatigue Specialist Training and Compassion Fatigue Prevention & Resiliency Training. These two trainings have demonstrated treatment effectiveness for the symptoms of compassion fatigue, and he published these effects in several journals. He has trained over 100,000 health professionals over the past 20 years.
He has written numerous chapters, papers, and peer-reviewed journal articles in the areas of traumatic stress and compassion fatigue. Dr. Gentry is a Master Traumatologist with over 35 years of clinical experience with trauma, Complex PTSD, personality disorders, and dissociation.
He is the president and CEO of The Forward Facing® Institute and owner of Compassion Unlimited – a private psychotherapy, training, and consulting practice – in Phoenix, AZ.
Financial: Dr. J. Eric Gentry maintains a private practice. He is the owner and President of Forward-Facing International, Inc., the Co-director of Community Crisis Support Team, and the CEO of Compassion Unlimited. Dr. Gentry has employment relationships with the AZ Trauma Institute, the Florida Center for Theological Studies, the Argosy University, the Webster University, and the University of South Florida State. He is a consultant and receives compensation. Dr. Gentry is a published author and receives royalties. He receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. J. Eric Gentry is a member of the American Counseling Association, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, and others. For a complete list, please contact info@pesi.com.
Additional Info
Program Information
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Objectives
- Evaluate the causes of posttraumatic stress and how events turn into posttraumatic symptoms.
- Determine the common elements for treating posttraumatic stress to have better treatment outcomes.
- Identify the clinical application of various theoretical treatment models for traumatic stress and how the common elements are embedded in these models.
- Evaluate traumatic stress from neurobiological, biochemical, psychological, social & spiritual perspectives.
- Integrate evidence-based skills for developing, maintaining, and enhancing your therapeutic relationship for more successful outcomes.
- Utilise ACES as an important tool in cognitive restructuring and evolving identity away from shame towards self-compassion.
- Utilise specific psychoeducation and cognitive restructuring techniques for maximising engagement and participation in early treatment.
- Analyse the efficacy of self-regulation skills as a preliminary treatment intervention and to integrate throughout trauma treatment.
- Integrate CBT techniques to promote the development of stability, self-efficacy, anxiety management, and relational capacities in traumatised clients.
- Utilise empirical markers to know when it is both necessary and safe to transition from the safety/stabilisation phase of treatment into the trauma memory processing phase without guesswork and minimal crises.
- Assess the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.
- Integrate skills of neuroception, interoception and acute relaxation to interrupt physiological threat response.
- Develop skills for safety, stabilisation, grounding and containment in trauma treatment.
Outline
The Evolution of Traumatic Stress:
Conceptualise how traumatic stress develops
- Systemic traumatic stress
- Symptom review for DSM-5-TR diagnosis
- Review of effective treatments
- Tri Phasic model
- Most used clinician friendly instruments to assess traumatic stress
Core Competencies of Traumatic Stress Bio-Psycho-Social-Spiritual Factors that Produce Anxiety & Traumatic Stress:
How events can become symptoms
- Precipitating events
- Meaning making
- Physiology of trauma
- Perception
Neurobiology and Biology of Traumatic Stress:
Deeper understanding of the impacts of trauma
- Research of impact of trauma on the brain
- The biochemical, affective, and cognitive impact
- Affective volatility
A Framework of Healing for Survivors of Traumatic Stress:
The simplicity of trauma resolution
- “Active Ingredients” of all trauma treatments
- Cognitive Restructuring & Psychoeducation
- Therapeutic Relationship & Positive Expectancy
- Self-Regulation & Relaxation
- Exposure (in vivo & imaginal)
- Overview of research to support framework
- Strengths and systemic perspective
Effective Treatment Interventions:
Review of the go-to evidence-based approaches
- Cognitive behavioural techniques (PE, CPT & SIT)
- EMDR & bilateral stimulation
- In vivo exposure
- Energy/tapping techniques
- Somatic Experiencing & sensorimotor
- Limitations and weaknesses of evidence-based trauma treatment models
Assessment of Traumatic Stress Disorders:
Connect clients to a diagnosis
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the APA
- DSM-5-TR® changes and limitations
- ACE & developmental trauma
- Diagnosing PTSD with the PCL-5
- ACES (screening & psychoeduction)
- TRS (treatment planning and monitoring)
Evidence-Based Strategies for Trauma Therapy:
Skills to integrate for stabilisation and treatment
- Relaxation/self-regulation
- Grounding
- Containment
- In vivo and imaginal exposure
- Writing/journaling
- Drawing art
- Healing metaphors
- Transitional objects
Empowerment & Resilience Treatment Structure:
Client adaptive and overdaptive coping behaviours
- Psychoeducation/cognitive restructuring
- Trauma adaptation
- Systemic influences
- Emotional & psychological stressors
- Information processing model
- Psychosocial model
- Posttraumatic growth & resilience
Interactive Exercises/Application of Skills:
Live demonstrations to practice skills
- Cognitive behavioural techniques
- In vivo exposure protocols to begin healing immediately
- Thought Field Therapy (TFT)
- Bilateral stimulation
The Role of Traumatic Stress in Other Clinical Disorders:
Considerations for Personality Disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder & more
- Traumagenesis
- Traumaddiction
- Comorbidity
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counsellors
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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