Continuing Education

We provide a context for mental health service providers to earn the continuing education hours necessary for license renewal. Workshops are scheduled in response to the needs voiced by local professionals seeking further training. We attempt to offer an ethics training each year as well as hosting various speakers with expertise in an area that educates on current trends and research, enriches clinical practice and fosters creative application of knowledge to mental health service provision. Continuing education hours are provided for all trainings.

Workshops are also hosted by the Institute that offer trainings for community leaders and service providers outside of the mental health field.

Upcoming Trainings

We have a great line up for the Spring CE workshop series! Our theme for this series is working experientially in psychotherapy. There are seven weeks of workshops offering 20 CE contact hours (NBCC# 4488) including an Ethics workshop. Here is a brief look at our workshop calendar for this Spring.

Feb. 17: The Embodied Self: Deepening Personal Growth of Mind, Body, and Spirituality

This workshop provides an opportunity to explore three key aspects of Self: engaged presence, the fullness of mind, spiritual integrity and their connection to the physical body. Drawing from Russel Delman’s Embodied Life, neuroscience, and Buddhist meditation practices, participants will engage experiential activities that can be used for personal development both within ourselves and in relationship to others. Applications to the counseling context will be explored. Cheree Hammond, Ph.D. (3 CE hours)

Feb. 24: An Introduction to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

EFT is a widely known and commonly used technique from the emerging field of energy psychology. EFT involves tapping or holding acupoints while doing cognitive work. Research continues to confirm the efficacy of this approach especially for anxiety disorders, including trauma. This workshop will provide a brief introduction to energy psychology, demonstrations of EFT, and applied practice of the EFT basics. Carolyn Yoder, LPC, LMFT, NCC, EFT certified Levels 1 and II (3 CE hours)

March 2: In Like a Lion

This experiential workshop is inspired by William Blake’s quote “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” Participants will be invited to explore through writing, drawing, and collaging their lion tendencies, those we often wish to avoid or discard, yet which have the capacity to hold important purpose in our lives. Teresa Haase, Ph.D., LPC, NCC (3 CE hours)

March 16: A Seminar in Psychodrama: A Clinical Tool

The process of this work will introduce counselors to the use of psychodrama techniques with their clients by first practicing the modality themselves. Beyond the very important goal of enhanced awareness and growth for the individual, the objective of the seminar is for participants to experience an effective means to identify and release their clients’ defenses, leading to a gaining of insight into the dysfunctional issues that bring participants’ clients to seek help. The process of psychodrama is an effective tool to help clients and families to eventually retell their story from the position of a different level of awareness and hopefully, to resolution. Each participant in the workshop will engage in the roles appropriate to the process of psychodrama. Various case studies with participants playing the roles in the case presented will provide an experiential psychodrama process for the participants. No experience in psychodrama is necessary to attend the workshop. This workshop is limited to 16 participants. Richard Anderson, Ph.D., LMFT, LCSW (3 CE hours)

March 23: The Dynamics of Energy

This workshop will explore possibilities for healing, transformation and intentional change through use of experiential and creative techniques including breath work, movement, mindfulness, guided imagery and body focused energy work. Presenters are co-founders and co-owners of The Shenandoah Valley Center for Integral Counseling, LLC, located in Verona, VA. Mary Kay Rose, Ed.S., LPC and Certified Yoga Instructor and Gary Bass M.Ed., LPC Mary Kay Rose (3 CE hours)

March 30: Unraveling Stuck Places in Ethical Decision Making

This session will offer participants an opportunity to identify their personal blocks in ethical decision-making, reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that create personal struggle and confusion. These “stuck places” will be addressed through personal reflection, small group engagement and ethical decision modeling, helping participants to work through their most challenging ethical dilemmas. Annmarie Early, Ph.D., LMFT (2 CE hours)

April 20: Using Felt Sensing in Therapy & Everyday Life

This experiential workshop will provide an embodied introduction to Focusing Oriented Psychotherapy and felt sensing as a way to deepen therapy and improve treatment outcomes (Carl Rogers & Eugene Gendlin). A short introduction to the research and methods of felt sensing will be followed by practicing various ways to use felt sensing, both in daily life and in clinical practice. David Glanzer, Ph.D. (3 CE hours)

Registration

Register online now.

Each workshop is $60 (including 3 CEs) – the Ethics workshop is $40 (including 2 CEs)

The student rate is $30 per workshop.

Special rate: If you register for all seven workshops at one time you get one free!

All workshops will be on Friday mornings from 8:30-12:00 with the exception of the Ethics training which will be 8:30-11:00. All workshops will be hosted in the Discipleship Center on campus.

If you are a supervisor of a student in the Fall 2011 or Spring 2012 academic year please call Brenda Fairweather at 540-432-4243 to register. Be sure to specify if you will be needing CEs for the workshops you will be attending.