Story-Informed Therapeutic Mentor Certification
Get trained as a Story-Informed Therapeutic Mentor.
Show your competence with Certification.
You can make a significant and lasting difference in peoples’ lives without a professional clinical degree. As you sit with people, you have heard their stories, seen their struggles, felt their pain, and wanted to help. Maybe you have considered returning to school to become a professional therapist, but your season of life, time, or finances have made that impossible. But, you still want to help bring healing to hurting people. Story-informed Therapeutic Mentoring (SITM) can provide a path for you to enter into peoples’ stories in a life-changing way.
People’s pain is most often rooted in their unresolved stories. By becoming a Story-informed Therapeutic Mentor, you can step into their stories with training, confidence, and skill. Certification offers an additional level of preparation, equipping, and competence.
Certification provides assurance to people that you have not only been trained but you have been vetted, supervised in the application of story work, and demonstrated competence in your ability to lead them through the recovery process.
Certification provides you with hours of one-on-one supervision, giving you feedback on how to apply the Story-informed model with the people you are serving. In addition, through peer supervision, you will have the opportunity to hear from others as they join you in applying the Story-informed model in real-life situations. The combination of individual supervision with a trained SITM Supervisor and peer supervision with others learning the SITM model gives you the strongest foundation for guiding others into growth, healing, and change.
Level 1 Training includes 30 hours of instruction:
- Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Care (2-day)
- Story-Informed Therapeutic Mentor Training (3-day)
After receiving certificates for satisfactory completion of each of these two courses, a person can identify as SITM Trained.
Level 2 Training includes:
- Completion of Level 1.
- Accepted application for the SITM Certification Track. Application Includes:
- Application
- Current Curriculum Vitae
- Letter of Recommendation from SITT Trained Colleague
- Letter of Recommendation from SITT Supervisor
- $150 Application Fee
- Min. 10 Sessions of Individual Supervision.
- Approved supervisors will be available to lead Certification candidates through the established outline of skills development and competency. Number of supervision sessions to be dictated by the supervisor based on the trainee’s competency. Fees for supervisions sessions are set by the supervisor.
- Min. 4 Sessions of Peer Supervision.
- Group sessions led by SITT Supervisor, available monthly and virtually.
After receiving formal certification for satisfactory completion of the above requirements, a person can identify as SITM Certified.
To begin: After completing Level 1, Apply for the Certification Track. CREATE APPLICATION AND LINK
Level 3 Training includes:
- Completion of Level 1
- Completion of Level 2 Certification Process, including all supervision hours.
- Completion of Supervisor Training Program.
- Two years of practice as a SITM.
- Continuing SITM Training, including:
- Attending the SITT Training a 2nd time.
- Completed all currently available SITT Supplementals.
- Letter of Recommendation from Supervisor.
- Demonstration of Competency.
Mentors can identify as SITM SUPERVISORS after completion of the above requirements.
To Begin: Discuss whether becoming a Supervisor is right for you with your Supervisor.