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The Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Care and Recovery

This foundational training is suitable for anyone in a helping profession who wants to understand trauma better. This course is the prerequisite for therapists wanting to take the Core SITT training, and for mentors preparing to take the SITM training.

The Core Training

Story-Informed Trauma Therapy Core Training

The Core Training teaches the SITT model for a professional therapist or a student moving in that direction. This 9-day training is split into 3 Quarterly Modules. Therapists and interns who complete this course qualify as SITT Trained. This course is one requirement for the SITT Certification.

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SITT Supplementals

Additional trainings that apply the SITT model to a variety of specific issues. Some are available only to Trained or Certified therapists, others are open to anyone in a helping profession, including Story-Informed Trauma Mentors.

The Fundamentals

Fundamentals of Trauma-Informed Care and Recovery

This course presents the fundamentals of trauma impact, trauma-informed care, and an overview of the path to trauma recovery. Suitable for anyone in a helping profession. This course is the prerequisite for the SITT Core Training. Offered both in on-demand video form and periodically in-person or by webinar.

Cost: $299.  CE hours: 8.5.  The Fundamentals of Trauma-informed Care and Recovery has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. 7664.

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The SITT Core Training

The Story-Informed Core Training

The Core SITT Training introducing the 9 Stage Model, offered in 3 quarterly modules. 

Module 1 – Intro, Stage 1 & 2 (January)
Module 2 – Stages 3-5 (April)
Module 3 – Stages 6-9 (August)

Cost: Each module is $399, discounts available.

CE Hours: Each Module is 18 hours for a total of 54 hours spread across all three modules. The Core SITT Training has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. 7664.

You will learn:
About the Therapy Process:
  • A comprehensive framework for viewing and understanding the trauma recovery process.
  • A step-by-step roadmap through a proven 9-stage recovery model.
  • How to assess client’s presenting needs, case conceptualization, and effective treatment planning.
  • How to identify and evaluate progress markers in the your client’s recovery.
  • The therapeutic use of stories, metaphors, modalities, objects and resources that improve treatment effectiveness.
  • How to maximize the limited time you spend with clients and promote learning well beyond the therapeutic hour.
  • How to identify therapist issues which impact treatment including transference, counter-transference, therapist history, process dilemmas, and treatment cautions.
  • How to reduce client emergencies, establish and maintain healthy therapeutic boundaries, model heathy living and practice good self-care.
    How to build a strong and stable private practice serving this population.
About Trauma Impact:
  • The features of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and how clients express them in daily life and in the therapeutic process.
  • The common sequelae of trauma and key treatment issues critical to the recovery process with suggested interventions.
  • The impact of trauma on memory function and how to support clients in the telling of their stories and processing of their memories.
  • How to help clients with feeling identification, affect regulation, and the grieving process.
  • The motivations, thinking errors, and grooming process of sexual offenders.
  • The impact of childhood trauma on spiritual formation and development with suggested interventions.
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Supplemental Training

Self-Care & Trauma Stewardship

Being able to care for our own mental health is essential to longevity in the field. This might be the most important training you attend for your professional development. This two-day training will teach you the 10 keys to professional survival so that you can continue to enjoy the work that you do long into the future—with a trainer who has been in the trenches for more than forty years.

This course is offered as a live webinar.

Cost: $249

CE hours: This training does not currently qualify for CE hours.

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  • On-Demand Course coming soon.

The Impact of Trauma on Spiritual Formation & Development

This 5-hour video training addresses the impact of trauma on spiritual formation and religious practice. If a trauma victim is a religious person or was raised in a religious home, the trauma will have shaped their spiritual experience. This is especially true when trauma took place in a religious environment or where the perpetrator was a trusted religious leader or parent. This is a SITT supplemental and is also appropriate for pastors and other helping professionals.

This course is offered as an on-demand video training.

Cost: $99.

CE hours: 4.5 The Impact of Trauma on Spiritual Formation and Development has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. 7664.

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Making the Invisible Visible: Trauma Assessment in SITT

This 4-hour training addresses the use of trauma assessment tools as part of “building the therapy box.” Skillful use of assessments enables the practitioner to help the client begin to understand the connection between their trauma stories and their current physical, emotional, psychological, relational, and/or spiritual issues. 

Cost: $99.

CE hours: 3.5 The Impact of Trauma on Spiritual Formation and Development has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. NBCC Approval No. 7664.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Yes! Story-Informed Trauma Therapy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7664). Specific details about Credits are listed on the information pages for each training. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Story-Informed Trauma Therapy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Each training is rated for a number of possible NBCC Credits based on the length of the teaching hours in that training. At the close of the training, you will have the opportunity to opt in to get credits. If you do, you will get a link that will guide you through filling out an evaluation, taking a content quiz, and then paying a $40 service fee. Upon completing these steps, you will receive a certificate indicating your course completion and the number of NBCC credits you've received.

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