For Professionals
Deeper Therapy: Programs for Professional Healers and Teachers
As therapists, our Self is the tool through which we translate whatever healing modality we employ. Therefore, it is essential that we are familiar with, embodied in and connected to our Selves. Even therapists can be dissociated, and because we are human, we all have obstacles or blocks to complete health and healing. It is our dedication to our personal work to clear these obstacles to health and healing that creates our ability to connect to the Self within. Closer connection to Self allows us to more effectively transmit healing and learning to those we serve. Without a connection to our Self, no matter how good we are at the “tools”, healing will be less likely to occur and those we serve continue to suffer. When we connect to the Self, suddenly our clients begin to grow and experience better outcomes.
At the Collingwood Psychotherapy and Yoga Centre, our professional development programs are designed to deepen your ability to dismantle the blocks so that you can truly see, accept and own your Self. The journey to the Self may at times be steep and at other times, it will be deeply enlivening. The profound changes and shifts you will experience from participating in our programs will result in higher levels of confidence, creativity, clarity, competence, courage and connection to who you truly are. You will see your clients flourish and you will know the power of the connection to Self.
If you are ready to deepen your connection to your Self and to your clients, we are ready to work with you.
Workshops for Organizations
We develop workshops and seminars tailored to organizational needs. Our aim is to train professionals interested in developing their awareness of and facility in:
- the use of self in psychotherapy;
- working with trauma in yoga and psychotherapy modalities;
- interpersonal and therapeutic skills;
- boundaries;
- creating healthy working groups;
- understanding trauma, neurobiology and attachment;
- yoga psychology;
- parenting.
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Some workshops presented have included:
- Understanding Trauma – A neurobiological, relational approach – Athena’s Sexual Assault Counselling and Advocacy Centre; Georgian Bay Family Health – Mental Health Team.
- Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Therapeutic Relationship – Mistissini Mindfulness Conference – Cree Justice Department AND Gwekwaadziwin Miikan, Youth Mental Health and Addiction Program
- Trauma, Yoga and the Brain: Strategies for Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Patient Fears – Royal Victoria Hospital
- Anxiety and the Nervous System: Understanding, Normalizing and Soothing Anxiety in Individuals and the Family – Almaguin Highlands Community Living
- Boundaries, Limits and Attunement in the Parent-Teenager relationship – Pine River Institute
- Contacting the Self: From Dysregulation to Mindful Connection in the Parent-Teenager Relationship – Pine River Institute
- Trauma awareness in the parenting relationship – Pine River Institute
- Navigating boundaries in the workplace – Right to Play
- Working with children who have experienced Trauma – Right to Play
- Boundaries and the Art of Relationship at Camp – Camp Oochigeas
- Managing behaviours in a camp context – Taylor Statten Camps
- Please contact us if you would like us to prepare a training for your organization or group.