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.
Exploring the Integration of the Comprehensive Resource Model with Yoga Therapy: Practical and Theoretical Applications
PLEASE NOTE: This training is being run in collaboration with the Comprehensive Resource Model® LLC. For more information on the CRM® and the available trainings for mental health professionals, please go to their website
Facilitator: Tara McGee
Dates: Sunday, April 6th, 2025
Time: 11am-2pm EST
Cost: $215 CAD (USD conversion to be determined at time of payment)
Where: Live Streaming on Zoom
Who: Therapists who register must have a Completed CRM® Basic Training as a pre-requisite to attend.
What: Having access to the powerful subtle tools of yoga and CRM can enhance client outcomes and provide the therapist with even more options for working towards wholeness. Both CRM and Yoga have as their first principle the idea that healing is a return to a state of wholeness. This turning back to Self and Source can take many sessions, years of practice, processing and integration of the gains made in therapy and yoga. Combining the two philosophies and subtle tools may enhance the possibility for physiological and psychological change, and offer different and complimentary “ways in” to the healing power of the internal technologies of the body, energy system, mind and soul.
Join Tara for an exploration of the ways she integrates these two systems in both her individual psychotherapy sessions and group yoga classes.
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- What you will learn:
- Understand how yoga philosophy conceptualizes what constitutes the layers of our being
- Recognize these layers and compare and contrast how CRM and Yoga both address them to bring us closer to integration/wholeness
- Understand the powerful “subtle tools” of yoga and CRM
- Recognize yoga and CRM as “energy work”
- Understand how yoga is primarily a psychological philosophy with powerful, practical tools working on the subtle body
- Compare and contrast how the physiological and psychological symptoms of trauma are addressed with yogic and CRM tools
- Understand how to integrate some of the tools of yoga into a CRM session.
- Understand how to integrate the tools of CRM into a yoga practice.
- Experience a short yoga practice integrating CRM principles and tools
PLEASE NOTE: This training is in collaboration with the CRM® LLC. CRM® Trainings are intended exclusively for professionals who are trained, licensed mental health professionals (i.e. counsellors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, Community Psychiatric Nurses, etc.). By signing up for the training, you will confirm that this is applicable to you. If you are currently a student and interested in attending a CRM training you will be welcome to join us upon receiving your license to practice but no active students are qualified to attend a CRM® training.
By registering for this training you agree to the following cancellation policy: “In case of written cancellation of the contract up to 2 months prior to the training, I will be refunded the full seminar fee minus an administrative fee of $30. In case of cancellation up to 1 months prior, I will be refunded 50% of the seminar fee. In case of later cancellation or not showing up, I must pay the full seminar fee unless I provide a substitute. If CRM LLC® cancels I am entitled to a full refund of registration fees or a transfer to a future CRM® training.”
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.