Trauma Informed Training for Mental Health Professionals
This 36-hour certificate in Trauma-Informed Clinical Practice is an online asynchronous course of study. The program offers accessible, critical trauma training for mental health professionals that is both comprehensive and intersectional in its scope.
The course examines trauma via an anti-oppressive and biopsychosocial lens while adhering to the tenets of social work and mental health counseling practice. Simultaneously, the program integrates neurobiological, psychoanalytic, healing justice, and evidenced based understandings to aid mental health professionals to better assess and treat individuals impacted by trauma, and helps to create organizations that are trauma-informed. Most importantly the program focuses on helping mental health professionals practice and focus on self-care and healing to promote resiliency for themselves and for communities served.
Target Audience
As a Post-Master’s course, the target audience for this program is licensed social work and mental health counseling practitioners (or a related human services field). This includes: LMHCs, LMFTs, Psychologists, and LCATs. As this program aims to expand knowledge and understanding of trauma-informed practices, applicants with an MSW or Master’s Degree in a related human services field are also encouraged to apply.
Type of Program
This course is an asynchronous distance learning program (self-study).