Join us for our May 31 CE Event at The Danversport Yacht Club; 9 am to 12 noon!

Facilitating Healing in the Traumatized Individual:

Safety and Stabilization Work with Adults, Angela Belleville, LMHC

Members $90 Nonmembers $140

Breakfast, tea and coffee is included with registration fee

Program description: 

This course is intended for clinicians looking to enhance or refresh their knowledge of trauma-informed approach and best practices when working with adults with PTSD. This workshop will explore the impact of trauma and various elements that can hinder or help facilitate healing and recovery. Areas explored will include the role of the therapeutic relationship, clinician competence areas, boundaries and attachment, screening tools, safety and treatment planning, psychoeducation, and various “Bottom-up” and “Top-Down” trauma-informed clinical strategies that support healing and resilience. Considerations for complex trauma and Complex PTSD will be explored at the end of the workshop along with a review of the main components of “Gold Standard” Treatments for PTSD.

Learning Objectives: 

• Participants will learn to identify and assess trauma related symptoms
• Participants will conceptualize therapeutic needs and phases of recovery
• Participants will enhance understanding of trauma-informed clinical strategies to facilitate safety and stabilization in trauma survivors.
• Participants will familiarize themselves with the “Gold Standard” Treatments for Trauma and PTSD including each treatment's key components.

Instructor Bio: 

Angela L. Belleville, a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), is alumni of Northeastern University and the owner of Bella Health which offers an array of gold standard evidence-based PTSD treatments as well as supervision, consultation and training services for providers and the community. Ms. Belleville has over two decades of rich and wide-ranging experience in behavioral health which has included inpatient psychiatric trauma care, DBT day treatment, clinical consulting, community-based wraparound supervision and management, program development, community fundraising for domestic violence awareness and extensive time as a trainer for academic institutions like Boston College and University and Albany SUNY, the police, corporate wellness and more.

In addition to her extensive experience as a trainer and consultant Ms Belleville is a provider-status Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) clinician, certified in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), train-the-trainer status in CBT for PTSD, and proficient in Prolonged Exposure (PE), Written Exposure Therapy and other forms of trauma treatment.

AGENDA

Registration and Breakfast will begin at 8:30a 

Full Breakfast & coffee/tea included in registration 

9a- Introduction

    ● What is trauma?

        ○ A 15 minute Crash Course in PTSD and the Stress Response System ○ Recovery v. Non-Recovery

    ● Screening Tools

    ● The Therapeutic Relationship

    ● Managing Risk and Safety Issues

    ● Using Psychoeducation Effectively

1030a- 15 min break

1045-12p

    ● Establishing Calm

        ○ Bottom-Up Strategies

        ○ Top-Down Strategies

    ● Overview of Gold-Standard Treatments

    ● Wrap up / Questions

The PPC Annual Meeting will be held after this CE event at the same location. Registration for the Annual Meeting is located on the events page of the website. 

Please contact ppcsalem@gmail.com with any questions 

This presentation is suitable for a beginning level and above in the subject matter.

Accessibility: This event is being held at Danversport Yacht Club and is wheelchair accessible. Please contact ppcsalem@gmail.com for any accommodation requests or needs

This program is cosponsored by CE Learning Systems. Please see approvals and procedures below: 

CE Approvals and Polices 

MAMHCA: This event has been submitted and awaiting decision 

American Psychological Association

CE Learning Systems, LLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CE Learning Systems maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work

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New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors

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CE PROCESS INFO

Each professional is responsible for the individual requirements as stipulated by their licensing agency. Please contact your individual licensing board/regulatory agency to review continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Please note: You must attend "live" (in real-time) for the duration of the training to earn CE credits.

After the event, you will receive access to your evaluation and continuing education certificate via a personalized "attendee dashboard" link, hosted on the CE-Go website. This link will be sent to the email account you used to register for the event.

Upon accessing the CE-Go "attendee dashboard", you will be able to:

• Complete evaluation forms for the event
• Download your continuing education certificate in a PDF format

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PLANNERS AND REVIEWER
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INSTRUCTOR
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