Pesi – Addictions Training: Trauma-Focused Motivational Interviewing Strategies For Rapid Change
When your clients use addiction to cope with the challenges of life…
Treatment becomes a non-stop battle as you watch them continue to derail their lives.
You need to help these clients have a therapeutic breakthrough… and fast.
This Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional course gives you robust training to immediately target trauma and motivational interviewing skills to get your clients to make changes at the first session.
In this dynamic course, part one shows you how to uncover underlying trauma and help clients release it. Part two teaches you must-have Motivational Interviewing techniques that activate behaviour change.
Here’s how this addictions will change your career and your client’s lives…
- Build autonomy and self-efficacy with a collaborative, client-led approach
- Blend MI with DBT, CBT, EMDR, Somatic, and Yoga interventions tailored to clients’ unique needs
- Learn specific MI dialogues to use affirming open-ended questions that reduce overwhelm
- Get life-saving interventions for clients in active addiction, experiencing suicidality, self-harm, or other crises
- Know exactly what to do when clients present with complex co-occurring problems
PLUS, quickly grow your client base with must-have strategies treating BIPOC and special populations.
Become the life-changing therapist that gets clients to redirect the course of their life toward stability, healing and meaning. AND, gain career-enhancing addictions training!
What You’ll Learn In Addictions Training: Trauma-Focused Motivational Interviewing Strategies For Rapid Change
Learn through bite-sized modules so you can customize what you learn first and gain the skills you need to use with clients in session tomorrow.
Part 1: Trauma-Focused Addictions Interventions
Begin by gaining the education you need to quickly build rapport, identify PTSD and other disorders, and create treatment plans customized for each client. Then, learn key interventions to treat the most challenging aspects of trauma — dissociation, attachment ruptures, and re-creating safety. All this while knowing how to manage these clients’ addiction whether it’s active, in remission, or anywhere in between.
Fast-Track Assessment & Diagnosis
- Create co-regulation through MI and Feedback-Informed therapy
- Evidence-based assessment tools to use again and again
- Simplified treatment planning & monitoring
- Recognize the signs and symptoms of withdrawal
- Know what to look for and what to ask with Process Addictions
- When to use harm reduction strategies
- Understand the role of attachment in traumatic stress
- Chemical dependency facts you need to know
Treatment Interventions
- Keys to working with BIPOC and special populations
- Polyvagal strategies to quiet the nervous system to stop cravings
- Teach diverse mindfulness exercises to facilitate self-regulation
- Foster post-traumatic growth and resiliency
- Prevent dissociation with grounding exercises
- EMDR techniques to reprocess addiction-related memories
- CPT, CBT, and other narrative strategies to create cognitive restructuring
- Somatic and yoga therapy to facilitate body-based healing
- Decrease fears and anxieties with exposure-based strategies
Part 2: Motivational Interviewing for Trauma and Complex Clients
Gain addiction and trauma-focused MI techniques to evoke behaviour activation and create sustainable stability in your clients’ lives. Learn the essential strategies that can be used with all clients, no matter what stage of change, life circumstance, or diagnosis.
Fast-Track Assessment & Diagnosis Need to Know MI Therapy Starters
- Foster autonomy and collaboration with a client-led approach
- Build rapport and overcome cultural barriers with BIPOC clients and other populations
- Prepare clients to be receptive to treatment
- Create an environment of open communication and safety
- Assess internal conflict-preventing change with a strengths-based lens
- Dialogues to help you change client ambivalence into motivation and action
Skill Building Trauma-Informed MI Techniques
- Meet clients where they are, even if their feelings are “out of control”
- Empower clients to do their own trauma-processing work
- Use open-ended questions & affirmations to reduce client overwhelm
- Learn the “provide-elicit-provide” therapeutic process
- Gain confidence facilitating group therapy, keep the group on topic and productive
Treatment Strategies for Co-Occurring Disorders, Suicidality & Other Crises
- Case studies to teach you how to work with unique challenges
- Collaborate with mandated clients and get them to adhere to treatment
- Safety techniques for high-risk clients, self-harm, and more
- Prevent ruptures or discord in the therapeutic relationship
- Easier therapy with mandated clients, create a shared therapeutic agenda & support autonomy
Meet Your Multi-Disciplinary Experts
J. Eric Gentry, PhD, LMHC, DAAETS, FAAETS, CCTP, is an internationally recognized leader in the study and treatment of traumatic stress, addiction, and compassion fatigue. He has trained over 100,000 health professionals over the past 20 years. In 1997, he co-developed the Accelerated Recovery Program (ARP) for compassion fatigue – for therapists like you who are seeing high-needs trauma and addiction clients every day.
Kristin Dempsey, EdD, LPCC, LMFT, MINT Certified Trainer, frequently trains diverse mental health and helping professionals in MI, trauma-informed care, crisis interventions, and various cognitive behavioural and behavioural therapy approaches. She specialized in working with individuals experiencing co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, trauma, and eating disorders, among other conditions. Kristin teaches from a strengths-based approach that explores values and meaning-building for clients, supervisees, and clinicians alike.
Ali Hall, JD, MINT Certified Trainer, is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT), a MINT Certified Trainer, and an independent consultant and trainer. Ali has designed and facilitated more than 2500 Motivational Interviewing (MI) workshops for criminal justice, wraparound services, chronic disease and diabetes self-management educators, health care practitioners, health coaches, telephonic health service providers, social services providers, behavioural health clinicians, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists, and provides training for trainers in evidence-based practices. Ali regularly presents at national and regional conferences for wraparound, criminal justice, health care providers, public health leaders, and key organizational administrators.
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