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Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP)

Master powerful interventions for healing complex trauma
Become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional!

When a client with complex trauma walks into your office, they have already learned to expect abandonment, betrayal, and hurt.

If you don’t have the right skills, working with these clients can feel impossible.

But it doesn’t have to be that way.

Inside this program you’ll discover a powerful approach for healing complex trauma to help even your most distressed clients find safety and healing.

Join Australia’s leading trauma treatment experts, including Pam Stavropoulos, PhD; Jackie Burke, MAPS; and Leonie Stewart, MCAP; as they walk you step-by-step through a proven 3-part framework for treating complex trauma and share practical, targeted interventions from somatic therapy, parts work, and polyvagal theory that you can tailor to each client’s individual needs.

Upon completion of this course, you’ll be eligible for certification as a Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) at no additional cost.

Register today to establish yourself as a trusted expert in complex trauma treatment!

Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP)

$2,625.43 Value - $299.95 Today — Unbeatable Savings!

GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 37.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details

BONUS! Your Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) certification (a $249.95 value)
is included in today’s deeply discounted registration!
HOW THIS COURSE WORKS
In 5 focused, in-depth sessions, you'll unlock a proven treatment framework for healing complex trauma as well as practical interventions and strategies for helping traumatized, dissociative, and dysregulated clients find safety and well-being.

Inside the course you'll discover how to…

  • Stabilize distressed clients and prevent overwhelm
  • Tailor your interventions to meet the unique needs of each client
  • Identify subtle signs of trauma-related dissociation for timely intervention
  • Manage challenging symptoms such as dissociation and self-harm
  • Interrupt unconscious patterns of trauma re-enactment in your clients, paving the way for lasting healing

You'll finish this self-paced programme with a comprehensive toolkit of strategies for the specific needs of complex trauma clients.

But that’s not all… because this program also includes all the educational requirements become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) and your initial 2-year certification is FREE (a $249.95 value)!

As a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, you'll stand out from the crowd and let clients and colleagues know you've invested the time and effort needed to provide treatment at the highest level.
Evergreen Certifications
Are you ready to step into the life awaiting you as a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional?
Just three easy steps to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)!
 

Step 1: Watch this online course.
Step 2: Complete the CPD quiz and instantly print your certificate of completion.
Step 3: Submit the Certification Questionnaire included in this training, and your application is complete.*
Click here for full certification requirements.

That’s it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

*Professional Standards apply
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Benefits of Certification
Clinical expertise: Show clients and colleagues your practice is based on leading-edge research in this complex area of mental health.
Client Trust: Certification shows your clients you care about providing the best care possible. It reveals your professional ability to take on challenging clients, and succeed!
Documentation of knowledge: Certification is both a professional and personal accomplishment. It’s an unbiased barometer of your training and dedication to your practice.
Professional recognition: Set yourself apart from the thousands of clinicians relying on outdated methods to treat their clients. Increase your opportunities for career advancement and client referrals.
Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP)

$2,625.43 Value - $299.95 Today — Unbeatable Savings!

GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 37.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details

BONUS! Your Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) certification (a $249.95 value)
is included in today’s deeply discounted registration!
WHAT YOU'LL DISCOVER IN THIS COURSE
 
Part 1: Your 3-Part Framework for Healing Complex Trauma

Session 1: The Key Features of Complex Trauma
 
  • Critical differences between single incident and complex PTSD and trauma and the subtle signs of complex trauma that many clinicians miss
  • Why dissociation is so hard to recognize -- and 2 simple ways to assess for dissociative disorders
  • How complex trauma disrupts your client's sense of self and how to use parts work to heal
  • Subtle nonverbal cues that reveal your client is re-enacting their trauma… with you… in therapy… and how to interrupt unconscious re-enactments
  • How to work with projective identification and transference

Session 2: Guiding Clients Through the 3 Phases of Recovery from Complex Trauma
 
  • Introduction to the 3-phase treatment model for complex trauma
    • A common mistake to avoid with complex trauma clients
    • Using the window of tolerance to improve your client outcomes
  • Phase 1: Stabilizing and resourcing
    • How to establish rapport with a client whose past has taught them to expect betrayal
    • When standard grounding techniques are inappropriate for complex trauma clients… and what to do instead
  • Phase 2: Processing complex trauma
    • How to help your client process implicit memories in order to heal
    • When and how to use parts work with unresolved complex trauma
  • Phase 3: Integration
    • Powerful strategies to help clients recognize and assess their trauma-related beliefs
    • How to help your clients create meaning after trauma

Part 2: Essential Clinical Skills for Complex Trauma Healing

Session 3: Attuning to Dissociative Identity Disorder
 
  • Common myths and misconceptions about dissociative identity disorder (DID)
  • Key principles for working with DID: essential concepts and techniques
  • Dissociative coping in early life trauma: 4 ways trauma impacts the brain and memory
  • How to recognize the difference between healthy multiplicity and trauma-generated dissociative self-states, so you can target your treatment
  • The limits of 'standard' parts work in the context of structural dissociation and DID and other approaches to use with dissociative clients
  • How to deal with immediate and ongoing psychotherapeutic challenges: stabilisation, safety, and grounding

Session 4: Teaching Self-Regulation Skills for Traumatised Clients on a Path to Recovery
 
  • Why self-regulation is especially difficult… yet important… for clients healing from trauma
  • A polyvagal approach to emotional regulation: the ‘accelerators’ and ‘brakes’ that manage hypo- and hyper- arousal in the nervous system
  • How to tailor regulation exercises for individual clients
  • Practical strategies for managing emotional discomfort in and out of session: body-based techniques for working with overwhelm, collapse, withdrawal, shame, and anger

Session 5: Somatic Interventions for Complex Trauma
 
  • Applying Somatic Sensing with past trauma: a simple safety exercise to use with distressed clients
  • Use parts theory to resolve internal conflicts and promote emotional integration
  • Tools for helping clients tune into sensations with curiosity and self-compassion
  • Explore focusing techniques to aid in the reprocessing of traumatic memories
  • Watch a seasoned clinician demonstrate how to: manage overwhelm, build resilience, set protective boundaries, and guide a trauma client through a loving kindness meditation
When you register today, you’ll also get this FREE bonus (a $227.23 value!)
 
FREE BONUS: Process Oriented Psychology (POP) with a Trauma Lens: Working with childhood dreams and early memories.

A Special Bonus Training with Lizzie Spencer, Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations.
To effectively treat trauma, you need to be able to access the full range of your client’s emotions, memories, parts, and inner life… WITHOUT re-traumatizing your clients.
In this unique training, you’ll master skills from the Jungian-based Process Oriented Psychology (POP) approach that will help your clients understand and navigate their inner world…
So that they can know all parts of themselves to become safer, unburdened, and find post-traumatic growth.
Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP)

$2,625.43 Value - $299.95 Today — Unbeatable Savings!

GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 37.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details

BONUS! Your Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) certification (a $249.95 value)
is included in today’s deeply discounted registration!
MEET YOUR COURSE EXPERTS:
Pam Stavropoulos
Pam Stavropoulos, PhD, is an educator, consultant, and psychotherapist whose most recent work is as Head of Research with the Blue Knot Foundation. A former Fulbright Scholar and two-time winner (2022 & 2014) of the Pierre Janet Writing Award for the best clinical, theoretical, or research paper in the field of dissociation and/or trauma, she has been a member of the ISSTD Scientific Committee and coauthored the nationally and internationally endorsed Practice Guidelines for Clinical Treatment of Complex Trauma (Blue Knot Foundation, 2012, 2019). Pam has held lectureships at the University of New England and Macquarie University (from which she left her tenured position to study and practice psychotherapy) and is a former Program Director of the Jansen Newman Institute, Sydney. The author of Living under Liberalism: The Politics of Depression in Western Democracies (2008) she has written research reports in the community health sector and is a clinical supervisor who specializes in complex trauma-related issues.

Click here for information about Pam Stavropoulos
Jackie Burke
Jackie Burke, MAPS, ISSTD, APS, is a registered psychologist with 20 years of experience in counselling and supervision services. She has worked in remote Australia, regional and metropolitan NSW and has directed national programs for people affected by sexual, domestic and family violence. She is an awarded researcher, and her training programs about trauma, sexual and domestic violence, clinical supervision, trauma informed practice, and vicarious trauma are popular nationally and internationally.
After holding senior management roles for the past 15 years, Jackie established her own private practice and consultancy business in early 2017. She is a published author with an adjunct position at Western Sydney University. When not working, Jackie tries to maintain a regular yoga practice and enjoys a good murder mystery.

Click here for information about Jacqueline Burke
Leonie Stewart
Leonie Stewartis based in Sydney and provides counselling, coaching & focusing sessions. She enjoys working with individuals, couples and young people. Leonie believes we are all meant to belong and connect, to love ourselves and to love others.
Leonie's qualifications include a Masters in Counselling and Applied Psychotherapy, Graduate Diploma in Emotionally Focused Therapy, Qualified Focusing Orientated therapist and trainer, Accredited Relational Life Therapy Therapist, Qualified Meditation and Mindfulness teacher, and a Bachelor of Physical Education.
She is a clinical member of Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA).

Click here for information about Leonie Stewart
Lizzie Spencer
Lizzie Spencer , Masters Social Ecology/Education, Diploma Wholistic Counselling and Psychotherapy, Bachelor Education, Certificate Steiner Education, Family Constellations,is a highly experienced psychotherapist, coach and academic teacher, based in the Bowral, South of Sydney, Australia.
She taught in Steiner Schools for many years and is also a Social Ecologist, looking to nature for helpful and supportive life systems, and brings active hope to the world.
She is a founding member of the Community of Calm whose aim is to train practitioners in Trauma Awareness and to create a Trauma Resource Centre.
Family Constellations and Process Oriented Psychology are at the heart of her understanding and trauma-informed practice.

Click here for information about Lizzie Spencer
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
 
Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to all course materials, including the bonus materials — all designed to help you effectively integrate these trauma treatment techniques into your practice and your life. Click here for course objectives and outline.
 
Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials online forever. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on your phone or tablet. Choose video or audio-only versions of online courses from the world’s best instructors, and complete your CPD requirements anywhere, anytime, at your own pace.
 
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on integrating these trauma treatment techniques in clinical practice, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
 
Complete your online CPD tests and earn up to 37.5 CPD hours! Click here for CPD details specific to your profession.
 
Complete the certification application — at no additional cost — to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) through Evergreen Certifications!
Complex Trauma Certification Training (CCTP)

$2,625.43 Value - $299.95 Today — Unbeatable Savings!

GET STARTED NOW
Plus, earn up to 37.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition. Click here for CPD details

BONUS! Your Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) certification (a $249.95 value)
is included in today’s deeply discounted registration!
 
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