Presented by: Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC and Tejal Murray, MA, , LPCC

Saturday and Sunday, July 19 & 20 9:00am – 5:30pm Mountain Time Zone

In person with working lunch at Southwestern College

In this course, students explore, define, and learn about the landscapes and narratives of the polyvagal nervous system using experiential processes including art and action methods in order to adopt an embodied understanding of Polyvagal Theory and how it can be utilized by both practitioners and clients. As practitioners we can tone our own social engagement system to help co-regulate others and interact in more harmonious, balanced ways. Meanwhile, many of our clients live in a chronic state of dysregulation, based on the neuroception of threat. This contributes to elevated stress levels leading to a wide range of dysfunctionality and interpersonal conflict. What if we could offer our clients an increased capacity to regulate their nervous systems and shift out of maladaptive states? Imagine the change that would resonate in families, communities, and in the world at large! Polyvagal Theory, and its clinical applications, offer pathways to regulation and integration by examining how trauma impacts the nervous system. Through explorations of the unconscious workings of the nervous system we can learn to identify and differentiate between social engagement, fight or flight, and freeze or collapse to consciously tend to dysregulated states. Polyvagal Theory’s non-pathologizing perspective and useful coping skills are introduced to support client wellbeing.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate

Diana Zumas, MA, LPC, LPCC, has 17 years of psychodrama, sociometry, and group psychotherapy training. She has a psychotherapy private practice in Santa Fe, NM. She has been a psychotherapist since 2008 with a trauma informed, relational and experiential focus. Diana is trained in EMDR I and II, has over 650 hours of psychodrama training, and is Internal Family Systems informed. She has a passion for group process and believes what Thich Nhat Hanh proposed that “the Buddha may be a Sangha (group)”

Tejal Murray, MA, LPCC provides a caring, safe environment for her clients to learn about themselves and work through feelings and issues that may feel overwhelming. She supports her clients to regain their sense of hope, joy and purpose in life.
In addition to having a master’s in counseling from Southwestern College, she taught Yoga and Non-Violent Communication for many years. She understands how the nervous system can get stuck in modes that impair our full capacity to connect and move through life with ease, and she has multiple methods to help clients become self-aware, more resilient and better able to cope with the inevitable difficulties of life.
She is comfortable working with individuals, couples or families of all ages and cultural and gender identities.

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Presented by: Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW

Saturday and Sunday, July 26 & 27 9:00am – 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

In person with one hour lunch at Southwestern College

This course will challenge students to apply ethical considerations in psychedelic-assisted therapy to enhance safety and reduce risk. Through reflective practice, this course will help students identify and deconstruct myths and biases that they may hold from historical and cultural influences. The extent and limitations of professional roles and scope of practice will be examined, while considering the scientific and cultural resources used to inform ethical decision-making. Students will explore topics of sustainability, appropriation, and other social justice issues and identify best practices for determining readiness, appropriateness of fit, and informed consent.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Psychedelic Studies certificate

Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW, is the Certificate Program Director of the Psychedelic Studies Certificate. Amy is trained as an MDMA-assisted therapist through the (MAPS) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (due to be published spring 2024). Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on trauma-informed modalities and shame-resilience approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency.

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Presented by: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP and Ann Filemyr, PhD

Saturday and Sunday, August 2 & 3, 9:00am – 6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will address the rupture imposed by industrialization, militarization and post-modern urban life that disrupts any sense of connection to or relationship with one’s biological and other ancestors. The subsequent intergenerational trauma is often carried unconsciously as an inarticulate but deep longing to fully connect and belong within our families, cultures, histories, lineages, and with the places (land, waterways, plants, animals) we call home. We will explore these ancestral relationships through personal reflection and journaling, art processes, and the making of an ancestor altar. We will consider healthy boundaries, building positive relationships with well and wise ancestors, and how these relationships can be sources of strength and support.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to EcoTherapy certificate

Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, is the author of Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 19 years and personally knows the transformational potential. Dr. Calvert currently leads courses, workshops, and treats in mindfulness and somatic experiencing in nature. As a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of New Mindful Life, she supports her clients, taking them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that serves as a mobile therapy office. www.newmindfullife.com

Presented by: Richard Pelfrey, MS, LMHC, LADAC, NCAC

Saturday and Sunday, August 23 & 24 9:00am – 6:00pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

The current social, economic, and political landscape provides a fertile environment for all types of addictions to develop. Addiction is any process that overpowers a person’s effort to control or moderate their relationship with any behavior. This course explores the unique etiology and treatment of “out of control” behaviors as pathogenic responses to stress, as well as the intersectionality of process addictions with ingestive or substance addictions. Students consider holistic and pragmatic assessment and treatment strategies for lasting lifestyle change in working with clients who present with imbalanced relationships to behaviors including sex, love, scrolling, work, and other processes. Students engage didactic and experiential modalities with specific exercises utilized to frame treatment as a healing pathway toward natural rhythms that help diverse clients across the socioeconomic spectrum regain balance and wholeness while mitigating the toxic aspects of modern culture.  

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Addictions, Abuse and Recovery certificate

Richard Pelfrey, MS, LMHC, LADAC, NCAC, has been holding space for the resolution and reintegration of trauma and addictions of all forms for the past 12 years. While becoming licensed as an addictions counselor, Richard heard the call to expand his work with people beyond traditional models and began exploring alternative methods for the resolution of trauma.  Richard is trained and certified in Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Wim Hoff method, and Brainspotting, meditation leadership and grief counseling, and incorporates all of these modalities as well as a decade of apprenticeship in the Toltec wisdom path and traditional earth-based ceremony in his focused work with individuals and groups for the purpose of healing and finding our highest joy and artistry in life.

Presented by: Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP

Saturday and Sunday September 27 & 28, 9am-6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will explore somatic healing with nature. Somatic experiencing practices are a skillful and safe way to heal trauma. We will learn how nature offers a healing container to support the transformation and healing of trauma. Building on the practices of mindfulness with nature we will learn how to become present to the stored traumas stuck within the body, connect to the inherent potential to heal, and learn to release the unhealthy patterns of trauma to experience the fullness of our aliveness. You as the student will be invited to work to integrate these practices into the healing of your own trauma and consider ways in which your continued healing can inform ways to integrate these teachings and practices into the therapeutic container.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to EcoTherapy certificate

Rochelle Calvert, PhD, CMT, SEP, is the author of Healing with Nature: Mindfulness and Somatic Practices to Heal from Trauma. She has studied and taught mindfulness for the past 19 years and personally knows the transformational potential. Dr. Calvert currently leads courses, workshops, and treats in mindfulness and somatic experiencing in nature. As a licensed clinical psychologist and founder of New Mindful Life, she supports her clients, taking them into nature with the aid of Bertha Grace, a Sprinter van that
serves as a mobile therapy office. www.newmindfullife.com

Saturday and Sunday, October 4 & 5, 9am-6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Presented by: Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC

In Person at Southwestern College

Clients often enter therapy with a sense of internal contradiction, or an inner conflict between parts of self, requiring assistance with integrating exiled or disowned parts. This course is designed to explore perspectives and skills gleaned from several experiential approaches to parts work processing, including IFS (Internal Family Systems) and AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), as well as the compassion-based parts-work practice adapted by Tsultrim Allione called “Feeding Your Demons” from Tibetan Buddhism. Parts-work models understand the outer personality structure as composed of protector parts that form early in life as survival skills, but that can later prove maladaptive to our well-being. Underneath all protectors are “exiles”-- or childhood parts-- rooted in innocence, playfulness, and love, waiting to be shown safety and an opportunity to freely feel and express dissociated feelings; to be reunited within a larger sense of self. During this weekend we will ground ourselves in the core sense of the centered-self through mindfulness and somatic practices. In watching clinical videos of parts-work sessions we will track our responses and learn ways to work with activated parts. Through dyadic work we will experientially explore how to dialogue with the parts of self that can emerge in us as clinicians while in session, practicing techniques for integrating the many and varied parts – protectors and exiles – which comprise the rich and complex human psychic ecology.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology certificate

Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC received his MA in Counseling from Southwestern College and his BA in Philosophy from the University of Maryland. Scott also holds an MA in Eastern Classics from St. John’s College, where he delved deeply into the Theravāda Buddhist tradition, receiving the Honors Distinction for his thesis, “Loving ‘Like the Moon, Drawing Back the Body and Mind’: Searching for Compassion and the Brahmaviharas Within the Buddha’s Call for Abandonment.”

Scott is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working on a sliding-scale with a broad spectrum of clients. He previously worked for several years in an intensive outpatient program in Albuquerque, treating substance abuse issues, PTSD, and co-occurring disorders, while facilitating weekly anger management and relapse prevention groups. He has trained extensively for over six years in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy) as well as in IFS (Internal Family Systems). Both AEDP and IFS models are trauma-informed and experiential models of therapy that engage the somatic and imaginal experience of clients, to be relationally processed and integrated. Scott’s practice incorporates AEDP alongside the parts work of IFS, engaging the whole person as well as the inner-child of clients, on pathways towards catharsis, reunion, and integration. Currently, Scott is also completing the MAPS training (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies), to become a provider of MDMA-assisted therapy, for the treatment of complex PTSD and other treatment-resistant conditions.

Presented by: Lorraine Freedle PhD, LCSW

Friday, October 10, 5-8pm MST; Saturday and Sunday, October 11 & 12 10am-5pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course provides an overview of the neuropsychology of trauma and sandplay therapy. Students will explore the impact of trauma on the brain, body, and psyche/soul and discover how sandplay heals trauma from a neuropsychological perspective. Leading theories on trauma treatment are reviewed and applied to case studies in sandplay with an emphasis on theories rooted in neurodevelopment, depth psychology, affective neuroscience and body-centered therapies. Through participation in lecture/discussion, interaction with myth and symbol, compelling case studies, and personal artwork, journaling and other experiential activities you will have the opportunity to connect on a deep level to this work and to integrate concepts. Training or coursework in Sandplay Therapy, such as Foundations of Jungian Sandplay Therapy (CMH 5055), is recommended prior to taking this course. Students who do not have prior training or coursework in Sandplay Therapy should contact the instructor for suggested preparations.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Children’s Mental Health certificate

Lorraine Freedle, PhD, LCSW is an international sandplay teacher (STA/ISST) and executive clinical director for TeamBuilders Behavioral Health in New Mexico and Pacific Quest on Hawai’i Island. Her private practice is Black Sand Neuropsychological Services, Inc. in Hilo, Hawai’i. Dr. Freedle is the research editor for the Journal of Sandplay Therapy.

Presented by: Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S

Saturday and Sunday, October 18 & 19, 9am-6:30pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

Because much traditional (abstinence only) sex education is associated with managing risk (pregnancy prevention, HIV) and discouraging sexual expression in young adulthood, there are often gaps in knowledge with regard to erotic intelligence. This course emphasizes helping clients to develop a more conscious, less shame-laden relationship to pleasure. Participants will refine their skills in articulating their own desires and improving communication with sexual partners. It will also help clinicians to enhance their own sexual intelligence, learn about anatomy, physiology, sex toys and role-playing, as well as sex-positive ways to impart this kind of information to clients.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Human Sexuality Certificate

Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S, is the Director of the Human Sexuality Certificate program. She is an AASECT certified sex and relationship therapist with over 15 years of experience as a sex-positive sexual health educator. She is the author of “The Principles of Pleasure: Working with the Good Stuff as Sex Therapists and Educators.”

Presented by: Rev Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, CGC

Saturday and Sunday, October 25 & 26, 9am-6pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will include an in-depth exploration of ethics, not only those required by various counseling organizations, but also the inner ethics of each of us, ethics in our times and the ethics of various cultures, plus legal tools for planning for both pre-death and post-death issues, and family involvement in this process. Compassion fatigue, therapist renewal, self-care and prevention of burn-out, at mental, emotional and spiritual levels, will also be addressed. The class will include experiential work as well as informational presentations.16 CEs for licensed Professionals

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Trauma, Grief, and Renewal certificate

Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, is the Director of the Trauma, Grief, and Renewal Certificate. Dr. Wiard is the founder and Director of Golden Willow Counseling and Golden Willow Retreat Center. He is also the coauthor of Witnessing Ted: The Journey to Potential through Grief and Loss as well and continues to write professional articles pertaining to emotional healing. Dr. Wiard also maintains a private practice.

Presented by: Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW

Saturday and Sunday November 15 & 16, 9am-6pm Mountain Time Zone

Synchronous Online via Zoom

This course will provide participants with an overview of the history, science and current ethical perspectives on psychedelic compounds used in the treatment of addiction. Ethical considerations regarding therapeutic application and intervention models and assessing problematic versus therapeutic use of substances will also be explored. Students will be invited to examine internalized cultural messaging and bias at a micro level, while engaging in critical analysis of the effects of the “War on Drugs” on policy, research, treatment, and popular opinion at the macro level. New research and therapeutic models involving psilocybin, ketamine and ibogaine as substances showing the potential to successfully treat opioid, methamphetamine, tobacco, alcohol, and other additions will be explored.

16 CEs for licensed Professionals

Applies to Psychedelic Studies & Addiction, Abuse, and Recovery certificates

Amy Wong Hope, MSW, LCSW, is the Certificate Program Director of the Psychedelic Studies Certificate. Amy is trained as an MDMA-assisted therapist through the (MAPS) Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and co-author of Small Doses of Awareness: A Microdosing Companion (due to be published spring 2024). Amy maintains a private practice with a focus on trauma-informed modalities and shame-resilience approaches that support clients in restoring emotional, somatic, and relational resiliency.