• Presented by: Rev. Ted Wiard, EdD, LPCC, CCMHC

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 2/24 & 2/25, 9am–6:00pm

    DESCRIPTION: Grief gives us the chance to continuously heal and grow so that we can find balance in our lives, with joy and sorrow bridging an always changing world. This course describes the grief process from various perspectives and treatment models, including interpersonal neurobiology, cognitive behavioral theory, positive psychology, and the work of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. Students will have the opportunity to examine their own experiences of grief and loss including tracking common stages of the grief healing process moving from futility to hope. Cultural considerations for marginalized populations, complex bereavement, disenfranchised grief, traumatic grief, disease-related grief, and the creation of effective support systems will also be explored.

    16 contact hours toward the Trauma, Grief and Renewal Certificate.

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: 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 co-author 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.

Spring 2024

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

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 4/6 & 4/7, 9am–6:30pm

    DESCRIPTION: Our experience of sexuality evolves across the lifespan and changes as we continue to grow and develop. This class will examine and celebrate sexuality in the second half of life, drawing from various perspectives from advocates, educators, and sex therapists. We will cover topics that frequently affect sexuality after age 40, such as perimenopause and menopause, sexual response changes, evolving sexual self-concept, and changes in relationship status due to divorce or bereavement. We will discuss how to be informed and supportive as helping professionals for clients exploring sex in the second half of life, including education about sexual adaptations that are helpful for a wide variety of changes in body response. Transference/countertransference will be explored, as well as dynamics related to practitioner and client age, gender identity, sexual orientation, and other cultural differences that might present in a therapeutic setting.

    16 contact hours toward the Human Sexuality Certificate.

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: Laura Rademacher, MA, LMFT, CST, CST-S, AASECT, 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, CCMHC

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 4/13 & 4/14, 9am–6:00pm

    DESCRIPTION: This course focuses on identifying and treating complicated grief and trauma. We will explore theories of trauma, complicated grief, and traumatic grief. Through readings, experiential exercises, guided imagery and group interactions, the students will develop skills to support a healthy grieving process for individual clients who have experienced loss, trauma, complicated grief, or traumatic grief. The role of ritual in healing grief will be explored. Extraordinary experiences, spiritual emergency and near-death experiences will be discussed. Counseling skills to deal with these issues will be demonstrated experientially.

    16 contact hours toward the Trauma, Grief and Renewal Certificate.

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: 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 co-author 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: Richard Pelfrey, BA, LADAC, NCAC,

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 4/27 & 4/28, 9am–6:30pm

    DESCRIPTION: Students will explore the ethical issues that are shared with other fields in psychotherapy and those that are unique to the addiction treatment arena. Issues such as professional boundaries, confidentiality (HIPAA and 42 CFR), and cultural considerations (colonization, historical trauma, and class issues) will also be explored.

    16 contact hours toward the Addictions, Abuse, and Recovery Certificate

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: Richard Pelfrey, BA, 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,

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/4 & 5/5, 9am–6:30pm

    DESCRIPTION: 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 contact hours toward the Ecotherapy Certificate.

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: 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: Amy Wong Hope, MA, LCSW,

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/11 & 5/12, 9am–6pm

    DESCRIPTION: This course examines the neuroscience of psychedelic compounds. Students will examine the processes by which psychedelic compounds interact with the brain, and how this interaction can lead to profound changes in perception, cognition, emotion, behavior, and creativity. Students will learn about the specific neural pathways and mechanisms that underlie the effects of psychedelic compounds. Through readings, lectures, discussions, students will examine the scientific research on the therapeutic potential of psychedelic compounds, as well as their use in spiritual and creative contexts. Students will critically evaluate which psychedelic compounds may be best suited to different mental health conditions, for referral purposes. Students will examine the
    neuroscience of expanded states of consciousness (ego dissolution, mystical/transcendent experiences) and why these experiences have the potential to cause lasting changes in the brain. Students will explore the complex interplay between brain chemistry and the subjective experience of the client. Participants will develop a discerning eye in evaluating research and science around psychedelic-assisted therapy and identify the sources and qualities that form their opinion on the neuroscience of psychedelic compounds for personal growth, mental health conditions, and more.

    16 contact hours toward the Psychedelic Studies Certificate.

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: Amy Wong Hope, MA, 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.

  • Presented by: Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 5/18 & 5/19, 9am–6:30pm

    DESCRIPTION: 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 contact hours toward the Applied Interpersonal Neurobiology Certificate.

    LOCATION: SWC Campus

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: Scott Van Note, MA, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in private practice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, working with a broad spectrum of clients. He also 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. Scott’s practice incorporates AEDP along with the parts work of IFS, engaging the client’s whole person as well as the inner child, on pathways towards catharsis, reunion, and integration.

  • Presented by: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC,

    Dates/Times: Saturday & Sunday, 6/1 & 6/2, 9am–6:30pm

    DESCRIPTION: This course will provide mental health professionals with evidence-based strategies to strengthen healthy gender, sexual, and reproductive identity development in today’s children and teens. Participants will learn how to support children, teens, and their families as they navigate the challenging terrain of sexuality and gender. This course will examine the influence of social and cultural messages regarding gender development on youth. The course will also identify advocacy and intervention approaches that support the experience of children and teens with straight, Two Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Gender Expansive, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Asexual, Pansexual, and other wonderful affectional orientations, and gender identities (2SLGBTQIAP+). Other topics to be explored include gender and sexual identity development in diverse cultures and across intersectional identities and examining bias and transference that impede ethical treatment.

    16 contact hours toward the Children’s Mental Health Certificate AND Human Sexuality Certificate

    LOCATION: Zoom Synchronous

    16 CEUs

    Presenter Bio: Katie Brammer PhD, LPC, LPCC, (She, Her, Hers) is a Counselor Educator with a background as both a Mental Health Clinician and School Counselor and is the NEI Children’s Mental Health Certificate Director. She views her teaching, scholarship, counseling, and supervisory practices as holistic and collaborative, and tailors transformational approaches into her work with the anticipation that needs of each individual are met.


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    • 3960 San Felipe Rd, Santa Fe, NM, 87507 US


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