New! Individual & Group Therapist Training Program for Project H.O.P.E.
Safety and Stabilization Trauma Recovery Programs
- Learn the process of group set-up, creating marketing materials and marketing the group.
- Become familiar with the appropriate make up of group members that will support a stable group environment.
- Become familiar with the importance of structure in the group, and how the therapist is the holder and container for that structure.
- Be a co-participant in the group, working on your own safety, stabilization and communication goals that allow you to prepare to be a stable container for the group.
- Become familiar with and proficient in learning the curriculum.
- Practice teaching and leading the group in experiential group experiences.
- Run one group in which you are the main leader, helping hold the space of the group, regulating group members through triggers, and helping members clarify and work through their own goal setting.
- Graduated from a counseling program.
- Licensed, or working toward licensure in your discipline.
- Ability to tolerate a strongly structured learning environment.
- Ability to create and maintain a strongly structured learning environment.
- Willingness to work on your own regulation and self care goals as part of the group training.
- Willingness to work on an individual communication goal, and to build a supportive, cohesive training group.
- $150.00 Deposit due at your intake meeting
- $150.00 due at the 1st group
- $300.00 due at the 5th group
- $300.00 due at the 8th group
- Ability to run a PH S&S group for adults
- Ability to do the work in an individual setting
- Ability to take further training to run a group for Adolescents and their families
- One manual to either do the individual or group
- Access to buy additional teaching manuals and group training manuals for your clients
- PH Trauma Class slides and content
- 4 hours of supervision for one twelve-week group. (This covers doing group and individual work.)
- 4 @ $65.00 - $260.00.
- 2-3 hours of supervision for first 12 week individual client you work with. (depending on what you think you need) This is only required if you are not running groups and will just work with individuals.
- Paid at the time of seeking supervision.
Safety & Stabilization Trauma Recovery Group
Learn Self Care & Skill Building Tools To Support Recovery
Anna kd Blum PMHCNS-BC
Purpose: This 11week didactic/supportive psychotherapy group functions as an adjunct to individual therapy focusing on the first level of recovery. It specifically focuses on the skills and mind set needed for trauma survivors to reestablish safety and stability in their lives.
Objectives: Members will . ..
- Learn about trauma symptoms and trauma recovery.
- Be able to identify 3 levels of trauma treatment.
- Asses and become aware of their mind/body balance
- Design a self-care plan that will specifically focus on helping them move into mind/body balance, and a more holistic way of living, as well as deal with their specific triggers.
- Learn specific self-care tools such as mindfulness, heart breathing, grounding and centering etc. that will help increase their window of tolerance and help them to stabilize during stress/trauma trigger reactions
- Utilize self-care tools that will support and hopefully relieve trauma symptomatology.
- Learn to stabilize trauma triggers in the safe presence of others in the group, with the help of the therapist.
Group Parameters
Focus: Self-Care
Structure: Didactic/Supportive Psychotherapy
Task: Safety & Stabilization
Membership: Trauma Survivors/men & women
Boundaries: 6 members
Time Limit: 12 weeks weeks starting Tuesday, 2/3/2015, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
Cost: $40.00 per class/ sliding scale available for 2 members in a 6 person group.
Requirements:
- Regular individual therapy, with referral from therapist to be in group.
- Attendance in two-hour trauma class listed on this site. Will be offered before each 12 week group.
- Sign release for collaboration between therapist and group therapists.
- Sign consent form to participate in group (found under "forms" tab on this site).
- While in group, focus on issues of self-care and being present in the moment.
Registration:
- After referral, clients call 434-987-1818 to set up a registration meeting.
- Client comes to a brief registration meeting and signs informed consent
- Therapist receives outline for each class via email.
Led by Trauma Therapist: Anna Blum PMHCNS-BC.
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Project Hope Trauma Process Group
Purpose
The purpose of the PH Process Group is to create a safe environment for clients to explore the symptoms/trauma triggers that remain in their life and work on the underlying trauma in a group environment. This group will continue to be framed in the use of self regulatory techniques that create grounding and centering in individual clients. These techniques will also be employed during the group particularly when people are being triggered while another person is taking a turn at process work, or as a way to stabilize the client who is taking a turn working. While this is a process group, the intent is to continually be balancing the clients need for stabilization and safety with the need for exposure to the trauma and the need to tell the story, process the pain, and allow the energy that has been on board to release itself in the presence of group members.
Group Parameters
Focus: To process trauma and have your story and trauma work witnessed in a safe group.
Structure: Integrative Psychotherapy Group
Task: To utilize a mind/body approach that support clients in their stabilization and self care during the group, so that they can simultaneously look at and process through underlying causes of repeated daily trauma symptoms and triggers.
Membership: Co-ed heterogeneous trauma survivors
Boundaries: Closed to 7 members
Time Limit: Ongoing
Start Date: No Group at this time.
Cost: 50.00/group (may be insurance reimbursable-check with insurance company)
Requirements
- Must be in individual therapy
- Must have completed: PH Trauma Class, PH Self Care & Skill Building Group.
- Signed a release for confidential sharing of therapeutic information with individual therapist
- Must be free from addictions, current crisis and utilizing safety and stabilization techniques to regulate stress and trauma triggers and working with self care.
- Therapist referral
- Interview to discuss client goals and assess readiness for trauma process group.
Led by: Anna Blum, PMHCNS-BC, Nurse Psychotherapist