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Woman Redeemed Retreat
Learn how to turn a toxic relationship around to a more healthy relationship. Enjoy a 4-day, all-inclusive retreat with group therapy, equine therapy, yoga, meditation, accommodations, and meals.
Woman Redeemed Online 12-Week Intensive
Woman Redeemed Online Therapy Group: A Healing Journey for Love Addiction
Starting on Tuesdays, January 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM ET
This therapy group is specifically designed for women seeking to address the deep-seated wounds that drive self-defeating behaviors and an unhealthy dependency on external validation. Our focus begins with acknowledging and understanding the fundamental emotional needs we are born with. We pose the question: Were our essential requirements for nurture and support adequately met during our formative years?
Our group provides a safe and nurturing space vital for fostering self-worth. Together, we will delve into the consequences of unfulfilled childhood needs and how these unmet needs influence our patterns in adult relationships.
It's a common pattern that when our emotional needs aren't satisfied during childhood, we often seek fulfillment from other relationships in adulthood. This can negatively impact our self-esteem and self-worth. Subsequently, we may learn to conceal or shield our true selves and feelings, leading to inauthenticity and, in some cases, resorting to harmful coping mechanisms to numb the pain.
Join us on this journey of understanding, healing, and reclaiming your authentic self. Your path to improved mental health and healthier relationships starts here.
Often, we find ourselves relying on others' affection to feel secure within our own skin. This dependency can cloud our perception, causing us to idealize individuals rather than recognizing them as they truly are. When these individuals fail to meet our unrealistic expectations, it can lead to feelings of anger and resentment.
The goal is to foster a more compassionate relationship with ourselves. Self-love and self-worth serve as the bedrock for emotional well-being and personal fulfillment.
In this group, you will engage in emotional work aimed at re-establishing your inherent worth, bolstered by healthy validation and support. We provide practical tools to navigate these challenges and assist in crafting a sustainable self-care plan for the future. Through our authoritative guidance and empathetic approach, we strive to empower you in your journey towards inner wholeness.
This therapeutic group is here to guide and support you in the following ways:
Overcoming Denial: We will help you confront and break through patterns of denial, empowering you to face realities that may be difficult but necessary for growth.
Recognizing Dependencies and Triggers: Our aim is to help you identify any co-existing dependencies and potential triggers for relapse, equipping you with the knowledge to prevent setbacks on your journey to recovery.
Promoting Self-Awareness: Through the use of innovative techniques, we will foster a deep sense of self-awareness and connection to your physical needs. This heightened understanding of yourself will serve as a cornerstone in your healing process.
Changing Harmful Behavior Patterns: We will work with you to devise effective strategies aimed at transforming painful and destructive behavior patterns into healthier coping mechanisms.
Encouraging Positive Change: By teaching you how to make informed and positive choices, we'll set you on a path towards positive change and personal growth.
Revitalizing Relationships: We will guide you in turning toxic relationships into healthier, more fulfilling interactions. By learning to set boundaries and communicate effectively, you can transform your relationships into sources of support and positivity.
Our group provides a supportive and empathetic environment, combining our expertise in mental health with research-backed advice and practical solutions. Together, we can navigate your journey towards better mental health and stronger relationships.
When: Tuesdays, January 23, 2024 at 6:00 PM ET
Given its high demand, spaces in our group tend to be filled promptly. To ensure your participation, we highly encourage you to reserve your spot in advance. This can be easily done by reaching out to us via phone at 407-622-1770 or through email at info@LifeCounselingSolutions.com.
A deposit of $200 is necessary to secure your place in the group. The total cost of this transformative journey is $998, but we understand that budgeting is crucial. Therefore we offer a flexible weekly payment plan of $72.55 (after deposit). We're committed to providing a close-knit and personal atmosphere in our group, hence we limit the number of participants.
Take the first step towards healing and growth. Your journey to better mental health and stronger relationships begins here. Allow us to guide and support you on this path.
Where: Zoom. To reserve your spot in the group, please reach out to us at 407-622-1770 or email info@lifecounselingsolutions.com
Please note that once the group begins its twelve-week cycle, it will be closed to new members until the next cycle begins. This ensures a consistent, supportive environment for all participants.
Facilitator: Janie Lacy, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, National Certified Counselor, Certified Sex Addiction Therapist, and EMDR Trained professional, will be leading our group. Janie is deeply committed to assisting women in breaking free from the love addiction/love avoidant patterns that often disrupt relationships today. Her expertise and approach create a safe space for healing and growth.
Join us in this journey towards healthier relationships and improved mental well-being. Your path to recovery starts here.
IITAP CSAT Module 4 Training
When: Wednesday, October 25th - Sunday, October 29th, 2023
8:30 am PDT
Where: Online
United States
Presenters: Dr. Patrick Carnes, Elizabeth Ogren, and Dr. Janie Lacy
Contact: IITAP Staff
training@iitap.com
480-575-6853
Course Description
"Building Long-Term Recovery in Diverse Populations"
In this last module of the series, faculty members bring together all of the knowledge presented in the previous modules. This module explores long-term recovery and resiliency practices, taking special consideration of sexual health and a sexual reintegration plan, the role of shame and grief in the addictive system, and clinical considerations when working with differing client populations. Cultural diversity and ethics are also discussed in depth. Best practices are presented. Participants will also explore their professional identity and treatment philosophy and take part in a graduation ceremony.
*Supervision Required: 15 hours of supervision must be completed prior to attending this module. Your primary supervisor will need to submit the hours verification form to IITAP prior to the start of the training.
Facilitator Information
Patrick J. Carnes, Ph.D., is the founder of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) and Gentle Path Press. His extensive background in the field of addiction therapy led him to develop multiple cutting-edge recovery programs. Dr. Carnes’ most recent endeavor is the Founder of Gentle Path and Senior Fellow at The Meadows, in Wickenburg, Arizona.
With more than 30 years in the field of treatment for sexual addiction and compulsivity, Dr. Carnes is an internationally recognized expert, presenter, and interview subject. His assessment tools and 30-task model treatment methodology deliver an unprecedented approach to addiction recovery for practitioners of trauma, compulsive and addictive sexual behavior, and co-occurring addictions.
Dr. Janie Lacy, LMHC, NCC, CSAT-S is a Licensed Relationship Trauma Psychotherapist who has over fifteen years of experience working with those who have unsuccessfully tried to break free from their toxic relationship patterns. By addressing the root issue of their suffering, Janie creates breakthrough experiences from the inside out, allowing her clients to finally find peace within themselves they have so desperately longed for in life.
She is also a faculty member with the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals and an entrepreneur who took her counseling business from a solo practice to a group specialty practice.
Janie helps women overcome toxic relationships. She’s the creator of Woman Redeemed, an intensive experiential group experience that uses proven therapy strategies to start women on their healing journey. After experiencing the devastating trauma of her eldest sister leaving a domestic violent relationship resulting in her murder. Janie uses her experience and expertise to help others break patterns of toxic love.
Elizabeth Ogren M.Ed., LPC, CSAT, SomEx, EMDR, PIT, ADS, RAE has a Masters degree in counseling and human development, and is a licensed professional counselor specializing in trauma, dissociation, and addiction recovery. She has served as Clinical Director, Director of Family Services, as well as in experiential therapy roles in a variety of treatment program settings.
Ms. Ogren brings a multi-modality approach to psychotherapy including EMDR, somatic experiential therapies, psychodrama, internal family systems and ego states work, yoga, acupuncture and more. And as a CSAT Ms. Ogren holds expertise in traumatic bonding and exploitation, betrayal trauma, sexual addiction and other attachment and intimacy disorders.
She has worked as a victim advocate collaborating with first responders, as well as in the drug court system with parents working toward recovery and family restoration. And a particular passion is working within the LGBTQ+ community and with all who have experienced marginalization, to reach empowerment and true sense of self. Ms. Ogren teaches, speaks, and provides consultation in addition to offering traditional therapy and intensive workshops in her private practice.
To learn more visit elizabethogren.com.
Educational Goals
Provide mental health professionals with an opportunity for professional growth and to expand their scope of practice.
Promote professional knowledge and training regarding clinical topics including sexual health, cultural diversity, grief and resiliency, lifestyle balance, and working specifically with females engaging in compulsive sexual behaviors or toxic relationship patterns.
Educate participants on current research related to compulsive behaviors and the brain and how to integrate brain health into recovery plan.
Encourage communication and collaboration among treatment models and available resources.
Expand participants’ ability to provide accurate treatment diagnosis and care plan for clients.
Promote insight around self-as-therapist, professional identity, and treatment philosophy.
Further the development of clinical skills through an interactive training approach, which participants can put directly into practice following the training.
Learning Objectives
Apply different lenses in viewing sexuality cases (sex therapy, compulsive sexual behavior disorder), identify how personal bias might color treatment, and distinguish occasions when incorporating information from other lenses will improve patient care.
Identify the specific circumstances in a client presentation in which the addiction/compulsivity label and construct provides a useful paradigm for structuring effective treatment.
Compare models and distinguish the benefits of working with different cases from a sex therapy model of treatment.
Identify the strengths of these different approaches and cite four examples of how applying different theories can improve outcomes for cases.
Evaluate the World Health Organization’s definition of healthy sexuality and name seven examples of contextual variables important to address in the treatment process.
Integrate methods for working with the LGBTQ population in light of orientation and gender fluidity.
Identify paraphilias and fetishes and utilize appropriate interventions for treatment.
State two examples of questions that help clients differentiate between unhealthy sexual repression versus healthy self-restraint.
Identify four examples of reasons straight men have sex with men.
Utilize a clinical case discussion format to explore transference and countertransference, boundaries, and related potential clinical issues.
Name four different accelerator catalysts for compulsive sexual behavior and utilize in clinical work.
Describe five examples of practical interventions for restoring lifestyle balance in long term recovery.
Examine addiction and compulsive behaviors from a neuroscientific perspective.
Identify 12 resiliency skills for recovery from addiction and compulsivity and how to encourage the development of these skills in long term recovery.
Assess and implement workbook resources that can be utilized in the group process to maintain sustained recovery.
Examine resources designed to achieve lifestyle balance and relapse prevention in recovery.
Create treatment plans that empower clients to achieve important life goals in long term recovery.
Define and apply different methods of compulsive sexual behavior disorder treatment to female sex and love addicts.
Describe conceptualizations of love and relationship addiction and how those are different and can be more common in female sex and love addicts.
Name four examples of how treatment of female addicts is different from male addicts and identify potential pitfalls in treatment.
Create a treatment plan for a case of a female sex and love addict.
Examine how a client’s attachment style might impact their motivation for treatment.
List resources specifically for their female addicts and their male partners.
Evaluate treatment of sex addiction and compulsivity from a multicultural lens.
Define the difference between cultural sensitivity and cultural humility and apply these concepts in cases where sexual compulsivity is present.
Evaluate issues around racism and anti-racism and determine how these issues can impact a client’s experience of treatment.
Create treatment plans with an awareness of and respect for different faith groups, ethnic groups, races, abilities, orientations and genders.
Design culturally sensitive treatment plans with different multicultural cases.
Identify issues of transference and counter-transference in this work and cite three examples of how to manage this in their practices going forward.
Write, develop and share their “treatment philosophies.”
Main Topics
Treatment Considerations and Tools
Holistic healing approach, integrating mind, body, and spiritual wellness and lifestyle balance.
Recovery Zone Vol. 1 draws from evidence-based theories and the latest research studies to provide structured workbook exercises which support and equip clients in the recovery and resiliency process.
Cultivating the professional identity of the practitioner is a critical part of training and excellence as a mental health provider. Includes awareness around countertransference, personal bias, limits to scope of practice, needed boundaries and treatment philosophy.
Approaching clinical cases from a variety of theoretical models helps clinician with accurate diagnosis and in developing an effective, individualized, treatment plan.
Brain SPECT imaging reveals impact of compulsive behaviors and substance use on brain physiology and functioning. Dopamine Insufficiency Syndrome spotlights the importance of brain health when treating compulsive and addictive behaviors.
Cultural Diversity
Common cultural issues in compulsive sexual behavior disorder treatment, including treatment stigmatization, sexual shame, attitude of silence, and cultural support of betrayal and addictive behavior.
Minority stress and links to depression and psychiatric distress
Cultural humility and cultural competence within clinical work
Providing culturally sensitive treatment requires meeting the client where they are at, integrating cultural issues and needs into treatment plan, awareness of culturally relevant resources, and knowing personal limitations.
Female Sex and Love Addicts
Theories and etiology include interpersonal neurobiology, intimacy disorder, compulsive sexual behavior disorder, relationship addiction, traumatic bonding, and complex/developmental trauma
Affect regulation is critical for addressing underlying trauma and shame.
Interpersonal connections are key to recovery and may include therapist, 12-step group, partner/family, and higher power.
Cycle work: acting out and acting in cycle, addictive cycle, love addiction/love avoidance cycle.
Cultural considerations when working with female clients.
Assessments
Screening Tools:
PATHOS or SAST-R Screener
Internet Sex Screening Test (ISST)
Comprehensive Sex & Love Addiction Assessment:
SLAA 40 Questions for Self-Diagnosis (also in 25-item option)
Love Addiction / Love Avoidance Memory Jogger (Pia Mellody)
PTSI-R SDI 4.0 Other assessments Cultural factors and history Sexual and relational development history
Other assessments
Cultural factors and history
Sexual and relational development history
Target Audience
Mental Health Practitioners, Licensed Social Workers (LSW), Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT), Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC), Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Certified Addiction Counselors
Instructional Level
Module 4 Advanced
Training Schedule
*ALL TIMES WILL BE IN THE PACIFIC TIME ZONE*
8:30 am – 5:00 pm Wednesday thru Saturday
8:00 am – 12:00 pm Sunday
Daily Schedule:
8:30 am - 10:00 am Class 10:00 am - 10:15 am Break
10:15 am – 12:00 pm Class 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Lunch
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Class 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
3:15 pm - 5:00 pm Class
Breaks and lunch period do not count for Continuing Education (CE) Credit.
Participation Expectations
Zoom Link
The Zoom link will be sent the week of the scheduled event to the email address provided on your registration form. If you do not receive the link within 24 hours of the event please contact support@iitap.com.
Active Listening Requirements:
Participants will need to have their device camera on (please notify the IITAP Staff member assisting with the training should you need to turn your camera off at any time).
Participants must be in a stationary area. Driving while participating in an online training is prohibited as it can be very distracting for all parties. If you are actively driving we will dismiss you from the training for your safety. This will be considered a cancellation with the cancellation policy enforced (see below).
Missed Hours Policy:
In order to earn full CE Credit for attending a CSAT, CPTT, or PSAP module training, or CMAT training, full attendance is mandatory. If any hours over the course of the training are missed, those hours must be made up by attending the next available offering of the module at a cost of $250 per half day.
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Registration Fee:
$1,300.00 USD* - Early Bird Registration Fees End on October 11th, 2023
$1,400.00 USD* - Standard Registration Fees Start on October 12th, 2023
Payment Plan option available until June 30, 2023
Cancellation Policy:
All cancellation requests must be made in writing and sent to training@iitap.com. The following options are available if a training registration needs to be cancelled:
Refund: For a full refund, a written cancellation notice must be received by IITAP no later than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event. Cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event will be refunded less a $300 cancellation fee. Allow 6 weeks for refund.
Credit: To receive a credit for the full registration fee, a written cancellation notice must be received by IITAP no later than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event. Cancellations received less than 30 days prior to the first day of the scheduled event will be credited less a $300 cancellation fee. Credits expire 1 year from the date issued.
Transfer: Registration fees may be transferred to another module training or workshop, if available. Transfer requests must be submitted in writing to IITAP prior to the first day of the scheduled event, and the training must be completed within 1 year of the original event. If the training is not completed within that timeframe, the registration fee will be forfeited, and it will be the participant’s responsibility to register for the next available training and pay the full registration fee.
No refunds, credits, or transfers will be available as of the first day of the scheduled event.
CE Hours and Accrediting Institutions
30 Total CE Hours | 2 Ethics CEs | 7 Multicultural CEs
The International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. IITAP maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 Credit Hours.
This course has been approved by the International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #92253. IITAP is responsible for all aspects of the program. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
The International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals (IITAP) is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT), Licensed Clinical Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC) and/or Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC). IITAP maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 continuing education hours.
International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0224. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists. #MFT-0031.Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0060. Training is Live-Online Interactive for 30 contact hours.
International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP™) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements. IITAP is solely responsible for all aspects of the program. This program qualifies for 30 Live-Online Interactive Clock Hours as approved by NBCC Provider #6251.
International Institute for Trauma & Addiction Professionals (IITAP, LLC) is approved by the Canadian Addiction Counsellors Federation (CACCF) to award 30 CEUs upon completion of attending this training.
Certificate of Completion
Course completion certificates for in-person trainings are provided to attendees at the conclusion of the training. Certificates for online trainings are uploaded to member IITAP accounts within two weeks of the conclusion of the training or emailed to non-members, if applicable.
Additional Information
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