This 40 hour Basic Training meets EMDRIA requirements and once participants also complete 10 hours of consultation they will be eligible to become EMDRIA EMDR Certified. 

Course Description

When a child discloses sexual abuse by a parent or caregiver, non-offending caregivers are often left navigating overwhelming experiences of shock, betrayal, grief, fear, guilt, confusion, and family disruption while simultaneously being asked to provide safety, stability, and emotional support for the child. Clinicians working with these families require specialized knowledge and trauma-informed intervention skills to effectively support both caregiver healing and child protection.

This training provides mental health professionals, social workers, victim service providers, and allied professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the complex dynamics involved in working with non-offending caregivers following intrafamilial child sexual abuse disclosure. Participants will explore grooming dynamics, family system patterns, attachment disruptions, trauma responses, protective caregiving capacities, and the emotional impact of disclosure on children and caregivers.

Using a trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and strengths-based framework, this course examines how clinicians can support caregiver stabilization, psychoeducation, emotional regulation, protective parenting, and relational repair while maintaining child safety as the central priority. Participants will also explore risk indicators, boundary violations, multidisciplinary collaboration, safety planning, mandatory reporting considerations, and culturally responsive approaches to intervention.

Through case examples, reflective discussion, and practical clinical tools, participants will gain increased confidence in assessing protective capacities, responding to caregiver distress, supporting healing conversations, and facilitating safe, compassionate, and accountable care within highly complex family systems.

This training is appropriate for therapists, counsellors, social workers, child protection professionals, victim service providers, school-based clinicians, and other helping professionals working with children, youth, and families impacted by sexual abuse.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the dynamics, risk indicators, and grooming patterns commonly associated with intrafamilial child sexual abuse using a trauma-informed and developmentally responsive lens.
2. Explain the emotional, behavioral, attachment-related, and neurobiological impacts of child sexual abuse disclosure on children, non-offending caregivers, and family systems.
3. Assess caregiver protective capacities, safety concerns, boundary violations, and family system dynamics utilizing trauma-informed clinical assessment strategies and professional risk indicators.
4. Demonstrate effective trauma-informed responses and psychoeducational interventions that support non-offending caregivers while prioritizing child safety, stabilization, and emotional regulation.
5. Apply attachment-focused, culturally responsive, and strengths-based interventions to support caregiver-child relational repair, resilience, and long-term healing following disclosure.
6. Develop collaborative treatment and safety planning strategies that integrate multidisciplinary systems, ethical responsibilities, mandatory reporting requirements, and ongoing protective caregiving supports.

This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.

At the end of this certificate participants will:

• Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
• Review social and emotional development of young people.
• Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
• Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.

Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system

Module 1: Intake,  Assessment, Consent and Documentation                                                          

This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.

At the end of this certificate participants will:

• Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
• Review social and emotional development of young people.
• Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
• Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.

Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system

This 48  hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.

At the end of this certificate participants will:

• Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
• Review social and emotional development of young people.
• Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
• Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.

Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system

This 48 hour online certificate is for newly graduated therapists and counsellors who want to work with children/youth.

At the end of this certificate participants will:

• Review theoretical base of psychotherapeutic counselling
• Review social and emotional development of young people.
• Explore the ethical and professional aspects of working therapeutically with children and adolescents
• Work therapeutically with children and young using the arts and play.

Participants need to have access to internet and a computer to access modules in the learning management system

The World Professional Association for Transgender Health has specific standards of care and training protocols for those who provide care to children and adolescents who experience gender dysphoria. It is important however, for all therapists to be able to communicate verbally and non- verbally that gender expression is not binary.

This short training will assist therapists in assessing their therapy spaces, forms and practices to ensure that they are creating spaces for clients who may be questioning so they can feel safe in playing or exploring gender identity as well as being part of the LGBTQ+ Community.

Participants will be provided handouts in advance in order to review world-wide standards of care. They will also complete a self- screening practice assessment tool prior to the training.

Come prepared to complete a sandtray in dyads with a sandtray and a variety of miniatures on your end of the camera. You will leave hearing specific recommendations about how to make your therapy practice more inclusive.

Learning Outcomes:

· Play with and discuss own beliefs and attitudes about gender identity and gender expression using the sandtray and small group discussion

· Audit play therapy practice forms, spaces and healing tools for LGBTQ+ inclusion

· Identify ways to make your practice and play therapy spaces more LGBTQ+ inclusive.

· Engage in a gender activity recently published by the Australian medical community.

· Identify ways the play therapist can support families of questioning children and adolescents.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to

1. Define the concept of glass children and describe their unique psychosocial and developmental needs in play therapy. (Remembering / Understanding)

2. Explain the impact of family systems dynamics (e.g., parentification, invisibility, role assignment) on emotional development to be addressed in play therapy. (Understanding)

3. Analyze clinical presentations of glass children at the intake phase of play therapy. Design developmentally appropriate play-based interventions tailored to the needs of glass children. (Creating)

4. Identify IC-PTA competencies that are important to have and utilize when working with this population in play therapy. 

Course Description

This graduate-level course provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the foundational concepts, theories, principles, and practices of psychotherapy across individual, family, and group modalities. Drawing from major psychotherapy traditions and integrative approaches, students will critically examine the therapeutic relationship, processes of change, case conceptualization, multicultural considerations, and evidence-informed psychotherapy practices.

The course introduces students to core psychotherapy theories including psychodynamic, Adlerian, existential, person-centered, Gestalt, cognitive-behavioral, feminist, postmodern, and family systems approaches while exploring the movement toward integrative psychotherapy practice. Emphasis is placed on understanding the therapeutic alliance, therapist self-awareness, ethical practice, multicultural responsiveness, and the mechanisms of therapeutic change across modalities.

Students will also examine foundational principles of group psychotherapy, including therapeutic factors, group cohesion, interpersonal learning, leadership, group development, and the role of the group as a therapeutic microcosm. Through experiential activities, case analysis, reflective practice, and applied clinical discussion, students will develop foundational competencies necessary for ethically and culturally responsive psychotherapy practice across diverse clinical contexts.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze major theories and principles of psychotherapy utilized in individual, family, and group practice.
2. Differentiate foundational assumptions, goals, therapeutic processes, and interventions associated with major psychotherapy models.
3. Examine the role of the therapeutic relationship, therapist factors, and client variables in psychotherapy outcomes.
4. Apply core psychotherapy concepts to case conceptualization and treatment planning across diverse clinical presentations.
5. Evaluate the therapeutic factors and interpersonal processes involved in effective group psychotherapy.
6. Demonstrate understanding of family systems principles and relational dynamics within psychotherapy practice.
7. Assess ethical, multicultural, and socially responsive considerations relevant to psychotherapy practice.
8. Critically reflect on therapist self-awareness, use of self, values, and professional identity development.
9. Examine integrative and evidence-informed approaches to psychotherapy across modalities.
10. Apply psychotherapy principles to case-based scenarios involving individual, family, and group clinical contexts.