Core Skills for the Relational Therapist 6-Month Certificate Program 24 CEs

My colleague and I are offering a certificate program to help you build skills and support you with the difficulties that arise in relational therapy with more skillfulness. Learn to navigate strong reactions, countertransference, projections, self-judgment, and perceived inadequacies as you learn practical ways to enhance your impact. Although we are marketing this program to early career clinicians, all clinicians who are interested in deepening relational skills are invited to experience our inside-out approach to learning in this 6-month hybrid certificate program.

Registration begins February 1st for Spring Cohort. Program begins March 20, 2024. Sliding scale and monthly payment options available.

California Clinicians earn 24 CEs. All participants receive a certificate for your portfolio.

6-MONTH PROGRAM CURRICULUM

Time Commitment: 3 hours/month avg.

• Group Video Consultation: 90 minutes per Month on Wednesdays @ 11:30am (Pacific)
• Multimedia Learning Modules: 1-2 hours per month (required material), plus optional supplemental materials as you like

Eventbrite does not accept monthly payments so please go to the following page to enroll if you want to pay monthly: https://www.innerscience.net/core-skills-for-the-relational-therapist-certificate-program/

If you are making a one-time payment, you can register here on Eventbrite.

LEARNING MODULES

Module 1: How to Cultivate Therapeutic Presence and Amplify the Transformative Potential of the Clinical Relationship

Module 2: Listening Deeply to Both Yourself and Your Clients for Maximum Attunement to What Unfolds in the Moment

Module 3: Building Trust by Learning to Discern the Right Amount of Support and Challenge

Module 4: How to Focus on the Subtleties of the Therapeutic Relationship While Shifting Your Viewpoint Back and Forth from Full Participant to Mindful Observer

Module 5: Attuning to the Intimate Edge and Bringing Forward What Most Wants to Surface into Consciousness

Module 6: Learning How to Gain Permission from the Patient’s Unconscious to Advance Therapeutic Work

Module 7: How to Transform Unconscious Relational Dynamics into Authentic Connection

Module 8: Committing To Relational Repair, Even in the Midst of Challenging Transference and Countertransference Reactions

Module 9: How to Shift the Negativity Bias by Engaging Neuroplasticity and Helping the Nervous System Evolve

Module 10: Emphasizing Compassionate Awareness to Avoid Extremes of Suppression and/or Immersion with Difficult Feelings

Module 11: Prioritizing a Trauma-Informed Foundation for the Therapeutic Journey by Resisting Re-Traumatization

Module 12: Using the Therapeutic Relationship to Empower by Learning to Acknowledge Reciprocal Impact and Social Conditioning

Meet Your Instructors: Deborah Yarock, MFT and Tamara Thebert, MFT

Deborah Yarock, MFT is a Co-Founder, Instructor, and Clinical Consultant at Inner Science Institute. She uses her 39 years of experience to help clinicians address impasses that emerge from transference-countertransference interactions, with particular expertise in navigating ethical dilemmas, power dynamics, oppression/internalized oppression, and personal/professional boundaries.

She holds a Masters Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies and has served as a counselor, therapist, supervisor, and instructor in a variety of community-based, educational, and private practice settings in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She has degrees and training in integral counseling psychology, psychological process work, re-evaluation counseling, and extensive experience in all phases of addiction treatment. As an adjunct professor, she has taught graduate and undergraduate psychology courses throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1995, while teaching and mentoring pre-professionals in the field of community mental health, Deborah expanded services by developing and running practicum sites. She has also created avenues to advance cultural competency, address stress and vicarious trauma, and encourage comprehensive grief support.

Throughout her career, Deborah has respected and addressed the practical realities of life alongside deeper identity and soul-searching aspects of therapeutic work. To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.deborahyarockmft.com.

In order to accommodate busy and complex schedules, Deborah offers clinical consultations via phone. For more information, go to https://deborahyarockmft.com/consultation/.

Feel free to contact Deborah today for a consultation or to explore ways she might be able to help you in your work: 510-214-6951 or deborah@innerscience.net.

Tamara Thebert, MFT is the CEO, Co-Founder, and an Instructor at Inner Science Institute. She uses her 17 years of experience to support clinicians to deepen and expand their self-awareness by learning from the inside out.

Tamara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies with a concentration in Art and Psychology from Knox College, a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Certification in Hypnotherapy (Spiritual Counseling emphasis) from Foundation of the Sacred Stream. She is currently enrolled in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, a two-year training in awareness and compassion-based practices.

Tamara has training and certificates in integral counseling psychology, neurobiologically-informed trauma treatment, mindful self-compassion, meditation, spiritual counseling, energy medicine, women’s spirituality, grief and bereavement, shamanic counseling, ecopsychology, and permaculture. Since 2004, she has studied and trained in spiritual and psychological traditions from all over the globe. Tamara teaches spiritual principles and practices specifically tailored to improve mental and emotional health and spiritual awakening.

In her private practice Tamara specializes in helping women recognize & amplify inner resources to recover from trauma, anxiety, stress, and distress while attending to the important relationships in their lives.

To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.psychospiritualcounseling.net.

Tamara offers mindfulness-based clinical consultation via Zoom. For more information, go to www.psychospiritualcounseling.net/mindfulness-based-consultation/.

What are the measurable learning objectives for this certificate program (for CAMFT CE requirements)?

Based on the content of the certificate program, you will be able to:

1. Explain the difference between presence and therapeutic presence.
2. Identify three ways that therapeutic presence enhances the effectiveness of the clinical relationship and process.
3. Recognize the most common obstacle to being fully present with
   clients.
4. Integrate the three main principles of deep listening to hear nuanced communications within yourself, your clients, and in the therapeutic relationship.
5. Identify the anatomy of effective support and challenge statements
   that contribute to providing optimal stress.
6. Create and apply at least three support and challenge statements that serve to advance your work with patients.
7. Identify three subtle therapeutic processes that you can focus on to
   get beneath conscious material and help facilitate change.
8. Distinguish the difference between full immersion and multilevel listening in order to expand perception of the intersubjective process.
9. Name three key ways to attend to the most subtle aspects of the
   interactive process and transform the dimensions of the immediate
   experience.
10. Distinguish the difference between attuning to the right or left brain of the client in order to initiate interpersonal regulation.
11. Describe three ways to gain permission from the client’s unconscious to engage memories, images, sensations, fears, excitements, longings, and unawakened potentials.
12. Identify three main ways to bring to light that which lies just beneath the surface of our own and/or our clients awareness in order to transform unconscious relational dynamics.
13. Transform at least one relational rupture or impasse into a sincere,
    heartfelt repair that supports compassionate connection.
14. Explain the brain science behind emotional dysregulation (aka
    “flipped lid”).
15. Describe and compare at least three modern strategies of the threat defense system with their primitive counterparts (i.e. Flight could mean actual physical flight to stay safe or the modern strategy of emotional withdrawal).
16. Name at least two modern collective strategies of the threat defense system.
17. Apply self-directed neuroplasticity in order to bring into the
    foreground at least one positive experience and amplify it.
18. Define the three key components of mindfulness as it relates to our
    internal, external, and relational experiences.
19. Name the three crucial parts of trauma-informed care.
20. Identify at least three common nonverbal cues that indicate someone
    is outside their window of tolerance.
21. Define power and privilege in the context of the therapeutic
    relationship.
22. Transform at least one clinical conflict, misunderstanding, or rupture into an opportunity for relational healing.
23. Define oppression and internalized oppression and listen for the
    impact they are having on you and/or your clients’ mental health.
24. Name the three main vehicles of internalized oppression and how
    they might show up in your clients’ material.
25. Identify three primary ways to refocus your therapeutic lens to
    include intergenerational wisdom while also acknowledging the
    complexities of more difficult intergenerational transmissions.