ATTCH is pleased to offer a Trauma Integration certification program to provide current, quality trauma and attachment training in Canada for individuals, clinicians, and organizations and trauma-integration training in our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)® and Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM-A) Adapted Non-Clinical Stream®. Our program is quite comprehensive and holistic in nature focusing on mind-body neuroscience and somatic approaches.
Our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Model ® is a layered / integrative model that incorporates multiple modalities and layers to regulate the body, brain and mind simultaneously. It is a rich integrative approach with components of sensory processing, somatics, CBT, resource installation, bilateral stimulation and sensory regulation work to name a few components. You can learn more about feedback on our website https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/what-people-are-saying-about-our-certification-trainings.html or facebook page (under reviews) https://www.facebook.com/AttachmentandTraumaTreatmentCentreforHealing/?ref=hl.
Training Content
Trauma certification training with ATTCH is comprehensive and integrative. Our approach provides will include a combination of lecture modules with slides and video, case examples, small group discussions, experiential exercises, and pairs practice.
Days 1 & 2: Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment, Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation and Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential (description below)
with Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Trauma Therapist, Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (Days 1& 2 are the same for both certification streams ITATM-A & ITATM)
The fields of attachment and trauma research and intervention are growing rapidly. It is apparent that this is an area all clinicians can benefit from training in as it crosses all sectors and populations in some manner. However, we know that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the readings and resources. As this is our area of specialization, let us share what we have learned through our literature and research reviews and what we have effectively put into practice with you in an engaging and practical manner.
Day 1 will provide insight into current trauma, attachment, and neuroscience research ensuring an understanding of critical information and best practice strategies for working with trauma. This training will also help you to enhance your clinical skills and learn how you can add trauma regulation and attachment healing strategies to your repertoire.
Day 2 will focus on putting it into practice. Through this Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) participants will learn how to make historical connections, engage in integrative trauma-specific treatment approaches, and promote resiliency and wellness. Participants will learn about phase-based treatment of complex trauma and review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be experienced.
Upon completion of training participants will have a strong understanding of:
Trauma-Informed Care
Sensory Regulation
Boundaries, Self-Compassion, and Healthy Relationships
Trauma Processing* Part 2
Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)® from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and the opportunity to practice techniques learned (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allows for discussion, questions, and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Days 4 & 5 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Continued
These two days take participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)® from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live or video demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. These experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Learning Objectives - Upon completion participants will have a thorough understanding of:
Trainings will be rich with practical examples and exercises to help synthesize the material of focus. Core training is customized for the various streams and levels to allow for relevant training and intervention strategies. For supplemental training a wide variety of enhancement options are offered in areas such as energy based practices, somatic approaches, art and play therapy, meditation, mindfulness etc.
Several levels of certification training streams are available:
* To ensure the integrity of this certification program all levels and training streams include the following components:
Contuing Education credits available as required through the following accrediting bodies:
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Assocaition - The CEC application for Certified Trauma Integration Clinician Core Two-Day Training - 37310 has been evaluated: 12 CEC hour(s) was/were given for this event.
* To ensure the integrity of this certification program all levels and training streams include the following components:
Supplementary Training Options:
All ATTCH trainings are evidence-informed trainings, based on current research and evidence-based and best practices approaches in the fields of attachment, trauma, and neuroscience. To date, ATTCH has trained over 1000 professionals of various fields inclusive of psychiatrists, therapists, occupational therapists, school personnel, domestic violence counselors, GP Psychotherapists, residential treatment staff, child welfare organizations, mental health and addictions practitioners, foster and adoptive parents, medical students, doctors, professionals from developmental and acquired brain injury sectors, nurses, private practitioners, psychologists, and sexual assault counsellors.
Trauma Training by a qualified Trauma Specialist ensures that the trainer has a comprehensive understanding of trauma, how it impacts the body, the mind, and behaviour, and how the brain becomes hard-wired and associations are formed that cause us to respond in rigid automatic manners, rather than how we would want to respond. A trauma specialist understands that it is not that we "don't,” but rather that sometimes we "can't." A trauma specialist is willing to slow down treatment to focus on identifying, addressing, and resolving the underlying issues in a safe and secure manner to allow for externalizing, containment, and reconstruction.
Trauma is co-morbid with so many other factors, so that having a core awareness of trauma and its impact and differential diagnosis is crucial for therapists to determine proper diagnosis and complete efficacious treatment planning. Although there are services that are trauma-informed, few specialize in delivering trauma-informed approaches, based on current research and best practices to the maximum and most effective extent possible. Herman (1997) indicates that working with complex trauma can be challenging, due to its oscillating and dialectical nature, and a comprehensive awareness of trauma and its impact should be known, before engaging in trauma intervention. ATTCH provides quality training rich with practical examples, due to the skilled clinicians we employ and the diverse populations, with whom we work. There are ongoing opportunities for continuing education in trauma practitioner work, at ATTCH.
Individuals travel from across Canada to train with ATTCH in our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) ® and the consistent referrals, as well as organizational training requests received by ATTCH, support the need for trauma-trained practitioners in this complex field. There is a great need for this work, especially given the current movement forwards across Ontario, for trauma-informed training and support. The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study in U.S. revealed a significant finding of “Linking childhood trauma to long-term health and social consequences,” which affects individuals of all ages. Below you will find an overview of the wide variety of upcoming trainings available to help enhance your knowledge and clinical practice through a trauma informed lens. We have also included a sampling of comments received from participants.
About the lead trainer: Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Therapist at the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing is a Psychotherapist, Certified Trauma Specialist (CTS), Trainer, and Consultant Supervisor, and former Psychology Professor with 15 years of experience working with children, youth, and adults. Lori currently maintains membership with the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). She has experience working within various professional organizations specializing in child, youth, and adult counselling. Treatment focus areas include trauma, attachment, crisis intervention, mental health, addictions, eating disorders, wellness, and education. Services provided include comprehensive trauma and attachment assessments, trauma intervention, reconciliation therapy, attachment enhancing therapy, compassion fatigue prevention and treatment, training, Employee Assistance Program therapy, and consultation. Lori provides consultation services to help professionals become trauma-informed and implement techniques learned. She also provides compassion fatigue prevention and wellness therapy for helping professionals.
Lori has been providing trauma intervention for several years to children through to adults inclusive of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with great success. Lori has provided trauma therapy within the following clinical settings: hospital out-patient eating disorders program, addictions counselling, foster care residential settings, in developmental services organizations, and in private practice. Single and historical trauma experiences treated varied from military involvement, abandonment, attachment, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, domestic violence, rape, women in the industry, addictions, and loss.
Lori is an engaging and sought after presenter and facilitates a variety of training workshops including our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) ®, Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace; Trauma's Impact on Learning and Behaviours, Best Practice Approaches for Crisis Intervention in Schools; Trauma-Informed Schools; Healing the Helper: Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Intervention; Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention; Stress; Attachment and Conscious Parenting; Eating Disorders; and Creative Counselling Approaches. Lori is a certified trainer, consultant supervisor, and presenter for the National Institute for Trauma and Loss and provides the following training: Trauma and Addiction; Children of Trauma; Structured Sensory Interventions; Counselling at Risk Youth; and Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. Allow us to create a custom training to meet the needs of your workplace, community event, or parent group.
Our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Model ® is a layered / integrative model that incorporates multiple modalities and layers to regulate the body, brain and mind simultaneously. It is a rich integrative approach with components of sensory processing, somatics, CBT, resource installation, bilateral stimulation and sensory regulation work to name a few components. You can learn more about feedback on our website https://www.attachment-and-trauma-treatment-centre-for-healing.com/what-people-are-saying-about-our-certification-trainings.html or facebook page (under reviews) https://www.facebook.com/AttachmentandTraumaTreatmentCentreforHealing/?ref=hl.
Training Content
Trauma certification training with ATTCH is comprehensive and integrative. Our approach provides will include a combination of lecture modules with slides and video, case examples, small group discussions, experiential exercises, and pairs practice.
Days 1 & 2: Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment, Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation and Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential (description below)
with Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Trauma Therapist, Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing (Days 1& 2 are the same for both certification streams ITATM-A & ITATM)
The fields of attachment and trauma research and intervention are growing rapidly. It is apparent that this is an area all clinicians can benefit from training in as it crosses all sectors and populations in some manner. However, we know that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the readings and resources. As this is our area of specialization, let us share what we have learned through our literature and research reviews and what we have effectively put into practice with you in an engaging and practical manner.
Day 1 will provide insight into current trauma, attachment, and neuroscience research ensuring an understanding of critical information and best practice strategies for working with trauma. This training will also help you to enhance your clinical skills and learn how you can add trauma regulation and attachment healing strategies to your repertoire.
Day 2 will focus on putting it into practice. Through this Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) participants will learn how to make historical connections, engage in integrative trauma-specific treatment approaches, and promote resiliency and wellness. Participants will learn about phase-based treatment of complex trauma and review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be experienced.
Upon completion of training participants will have a strong understanding of:
Trauma-Informed Care
- What it means to be trauma-informed at an organization, service system and societal level
- Core principles, guiding values and common language of trauma-informed care
- Understanding what is helpful vs. what is harmful
- The difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific services
- Understanding top-down, bottom-up and integrative trauma treatment modalities
- How stress and trauma affect the brain, body and behaviour
- The role of attachment in self-regulation and the capacity for relationship
- The impact of attachment injuries on child development and adult health outcomes
- Attachment dynamics in health care and human services work
- The connection between trauma, addictions and violence
- The importance of worker self-regulation and self-care in providing attunement, therapeutic presence and co-regulation for clients and in mitigating the effects of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
Sensory Regulation
- Why trauma is a sensory experience
- Recognizing the signs of emotional and physical dysregulation
- Integration and how this relates to emotional and physiological regulation
- The use of sensory approaches to promote regulation and integration
Boundaries, Self-Compassion, and Healthy Relationships
- How trauma disrupts our boundaries and how we can learn to establish healthy boundaries
- Addressing unmet needs
- Shifting from false refuges to those that provide effective regulation
- The importance of self-compassion for forming and maintaining healthy relationships
- Differentiating intimacy from abuse
Trauma Processing* Part 2
- How to engage in trauma specific processing using the Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)®
- How to move clients through their trauma experiences disrupting the fear looping process in a safe structured manner using the various layers of the ITATM protocol
- How to generalize amygdala messages and reframing statements for future implementation
- How to close off the session in a safe manner that reinforces the new insights
- How to work through recurrent traumas, developmental trauma, crisis experiences, complex PTSD, and how to promote integration when working with dissociation
Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)® from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and the opportunity to practice techniques learned (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allows for discussion, questions, and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Days 4 & 5 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Continued
These two days take participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)® from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live or video demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. These experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Learning Objectives - Upon completion participants will have a thorough understanding of:
- the foundations of trauma and attachment
- how trauma and attachment impact the brain, body, and behaviour
- emotional regulation and dysregulation
- how to promote regulation through sensory intervention and grounding strategies
- how to promote integration through regulation
- evidence-based and best practice approaches to trauma intervention
- practical strategies relevant to certification stream and training level
Trainings will be rich with practical examples and exercises to help synthesize the material of focus. Core training is customized for the various streams and levels to allow for relevant training and intervention strategies. For supplemental training a wide variety of enhancement options are offered in areas such as energy based practices, somatic approaches, art and play therapy, meditation, mindfulness etc.
Several levels of certification training streams are available:
- Certified Trauma Integration Practitioner (CTIP)
- Certified Trauma Integration Clinician (CTIC)
- Certified Trauma Integration Organization (CTIO)
- Certified Trauma Integration Facilitator (CTIF)
- Certified Trauma Integration Mentor (CTIM)
* To ensure the integrity of this certification program all levels and training streams include the following components:
- supplementary trainings
- background readings
- consultations
- examination (threshold of 80% required for certification)
- 1 year time frame to become certified
- annual training to maintain current in best practice approaches
Contuing Education credits available as required through the following accrediting bodies:
Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Assocaition - The CEC application for Certified Trauma Integration Clinician Core Two-Day Training - 37310 has been evaluated: 12 CEC hour(s) was/were given for this event.
* To ensure the integrity of this certification program all levels and training streams include the following components:
- supplementary trainings
- background readings
- supervision
- examination (threshold of 80% required for certification)
- 1 year time frame to become certified
- annual training to maintain current in best practice approaches
Supplementary Training Options:
- Including Mindfulness Practices in Your Life and Practice
- Healing Attachment Wounds in Adulthood
- Grounding Trauma in Addictions
- Attachment Informed Parenting - Training to implement manualized program
- Expressive Arts and Trauma Recovery
- Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention
- Healing the Helper: Preventing Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma
- Trauma Informed Schools
- Impact of Trauma and Attachment on Disordered Eating and Self-Concept
- Understanding Eating Disorders Through a Trauma-Informed Lens
- Trauma Informed Youth Justice
- Body Energy Therapies ~ Unlocking The Body’s Wisdom
- Yoga for Healing Trauma
- Introduction to Energy Healing Therapies focusing on Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) for Healing Trauma
- Building Relationships with Children Using Expressive Arts
- Engaging Creativity Through Mask Making
- Creative Journalling
- Trauma Informed Child Welfare and Removal
- Parenting Through a Trauma Informed Lens
- The Use of Biofeedback Tools and Somatic Awareness for Treating Trauma
- Healing Through Play
- Introduction to Energy Therapies for Healing Trauma
- Comprehensive Trauma Assessment
- Healing Benefits of Art
- Chakra Work
- Trauma Informed Crisis Response
- Trauma-Informed Residential Treatment
- Integration for Regulation Program
All ATTCH trainings are evidence-informed trainings, based on current research and evidence-based and best practices approaches in the fields of attachment, trauma, and neuroscience. To date, ATTCH has trained over 1000 professionals of various fields inclusive of psychiatrists, therapists, occupational therapists, school personnel, domestic violence counselors, GP Psychotherapists, residential treatment staff, child welfare organizations, mental health and addictions practitioners, foster and adoptive parents, medical students, doctors, professionals from developmental and acquired brain injury sectors, nurses, private practitioners, psychologists, and sexual assault counsellors.
Trauma Training by a qualified Trauma Specialist ensures that the trainer has a comprehensive understanding of trauma, how it impacts the body, the mind, and behaviour, and how the brain becomes hard-wired and associations are formed that cause us to respond in rigid automatic manners, rather than how we would want to respond. A trauma specialist understands that it is not that we "don't,” but rather that sometimes we "can't." A trauma specialist is willing to slow down treatment to focus on identifying, addressing, and resolving the underlying issues in a safe and secure manner to allow for externalizing, containment, and reconstruction.
Trauma is co-morbid with so many other factors, so that having a core awareness of trauma and its impact and differential diagnosis is crucial for therapists to determine proper diagnosis and complete efficacious treatment planning. Although there are services that are trauma-informed, few specialize in delivering trauma-informed approaches, based on current research and best practices to the maximum and most effective extent possible. Herman (1997) indicates that working with complex trauma can be challenging, due to its oscillating and dialectical nature, and a comprehensive awareness of trauma and its impact should be known, before engaging in trauma intervention. ATTCH provides quality training rich with practical examples, due to the skilled clinicians we employ and the diverse populations, with whom we work. There are ongoing opportunities for continuing education in trauma practitioner work, at ATTCH.
Individuals travel from across Canada to train with ATTCH in our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) ® and the consistent referrals, as well as organizational training requests received by ATTCH, support the need for trauma-trained practitioners in this complex field. There is a great need for this work, especially given the current movement forwards across Ontario, for trauma-informed training and support. The ACE (Adverse Childhood Experiences) study in U.S. revealed a significant finding of “Linking childhood trauma to long-term health and social consequences,” which affects individuals of all ages. Below you will find an overview of the wide variety of upcoming trainings available to help enhance your knowledge and clinical practice through a trauma informed lens. We have also included a sampling of comments received from participants.
About the lead trainer: Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Therapist at the Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing is a Psychotherapist, Certified Trauma Specialist (CTS), Trainer, and Consultant Supervisor, and former Psychology Professor with 15 years of experience working with children, youth, and adults. Lori currently maintains membership with the Ontario Association of Consultants, Counsellors, Psychometrists and Psychotherapists (OACCPP). She has experience working within various professional organizations specializing in child, youth, and adult counselling. Treatment focus areas include trauma, attachment, crisis intervention, mental health, addictions, eating disorders, wellness, and education. Services provided include comprehensive trauma and attachment assessments, trauma intervention, reconciliation therapy, attachment enhancing therapy, compassion fatigue prevention and treatment, training, Employee Assistance Program therapy, and consultation. Lori provides consultation services to help professionals become trauma-informed and implement techniques learned. She also provides compassion fatigue prevention and wellness therapy for helping professionals.
Lori has been providing trauma intervention for several years to children through to adults inclusive of individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with great success. Lori has provided trauma therapy within the following clinical settings: hospital out-patient eating disorders program, addictions counselling, foster care residential settings, in developmental services organizations, and in private practice. Single and historical trauma experiences treated varied from military involvement, abandonment, attachment, physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, domestic violence, rape, women in the industry, addictions, and loss.
Lori is an engaging and sought after presenter and facilitates a variety of training workshops including our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) ®, Creating a Trauma-Informed Workplace; Trauma's Impact on Learning and Behaviours, Best Practice Approaches for Crisis Intervention in Schools; Trauma-Informed Schools; Healing the Helper: Compassion Fatigue Prevention and Intervention; Suicide Prevention, Intervention, and Postvention; Stress; Attachment and Conscious Parenting; Eating Disorders; and Creative Counselling Approaches. Lori is a certified trainer, consultant supervisor, and presenter for the National Institute for Trauma and Loss and provides the following training: Trauma and Addiction; Children of Trauma; Structured Sensory Interventions; Counselling at Risk Youth; and Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. Allow us to create a custom training to meet the needs of your workplace, community event, or parent group.
