JOIN THE Rev. Roosevelt Brown, DMin, LMFT, Chief, Chaplain Service Hampton VAMC, and THE Rev. Douglas Thorpe, PhD, LPC , Executive Director, Virginia Institute of Pastoral Care for Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Training.
Schedule: Friday and Saturday, September 17 & 18, 9:00 - 4:00
Friday and Saturday, September 24 & 25, 9:00 - 4:00: Friday, October 1, 9:00 - 12:00 - all online
Cost is $750 per person and limited scholarships are available; for more information and to register contact Roosevelt Brown at akchaps53@gmail.com or Douglas M. Thorpe at dthorpe@vipcare.org
For mental health professionals and graduate students
30 hours of NBCC Continuing Education Credit
Optional consultation, certification, and ongoing support that continue beyond the training
The word psychotherapy means “care of the soul” (from the Greek psyche + therapeia). While the history of psychotherapy includes theorists and practitioners with a bias against spirituality and religion, there have always been practitioners who found effective ways to include spiritual wisdom in psychotherapeutic work and a large portion of psychotherapy clients who wanted to talk about the spiritual dimension of their lives.
The SIP Training draws upon diverse spiritual traditions and psychological research to provide practical, usable resources to help therapists integrate spirituality into their work. SIP teaches mental health therapists how to elicit and make therapeutic use of their clients’ spiritual perspectives make ethically appropriate use of their own spiritual perspectives.
The SIP Training is for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals: counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, addictions specialists, and others.
Participants who complete the 30-hour curriculum are eligible to pursue certification in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy by completing 20 hours of consultation with an ACPE SIP Trainer.
