VIPCare Executive Director, The Rev. Douglas M. Thorpe, along with The Rev. Roosevelt Brown, chief of Chaplain Service at the Hampton VAMC, CO-lead program on Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy

ACPE Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) Training Program is a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It serves licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals (i.e. counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction specialists, and more), as well as graduate students in any of those disciplines, who seek to explore the ways of spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning influence their own lives and the lives of their clients.

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 those who found effective ways to include spiritual wisdom in psychotherapeutic work.

The ACPE SIP curriculum draws upon diverse spiritual traditions and psychological research to provide practical, usable resources to help therapists integrate spirituality into their work. The program consists of 10, 3-hour courses, offered for continuing education credit.

For additional information, contact VIPCare Executive Director Douglas M. Thorpe at dthorpe@vipcare.org

Current program dates:

Friday and Saturday, September 17 & 18

Friday and Saturday, September 24 & 25

Friday, October 1

cost is $750 per person and limited scholarships are available

VIPCare Executive Director Douglas M. Thorpe Leads Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Training