Presence Psychotherapy Level 1 Training

Presence Psychotherapy is mindfulness trauma therapy rooted in evidenced-based practice integrating spirituality, parts inquiry, the nervous system, and relational attunement to facilitate healing. This highly supportive training for mental health professionals provides skills to help clinicians and their clients to easily orient to and sustain awareness of Four Dimensions of Presence, and then utilize Presence Awareness to access and many layers and nuance of trauma and to to process overwhelming feelings, heal attachment wounds and resolve Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn and Shock and experience well-being.

You will learn how to expand your Presence Awareness to facilitate clients’ awareness of the subtle energy of Presence as it exists in many forms and frequencies. This experiential component of the training will help you attune to each client’s portal to Presence Awareness through:

• Compassionate Presence
• Spacious Presence
• Grounded Presence
• Transcendent Presence

Theory and skills are presented didactically, followed by live demonstrations. You will have have the opportunity to practice skills with compassionate, experienced Presence Psychotherapists working in groups of 3-4 participants throughout the training to ease and enhance the learning process and help make it a truly enjoyable experience.

What is unique about this program:

• Presence Psychotherapy is practiced in 7 countries.
• US News & World report highlight Presence Psychotherapy for grief and trauma.
• It provides a comprehensive framework for clinicians to integrate spirituality fully into psychotherapy.

This exciting program includes skill building for clinicians to increase their embodiment of Presence and ability to experience Presence in and around others. This professional training is offered in a retreat setting to facilitate increased capacity to utilize Presence Awareness in sessions.

This professional training is highly supportive with compassionate, experienced Presence Psychotherapists working in groups of 3-4 participants throughout the training to ease and enhance the learning process and help make it a truly enjoyable experience.

This is a highly experiential training. You will explore 4 Dimensions of Presence personally and experience the benefit of each as part of learning how to help clients orient to Presence. Participants in Presence Psychotherapy training tend to bond quickly.

Benefits of attending:

• Learn a comprehensive framework to integrate spirituality into psychotherapy.
• Help clients (and yourself!) easily sense and sustain awareness of 4 Dimensions of Presence and experience more well-being.
• Utilize Presence Awareness to heal attachment wounds, resolve Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, and shock. process extreme feelings while remaining regulated.
• Help clients experience the Essence of Who we are as Presence beyond trauma and suffering.

For more information including more information about what you will learn, information about CEs, grievance policy, and more, go to: https://presencepsychotherapy.org/trainings/   28 CE’s are included with tuition.

PLEASE NOTE: The final 3 hours of this training will be offered live, online on Saturday Feb 6th. This will give the opportunity to use the skills learned in your clinical practice for 1 week and reconvene for Q&A with Michelle Lepak. Zoom details will be provided onsite at the conclusion of the program.

Extend your stay! Arrive early to attend our Yoga Vacation Program: The Alchemy of Healing – Transforming Trauma into Wholeness with Arielle Schwartz, Wayne Baker and Avery Neal.

Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing

We suggest you arrive at least one day prior to the start of this course and stay until at least one day after the course ends for the optimal experience.