Overview
Prepare now offers Continuing Education Unit (CEU) programming for licensed mental health practitioners to strengthen professional development and to increase knowledge of proven practices in healing interventions that can improve physical, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral outcomes for trauma-impacted and at-risk clients. Trainings focus on information and tools that professionals can immediately put into practice to educate and support clients, including navigating the social context for experiencing violence and integrating psychosocial education with therapy to reduce client shame and self-blame. All programs are customizable and include dynamic role-plays, group discussion, and individual rehearsal of concepts one-on-one with highly trained facilitators. Contact Us to learn more.
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Continuing Education Unit Programs
Short Form, Full Day, and Multi-Session Programs
Maximum 16 – 20 Participants
Prepare educators team with a licensed professional at your organization or from our network of practitioners to offer a customized program that provides Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for your participants. At the conclusion of the program, participants will have acquired a new set of knowledge, skills, mindsets, and behaviors that enhance their clinical skills. Participants will:
- Acquire a framework for viewing violence within a social context to avoid unconsciously perpetuating systems of oppression
and rape culture. - Gain comfort in setting boundaries with clients and creating a strong frame for the client-therapist relationship.
- Increase understanding of the ways that people respond under pressure to physical and emotional threat.
- Directly experience the changes in affect state, self-confidence, and somatic state when embodied self-empowerment methods
are practiced. - Enhance ability to help clients identify when emotional boundaries are crossed, notice strategies used by manipulators, assess power dynamics, and review realistic options to defend various boundary intrusions.
- Improve skills for coaching clients through difficult interpersonal encounters.
We’ll Customize a Program for Your Practitioners
The following CEU topics are representative of the range of programs available:
- Empowerment Self-Defense as a trauma intervention for survivors
- Methods for helping clients set emotional and physical boundaries
- Trauma-sensitive support for clients who report interpersonal violence, sexual assault, and other forms of violence
- Skills to strengthen client capacity to more accurately read people and assess problematic or dangerous intentions
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“On behalf of the Institute for the Contemporary Psychotherapy (ICP) Trauma Studies Center, I want to thank Prepare for the CEU program, Claiming Your Voice – Defending Your Boundaries: Introducing an Empowerment Self Defense Approach into Psychotherapy with Trauma Survivors. The presentation was illuminating and the experimental work was particularly effective. A great experience for all participants.”
“Prepare demonstrated a high level of professionalism from their timeliness to their thoughtful and organized material and exercises. The team was highly flexible and exhibited strong cultural competence. They delivered the material in a way that was intersectional, culturally informed, and connection with the population they were serving. They covered a lot of material in a clear, consise, and sensitive manner that effectively achieved all the goals set at the beginning of each session. Prepare left a lasting impression on us all.”
– Rosemary Masters, Founding Director Trauma Studies Center,
6-credit program
– The Children’s Village Safe Harbor Program,
6-credit program