Thomas Consulting
Clinical Training Series
Addiction and Recovery
This half-day (3-4 hours) training session will assist substance abuse clinicians with counseling skills and techniques that draw their clients into the therapeutic process. Participants will learn about "Motivational interviewing*" and the stages of change, setting the stage for change, counseling chronic relapsers, relapse as a part of recovery, confronting inconsistencies, exposing and coping with inner resistance, working through unresolved emotional issues and recovery as a long-term process.
Treating Co-occurring Disorders
This training series comprises the basic knowledge and skill sets necessary to facilitate a Co-occurring Disorders group. There are 6 trainings and each training is 4 hours in length (for a total of 24 training hours). During this time participants will learn and develop skills through information gathering, handouts and facilitator explanation, case study review, analysis and diagnosis, group facilitation and exercises, role play and modeling. Each training will build on the previous training and lead into the next. To ensure that participants have a firm grasp on the materials and information being presented, there will be a pre and post-test during each training. A certificate of achievement will be given to each participant who achieves a score of 8 (out of 10) or better on the post-test. Participants who do not achieve a score of at least 8 will be given the opportunity to re-test in the deficient areas at future trainings.
Creating a Therapeutic Atmosphere for Change
This half-day (3-4 hours) training session is for clinicians serving all populations. Participants will engage in group exercises that utilize person-centered strategies and micro-counseling techniques. These strategies will enable participants to build trusting relationships with clients while simultaneously creating a counseling atmosphere that lends itself to the process of change.
Therapist - An Agent of Change
This 3-hour training session is for clinicians serving all populations. Participants will review current counseling practices and strategies. Participants will also engage in mock counseling sessions, utilizing person-centered strategies, client verbal and non-verbal communications, here and now talk, being in the moment with the client, positive confrontation and micro-counseling skills to name a few. Through utilization of the aforementioned strategies and developing the therapist's self-awareness, participants will learn skills to better engage their clients, thus, becoming a change agent.
Psychotherapy Techniques and Interventions for Individual and Family Therapy
This 3-hour workshop is for clinicians who are seeking to enhance their therapeutic techniques and build their repertoire of interventions. A variety of effective and innovative techniques and interventions such as art and play therapy, Geshtalt techniques, person-centered therapy and motivational strategies, etc., will be reviewed and demonstrated. Participants will learn through actively engaging in role-plays, demonstrations and discussions.
Clinical trainings are designed to meet the needs of all levels of staff who are involved in clinical work. The clinical trainings provide a venue for participants to grow and further hone their clinical skills through an engaging learning environment that incorporates role-play, break-out groups, active feedback and review of real case scenarios. Participants are invited to actively participate in the learning process by sharing their clinical experiences and opening themselves up to a learning environment that promotes client change via clinician self-awareness and authentic self expression.
Participants will add new tools and techniques for therapeutic interventions to their repertoire and discover new ways to promote a healthy counseling environment conducive for change. Participants will complete the trainings feeling empowered and experiencing a sense of renewed energy for their craft.
