About this webinar
Please note: This course has been rescheduled to a future date. We invite you to join the waitlist to receive updates once the new date is announced.
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Date: December 2, 2025
Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Rana Pishva, PhD. C. Psych.
CE hours: 6
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
- Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers.
- Other: attachment-based interventions, development of psychotherapy skills.
Client age category: Professionals who work with adult populations.
Level of training: Introductory/Intermediate/Advanced.
Prerequisite: Psychotherapy experience and training.
Description: Traumatic experiences and attachment wounds can disrupt the personal narrative, leaving a person stuck in unhealthy patterns of behaviour. Clients often enter therapy with fragmented, overwhelming narratives shaped by traumatic experiences that disrupt their ability to make sense of past events and undermine their sense of self. Effective therapeutic approaches focus on helping clients transform these disorganized, overwhelming memories into coherent, balanced narratives with new meaning.
This workshop presents a therapeutic approach guided by the principles of decluttering and organizing, whereby the client “sorts out” their personal story, allowing them to create new meaning and tangible change in their everyday lives. In this process, clients make their thoughts, feelings, memories explicit, and with the support of the therapist determines what to keep, what to reevaluate or change, what to set aside and accept, and how to in the desired direction. The interventions integrates draw from research on discursive proximity, and integrates tenets of narrative therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment-based interventions.
The therapist’s role is to provide a safe, consistent relationship that models compassion and curiosity, while collaboratively deconstructing the old narrative, highlighting key patterns, and pivotal "forks in the road" that represent choices or turning points for the client. This process unfolds in small, nonlinear steps and relies on the formation of intentional skills such as reflective functioning and narrative practice.
Learning objectives:
- Understand how traumatic experiences and attachment wounds disrupt personal narratives and impact patterns of behavior.
- Learn to use discursive marker’s in client’s narrative to evaluate coherence and identify targets for intervention.
- Develop case conceptualization based on client’s narrative, using tenets from CBT and attachment theories.
- Implement evidence-based strategies from a “sorting and decluttering" therapeutic framework to transform disorganized, trauma-driven memories into a coherent, balanced personal narrative.
Register today to gain actionable strategies for helping clients “sort out” their stories and build pathways toward recovery and resilience.
Continuing Education (CE) Information: SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) to offer continuing education (CE) hours. Full-day programs equal six CE hours; half-day programs equal three CE hours; for less than half-day programs, one hour of programming equals one CE hour. SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health Learning Institute maintains responsibility for the programs.
Other licensing boards and professional organizations will grant continuing education credits for attendance at their own discretion; participants will need to submit the course outline and Certificate of Participation for their consideration.
CACBT - Aligned Continuing Education Hours:
Upon successful completion of this program, the continuing education hours earned may be applied toward the 50 hours of formal CBT training required for certification with the Canadian Association of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies (CACBT). For full details on the CACBT certification process and eligibility, please visit: https://www.cacbt.ca/certification-process
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