Find the Right Training for You
Discover a wide range of expert-led trainings designed to equip mental health clinicians with practical, evidence-based skills. Whether you’re looking for foundational workshops or advanced insights, our events cover essential topics like PTSD, suicide prevention, and more. Click below to explore trainings that align with your needs.
PTSD Learning Community Trainings
Ready to learn an evidence-based treatment for PTSD? Join one of our upcoming Learning Communities in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Written Exposure Therapy (WET), or Prolonged Exposure Therapy (PE). Our Learning Communities provide comprehensive training to support your development of proficiency in these proven treatment strategies. Learn more about our Learning Community training model and explore upcoming Learning Communities below!
Training Includes:
- 2-day Foundational Workshop
- Assessment Webinar
- Skills Lab Sessions
- Weekly Consultation sessions
- Implementation resources
- CE Credits
- 1 year Provider Portal access
Audience: Mental Health Clinicians
Registration Fee: $350
Cognitive Processing Therapy
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is an evidence-based PTSD treatment that helps clients reframe unhelpful trauma-related thoughts, fostering recovery and a return to meaningful living.
Prolonged Exposure Therapy
Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy is an evidence-based, gold-standard PTSD treatment that helps patients safely confront trauma-related memories and situations to reduce distress, shift beliefs, and reclaim their lives.
Written Exposure Therapy
Written Exposure Therapy (WET) is an evidenced-based, brief PTSD treatment involving guided written narratives to process trauma, achieve recovery, and reduce symptoms in just five sessions.
SSTI’s Learning Communities are graciously sponsored by the Gavin Farrell Foundation and Bob Woodruff Foundation.
Suicide Prevention Trainings
Explore evidence-based strategies to reduce suicide risk among veterans. Training is available in Crisis Response Planning (CRP), which offers self-guided strategies for times of crisis, and Lethal Means Safety (LMS), an intervention focused on the voluntary secure storage of firearms and other lethal means.
Training Includes:
- Comprehensive Workshop
- Implementation resources
- CE Credits
- 1 year Provider Portal access
Audience: Anyone who supports veterans
Free Registration
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Crisis Response Planning
Next Workshop: April 24, 2026
The Crisis Response Plan (CRP) is a brief intervention used to reduce suicide risk for individuals experiencing crisis. Our CRP workshops are offered at no cost and are open to any individual who supports veterans in work, as a volunteer, or peer, including veteran-serving mental health clinics and allies of veterans.
Lethal Means Safety
Next Workshop: April 14, 2026
Lethal Means Safety (LMS) is an evidence-based intervention, focused on improving the voluntary secure storage of firearms and other lethal means to help reduce suicidal behavior. Our LMS trainings are offered at no cost and are open to any individual who supports veterans in work, as a volunteer, or peer, including veteran-serving mental health clinics and allies of veterans.
Face the Fight Workshops are generously supported by the Face The Fight initiative.
Advanced Skills Workshops
Our Advanced Skills workshops are designed for mental health clinicians who have already trained in evidence-based PTSD and trauma treatments. These sessions offer a deeper dive into specialized areas of care, including complex nuances in trauma treatment and approaches for supporting those impacted by suicide loss. Whether you’re looking to refine advanced techniques or expand your expertise into new areas, explore our upcoming Advanced Skills workshops below!
Training Includes:
- Comprehensive Workshop
- CE Credits
- Implementation Resources
Audience: Mental Health Clinicians
Registration Fee: $0-$150
Provider Burnout & Vicarious Resilience
Next Workshop: April 10, 2026
This workshop offers research-backed practices for identifying the effects of trauma work on yourself and your clients, with a focus on recognizing signs of vicarious trauma and fostering vicarious resilience.
Unraveling PTSD
Next Workshop: April 23, 2026
This training equips providers with skills to identify and target trauma-related beliefs using Socratic questioning. After completion of this training, mental health providers will be able to identify, formulate, prioritize, and successfully evaluate key beliefs that keep clients stuck in PTSD.
The Impact of Suicide on Mental Health Clinicians
Next Workshop: May 5, 2026
This presentation explores the professional and personal impact of suicide loss on clinicians, addressing stigma, legal and ethical challenges, and postvention strategies, alongside a clinician’s personal experience of losing a client to suicide.
Motivational Interviewing
Next Workshop: June 25, 2026
This workshop equips providers with fundamental training on Motivational Interviewing – a goal-oriented communication style that can strengthen client motivation for change during therapy. Participants will enhance their ability to engage clients, explore ambivalence, and encourage commitment to treatment.
Other Trainings
PTSD Care Navigator
Next Workshop: June 5, 2026
Ensure your entire organization is prepared to support clients who may be experiencing PTSD. Our FREE PTSD Care Navigator training is designed to equip you with the knowledge to better understand trauma exposure, PTSD Screening, and evidence-based treatments (EBTs). This introductory webinar is ideal for case managers, administrative staff, and support teams in mental health agencies.
Training Includes:
- Comprehensive Workshop
- CE Credits
- Implementation Resources
Free Registration
Student CPT Workshop
Next Workshop: August 18-19, 2026
Gain foundational training in Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), an evidence-based treatment for PTSD. This two-day virtual workshop is designed for graduate students, interns, residents, and postdocs in mental health-related fields.
Training Includes:
- Comprehensive Workshop
- Implementation Resources
$50 Registration Fee