Unraveling PTSD: Advanced Skills Training to Enhance the Effectiveness of Your Trauma-Focused Treatment
What is keeping your client stuck in PTSD, and how can you get them unstuck as efficiently as possible? When delivering trauma-focused treatments for individuals with PTSD, such as Cognitive Processing Therapy, Prolonged Exposure, or other cognitive behavioral therapies, key therapist behaviors influence how much and how quickly clients improve. This workshop will focus in-depth on honing your abilities in two key skill areas that have been linked to improved symptom outcome: 1) identifying and prioritizing trauma-related beliefs, and 2) Socratic questioning.
“Unraveling PTSD: Advanced Skills Training to Enhance the Effectiveness of Your Trauma-Focused Treatment” will provide a framework for conceptualizing common patient thinking resulting from trauma that will allow you to anticipate and skillfully address your clients’ beliefs. In addition to identifying these central beliefs, this workshop will investigate beliefs that clients struggle to let go of and strategies to explore the function of these beliefs, which, when not addressed, may prevent your client from making progress in treatment. Finally, we will cover effective strategies to target key beliefs to unravel your clients’ PTSD. The session, appropriate for both those new to trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy as well as advanced practitioners, will be interactive and include numerous case examples, demonstrations, and experiential exercises.
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Workshop Details
Presenters: Stefanie LoSavio, PhD, ABPP & Bailee Schuhmann, PhD
Date & Time: May 29, 2025, from 9am to 4pm CT (Online via Zoom)
Eligibility: Mental health care providers
CE Credits offered: 5.5
Cost: Registration fee of $150 per attendee
Cancellation, Substitutions, and Refunds
Registration fees, minus a $25 service charge, will be refunded to participants who send a written cancellation via email to admin@strongstartraining.org postmarked no less than 15 days before the training. No refunds will be made thereafter. A colleague may be substituted for no extra charge if STRONG STAR Training Initiative is notified at least two business days before the training. In some cases, you may be able to reschedule to a future Learning Community with no additional cost.
Unraveling PTSD 1-Day Workshop via Zoom
Please note Agenda “Time” based on Central Standard Timezone
| 9:00 am – 9:15 am | Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 9:15 am – 10:30 am | Identifying and Formulating Trauma-Related Beliefs |
| 10:30 am – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am – 12:00 pm | Prioritizing the Highest Priority Trauma-Related Beliefs |
| 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
| 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Socratic Questioning Skills to Examine High-Priority Beliefs |
| 2:30 pm – 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 pm – 4:00 pm | Addressing Difficult-To-Let-Go-Of Beliefs and Exploring the Function of Beliefs |