Crosby Integrative Training

Webinar: Ethics of Therapist Self-Care: Inside and Outside the Work Setting (6 CE's)
2024-06-14 09:00 - 16:30, 2024-11-01 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-03-21 09:00 - 16:30, 2025-11-07 09:00 - 16:30, 2026-03-20 09:00 - 16:30 UTC
Description of Training:
This workshop be an integrative approach that will examine the importance of self-care for therapists in maintaining effectiveness and ethical boundaries in clinical practice. There are over three decades of research on therapist self-care and thousands of years of ancient wisdom on the significance of helper self-care. We will examine the social psychology and interpersonal neurobiology skills of resilience when experiencing daily negative or traumatic stories. We will focus on setting boundaries when conducting therapy and when away from the therapy setting. We will be developing your own self-care checklist while using the Stages of Change model. Meets Law and Ethics CE requirement.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Explore the importance of therapist self-care in a therapy practice indicated by research and ancient wisdom.
Delineating the skills to build resilience when being affected by negative stories and events.
Noting the significance of one’s practice in defining and maintaining boundaries during therapy and when not officially working.
Learning how to build your own self-care checklist while using the Stages of Change model.

References:
Corey, G., Muratori, M., Austin, J.T., Austin, J.A. (2017) Counselor self-care. ACA, Alexandria, Va.
Hughes, G. (2014) Competence and self -care and psychotherapy. Routledge, New York, New York.
Norcross, J., Vandenbos, G. (2018) Leaving it at the office: a guide to psychotherapist self-care. Second Edition. Guilford Publications, New York, New York.

Webinar: Utilizing Stages of Change and Cultural Formulation Interviewing within Diversity Issues (4 CE's)
2024-07-12 13:00 - 17:15, 2025-05-16 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-10-02 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
This workshop will address ways to navigate diversity during treatment. The Cultural Formulation questions in the DSM-V -TR will be examined to help facilitate a shared understanding between client and therapist. The workshop will focus on how to understand the change process by showing how to utilize the Stages of Change model within diversity issues. This presentation will be a practical multidisciplinary lecture and include demonstrations with audience exercises. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Learn the cultural formulation questions to enhance understanding of client and their context.
Increase understanding on how cultural formulation interviewing enhances diversity orientation to ask not just self oriented but other oriented questions.
Examine how to prepare people for cultural formulation questions.
Examine Stages of Change and how to help understand issues surrounding diversity.

Webinar: The Hero's Journey of Law/Ethics and Supervision (4 CE’s)
2024-08-16 13:00 - 17:15, 2025-06-13 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-06-05 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
We will explore the challenges and joys of supervision/mentoring by exploring the Hero’s Journey of Joseph Campbell . The workshop will examine the stages and essential skills/process of supervision and mentoring. We will also explore archetypal patterns delineated in stories movies. We will delineate a bio/psycho/social case formulation framework for case supervision. In addition we will attend to scope of practice, boundaries, minimizing risk and liability and the appropriate place of inner work, self care and its role in supervision . Meets Ethics and/or Supervision CE requirements.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Examine the biological/psychological/social model to examine cases
Understand the important elements of a good supervision relationship and therapeutic factors of change
Learn to implement a visual case formulation model
Delineate steps to minimize risk and liability
Focus on working with in scope of practice
Recognize the importance of inner work as a supervisor and supervisee
Explore the Hero Journey of Supervision
Examine archetypal patterns in the Supervision process.

References,
Campbell, J., (2000) Becoming an effective supervisor. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Sheridan Books.
Hollis, J., (2008) Why good people do bad things: Understanding our darker selves. New York, NY: Avery.
Piper, M., (2003) Letters to a young therapists (Art of mentoring) New York, NY: Basic Books.
Wedding, D., Niemiec, R., (2014) Movies and mental illness: Using films to enhance psychopathology. 4th Edition. Toronto, Canada: Hogrefe Press.
Yalom, I., (2017) Becoming myself (A psychiatrist memoir). New York, NY: Basic Books.

Webinar: Integrative Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Enhanced with Schema Therapy (4 CE’s)
2024-09-27 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
CBT needs a new creative and engaging approach to reach out to clients in individual and group therapy. The Integrative Cognitive Behavioral and Schema Therapy brings a holistic dimension to therapy by blending behavioral/cognitive strategies and storytelling with Psychodynamic Schema Therapy. In this workshop you will learn step-by-step methods for individual and group therapy designed to be adapted to each client. The goal is to provide achievable tools that can be adapted to each individual to navigate one’s life journey.
This integrative model provides a uniquely bio-psycho-social skills based approach encouraging clients to discover strengths, deepening interpersonal connections, locating resources and finding resilience. Behavioral skills will be shown on how to start the schema change. The workshop will illustrate how to enhance CBT with metaphor, art and music and other learning styles. The cognitive/behavioral skills will help illustrate how to shift schemas through behavior change, annotate history within the automatic thought record and encourage a gestalt structured approach with rehearsals. These skills are also easily adapted to trauma, stress management, ADHD, anger and couples communication problems.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to log in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Identity key behavioral skills in Integrated CBT that can bring about cognitive/mood change.
Examine core cognitive skills to enhance change.
Learn how to identify schemas and examine the three schema pathways.
Understand how to utilize the automatic thought record as a structured Gestalt.
Learn the difference between transmission of skill and transacting a skill.
Develop individualized maintenance or relapse prevention plan within therapy.

Webinar: Navigating One of Life’s Most Difficult Moments: Finding Hope within Suicide Ideation and Plan (4 CE's)
2024-10-04 13:00 - 17:15, 2025-01-31 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-01-30 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
The workshop will examine an integrative perspective of suicide prevention/ assessment and treatment planning through the lens of psychology/sociology/anthropology, myths and stories. A focus will be on a collaborative suicide assessment and how to implement strength based interventions to reduce suicidality. We will also address the importance of self-care of the clinician. The workshop will focus on how to find resilience when we face difficult moments in our clients and our own stories. Meets Suicide Risk Assessment, Treatment, and Management CE requirement.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Understand suicide ideation and attempt from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Learn Suicide Risk Assessment, treatment, and management.
Examine a strength based approach.
Learn prevention and resilience steps.
Examine clinician self-care rituals.

Webinar: Polarities of American Culture and the Impact on Therapy: Amish/Las Vegas (4 CE’s)
2025-01-17 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-08-07 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
The Amish and Las Vegas are symbols of two polarities in American culture, in the world and within ourselves. Las Vegas represents fast pace, instant gratification, materialism, risk, impulse, excitement, and individualism. The Amish symbolize simplicity, plainness, selflessness, community, slow change, and humility. The workshop will explore a clinical integrative model that links how thoughts, behavior, biology and feelings and values are interacting in our clients and in ourselves. A cultural/therapy model gives us a wider clinical perspective of how ADHD, depression, anxiety, addiction, family dysfunction, and trauma affects our lives. We will explore cultural context and how to identify skills to regulate cultural polarities that affect our dynamics and symptoms such as: under and over stimulation, self- oriented versus other- directed, denial of loss versus honoring loss, violence versus nonviolence, present versus past, enmeshment versus disengagement and blaming versus accepting. This workshop will be a fascinating, informative, engaging blend of culture/ therapy information, stories, discussions and suggestion on how to resolve the tensions in the Amish/Las Vegas polarity that are within many clinical settings. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Emphasize the presence of polarities that exist in culture and ourselves.
Highlight a trans-theoretical model that integrates mind/mood/behaviors and the body with culture/environment.
Learn how to integrate a holistic cultural perspective with dynamic tensions such as self-directed other directed.
Learn how the Technology Gap theory can help us better understand how our clients are affected by technological forces (cell phones, computers, etc.) and how to problem solve collaboratively and manage technology use.
Examine approaches to minimize self and other directed violence.

Webinar: Applying the Hero’s Journey, Archetypes and Interpersonal Neurobiology in Therapy (4 CE's)
2025-02-21 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-02-13 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
The client’s therapeutic process in addiction and mental health problems is a mythic journey one full of struggles, challenges and rewards. The Hero’s Journey model formulated by Joseph Campbell is based on common patterns of change found throughout 240 stories in the world. This workshop will delineate and explore how to flexibly integrate the 12 Hero’s Journey Stages, 12 common Archetypes with Stages of Change and Interpersonal Neurobiology in therapy. This workshop is a strength based engaging approach that weaves ancient wisdom and modern science into therapy and can be adapted to socio-cultural concerns. It is a refreshing structured approach that allows clients to discover how to navigate difficulties and locate hope. This model can be adapted to any therapy and treatment modality. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
This training will be conducted in a webinar format. You will receive an email prior to the webinar with instructions on how to sign in to the webinar.
Learning Objectives:

Delineate the elements in the Hero’s Journey within common cultural patterns.
Explore the linkage between the Hero’s Journey and Stages of Change.
Apply the Stages of the Hero’s Journey to the therapeutic process.
Explore the universality of Stages of the Hero’s Journey, 12 common Archetypes and link to clinical and socio-cultural concerns.
Understand the Interpersonal Neurobiology of story telling, and emotional regulation within the Hero’s Journey model.

Webinar: Reclaiming Attention, Emotional Regulation and Interpersonal Connections in a Virtual Age (4 CE’s)
2025-07-11 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-01-16 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
Many of our clients have attention, emotional regulation, and interpersonal difficulties aggravated in part by one’s own dysfunctional daily management of technology. Addressing the need to manage one’s technology use has a similar refusal of the call as dealing with addiction. Our clients often bulk at the idea of change. We need to address this more directly in our therapy to get a holistic picture of our clients. The workshop will address how technology (iPhone, computers, AI, etc.) can be a factor in our client’s severity and functionality of their presenting problems. We will examine practical assessment questions on usage and functionality, motivational interviewing methods and intervention strategies to help us reclaim our attention, emotional centeredness and interconnectedness. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
Learning Objectives:

Understanding the Cultural Gap Model applied to group therapy.
Explore how technology can positively and negatively impact us.
Examine assessment questions on iPhone or computer use.
Identify and delineate specific strategies to use in therapy to manage technology.

References:
Cytowic, R. (2024). Your stone age brain in the screen age: coping with digital distraction and sensory overload. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Haidt, J. (2024). The anxious generation: how the great rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness. New York: Penguin Press.
Slater, G. (2024). Jung vs Borg: finding the deeply human in a posthuman age. Arroyo Grande, California: Winter Press.
Swingel, M. (2019). i-Minds: how and why constant connectivity is rewiring our brains and what to do about it (2nd edition). Gabriola Island, BC, Canada: New Society Publishers.

Webinar: Understanding and Navigating Prolonged Grief Disorder and Loss (4 CE’s)
2025-09-26 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-09-25 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:
Prolonged Grief Disorder is a new diagnosis announced in DSM-V-TR during the 2022 COVID-19 pandemic, a time of rapidly rising environmental concerns, social concerns and gun violence. We will examine what this recent diagnosis is and explore the positive and controversial aspects of it. The workshop will delineate “normal” grief from prolonged grief disorder. We will explore death and non-death losses in clinical work (divorce, unemployment, illness, social justice issues, etc.) and how these losses need to be identified and understood as a dual process model between the shifting dynamics of loss and resilience.
The workshop will explore Kubler- Ross and Kessler’s” five stages of grief theory” and how it has been challenged by research findings for over the last twenty years. This workshop will explore a response theory approach to grief and bereavement as opposed to distinct and finite stages and explore a dual process model of coping with bereavement and non-death loss and grief. A focus will be on identifying the evidenced based risk factors of prolonged grief disorder and explore culturally sensitive approaches in dealing with grief and bereavement. The workshop will examine scales that can help with identification of prolonged grief disorder.
This workshop will combine finding meaning in death and non-death loss with an integrative tool-based approach that can be adapted to a wide variety individuals and socio-cultural identities. Meets Cultural Competency CE requirement.
Objectives:

Analyze how prolonged grief disorder is experienced and expressed in clients and within diversity issues.
Examine a response theory to death and non-death losses.
Delineate the Dual Process Model for coping with death and non-death loss and grief.
Explore outcome measures that are helpful in identifying the diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder.
Utilize an integrative tool-based approach across therapies that can be adapted to a wide variety of individuals and socio-cultural identities.

References:
Daniel, T. (2023) The stubborn persistence of grief stage theory. Journal of death and dying. Vol.0(0) pp.1-15. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publishing.
Doka, K. and Martin, T. (2025) Grieving beyond gender: Understanding diverse grieving styles. Third Edition. New York: Routledge.
Parkes, C. M. Laungani, P. and Young, B. (2015) Death and bereavement across cultures. Second Edition. New York: Routledge.
Neimeyer, R. (2015) Techniques of grief therapy: Assessment and intervention. New York: Routledge.
Neimeyer, R. (2025) Living beyond loss: Questions and answers about death and bereavement. New York: Routledge.
Reynolds, C., Cozza, S., Maciejewski, P., Prigerson, H., Shear, K., Simon, N. and Zisook, S. (2023) Grief and prolonged grief disorder. Washington DC.: American Psychiatric Press.
Walsh, F. and McGoldrick, M. (2004) Living beyond loss: Death in the family. New York: Norton Press.

Webinar: Schema Therapy: Identification and Transformation (4 CE’s)
2025-11-21 13:00 - 17:15, 2026-11-06 13:00 - 17:15
Description of Training:

Schema Therapy is an evidence based cognitive/behavioral and psychodynamic approach of CBT developed by Jeff Young PhD in the 1990’s. Many clients are affected by their positive and negative schemas and this workshop will offer how to identify and shift maladaptive schemas and support healthy schemas. We will focus on clinical challenges and how to work through the stuck period that often occurs during schema shifting. This will be done in a well-paced workshop that will be practical and creative.
Learning Objectives:

Identify maladaptive schemas (life history and present moment)
Understand current triggers to schema development
Examine how to educate clients about schemas
Delineate the behavioral driven components of schemas and how to shift them into transformation
Examine schema focused (bio/psycho/social) change strategies.

References:
Farrell, J., Reiss, N. and Shaw, I. (2014) The schema therapy clinicians guide: A complete resource for building and delivering individual, group and integrated schema mode treatment programs. New York: Wiley Press.
Farrell, J. and Shaw, I. (2018) Experiencing schema therapy from inside out: A self-practice self-reflection workbook for therapists. New York, New York: Guilford Press.
Heath, G. and Startup, H. (Eds), (2020) Creative methods in schema therapy: Advances and innovation in clinical practice. New York: Routledge
Young, J., Klosko, J. and Weishaar, M. (2006) Schema Therapy: A practitioner’s guide. New York: Guilford
