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Integrating Spirituality In Clinical Practice: From Trauma to Meaning-Making

$75.00

2 CE hours pending approval from GPA

Summary of Program:

MPA community members Dr. Angela Schaffner and Christine Wolff, LPC, will share their experiences and wisdom on ways to integrate spirituality into therapy sessions, emphasizing the ethics and competencies related to spirituality, faith deconstruction, and discerning how and when to use spiritual integration in therapy. This workshop will address the diverse expressions of spirituality across religions, as well as the unique perspectives of spirituality across populations of different cultures and subcultures. The research presented will also reflect inclusive research practices. The presenters will address differences in applying ethically informed interventions depending on where the client is in a faith deconstruction process, and considering various client sexual, gender, and religious identities.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will help participants:

1. Recognize cultural nuances in spiritual and religious beliefs, and apply techniques to meet the client where their spiritual beliefs intersect with their psychological process
2. Assess when and when not to apply a spiritual approach to address universal life issues 
3. Utilize spiritual suggestions for unseen aspects of lived experiences to address distorted thoughts and dysregulated emotions

4. Describe how to skillfully navigate significant ethical challenges related to spirituality that arise in session

5. Explain practices and interventions for guiding clients through faith deconstruction

6. Demonstrate religious and spiritual competencies as therapists

Statement on how the program meets DEI standards
This curriculum will address the diverse expressions of spirituality across religions, as well as the unique perspectives of spirituality across populations of different cultures and subcultures. The research presented will also reflect inclusive research practices. Presenters will address differences in applying ethically informed interventions depending on where the client is in a faith deconstruction process, and considering various client sexual, gender, and religious identities.

2 CE hours pending approval from GPA

Summary of Program:

MPA community members Dr. Angela Schaffner and Christine Wolff, LPC, will share their experiences and wisdom on ways to integrate spirituality into therapy sessions, emphasizing the ethics and competencies related to spirituality, faith deconstruction, and discerning how and when to use spiritual integration in therapy. This workshop will address the diverse expressions of spirituality across religions, as well as the unique perspectives of spirituality across populations of different cultures and subcultures. The research presented will also reflect inclusive research practices. The presenters will address differences in applying ethically informed interventions depending on where the client is in a faith deconstruction process, and considering various client sexual, gender, and religious identities.

Workshop Objectives

This workshop will help participants:

1. Recognize cultural nuances in spiritual and religious beliefs, and apply techniques to meet the client where their spiritual beliefs intersect with their psychological process
2. Assess when and when not to apply a spiritual approach to address universal life issues 
3. Utilize spiritual suggestions for unseen aspects of lived experiences to address distorted thoughts and dysregulated emotions

4. Describe how to skillfully navigate significant ethical challenges related to spirituality that arise in session

5. Explain practices and interventions for guiding clients through faith deconstruction

6. Demonstrate religious and spiritual competencies as therapists

Statement on how the program meets DEI standards
This curriculum will address the diverse expressions of spirituality across religions, as well as the unique perspectives of spirituality across populations of different cultures and subcultures. The research presented will also reflect inclusive research practices. Presenters will address differences in applying ethically informed interventions depending on where the client is in a faith deconstruction process, and considering various client sexual, gender, and religious identities.

Angela Carlson Schaffner, Ph.D. is a licensed psychologist in private practice for over 20 years, author of two books on integrating faith and psychology and facilitating small groups, and is a third degree black belt in Taekwondo. She contributed to a resource on keeping children safe in trauma-informed faith communities. She sees older adolescents, adults, and couples in her practice, and practices ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in addition to AEDP and IFS therapy.

Presenters:

Christine Wolff is a practicing somatic therapist and pastoral counselor. She began working as a counselor later in her adult life, after working over a decade in hospitality and half as long as a massage therapist. Christine spent 13 years studying at the Saint Thomas Mystical Christian Church. And four years studying Transformative Touch, a somatic therapy approach involving touch, in Philadelphia, PA. By engaging with all four levels of existence, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, she does her best to treat the whole system of the clients that sit with her.