Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Care
We can be discouraged and distressed, when those we serve suffer greatly and--on the surface--appear to be causing themselves more harm than good. This workshop will help us engage with our clients, understand the context of their painful circumstances, and move together toward relief. Enhancing our effectiveness in these difficult conversations helps others change and also frees us from our own distress.
This fast-paced and highly interactive session will help you grow your skills for challenging contexts and conversations. In this workshop, we will discuss the basic definitions of trauma and trauma informed care and how the spirit and skills of motivational interviewing enable practitioners to engage in many different levels of trauma informed care. We will also identify specific strategies for helping our clients minimize relapse risk and make use of the resources and information we share with them. We will practice skills for strengthening our helping relationships and enhancing our clients’ readiness for real and sustainable change.
Who Can Attend?
Any helping professional interested in learning more about the utilization of Motivational Interviewing and Trauma Informed Care
What you will learn in this course:
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Define and list at least four distinct types of psychological trauma
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Illustrate how the four components of the spirit of MI promotes safety among trauma survivors talking about their experiences.
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Apply at least three skills of effective helping to increase engagement among trauma survivors
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Show how to negotiate at least one appropriate change target for trauma survivors
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Demonstrates at least three interventions that promote change talk among trauma survivors
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Apply five motivational interviewing microskills to promote trauma survivor engagement in treatment.
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Receive a certificate for 2 hour of CE for this FREE workshop! MI Center for Change is an NBCC Approved Provider ACEP #7223. And don’t worry, if you miss the live workshop, we will send you access to the recording!
Speaker Bio:
Kristin Dempsey, EDD, LMFT, LPCC
Kristin is a psychotherapist, counselor educator, and trainer in evidence-based psychotherapy practices. Kristin is a practicing licensed marriage and family therapist and licensed clinical counselor. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings: schools, community-based organization, county mental health, training agencies, and universities and professional schools. Kristin has been training clinicians and students in motivational interviewing since 2008, and Kristin has been practicing motivational interviewing since 2001. In addition to training in motivational interviewing, Kristin trains and provides consultation for clinicians in dialectical behavior therapy, trauma informed care, cognitive behavioral therapy, co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, clinician self-care, and suicide prevention and intervention. Kristin is lecturing faculty at San Francisco State University where she teaches addictions counseling, and she is an associate professor at the Wright Institute’s Counseling Psychology program where she teaches counseling skills, developmental psychology, research-based practice, group counseling, and addiction treatment. Kristin has assisted counseling agencies with self-assessment and programmatic change, and her EdD in Organizational Change and Leadership has assisted her in providing systems-level consultation. She is the author of The Harm Reduction Workbook for Addiction published by New Harbinger Press in 2024. She sees clients in San Francisco and Burlingame, CA offices.
Sign up here: https://www.micenterforchange.com/trauma-informed-care
