The Chicago Center for Integration and Healing offers programs designed for therapists at all levels of experience, with flexible time commitments and financial options.
The treatment of trauma can be both intense and rewarding work. It means sitting with the deepest of human wounds while trusting in the incredible human capacity to heal. CCIH believes that the work of establishing a healing environment for our clients must be done in a supportive community of our peers.
To that end, we offer a unique type of training experience that has become all too rare in the field of mental health. The pressures of our for-profit healthcare system and a lack of community funding mean that it is common for therapists to practice independently with few sources of professional support, leading them to become isolated and burdened by their work. Our programs offer therapists the opportunity to join CCIH’s professional community, deepen into their work, and stay up to date on current research and thinking about trauma.
All training programs are guided by CCIH’s four essential concepts.We welcome therapists of all racial identities, gender identities, and sexual orientations to join our professional community.
“Just as no survivor can recover alone, no therapist can work with trauma alone.”
Our Essential Concepts
Integrated Approach
No single model can treat all of human experience and suffering. We believe that the basis of all trauma-informed treatment must involve privileging regulation and working in the present moment, and utilize approaches that are both relational and body-centered.
Anti-Oppression Lens
Working in a body-centered way necessarily requires challenging the racism, misogyny, fatphobia, transphobia, ableism, and other forms of individual and systemic oppression present in society and the field of mental health.
Therapist Experience
Our personal history, identities and present experience come with us into the therapy room and influence the clinical relationship. Being an effective therapist requires us to interrogate our own history of wounding and implicit biases in order to create a present-centered, embodied experience.
Community Formation
Some experiences are too big for one therapist and one client to hold. Community can provide the support, holding and call to accountability that is essential to an ongoing practice.
Flexible Training Options
Advanced Clinical Training Program
A 24-month long, CCIH-led didactic and consultative training program for clinicians with their own practice who wish to deepen their knowledge of trauma-informed treatment.
Foundations in Trauma Training Program
A part-time, tuition-based program for therapists who want an intensive training, supervisory, and immersive clinical experience with involvement in our professional community.
Consultation to Organizations
Custom training for mental health clinics and other health organizations who seek to integrate more trauma-informed practices and theory into their service provision.
Online Courses
Convenient online, on-demand format for CCIH courses
CCIH Trauma Fellowship
A salaried, full-time, and supervised clinical experience for therapists who want to deepen into their trauma-informed practice by seeing a full caseload of clients at our offices.
Individual and Group Supervision
Supervision and consultation for psychotherapists who seek to integrate more trauma-informed practices and theory into their ongoing clinical practice.
Professional Development Workshops
Offered by CCIH for the past ten years. One or two-day workshops. Keeps clinicians current on trauma-informed practice.
Study Group
Our monthly reading and discussion group on current research and theory in trauma and attachment and its application to clinical practice.