The Chicago Center for Integration and Healing offers training to clinicians, agencies, and organizations in trauma-informed therapy.
CCIH believes that the work of establishing a healing environment for our clients must be done in a supportive community of our peers. We have developed resources for mental health professionals to sustain that community.
CCIH provides ongoing education, consultation, and training to individual therapists and organizations to enable professionals to provide trauma-informed care at all levels of experience.
“Just as no survivor can recover alone, no therapist can work with trauma alone.”
Essential Concepts
Integrated Approach
We practice an integrated approach to psychotherapy that incorporates relational, developmental, and body-centered approaches that treat the whole person in the context of their own life.
Therapist Experience
Our personal history and present experience come with us into the therapy room and influence the clinical relationship.
Anti-Oppression Lens
The power dynamics and microaggressions that occur in the outside world also enter our clinical space. We hold an anti-oppression focus and explore the ways that the identities we and our clients hold affect the clinical relationship.
Community Formation
The essential work of treating complex trauma and human relationships is best done in the context of a professional community. We support and challenge one another in our work and in holding the experience of treating trauma.
Flexible Training Options
Advanced Clinical Training Program
A 24-month long, CCIH-led training (online and in-person when safe) program for clinicians
Individual and Group Supervision
Supervision and consultation for psychotherapists who seek to integrate more trauma-informed practices and theory into their ongoing clinical practice
Consultation to Organizations
Custom training for mental health clinics and other health organizations who seek to integrate more trauma-informed practices and theory
Professional Development Workshops
Offered by CCIH for the past eight years. One or two-day workshops. Keeps clinicians current on trauma-informed practice.
Upcoming Professional Development Events
Integrated Practices: A Resourcing Workshop for Professionals
IP – Integrated Practices is a group experience that is designed to empower individuals, with a history of trauma, on their healing path. The...
July 24 @ 9:00 am - 12:30 pmWorking with the Inner Critic: Enactments, Rage and Shame
Kathy Steele, MN, CS, APRN This online workshop will offer a practical, integrative approach to understanding and working with a wide range of inne...
August 21 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pm