Training and Consultation

If you are licensed as a psychotherapist, pre-licensed, or a graduate student in a counseling program, the training course was designed for you!

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The word psychotherapy means “care of the soul” (from the Greek psyche + therapeia). While the history of psychotherapy includes theorists and practitioners with a bias against spirituality and religion, there have always been those who found effective ways to include spiritual wisdom in psychotherapeutic work. In recent years, there has been an outpouring of research and instruction in spiritually integrated psychotherapy and empirical evidence demonstrating the therapeutic efficacy of attending to clients’ spiritual beliefs and practices.

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The ACPE-SIP Curriculum draws upon diverse spiritual traditions and psychological research to provide practical resources to help therapists integrate spirituality into their work. It teaches therapists how to elicit and make therapeutic use of their clients’ spiritual perspectives and how to make ethically appropriate use of their own spiritual perspectives.

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The curriculum consists of two levels of training, with each level including 5 3-hour continuing education courses.