Dana Wyss, Nathan D. Croy – Dual Certified Child and Family Trauma Professional: Play, CBT, and Creative Arts for Healing and Connection in Kids, Teens, and Parents
The course integrates Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Creative Arts as therapeutic tools for facilitating recovery and fostering connection within families.
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Certified Child & Adolescent Trauma Professional Training: Creative & Playful Paths to Treat Acute & Complex Trauma.
Learn how to work in creative, evidence-based ways with all types of trauma — from acute and developmental to complex — with kids and adolescents. This training gives you the crucial building blocks to make strong connections with your young clients and the foundation for successful family therapy and long-term healing.
Prepare for Trauma Work
- Creative ways to educate youth and families
- Collaborative assessment of client’s needs
- From Bowlby to today attachment styles
- Trauma’s impact on attachment and ability to heal
- Evolution of language and understanding
- Physiological, relational, spiritual, emotional symptoms and outcomes of trauma
Regulation and Co-Regulation — Modeling/Teaching/Experiencing
- Safely explore power differential
- Explore and expand the window of tolerance
- Arrow of comfort
- Stations of modulation – Create a modulation tool kit
Best Practices for Assessment
- Consideration for Referral and Diagnosis
- Evidenced-based assessment tools — can or cannot use
- Streamlined intake — ask the right questions
- ACE and developmental trauma
- Diagnosing with DSM-5-TR™
Creating and Assessing Safety — Interactive with Scope of Practice
- Create your own safe space activity
- Building routines in session — families, school, and milieu systems
- Identify safe people and relationships
Compare Evidence-Based/Informed Treatments for High-Level Trauma
- EMDR
- Neurosequential
- Brainspotting
- DBT
- ARC
- TF-CBT
- Expressive Arts Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Play Therapy
Expressive Arts and Treatment
- Non-verbal approaches
- Relaxation
- Writing and journaling
- Poetry
- Visual art
- Rhythmic movement
- Use of metaphor
Move from Surviving to Thriving
- Activity
- Case conceptualization — integration of trauma narrative — story, timeline, poem
- Closure group activity
- Sample questionnaires
- Risks and Limitations
Family Trauma Treatment Certification Training: Interventions for Hope & Change
Take your scope of practice that much further by learning how to treat families that have experienced trauma. You’ll see the transformation on a whole new level with the comprehensive skills in this training that move families forward from the past.
How Trauma is Created and Maintained in Families
- Neurological substrates and sources of trauma
- Trauma as a disruption of trust
- Personal innate resiliency
- Impacts on family culture
- Responses of the people around the traumatized person
- Maintenance of trauma effects (re-traumatization, dismissive of actual trauma, ignorance)
A Systemic Approach to Trauma Treatment
- Families as the source of healing for trauma
- Create secure connections and increase resiliency
- Build trust as it relates to anxiety, fear, and threat
- Bowenian Family Therapy, Emotionally
- Focused Family Therapy and other systemic models
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Stabilize Families for Treatment with Safety Planning
- Risk Assessments
- Systemic Safety Planning
- How to customize the safety plan
- Managing physiological responses
- Integrating with treatment
Early Session Strategies to Enhance Family Engagement
- When it’s a bad idea to include the whole family
- Assessing for DV and other risks
- Use family sculpting to reveal family dynamics
- Working individually in order to work systemically
- Games and activities to:
- Assess a child’s self-esteem and worldview
- Increase open communication
- Identify themes to be explored in future sessions
Family System Self-Regulation: Coping Skills to Modulate Emotions
- Implementation
- How to notice warning signs early
- Using coping skills for calm
- Identifying primary emotions
Carmen Jimenez-Pride, LCSW, LISW-CP, ERYT, RCYT, RPT-S | Click here for information about Carmen Jimenez Pride
Join Carmen as she expertly pairs the therapeutic power of play with the non-pathologizing, flexible approach of IFS therapy. Through expert explanation and demonstration, Carmen will teach you how to integrate these two powerful therapy methods so you can help young clients:
- Release shame as they explore and make sense of their internal sensations and experiences
- Give voice to all their “parts,” none of which are bad or wrong
- Express and process painful emotions, urges, and memories without assigning blame or shame to them
- Unhook from distressing beliefs about themselves and their experiences
- Enhance social relationships, foster emotional wellness, and build on personal strengths
- Develop cognitive flexibility and reframe self-doubt
And so much more!
Course Overview
The Dual Certified Child and Family Trauma Professional course, developed by experts Dana Wyss, PhD, LMFT, and Nathan Croy, LCMFT, is an immersive training designed for professionals working with trauma-impacted children, teens, and their families. The course integrates Play Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Creative Arts Therapies to foster healing, emotional regulation, and stronger family connections. You will learn practical interventions for trauma recovery while earning dual certification in child and family trauma treatment.
Why Choose This Course
This course stands out for its holistic, evidence-based approach to trauma healing using play, creativity, and cognitive strategies. It is designed to help professionals build a solid foundation in trauma-informed care while offering cutting-edge techniques that are practical, creative, and impactful.
Key Benefits of the Course
- Dual Certification: Elevate your credentials with dual certification in child and family trauma treatment.
- 26.5 CE Hours: Earn continuing education credits while enhancing your expertise.
- Innovative Techniques: Learn effective strategies combining Play Therapy, CBT, and Creative Arts to treat trauma in children and adolescents.
- Practical Applications: Engage children and teens with therapeutic play, creativity, and CBT interventions that facilitate healing and resilience.
Course Description
This comprehensive course equips mental health professionals with tools to:
- Facilitate healing and emotional connection in children, teens, and their families.
- Use Play Therapy to help children process and express trauma in a safe environment.
- Apply CBT techniques to address negative thinking and trauma symptoms.
- Integrate Creative Arts like drawing, music, and storytelling to encourage emotional expression and regulation.
- Engage parents in the therapy process to rebuild trust and foster healing at home.
Who Should Take This Course
This course is ideal for:
- Licensed therapists, counselors, social workers, and mental health professionals.
- Professionals working with children, adolescents, and families affected by trauma.
- Clinicians seeking to expand their trauma-informed therapeutic toolkit with creative interventions.
About the Instructors
Dana Wyss, PhD, LMFT, ATR-BC, is a highly experienced trauma therapist and certified art therapist. With over 25 years of expertise, Dana has worked extensively in trauma treatment for children and families, integrating creative approaches such as expressive arts and movement into her clinical work.
Nathan D. Croy, LCMFT, CFTP, is a licensed family therapist with vast experience in trauma recovery for children and families. Nathan specializes in family systems therapy and CBT, providing practical and research-backed interventions for trauma treatment.
Keywords:
- Dual Certified Child and Family Trauma Professional
- Play Therapy for Child Trauma
- CBT for Family Trauma Healing
- Creative Arts in Trauma Therapy
- Child and Family Trauma Certification
Testimonials
“This course transformed my approach to trauma therapy. The combination of Play Therapy and Creative Arts has helped me engage children in ways I never thought possible.” — Licensed Therapist
“I now feel fully equipped to help children and their families navigate trauma recovery with these innovative and practical tools.” — Clinical Social Worker
Curriculum
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes