Building on the core CCT skills and practices presented in Level 1 training, this intensive focuses on story-work, based on a Christian’s union with Christ and his story.
Intensive 3 Training
Increasing Competence in CCT: Story-Work and Redemptive Transformation
for Mental Health Professionals, Pastors, and other Christian Caregivers
Complete the CCT Intensive Application to Apply
COURSE INFORMATION
Location: Louisville, KY or Online
Intensive Cost: $1500
Supervision Cost: $500
Early Bird Discount – 20% off if you register 1 month before
Fellow Discount – 20% off • Current Student Discount – 50% off
Focus: Deepening Communion with God in the Therapy Process
The therapeutic value of worship and communion with God, Contemplative prayer as a means to experience intimacy with God, promotion of earned secure attachment to Jesus in order to address psychological problems due to insecure attachment, chronic trauma, personal sin, and spiritual struggles, Counseling of “parts” within a Christian worldview. Supervision will also be included.
Attendees will:
- Personally encounter communion with God and learn to identify and describe its key experiential features.
- Engage in contemplative prayer as a pathway to deep, relational connection with God.
- Attune to the indwelling Spirit of Christ as an embodied source of comfort, conviction, consolation, and transformation.
- Strengthen their skills in the core practices of the Jesus Therapy Framework: therapeutic prayer, Scripture engagement, Christian meditation, and story-work, imagery-work, and chair-work with Jesus.
- Grow in their ability to help counselees encounter Jesus as a real and relational presence who meets them in the midst of psychospiritual struggles and transdiagnostic concerns.
- Begin working therapeutically with internal defenses and “parts” in collaboration with Christ’s healing presence.
- Advance in shaping their own model of Christ-centered therapy
Weekly Schedule
Day 1 – Involving the Entire Trinity in Therapy and God as the Ultimate Safe Haven/Secure Base
Day 2 – From Attachment to Communion and Contemplative Prayer as Therapeutic
Day 3 – Earned Secure Attachment with Jesus, Communion with God, and Beyond
Day 4 – Imagery-Work and Chair-Work with Jesus, Parts, and the New Self
Day 5 – Special Topics in Christ-Centered Therapy
While this program is designed for experienced licensed mental health professionals, non-licensed individuals with comparable graduate education or relevant experience in counseling or related fields are welcome to apply by emailing us.