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Learn the essentials of DEEP within a lively and supportive community...
If you're a therapist who wants to:
- intentionally and reliably initiate moments of deep change and connection with your clients;
- find the courage and skill to be real and intimate in a way that invites your clients to heal at bedrock levels; and
- feel enlivened by your work every day, then...
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I believe that self-reflective therapists
who do their own deep work
change the world 50 minutes at a time.
When we help people become all of who they are,
more true selves cascade into the world,
and the world becomes a better place.
That's why I created DEEP:
To help you become a therapist
who changes the world.
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If you've been feeling:
- like you can't be your real self in session in order to "hold proper boundaries;"
- insecure or anxious from leaping from tool to tool or training to training to figure out "what to do" with your clients;
- bored by your sessions;
- constrained by doing therapy based on a medical model.
And you'd rather be a therapist who changes the world by:
- being authentic, warm, and engaged;
- being transparent, nonpathologizing, and nonjudgmental;
- having the capacity to focus on the here and now;
- reading nonverbal signals, and having the courage to bring them into explicit awareness;
- facilitating new, transformational experiences in the therapy room, rather than “just talking about stuff;”
- feeling confident about when and how to use the tools you've learned in 100's of trainings;
- helping your clients create meaning; and
- doing your own internal work so you can know who you are and what you bring to the table...
The Intensive DEEP Training 2024 is your ideal next step...
Click here to submit an application
I am so glad that I finally got to do this training. The community is safe and beautiful. The curriculum is delivered in manageable pieces. The model that Candyce teaches inspires deeper compassion, authenticity, and curiosity in my work with clients and also with myself. I enthusiastically recommend this training and community to those who are wanting to deepen their work.
- Joy Downing, MA, LMFT
Science shows that:
Life's most difficult struggles and questions transform into potent opportunities for learning and change in the safety of warm and affirming relationships.
DEEP (Dynamic Enriched Experiential Psychotherapy) will teach you how to harness your own true self to enjoy providing this kind of warmth and affirmation skillfully and professionally.
DEEP is therapy that will
invite your clients into a lived experience of growth and change
within a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship,
from the very first moment of therapy.
As a DEEP therapist, you'll bring your engaged and authentic self into the room
in professionally informed ways
to help your clients expand into healing, meaning, and potential,
all while addressing current life concerns.
You'll be trained in such a way that
you'll receive the warmth and respect
that you're expected to offer to your clients, so that
you'll feel supported and encouraged to learn and grow.
I'm ready to apply
I can say definitively that the DEEP training has not only allowed for me to be a more competent and skilled therapist, but a more present, authentic, and whole human. Though not the intention of this training, it has brought great healing to my own life, for which I will always be profoundly grateful. Rigorous, comprehensive, connective, compassionate, and meticulously organized, this training is everything I could have hoped for and then some. If you're thinking about it - do it! I only wish I'd taken this training earlier!
- Jess Sprengle, MA, LPC
You'll learn:
"How to BE" in the room, which leads to confidence in "what to do."
You'll build:
A foundational stance and theory for your work that'll guide your use of other tools.
You'll know:
The latest science that backs up everything, so you can always explain what you're doing and why.
DEEP has taught me how to bring more of myself into the room as a therapist, which has felt liberating for me and has led to client relationships that feel more authentic and connected. You can feel how deeply Candyce has devoted herself to this craft. What an incredible opportunity to learn from her firsthand among an intimate community of therapists.
- Jamie Alger, LPC
DEEP Course Content Details
DEEP (Dynamic Enriched Experiential Psychotherapy) is an attachment-based experiential therapy model built on a foundation of depth psychology, existential psychology, and AEDP.
Upon this solid ground, DEEP expands to include the latest updates in interpersonal neurobiology; applications of attachment theory, enactment theory, and the polyvagal theory; and existential, humanistic, and body-based approaches to emotion.
This intensive, exclusively online training course translates all the yummy theory into practical application, and teaches you concrete skills that help you know “how to be” and “what to do” in the practice of this 21st-century, emotionally engaged therapy.
When you complete the course, you’ll receive a certificate of completion and a listing on the DEEP Training website.
The year-long course is a lively, engaging immersion in a comprehensive curriculum that includes:
- In-depth foundational theory of cutting-edge experiential therapy based in attachment theory (a rich clinical and theoretical infrastructure that builds on AEDP)
- Translation of theoretical jargon into descriptive, useful language
- Concrete clinical applications of all theoretical concepts
- How to embed your current skills—EMDR, Brainspotting, SE, Sensorimotor, CBT, IFS or other parts work, etc.—into a depth-oriented attachment foundation
- Existential and depth psychological ideas about the nature of suffering and our role as helpers that provides strong support for the therapist when the going is hard
- Schore’s regulation and enactment theory for working with defenses/protections
- Porges’ polyvagal theory for recognizing and working with visceral states
- Practical application and integration of Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Extensive emotion theory explication that helps therapists accurately recognize and regulate clients’ emotional experiences
- Integration of body-based theories, including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Developmental Somatic Psychotherapy, into attachment work
- Harnessing Memory Reconsolidation principles to facilitate deep and lasting changes
Teaching takes place in an online small-group environment that’s explicitly supportive and encouraging, in order to facilitate:
- Intensive therapist self-building, so that skills emerge from a solid inner foundation
- Support and encouragement for both new and experienced therapists to risk new skills
- Enlivening and enlightening case consultation and support
- A community of therapists who support and refer to each other
- Integration of the work into your own unique style
- Experiential modeling of the DEEP therapeutic modality (that is, learning DEEP in a DEEP environment)
Well-organized focus and multiple learning dimensions will help you emerge from the course with both a cognitive understanding and an intuitive sense of how to apply cutting-edge theory to your work:
- Section 1 – Developing Experiential Therapist Qualities: Creating Safety for Client and Therapist
- Section 2 - Foundational Skills: Clinical Application of DEEP Core Ideas
- Section 3 – Working With Protectors and Enactments: When It’s Hard to Connect
- Section 4 – Working with Emotion: How to Facilitate/How to Regulate
- Section 5 – Interpersonal Awareness and Integration: Bringing the Therapeutic Relationship Into the Foreground
Candyce's DEEP course has been an eye-opening experience for me. I feel that I'm growing both professionally and personally. She challenges her students to learn and grow in a very nurturing and inspirational way. Candyce has tremendous knowledge and experience in attachment, neurobiology, and grief, and she is an excellent teacher and group facilitator. I highly recommend her course!
- Grayson Tozer, LCSW
Course Schedule
Multiple teaching avenues create
maximum learning and connection
- Online orientation retreat - Friday, January 12, 2024, 1-4pm Central Time
- Self-paced online learning - Plan to spend about an hour per week engaging in video/audio instruction, dropped into your library every Monday, January 8 - December 9, 2024. (Except for July and August break.)
- Live online meetings twice per month - Every other Wednesday from 2:00-4:00 pm Central Time, January 17 - December 4, 2024. (Except for breaks all of July and August.) Live meetings alternate between:
- A 2-hour live online Spotlight Sessions meeting each month where students receive individual time with Candyce to ask questions, make comments, get help and reassurance, and learn from each other’s questions and comments. (Each student gets 5 Spotlight Sessions during the year.)
- A 2-hour live online experiential learning meeting each month. Experiential learning includes selections from:
- Illustrative videos of Candyce's actual therapy sessions
- Live demonstration sessions with volunteer group members
- Live case consultation
- Breakout rooms for dyadic practice of specific skills
- Live meetings recorded and uploaded to your student library, with the exception of demonstration sessions or other confidential content.
- Small group check-ins and support - Each student will be assigned to a small group of 4 fellow students. Small groups are encouraged to meet once or twice per month, on a schedule decided within the group. Small groups will support each other in the learning process, sharing questions, thoughts about optional reading material, feelings about trying new skills, and more. Small groups are encouraged to continue meeting during the summer break to keep connection going.
- Closing online retreat - Friday, December 13, 2024, 1-4pm Central Time
- Private online posting group - Ongoing January 8 - December 20, 2024. A forum, similar to a Facebook group, nurtured by a DEEP therapist, for community support, connection, and expanded learning. (Hosted on the private course platform, NOT Facebook.)
- NOTE: The course will go on break for all of July and August. The posting group will remain active, but all other programming will pause so we can all have time for rest and integration.
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You'll Also Receive:
- The sought-after “DEEP Manual” in downloadable form. An in-depth training manual that accompanies the course. Past students rave about the years-long value of this rich reference resource.
- Free membership in the DEEP Harbor Community for 12 months, January - December, 2024, an online gathering of DEEP-trained and DEEP-interested therapists who continue to learn and apply DEEP concepts, engage in dialogue, refer to each other, and attend monthly live case consultations and demonstrations.
- You'll be invited into the community at no additional charge for the duration of the DEEP class.
- If you're already a DEEP Harbor community member, your dues will be suspended for 2024.
- Value = $720!
- Optional downloadable readings for each learning section
- Discount on individual consultations with Candyce for the duration of the course. A 50-minute private consultation is usually $300. During the course, you can schedule a consultation for $250. (Scheduled upon request, depending on availability.)
- Certificate of completion in December 2024, if you've engaged and participated in the course in good faith for the entire year.
- Listing on the Find a DEEP Therapist web page beginning January 2025, if you've earned a certificate of completion.
- Up to 43 Continuing Education Credits, available for online meetings you attend live. (Not for watching recorded materials or meetings; not for small group time.)
- No additional charge for CEUs.
- This course meets all the requirements for continuing education as specified by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council for LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists.
- Outside of Texas, it's your responsibility to check with your state board to see if this course qualifies. Many state boards allow credit for this type of high quality course.
- A copy of my CV and a course description are included in the course materials if you need those to demonstrate course validity for your licensing board's CE requirements.
Truly challenging, useful material, week after week, with terrific people. I was never bored, and I could feel what I was learning impact my work almost immediately. Definitely a training highlight of my career.
- Susan Covell, LCSW
Tuition Cost and Payment Plan
You are the instrument of your work, so make your education and self-care a priority! Choosing to engage in this year-long training that's aimed at developing your foundational confidence as a therapist is an investment in your clinical skills, in your business, and in your life.
- $4950 total - includes everything listed in the Course Schedule section above.
- $495 nonrefundable deposit upon registration
- Then, $405 per month for 11 months, January - November, 2024
- Please note: When you register for the year-long DEEP class, you're purchasing one of a limited number of spaces in the class. The monthly installments are payments you make toward a commitment to pay the full $4950 course tuition. The installments are NOT buying one month of class at a time. When you sign the registration contract, you're obligated to pay the full tuition amount by November 2024. No cancellations and no refunds. Please carefully consider your choice to commit to the class.
Questions? Uncertainty?
Need Help Deciding?
Recordings easily accessed on computer, or on phone/tablet app
Recordings available audio-only if you're sick of screens!
DEEP training has been such a synergistic support to my professional growth as a budding psychotherapist. Candyce's attuned presence and authenticity is experienced in every moment of this year-long journey. Clearly, an incredible amount of thought, passion, and intention has been put into the development of DEEP. This training models the kind of therapist, and human being for that matter, that I've always aspired to be. Landing in this community of like-minded, kindred-spirit therapists has been nourishment for my soul. So many of my parts have softened & relaxed, and I've found that my authentic "Self as Therapist" has been here all along, just waiting for the right conditions to emerge. There's no doubt in my mind that I am more confident, patient, attuned, and clinically efficient as a direct result of this experience. Candyce, I am forever grateful to your leadership, wisdom, and your deep compassion for the human condition. Thank you for being you!
- Jeremy Leavell, MA, LPC Associate
Who's Candyce Ossefort-Russell?
I'm a therapist who's driven by a passion for therapy that creates meaning - for both client and therapist.
I became a therapist because I made my way through darkness and emerged on the other side - with help from a therapist who went all the way through hell with me.
Meaning I have a fiery enthusiasm for mental, emotional, and spiritual health born out of my own travels through traumatic loss and my own therapy.
I have fierce faith in the therapeutic process. And I'm passionate about helping therapists trust themselves, and about offering tools for enjoying and growing within this work (even when things are hard).
Thus, the professional knowledge I bring to you springs from both insatiable study and intense life experience.
When your teacher has both? Your whole self gets to learn.
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Along with life-experience and years of my own therapy, I have decades of geeked-out professional study and fervent practice under my belt.
I’ve voraciously lived and studied psychological and spiritual perspectives of suffering and transformation for almost 30 years.
As a trainer I can clearly explain the underpinnings and in-depth applications of the theories I present, even as I model acceptance, warmth, compassion, fearlessness, challenge, and engagement as I teach.
I’m so dedicated to high-quality therapy and to excellent therapist training that I continually strive to expand and sharpen my skills—personally and professionally.
That means when you take any of my DEEP Center Training courses, you’ll always get the latest, my most trusted, and my best.
The DEEP Intensive Training course is my signature offering - nearest and dearest to my heart. I can't wait to share it with you.
I want to take this course with Candyce!
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What therapists say about Candyce's trainings:
Candyce’s courses are comprehensive, heartfelt, and expertise-and-wisdom-packed, both experientially and practically. In other words, they are transformative. If you want to enrich your life and learn compelling, nourishing, and inspiring material from someone with an abundance of warmth, kindness, deep proficiency, and a passion for learning and growth herself, take Candyce's course. You won't be disappointed.
- Eva Lorini, LPC
Candyce's artful weaving together of science and soul-engaging therapy creates a powerful and exquisite learning environment. You get to be steeped in and grapple with the latest and most exciting findings in our field while also deepening more and more into presence with your clients AND with yourself. I cannot recommend her teaching highly enough for any therapist who longs to be their truest self while doing profound work with clients!
- Amanda Norcross, LPC
Candyce has a knack for helping her students learn complex psychological concepts experientially and with “feelings on." I took her DEEP training almost a decade ago, and it continues to have a profound influence on how I practice.
- Rebecca Pollard, LPC
Of all the therapist trainings I've done, none have been more relational, authentic, challenging, and transformative than Candyce's. Her passion and wisdom are evident in all aspects of her work. Her depth of understanding, and her ability to communicate complexities coalesce into what is always a deeply engaging learning experience. I can't recommend her highly enough.
- Matthew Magruder, LPC
So many of the trainings I do seem like 1st grade level. This is definitely not the case with DEEP. Candyce knows her stuff and gives lots of juicy information. Very work intensive!
- Mary B. Mattis, LCSW-S, LCDC
Frequently Asked Questions
1) What are the course dates?
- Live online orientation retreat kicks off the course on January 12, 2024, 1-4pm Central Time.
- Online learning opens with a welcome on January 8, 2024; clinical material begins January 15, 2023.
- Live online required sessions begin Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 2:00-4:00pm Central Time. Every other Wednesday from there.
- Small group meetings once or more per month, scheduled within each group.
- Break from online and live instruction July 1 - August 31.
- Closing online retreat Friday, December 13, 2024, 1-4pm Central Time.
2) When does registration close?
- I'll notify you of your acceptance into the class within a week after receiving your application.
- Once you're accepted, you'll guarantee your spot by paying the $495 nonrefundable deposit and signing the contract.
- Registration closes at 5pm Central Time on Friday, October 20, 2023, or when the class is full, whichever comes first.
3) Can I earn CEUs? Will that cost extra?
- Up to 43 Continuing Education Credits available for online meetings you attend live. (Not for watching recorded materials or meetings or attending small groups.)
- No additional charge for CEUs.
- This course meets all the requirements for continuing education as specified by the Texas Behavioral Health Executive Council for LPCs, LMFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists.
- Outside of Texas, it's your responsibility to check with your state board to see if this course qualifies. Many state boards allow credit for this type of high quality course.
- A copy of my CV and a course description are included in the course materials if you need those to demonstrate course validity for your licensing board's CE requirements.
4) Am I required to attend the live online meetings?
- Regular live attendance is important for the formation of a warm and cohesive environment for learning, and for holding and facilitating class members' deep exploration of potentially vulnerable situations and feelings.
- For this reason, I ask for your regular attendance at the entirety of the opening and closing retreats and the twice per month Wednesday meetings when at all possible.
- If it's necessary for you to miss a meeting or to show up late, I ask you to notify me in advance.
- It is expected that you'll be an active participant in your small group so that each student feels supported throughout the year.
5) Will the live meetings be recorded?
Live meetings will recorded and uploaded to your student library, with the exception of demonstration sessions or other confidential content.
6) How much time will I need to spend on this course?
The Intensive DEEP Training is called "intensive" for a reason. This course will build a foundation within you for working confidently as a therapist, trusting that you know "what to do" and "how to be," even in the most difficult times. AND, you'll learn theory, how to apply all theory, and what kind of inner work you need to do to be your best therapist self.
- You can expect to spend about 4 hours a month on online learning, and you'll need to attend the live calls 4 hours per month (2x 2-hour meetings).
- If you commit to the online learning and the two live calls per month, you'll have a powerful experience of learning. I know we're all super busy, and you'll get a whole lot from the course with that amount of participation. And you'll get even more depth of learning when you participate in your small group, engage in online chat group conversations, and read the downloadable articles.
7) How long do I have access to the course materials?
Course videos, downloadable handouts, and articles are available to you via your course library ongoingly. In fact, your copy of The DEEP Manual will be updated each year with the new material I add for each year's class. All course materials--videos, audio files, and pdfs--are downloadable too.
8) Do I have to be an experienced therapist to take this course?
This course is specifically geared toward mental health professionals--counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists. And the course is most exciting when clinicians of a variety of experience levels participate. Whether you're a practicum student or a decades-seasoned clinician or anywhere in between, this course is for you. You'll get the most out of it if you're currently working with clients.
8) Do I have to live in Austin, Texas to take this course?
Absolutely not! This course takes place 100% online, so you can join the group from anywhere in the world!
More questions? Email me at [email protected]
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