Helpers need help too...

That's a fact.

You're a human who helps other humans with their mental health. And more people than ever before are showing up on your (virtual) doorstep.

Business may be booming, yet you're a stressed out "front line worker." The relentless demand can be overwhelming. Especially while you're contending with the same chaotic events that plague your clients.

Your stress is waaay beyond a bubble bath.

But relief is in sight!

Using both practical lessons to relieve your mind, and experiential exercises to console your soul, this course will provide you with meaningful support for your human self—the instrument of your work.

Most online continuing education courses are boring and "head only."

But this course is set up to be a retreat-style experience that PROVIDES RELIEF AS YOU LEARN.

I'll reassure your mind with digestible chunks of theory about what really helps and why. THEN, you'll do uniquely crafted experiential practices that apply what you've learned, to calm your system and help you feel immediate relief.

After you're renewed and restored from this half-day learning retreat, you'll go back to work knowing you can carry these practices forward into each day of your work, AND use them to help clients, too!

Who's Candyce Ossefort-Russell?

I’m an in-the-trenches trainer. I live this work. Just like you do.

When the pandemic hit, I shifted a full practice of client work, new therapist supervision, training courses, and consultation groups to video.

Not only was I personally stressed to the max, I was also the go-to comfort person (and blogger) for countless people who were freaking out.

But I’m someone who’s made my way through darkness and come out on the other side. I have a fiery enthusiasm for mental, emotional, and spiritual health born out of my own travels through traumatic loss and my own therapy.

So I have fierce faith in the therapeutic process when it comes to dark times. And I'm passionate about helping therapists trust themselves (even when they're stressed), 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 teach, 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

1) What's included in the course?

5 modules of rich learning material, containing theory AND experience, including:

• Why tending the self of the therapist is crucial to our work
• Definition of therapist self-tending, and introducing The Tending Tripod--a practical and useful model for tending to all aspects of the therapist's self.
• How to tend to the personal self of the therapist
• How to tend to the caregiving self of the therapist
• How to tend clients' unsolvable situations (that might parallel your own)
• Grounding points for returning to work clear-eyed and refreshed

Each module contains video/audio lessons, theory handouts, experiential worksheets, and experiential exercises.

2) What makes this course a retreat?

The course is designed to provide you with quiet, reflective time, so you can learn what your feelings are, what they're about, and how to soothe and express them for your own healing and to rejuvenate you in your therapist role.

• Theory is intended to help you understand your own emotional states, and your clients'.
• All theory is followed by reflective, experiential exercises designed to facilitate your emotional healing and renewal.
• Theory and exercises will also build your confidence and competence for working with your clients, even when you're not at your best.
• Instructions for how to create safety for doing the retreat with a group of colleagues are included.

3) Can I earn CEUs? Will that cost extra?

• For no extra charge, you'll automatically receive a certificate for 4.5 continuing education credits after completing the course, its quiz, and the evaluation.
• CE credits count toward general or supervision continuing education, if your state board allows them.
• 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) How much does it cost?

One payment of $277, or three monthly payments of $95.

5) How is the course delivered?

Upon checkout, you'll get connected to your own member library. There, you can access the entire course. You'll be able to use all videos, audio files, and downloadable handouts immediately, at your own pace.

6) How long do I have access to the course?

You can take the course at any time! The CEU certificate will show the date of completion, whether that's this afternoon or a year from now. You'll have permanent access to the course materials. And all course materials--videos, audio files, and pdfs--are downloadable.

7) Do I have to be a therapist to take this course?

No! This course is great for any helping professional! Just know that I'll be referring to therapeutic relationships and the therapy profession. And I can only vouch for CE requirements for therapy professionals.

Continue your education, grow, and heal at the same time!

Rejuvenate your practice with a sense of profound renewal, self-understanding, and tools for deeply tending to your human, therapist self.