Coming Events

October 23 to 26, 2025

Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD
4-Day Intensive Online Training Workshop – October 23 to 26, 2025

The Centre for Posttraumatic Stress & Anxiety Treatment is pleased to announce a four-day intensive online training workshop in Prolonged Exposure (PE) Therapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

PE is a manualized cognitive-behavioural treatment for PTSD with an extensive base of empirical support. Numerous controlled studies have shown that PE significantly reduces the symptoms of PTSD in a wide range of trauma survivors. PE is strongly recommended by every major U.S. and international clinical practice guideline for the treatment of PTSD.

Topics covered:
• Assessment, diagnosis and psychopathology of PTSD;
• Empirically-supported psychotherapeutic treatments for chronic PTSD and their comparative efficacy;
• Emotional Processing Theory and its relation to PE;
• Implementation of the components of PE, including psychoeducation, breathing retraining, in vivo exposure to trauma reminders, imaginal exposure to trauma memories, and processing of exposures;
• Identification and management of obstacles to effective emotional processing, including avoidance, over-engagement, and under-engagement;

Video vignettes will illustrate the various components of PE, and participants will have an opportunity to practice selected interventions in pairs during break-out sessions.

Intended audience:
Licensed mental health professionals or those working under the supervision of a licensed mental health professional. Previous training and experience with cognitive-behavioural therapy is strongly advised.

Dates: October 23 to 26, 2025
Location: Online (live) via Zoom
Times: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. (Mountain Standard Time)
Cost: $950.00 CAD plus G.S.T.

Cost includes electronic copies of workshop slides and assessment materials, and a certificate of completion from the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety at the University of Pennsylvania. Participants are strongly encouraged to purchase the Prolonged Exposure Therapy for PTSD Therapist Guide and Workbook (Second Edition) prior to the workshop.

Continuing Education:
The Centre for Posttraumatic Stress & Anxiety Treatment, Ltd. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. The Centre for Posttraumatic Stress & Anxiety Treatment, Ltd. maintains responsibility for the program. Completion of the entire Four-Day Prolonged Exposure Therapy Workshop will earn participants 25 CE credits. Credit for partial completion is not available. CE certificates will be provided to eligible participants on their completion of a post-workshop evaluation questionnaire.

Registration: https://www.cpsat.ca/workshops/pe-4-ptsd-oct-2025
Deadline October 9, 2025
Space is limited to 30 participants

Cancellation:
Fees are fully refundable (less an administration charge of $50 plus G.S.T.) for cancellation requests received prior to October 9, 2025.

More information: www.cpsat.ca
training@cpsat.ca
780. 800. 5585

About the trainer:
David Paul, Ph.D., is a Registered Psychologist and Co-director of the Centre for Posttraumatic Stress & Anxiety Treatment in Edmonton, Alberta. He is certified as a Prolonged Exposure Therapist, Supervisor, and Trainer by the Center for the Treatment and Study of Anxiety (CTSA) at the University of Pennsylvania. This workshop is recognized by the CTSA, and qualifies toward CTSA certification as a PE Therapist for participants who complete the required additional case consultation.

October 24-25, 2025

Expand your skills in hypnosis for depression, anxiety, pain & smoking cessation.

This interactive two-day workshop is designed for clinicians who have already completed an Introductory ASCH-approved hypnosis training and want to expand their skills.

What You’ll Learn:
✔ Hypnosis for Anxiety, Depression, Pain, and Smoking Cessation
✔ Real-world case applications and clinical demonstrations
✔ Hands-on practice with 25% of the time devoted to small-group supervision and Q&A

When: October 24–25, 2025

Where: Virtual (Zoom) – Join from anywhere!

Registration Fees (Early Bird by Sept 30, 2025):
Members: $595 | Non-members: $695 | Students: $395

Seats are limited—secure yours now!

Register Now

November 7, 2025

How to Be Therapeutically Responsive with Clients in Suicidal Crisis

Join Bespoke Mental Health Canada for a workshop delivered by Dr. Daniel Cox

Friday November 7, 2025
9:00 am – 12:30 pm (PT), 12:00 pm – 3:30 pm (ET)

To register for this event, click here

Can’t attend on that date? The “On-Demand” video is available 2 weeks after the live event.

This workshop will address critical topics, including the limitations of traditional risk assessments, the importance of collaboration and shared goals, alternatives to default hospitalization, and techniques for processing psychological distress. Emphasizing a responsive, client-focused approach, participants will gain practical tools to navigate suicidal crises with confidence, compassion, and skill. Additionally, the workshop will explore essential domains beyond client-facing strategies, including considerations for documentation and other practice-relevant processes.

Bespoke Mental Health Canada is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Bespoke Mental Health Canada maintains responsibility for the program.

Participants completing this workshop, live or on-demand, are eligible to receive 3 CE credits.

Price
Professionals: $100.00 CAD + tax
Students: $80.00 CAD + tax

November 8th, 2025

For many therapists, working with perpetrator introjects (inner abusers) can feel like an overwhelming challenge and even an unachievable goal. These parts often resist connection, actively disrupt the therapeutic alliance, and evoke intense shame in the client. They may undermine progress, sabotage safety, and leave both client and therapist feeling helpless, frustrated, and stuck.

This workshop explores the nature of perpetrator introjects in complex trauma and dissociation, and offers advanced clinical strategies for recognizing, understanding, and transforming these internalized abuser dynamics.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 – Friday, November 14, 2025

CPA MEMBERS SAVE 50% OFF – CODE: CPASAVE50

Join us this fall, for a powerful conference exploring the integration of traditional Indigenous healing practices in education, mental health, and community care. Featuring leaders Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Dr. Varleisha D. Lyons, and Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross, this event offers hands-on tools, cultural insight, and professional learning for educators, clinicians, and community leaders.

Day One, led by Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, will center on Empowering Ourselves to Strengthen Our Future. Participants will explore how traditional Indigenous healing and spiritual practices can be integrated into mental health and education. The day will emphasize decolonization, Indigenization, and community empowerment, offering interactive sessions and reflective exercises that equip attendees with practical tools to support sustainable healing.

Day Two, facilitated by Dr. Varleisha D. Lyons, will feature a session titled Healing Through Spirit. This workshop will examine the intersection of trauma and spirituality within Indigenous communities, focusing on how cultural traditions, storytelling, and spiritual practices can address the impact of intergenerational trauma. Educators and professionals will learn how to create spiritually grounded, trauma-sensitive environments in classrooms and community programs.

Day Three, presented by Dr. Carolyn Coker Ross, will focus on Generations of Healing. It will explore the neurological, emotional, and cultural effects of intergenerational trauma, especially within Indigenous and historically marginalized communities. Participants will gain evidence-based and culturally sensitive strategies to disrupt cycles of trauma and foster resilience and family healing.

Across all three days, the conference will offer a powerful, forward-looking framework for integrating Indigenous healing practices into mental health, education, and community work.

Thursday, November 13, 2025 – Friday, November 14, 2025

CPA MEMBERS SAVE 50% OFF – CODE: CPASAVE50

Posttraumatic Growth Workshop with Dr. Carissa Muth

Are your clients still struggling, even after “gold standard” PTSD treatment?
It’s estimated that about 30% of individuals with PTSD remain treatment-resistant—meaning they experience little symptom relief even after completing evidence-based protocols. For many counsellors, this can feel like hitting a wall: “What do I do next?”

This workshop is your next step forward.

November 14-16, 2025 and January 23-25, 2026

This EMDR training package is not only designed to meet the standards set by the EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) but also offers hands-on practice and real-time feedback, so you can confidently implement EMDR protocols with your clients. You’ll learn how to tailor EMDR interventions to meet the unique needs of each client, ensuring effective and personalized treatment outcomes.

November 14th-15th, 2025

Every year, the CPA hosts an Annual Convention that brings together more than 1,200 members from across Canada to share and generate new ideas, network, and advance psychological science, practice, and education. Knowledge sharing and collaboration are essential to the evolution of psychology in Canada, and by creating more spaces for these conversations, we can continue to drive meaningful progress in the field.

As the needs of our membership grow and the landscape of psychology evolves, there is a need for a new, dedicated space to dive deeply into single, pressing topics. That’s why we’re launching the Annual CPA Satellite Conference—a yearly event focused on one issue that is important to our members. Each year, we will determine the topic of the conference based on what we and our membership feel is currently significant to psychology and deserving of in-depth and targeted discussion. These two-day events will bring together psychologists and students from across Canada to exchange ideas and insights, learning from the country’s leading psychology experts.

This year, our Satellite Conference will focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Psychology. The AI landscape is rapidly evolving in Canada and beyond. What does this mean for psychological science, practice, and education in Canada? What can psychology teach us about how we use and interact with AI? What is psychology’s place in AI in Canada?

Don’t miss this opportunity to engage in critical discussions on AI’s role in psychological science, practice, and education. Join us in Vancouver at the stunning Nest at UBC for two days of insight, learning, and networking.

November 18 – December 10, 2025

November 18+19, 25+26, December 2+3, 9+10, 2025
9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (ET)
Live Online via Zoom
Facilitated by: Dr. Martin Bohus, M.D., & Dr. Shelley McMain, C.Psych.

This course, offered through the Centre for MindBody Health over a four-week period, provides a comprehensive examination of DBT-PTSD based on a psychosocial model. Dysfunctional behaviors are understood as strategies to avoid or escape from trauma-associated primary emotions like powerlessness, threat, anxiety, disgust, humiliation, or sexual arousal. DBT-PTSD proposes that these emotions are corroborated by dysfunctional cognitive assumptions and dysfunctional behaviors such as self-injury, suicidal ideation, dissociation or intoxication. It further proposes that problematic secondary emotions such as shame, guilt, self-hatred, or chronic anger develop over time into problematic self-concepts which impair quality of life.

DBT-PTSD helps clients: a. Revise their fear of trauma-associated primary emotions, b. Question whether secondary emotions like guilt and shame fit the facts, and c. Radically accept the fact of trauma in their lives to establish a life worth living. The treatment program is designed to be delivered in a residential program (three-months) or in an outpatient setting (45 weeks).
This course provides comprehensive training in DBT-PTSD including a manual.

The course also fulfills the prerequisite for enrolling in the Advanced DBT for Complex PTSD course that is offered alongside this foundational training course.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THIS TRAINING, YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
• Describe the basic psycho-social and neuro-behavioral principles of complex PTSD
• Implement the principles of DBT-PTSD within your clinical practice
• Develop an individualized trauma model
• Teach your client skills for dissociation, distress tolerance, and regulation of trauma-related emotions
• Conduct in-sensu exposure
• Help your clients create a life worth living

Target Audience
Multi-disciplinary mental health professionals interested in treating complex PTSD using evidence-based principles and procedures. Basic knowledge of DBT is recommended.

Webinar Recording
This webinar will be recorded and shared with all registrants and made available for 60 days once released.

For more information and to register, please click HERE.
Please contact us with any inquires at cmbhdbtworkshops@gmail.com

Ongoing from 01 July 2025

George Patriki provides both LIVE and ONLINE training & professional development for General Practitioners as well as the health care, welfare and social service industries on the Gold Coast, throughout Australia and to 124 countries in the world. Cost of Dual Diagnosis Training in Addiction, Substance Abuse and Mental Health is reduced from $390 (ex GST) to $195 (ex GST) at 50% off = $214.50 (with GST).

Live webinars are also available for organisations for up to 25 people. Email us for enquires.

To obtain a certificate of attendance and also qualify for 15 hours (ONLINE) or up to 15 hours (Live) of CPD (Continuing Professional Development) for their professional peak body (APS, ACA, AASW, CPA, PACFA, ACWA etc), you must complete the full training, either LIVE or ONLINE.

When you have completed the course, please email me the statement from the learning platform along with the worksheet emailed to you with the login link so I can send you an official certificate from us for your professional development hours.

This advanced training covers all of the current evidence based, best practice in in Addiction, Substance Abuse and Mental Health from an integrated, holistic framework.

Brochure

1-2 +8-9 May 2025 + Feb-Oct 2025

‌Day 1-4 Self-paced online homestudy commencing:

Day 1-4 Livestream
1-2 + 8-9 May 2025 (9am-5pm CDT)
Livestream registration closes on 4 April 2025

Core 30-hour online training for all mental health professionals working with traumatized populations. Offered in two modes: self-paced/homestudy or highly interactive 4-Day livestream and your fee includes access to both modes to consolidate learning. This highly practical, evidenced-based continuing education workshop will underpin your clinical practice in this field.

You can complete the self-paced program entirely in your own time without time away from work and you can commence between intakes, on demand and receive bonus access. Allow 2 weeks delivery for your Day 1-4 printed materials.

The Day 1-4 self-paced homestudy program will be repeated on the same dates in 2026 and 2027. Our annual livestream for Canada/US will also be repeated around the same dates in May in CDT. Each livestream date is limited to 40 participants. You are welcome to join from other time zones if you are happy with the time commitment (7am-3pm PDT or 11am-7pm ADT).

The Day 1-4 Online Fee is $1,390 Australian Dollars (AUD). Canadian and US residents will save $200 AUD on any of our offerings in 2024 and 2025. Simply register with a Visa or MasterCard and we will refund $200 AUD until 23 October 2025.

Click this link for our 2025 flyer containing full details

Click this link for our website with upcoming offerings and to register

Please contact Joshua George (program coordinator) with your enquiries mail@talominbooks.com

*Talomin Books Pty Ltd is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Talomin Books Pty Ltd maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

*Talomin Books Pty Ltd is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Talomin Books Pty Ltd maintains responsibility for this program and its content.