Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction & Inner Healing Certification

Program Overview:

The Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction & Inner Healing Certification program offers a comprehensive training experience that integrates the components of the SIIMDA Soul Care and Gestalt Soul Care approaches that include trauma processing, inner healing practices, neuroscience, body-oriented approaches, and spiritual formation. This program is designed for individuals called to Jesus’ healing ministry and who desire to foster spaces of safety and healing for individuals working through trauma, emotional pain, and spiritual wounding. The inclusion of inner healing components brings a particular focus on addressing emotional wounds, finding freedom, and reconciling broken areas of the heart and soul.

OBJECTIVES

Participants will gain skills in trauma-informed spiritual care, deep listening, and discernment while integrating therapeutic and spiritual inner healing practices like contemplative prayer, emotional processing, and healing through the presence of God.

Focused Objectives:

  • Learn and Apply Gestalt Theory and Practice

  • Understand Trauma and Its Impact

  • Facilitate Inner Healing Practices

  • Integrate Body-Oriented Approaches in Spiritual Direction

  • Trauma Focused Approaches

  • Spiritual Formation and Inner Healing

  • Advanced Listening Skills

  • Discernment and Wisdom in Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction

  • Experiential Practices for Healing and Integration

Program Features

  1. Expert Faculty:
    Led by experienced spiritual directors, trauma therapists, and Gestalt practitioners who bring a unique blend of trauma-informed care, spiritual formation, and Gestalt theory.

  2. Gestalt and Inner Healing Focus:
    Special emphasis on combining Gestalt theory’s experiential approach with inner healing prayer to create a powerful process of emotional and spiritual transformation.

  3. Practical Application:
    Includes role-playing, experiential workshops, group dialogues, retreats, and supervised practicum sessions that focus on integrating trauma-informed, spiritual, and Gestalt practices.

  4. Community and Support:
    Ongoing peer discussions, group supervision, and mentorship to foster growth and support participants in their own healing journeys.

  5. Program Duration:
    Two-Year Program

  6. Format:
    Blended learning model (in-person and online sessions), including live webinars, in-person retreats, experiential practices, and independent study.

  7. Specializations:

    Sexual Addiction/Compulsivity

    Sexual Betrayal Trauma

    Sexual Abuse

    Spiritual Abuse/Trauma

    Coaching

Certification Requirements

  1. Completion of all core modules and readings.

  2. Participation in experiential practices, retreats, and peer supervision.

  3. Completion of xxx hours of supervised practicum in trauma-informed spiritual direction and Gestalt practices.

  4. Final project or integrative paper demonstrating practical and theoretical understanding of the program.

Program Cost

  • Program Tuition Cost: $xxxx Costs are TBD (Payment plans and limited financial available)

  • Additional costs: learning materials, retreat participation, travel, and supervision.

How to Apply

The application process for the upcoming year is not yet open. We kindly request that you check back at a later time for updates on when the application period will commence. We appreciate your interest and look forward to receiving your application when the process becomes available.

Who Should Attend

  • Individuals who are passionate about guiding others through emotional, spiritual, and inner healing.

  • Spiritual Directors seeking to expand their skills in trauma-informed care, Gestalt theory/techniques, and inner healing.

  • Therapists, counselors, clergy, chaplains, church leaders, and pastoral care providers called to cultivate healing spaces and guide others in God’s healing presence.