Join our new training on Relational-Cultural Therapy and trauma
Join us on Friday August 21st, 2026 for a new training integrating Judith Herman's stages of trauma recovery and Relational-Cultural Therapy. This is a part of our Learning Circle Membership and is no charge to current members. It is available to non-members for $49.
Relational-Cultural Theory invites a different lens for therapy. Instead of asking what is wrong within a person, we ask what has happened in relationship, how that has impacted this person, and what possibilities remain for improved connection.
From Disconnection to Reconnection: RCT, Trauma, & the Healing Relationship
This training has the following objectives:
- Describe Herman's three-stage model of trauma recovery and identify how RCT reframes each stage relationally.
- Explain why relational safety, empowerment, and attention to power are essential before trauma processing
- Practice 2 strategies for increasing relational safety in the therapeutic setting
- Identify trauma-related patterns of shame, disconnection, and relational expectation that may appear in the therapeutic relationship.
- Describe how culture limits or supports the possibility of healing from interpersonal trauma
- Name two therapeutic shifts that are necessary for using a relational approach to trauma
- Describe how remembrance, mourning, or trauma processing can be held with attention to voice, agency, pacing, and supported vulnerability.
- Define reconnection as movement toward relational resilience, boundaries, belonging, and chosen connection rather than a simple return to pre-trauma functioning.
- Identify 2 ways to integrate a relational approach to the trauma frameworks they are using.
This relational-cultural therapy training offers a way to practice therapy that stays rooted in connection, context, and mutuality. It’s a space to learn, reflect, and begin integrating RCT into your work in ways that feel real, sustainable, and responsive to the people you sit with.
NASW-IN APPROVED FOR 4 CE HOURS
Creating Supported Vulnerability is one of the Relational-Cultural Therapy aspects of this training.
From Disconnection to Reconnection: RCT, Trauma, and the Healing Relationship has been approved for 4.0 Indiana Continuing Education Hours by the Indiana Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers