CCTCP Level 2 (March 2025)

Current Status

Not Enrolled

Price

$80 - $100

Course is full

CTHN’s Level 2 Training is a five-hour training designed for Christian professional and lay counselors who desire to learn advanced skills for counseling survivors of trauma. The instructor will teach the course content using biblical principles and a distinctly Christian worldview. This course covers methods of counseling for complex trauma, as well as specific practices for helping clients who are currently being traumatized. 

Certification and Continuing Education

Christian Trauma Healing Network is an approved continuing education provider (ACEP) through the National Board of Certified Counselors. Completion of this training grants participants the title of Certified Christian Trauma Care Provider, Level 2 (CCTCP-2). In addition, licensed mental health professionals may gain five (5) Continuing Education (CE) hours for completion of this course. Please check with your state licensing board to ensure it accepts CE hours from the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC).

The CCTCP-2 certification is valid for two years following the training. Learn more about the recertification process to keep the certification active beyond two years.

All participants in the CCTCP-2 Training must have completed the CCTCP-1 Training within at least two years before completion of CCTCP-2 Training. Learn more about how to complete CCTCP-1 Training here.

Potential participants must complete a registration form. This form is designed to ensure that participants have met the prerequisite requirements. It also includes participant demographic information and a space to request accommodations for disabilities.

The cost of this course is $100.00.

Upon completion of the registration form, participants will be given instructions for submitting payment. Payment for the course must be submitted in full before the start of the course. Participants are not permitted to pay for only a portion of the course. CTHN Members receive a 20% discount on registration fees. To receive the discount, members must log in to their CTHN account.

The course is offered in a live online venue. Participants will receive login information a week before the course. No video recording of the course will be distributed to participants.

All participants will receive a packet of materials before the course, which will include session outlines and handouts to utilize in counseling sessions and for homework. Participants are encouraged to print their materials before the training begins to take notes throughout the sessions.

Participants must attend all sessions of the training. Attendance will be monitored by the software program through periodic attendance checks. All participants must keep their video on during the group consultation session. If a participant needs to leave any session for a short period (no more than 15 minutes), s/he must send a private message to the training administrator.

Participants will interact with the instructors through Q&A and chat messages during the scope of the course, and instructors will answer questions as time permits. Each participant will be placed in a consultation group that will meet once during the training. Each consultation group is led by a licensed mental health professional with advanced training in trauma care.

In order to receive the certificate of completion, participants must complete all of the following:

·   Attendance at all program sessions

·   Participation in consultation groups

·   Course Evaluation Form

·   Course Assessment

Certificates will be emailed to participants after they have completed the assessment and evaluation.

Training Presenter

Beth Broom, LPC-S, CCTP-II

Beth Broom is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor (LPC-S) and Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Level 2 (CCTP-II). She owns a private counseling practice specializing in trauma healing. She also serves as a Deacon of Care at The Village Church Denton in Denton, Texas. Beth is the founder and director of Christian Trauma Healing Network, and she co-hosts a podcast called “Counsel for Life,” engaging conversations about mental health and the Christian life.

Group Consultation Leaders

Jess Frank, LPC, CCTP-II

Jess Frank is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) and a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, Level 2 (CCTP-II). She counsels at Fieldstone Counseling as a biblical counselor, serving primarily women, teen girls, and children/families that have experienced trauma. She also speaks and trains at various events, leads a supervision group, and writes articles for the Fieldstone Counseling website.

Kevin Stratton, LPC, CCTS-I

Kevin Stratton is Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri, a Certified Clinical Trauma Specialist (CCTS-I), and a Certified Biblical Counselor (ABC) that works full-time at Victory Mission Men’s Shelter and part-time online with Gospel Care Collective.  He has 18 years of vocational ministry experience working in churches and specializes in trauma, addiction, marriage counseling, and mental health.

Melissa Affolter

Melissa Affolter has served in counseling and care ministries for twenty years, and currently works at Fieldstone Counseling as the Content Director and a counseling supervisor. Melissa facilitates ReStoried, a women’s support group for those who have experienced abuse and trauma, and offers workshops and seminars on a variety of counseling-related topics. 

Tabitha Westbrook, LPC, LMFT

Tabitha holds a BA in Psychology from NC Central University & an MA in Professional Counseling from Liberty University. Tabitha owns The Journey and The Process, a private practice with offices in Wake Forest, NC & Flower Mound, TX that specializes in complex trauma, with a focus on domestic abuse and coercive control. Tabitha is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in NC & TX, a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in SD & TX, a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) in NC, & a Registered Telehealth Professional in FL & SC. 

Rick Walton, MDiv, CPT, CCTCP-L2

As a certified Biblical Counselor with ABC, Rick is passionate about Jesus and His redemption which brings healing and hope to life today and for eternity. He is an ABC training leader for the Level 1 Foundations course and a supervisor for the Level 2 practicum. Rick serves as the Co-Founder of the Gospel Care Collective Canada, and as the Director of Biblical Counselling at True North Soul Care in London, Ontario. He has received CTHN’s CCTCP L2 Certification.

Michelle Woods

Michelle holds 3 Certificates from the Christian Counseling and Education Foundation (CCEF), a Rape Crisis Counselor Certificate through NYS Dept of Health, and is a Certified Biblical Counselor (ABC) operating a private practice in Upstate New York. She also contracts with Christian Trauma Counseling as a group leader for their chronic pain and illness support group and volunteers weekly on the crisis line of her local domestic violence hotline.

Schedule (Central Standard Time)

Note: This training will include both North American and International participants. A separate international training will not be provided.

Saturday, March 29th, 2025

9:00am-9:50am       Session 1: Elements of Complex Trauma

9:50am-10:00am     Break

10:00am-11:00am Session 2: Counseling for Complex Trauma

11:00pm-12:00pm       Lunch

12:00pm-12:50pm      Session 3: Counseling for Addiction and Compulsion

12:50pm-1:00pm         Break

1:00pm-1:50pm         Group Consultation

1:50pm-2:00pm         Break

2:00pm-3:00pm         Session 4: Counseling for Current Trauma

3:00pm-3:30pm Q&A Session (Optional – does not count toward CE hours)

Session Summaries

Complex trauma occurs over time, typically beginning in childhood. When a person is continually or repeatedly exposed to traumatizing situations and/or relationships, s/he can experience severe disruptions in daily functioning and bodily health. This session will explore some components of complex trauma, as well as specific assessment measures to be used to discover and monitor symptoms.

This session focuses on specific methods for counseling those who are experiencing the effects of complex trauma. We will focus on affect regulation, relational dysfunction, and the counselee’s negative beliefs and destructive self-talk.

This session will cover the overlap between traumatization and other problems such as addiction and compulsion. Participants will learn how to discover co-existing struggles, as well as ways to treat both the traumatization and the co-existing struggle in tandem and at a reasonable pace for the counselee.

For those who are currently experiencing traumatization, the typical methods of counseling often must be paused in favor of seeking safety, additional support, and more intensive stabilization. This session will include helping counselees create a safety plan, as well as ways to care for the family of the traumatized person.

The last optional session will include time for participants to ask questions and receive additional encouragement and guidance in the work with trauma survivors and victims. This 30 minute session will not be included in the CE hours available for credit.