LIVE ONLINE PROGRAM
The Chronic Illness Cohort
Early Registration (ends Aug 16) | $299
Educational + consultation group on chronic illness and medical trauma for therapists
Tuesdays at 7pm EST | Sep 23 - Oct 28
You always did go “above and beyond” in grad school
If you loved the smell of fresh school supplies, you probably fell in love with grad school.
Sure, there were challenging moments with your first internship. But you always had a community of classmates and professors that you could fall back on.
Now that you’re in practice for yourself, you find yourself actually missing the structure of classes.
Sure, you feel “good enough” (most days). But there are some clients on your caseload dealing with health issues that leave you feeling lost.
What do you do when a client tells you they’re worried about not being able to work as their disease progresses?
How do you help a client who wants to quit going to medical appointments altogether and is “resistant” to any of your suggestions?
Or when a client tells you they don’t want to live anymore with the pain?
Nobody prepared you for how to react when your clients are grieving with a new disability, managing debilitating, chronic pain, or confronting a scary diagnosis.
You wish you could just walk down the hall to your supervisor's office like you used to in grad school to lay out your case, have your supervisor unravel and organize all of your thoughts, and walk out with a solution.
You thrived in weekly supervision - but now you’re ready for something more refined and specialized
YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED
The Chronic Illness Cohort
The Chronic Illness Cohort is our exclusive educational and consultation program for therapists wanting to deepen their skills in working with medical trauma and chronic illness.
This specialized 6-week online program provides both the educational foundation for working with health issues and a consultation portion for you to receive confidential support for your toughest cases.
Whether your goal is to specialize in chronic illness and medical issues or you’ve been working in this niche for decades, the Chronic Illness Cohort provides the structured support you need to grow your practice in this niche and feel confident in your clinical work.
You guide clients through some of the hardest moments of managing a chronic illness - you deserve the same support
Through expert guidance and soft community accountability, you’ll grow through 1.5 hour weekly meetings in both responsiveness and confidence in treating chronic illness:
➯ Create a solid foundation to assess and conceptualize chronic pain and illness.
➯ Learn creative, evidence-based techniques - and watch your clients light up as they achieve their goals
➯ Practice concrete, tangible tools to help your clients manage their pain
➯ Learn how to help caretakers and providers manage vicarious medical trauma
➯ Become the go-to referral resource in your community for chronic illness and complex medical trauma
A program intentionally designed for you - the therapist wanting to specialize in medical issues
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While there are so many amazing courses, classes, and workshops on working with chronic illness (we’ve taught many ourselves!), we designed this cohort to be a combined model of support: structured, live lessons to keep you on track AND specialized group case consultations that let’s you benefit from a community of therapists obsessed with learning.
Most importantly, you'll log off at the end of your class feeling like you can actually leave work at work - because you know you'll have a concrete plan for your next client appointment.
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Living with a chronic illness yourself? Learn tools to help you feel grounded in your own body as a therapist
When you work with clients who have managed years of chronic illness and/or chronic pain, it’s common for those clients to express feelings of hopelessness in the face of so many unknowns. As the empathic and intuitive therapist that you are, you might find yourself subconsciously picking up on the feelings of your clients. Without even knowing why, you might leave these sessions feeling drained, stuck, and hopeless.
And if you manage health issues for yourself? It’s even more important for you to land in a compassionate space like the Chronic Illness Cohort to stop your stress response before it even starts.
This group experience will allow you to remain grounded in your deep knowledge of medical trauma so that you can provide a safe space for clients to explore their illness and grief - without leaving you feeling burned.
You’ll have the space to create a concrete plan to prioritize self-care and sustain your career as a chronic illness therapist.
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Most state boards for both social workers and counselors include consultation groups as an appropriate form of continuing education. For example, the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners Staes that “Peer Supervision (10 hour maximum per renewal period). One may receive one clock hour of continuing education per hours of performing peer supervision activities. For example, case work consultation” (section § 707.A.b.a.1).
Upon completion of your program, you will receive a letter of completion confirming your attendance for consultation groups that you may turn into your board for potential CE approval. We encourage you to check with your licensing board on potential CE approval.
Meet your cohort guides
Hi, I’m Victoria Rodriguez!
As a Licensed Professional Counselor right outside of New Orleans, Lousiana, I specialize in helping teens and adults heal from medical trauma and feel safe in their bodies again.
After taking my research on vicarious medical trauma and provider burnout on the road to national and international nursing conferences, I saw how valuable community education and support could be for therapists. I am so excited to welcome you to the Chronic Illness Cohort so you can see in real time how much you’ll grow your clinical skills through specialized support.
Hi, I’m Destiny Davis!
I do cool things
Dive deep into your specialty of chronic illness with structured support + soft accountability
Ready for class?
Join the waitlist below to be the first to know when cohort registration opens ($299 early registration rate ends August 16th - $350 after midnight August 16th)
FAQs
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Early registration is $299 (ends August 16). Registration after August 16th is $350.
Membership includes access to 6 weeks of 1.5 weekly meetings with high-touch support from Victoria and Destiny in a group setting to help you build authority in this niche and develop quality treatment plans for your clients.
You will also receive structured suggested resources outside of meeting dates to help you deepen your experience.
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Join the waitlist using the form above to be the first in the know when spots open for this unique educational experience.
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The Chronic Illness Cohort is a 6 week educational program with live Zoom group meetings.
Meetings will be 1.5 hours long and meet weekly on Tuesdays at 7pm EST from Septemebr Sep 23 to October 28.
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Most state boards for both social workers and counselors include consultation groups as an appropriate form of continuing education. For example, the Louisiana Licensed Professional Counselors Board of Examiners Staes that “Peer Supervision (10 hour maximum per renewal period). One may receive one clock hour of continuing education per hours of performing peer supervision activities. For example, case work consultation” (section § 707.A.b.a.1).
Upon completion of your program, you will receive a letter of completion confirming your attendance for consultation groups that you may turn into your board for potential CE approval. We encourage you to check with your licensing board on potential CE approval.