The clinic is pleased to announce its 2025 continuing education program for community-based professionals. Description of each Institute and registration forms come after the calendar section.
Additional institutes/workshops will be posted as we determine availability.
EFT levels 1, 2, 3 and Couples will now be hosted through the Greenberg Institute of EFT. Please click here to see their offerings.
2025 Training Calendar**
| Dates | Types of Training Institute |
|---|---|
| April 22 - 25, 2025 | Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2)(Videoconference Format) - Waitlist Only |
| May 29-30, 2025 | Treating Eating Disorders Using an Emotion-Focused Approach (Videoconference Format) |
| June 23-25, 2025 | Emotion Focused Family Therapy Training (Videoconference Format) |
| August 8 & 15, 2025 | Static-99R Certified Training (Videoconference Format) |
| October 23 & 24, 2025 | Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT): The Clinician’s Introduction to ACT (Videoconference Format) |
| November 3-5, 2025 | Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, Second Edition (ADOS-2)(Videoconference Format) |
| November 7, 2025 | Integrating Self-Compassion into Psychotherapy (Videoconference Format) |
| November 11-14, 2025 | Integrating Body-based Practices into EFT for Trauma (In-person Format) |
Additional trainings for 2025 coming soon!
If you submit a registration form and do not hear from us within 2 business days, please follow up.
To be notified of any of our upcoming trainings/workshops, please email yupc@yorku.ca with your email address.
** York University Psychology Clinic reserves the right to cancel any registration at its sole discretion, in which case a full refund will be provided.
The ADOS-2 is a semi-structured, standardized measure of communication, social interaction, play,
and restricted and receptive behaviours synonymous with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is
widely considered the ‘gold standard’ measure of behavioural observation for assessment and
diagnosis of ASD. With updated protocols and the addition of the Toddler Module, the ADOS-2
provides a highly accurate evaluation of current behaviour in individuals from 12 months of age to
adulthood, from individuals who are nonverbal to individuals who are verbally fluent. By
observing and coding these behaviors, you can obtain information that informs diagnosis,
treatment planning, and educational placement.
Through completion of this introductory course, you will:
- Learn the differences between clinical and research use of the ADOS-2
- Learn how to select the appropriate module for working with different clients
- Learn how to administer the tasks within each module
- Learn how to code the specific items within each module
- Obtain experience that will support your future administrations with the measure as you work towards independent clinical use
Fee:
- Option A: $975 CDN
- Option B: $1100 CDN
- Option C: $165 CDN
(10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff))
Trainer: Dr. Adam McCrimmon
Eating disorders are complex psychiatric illnesses that are challenging to treat. In this workshop, Dr. Stillar will outline how to treat Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder, from an Emotion-focused Therapy lens. The emotion-processing difficulties that are often at the core of eating disorders make EFT a compelling approach to eating disorder treatment. Dr. Stillar will discuss eating disorders in terms of emotion theory and teach participants how to formulate an EFT case conceptualization for an eating disorder client. Furthermore, she will teach participants how to use the two-chair dialogue intervention to treat eating disorder cases. Additionally, she will also show video demonstrations of several EFT interventions that she commonly uses in her practice with eating disorder clients such as, focusing, self-soothing, and chair work.
Learning Objectives:
After attending this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Formulate an EFT case conceptualization for a client with an eating disorder.
- Understand how emotion-processing deficits are often at the core of eating disorder symptoms.
- Utilize the two-chair dialogue EFT intervention to treat a client with an eating disorder.
- Understand how EFT interventions facilitate the development of healthy emotion processing and emotion regulation capabilities within an individual with an eating disorder diagnosis.
Fee: $600 CAD (10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff)
Trainer: Dr. Amanda Stillar
The essence of EFFT is to afford caregivers a role in supporting their loved one’s well-being, treatment and/or recovery, regardless of their age, level of motivation or involvement in formal treatment themselves. The clinician’s role is to support parents and caregivers to increase their involvement in three domains including: 1. behavior coaching, 2. emotion coaching and in the use of 3. therapeutic apologies, if relevant. A fourth module involves supporting caregivers to identify, understand, and transform “emotion blocks” that can lead to therapy-interfering attitudes or behaviors in caregivers. A similar module will be introduced to identify and transform clinician blocks.
Dr. Stillar will introduce EFFT theory and skills, engaging participants using didactic and experiential learning, including skills and techniques that can be integrated into existing treatment models for those clients & families who do not respond to standard care. Videos will also be shared for demonstration purposes.
Fee: $900 CAD (10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff)
Trainer: Dr. Amanda Stillar
Static–99R is an actuarial tool that combines readily available information to assess sexual recidivism risk among adult males with a history of sexual crime. It has moderate accuracy in ranking individuals according to their relative risk for sexual recidivism and is widely accepted by the scientific community and applied professionals.
Participants will engage in a dynamic and highly interactive environment that utilizes game elements, pre-training videos, and case-based learning designed to replicate applied practice. The intended audience is anyone interested in assessing sexual offending risk among adult males.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the background and research supporting Static-99R
- Select appropriate populations with whom to score Static-99R
- Apply (2016) Static-99R coding rules to most types of cases
- Report and interpret Static-99R scores
Fee: $300 CDN (10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff))
Trainer: Dr. Andrew E. Brankley
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a powerful, research-backed model that helps people build psychological flexibility—the ability to stay connected to what matters most, while making room for difficult thoughts and feelings and choosing how to respond rather than react. The goal isn’t symptom reduction (though that often happens), but helping people live more meaningful, value-driven lives. ACT is widely used for a variety of issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and stress. It's flexible and adaptable across ages, cultures, and settings.
In this training, you will:
- Gain an overview of ACT’s theoretical foundations and philosophy
- Learn the six core ACT processes and their application in therapy
- Practice using ACT tools, metaphors, and exercises with clients
- Explore how to integrate ACT with other modalities (e.g., CBT, DBT)
- Build confidence in applying ACT flexibly in real-world clinical settings
Fee: $600 CDN (10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff))
Trainer: Dr. Tajinder Uppal Dhariwal
The ADOS-2 is a semi-structured, standardized measure of communication, social interaction, play, and restricted and receptive behaviours synonymous with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). It is widely considered the ‘gold standard’ measure of behavioural observation for assessment and diagnosis of ASD. With updated protocols and the addition of the Toddler Module, the ADOS-2 provides a highly accurate evaluation of current behaviour in individuals from 12 months of age to adulthood, from individuals who are nonverbal to individuals who are verbally fluent. By observing and coding these behaviors, you can obtain information that informs diagnosis, treatment planning, and educational placement.
Through completion of this introductory course, you will:
- Learn the differences between clinical and research use of the ADOS-2
- Learn how to select the appropriate module for working with different clients
- Learn how to administer the tasks within each module
- Learn how to code the specific items within each module
- Obtain experience that will support your future administrations with the measure as you work towards independent clinical use
Fee:
- Option A: $975 CDN
- Option B: $1100 CDN
- Option C: $165 CDN
(10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff)
Trainer: Dr. Adam McCrimmon
Many therapists have been introduced to the concept of self-compassion, but they may not have been taught how to explicitly integrate this knowledge into clinical practice. In this workshop, we will explore how self-compassion can be integrated into clinical work on three levels (1) Therapists presence – which includes how clinicians relate to themselves and their own challenges with compassion (2) Therapeutic alliance – which includes therapists presence and compassion with their clients, in a safe and supportive therapeutic relationship and (3) self-compassion based interventions, offering these to clients to help them to be with difficult experiences and emotions in sessions, and at home.
Being a compassion-based therapist requires that we, as therapists, first have this experience with ourselves. Experiential practices and didactic work will be integrated into this workshop. This workshop will offer clinicians core skills and practices to cultivate presence and self-compassion as a foundation for strong and effective therapeutic relationships, self-care. Key self-compassion practices will also be offered that can be introduced to clients for supporting themselves to be more compassionate with difficult experiences and emotions, to allow for deeper therapeutic work.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe key principles for integrating self-compassion into clinical practice
- Explore an empirically based model of therapeutic presence
- Discover the neurophysiological underpinnings of therapeutic presence, client safety, and effective clinical relationships
- Learn about self-compassion as a resource to both enhance therapists’ presence and to work with the barriers to presence
- Enhance the therapeutic relationship through compassion and self-compassion practices during the clinical hour
- Explore self-compassion practices that can be introduced to clients for supporting themselves to be more compassionate with difficult experiences and emotions, to allow for deeper therapeutic work.
Fee: $300 CDN
(10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff)
Trainer: Dr. Shari Geller
This workshop will provide training in body-based interventions that are applicable in EFT, in general, and EFT for trauma, in particular. Change in EFT is contingent on clients’ awareness of emotion, capacity to regulate and explore emotional experience, and to access adaptive emotion. This is the essence of emotional transformation regardless of the procedure. Yet anyone learning and practicing EFT will come across clients who struggle in these areas, who are “stuck”, and have difficulties engaging in standard EFT procedures. This can be particularly true when working with complex trauma such as child abuse and neglect.
It is well recognized that traumatic experiences are embodied, thus several body-based approaches to trauma therapy have been developed. As well, a fundamental principle of EFT is that emotion, per se, is embodied. Thus, attention to bodily experience is intrinsic to standard EFT intervention. Attention to the body can provide entry into and deepen emotional experience, and help shift maladaptive emotions, for example in two-chair dialogues for fear and shame. A more explicit focus on bodily experience can augment EFT intervention and help those clients who struggle to productively engage in EFT procedures.
This training will focus on body-based interventions designed to enhance positive experiences that are essential to emotional transformation and change in EFT. These include (1) grounding to promote calm and present-centered awareness, (2) regulation to promote safety and counter fear, (3) empowerment to promote agency and counter powerlessness, (4) surrender/letting go to counter over-control, and (5) compassion to counter shame and rejecting anger of significant others. This approach to body-based practice incorporates a rich variety of tools drawn from yoga therapy, including breath work, postures, visualization/imagery, establishing intentions, focus on opposites, meditation, and existential/spiritual practices.
Participants will learn the body-based interventions that are most relevant to the different phases of therapy, to identify in-session markers for introducing body-based intervention, and how to fully integrate these interventions into EFT sessions and procedures (e.g., focusing, imaginal confrontation of perpetrators, two-chair dialogues, and memory work).
Prerequisites: Participants must be familiar with basic EFT theory and intervention (e.g., Level One EFT or equivalent).
Fee: $1525 CDN
(10% discount for full-time graduate students and York faculty/staff))
Trainer: Dr. Sandra Paivio
When cancellations are made more than 14 days prior to the workshop date, you have a choice: receive a refund (less $50.00 administration charge) or a credit for the full amount (less $20.00) to any future York University Psychology Clinic (YUPC) workshop.
If cancellation is received fewer than 14 days prior to the workshop date you will receive a credit (less $50.00 administration charge) to any future YUPC workshop.
We regret that a refund/credit cannot be offered if your cancellation is not received at least one full business day prior to the day of the workshop. Alternatively, a colleague may attend in your place at no extra cost. Please notify us in advance of the name of the person attending.
The 3 & 4 day Institutes requires a $250.00 non-refundable deposit. These non-refundable deposits are not transferable unless we are able to fill the vacancy created by the change in plans. Please note, that if registration payment is transferred it is only transferable once.
When cancellations are made 28 days prior to the workshop date, you have a choice: receive a refund (less the $250.00 non-refundable deposit)or a credit towards a future Institute.
We regret that a refund/credit cannot be offered if your cancellation is received with fewer than 28 days notice prior to the workshop date.