Trainer: Lisa Schwarz, M.Ed, Creator & Developer of CRM®
Dates: November 13 - 15, 2026
Time:
Friday: 4:00 - 9:00pm EST
Saturday & Sunday: 11:00am - 8:00pm EST (Eastern Standard Time)
Location: Live Streaming on Zoom
Investment: $700
This training addresses some of the most persistent and treatment-limiting dynamics encountered in trauma therapy. Shame, distorted power, and over-identification with victimhood often function as unconscious blocks in treatment—maintaining symptoms, reinforcing helplessness, and preventing clients from accessing choice, agency, and self-directed healing. At their core, these patterns reflect a profound misalignment with one’s Self.
This training supports clinicians in identifying how power can become inverted—expressed through powerlessness, collapse, or moralized suffering—and how these dynamics subtly organize identity, relationships, and symptoms. Participants will learn to recognize when victim stance is serving as a protective adaptation rather than a lived truth, and how to work skillfully with these patterns without shaming, rescuing, or reinforcing them.
Through didactic teaching, clinical examples, and experiential exploration, clinicians will develop greater precision and confidence in helping clients reclaim healthy power, self-responsibility, and free-will choice. The training emphasizes restoring alignment with the Self as the foundation for sustainable healing, integration, and forward movement in both clinical work and life.
Prerequisites: Level 1 The Foundations of CRM® Training (formerly titled CRM® Basic Training).
Requirements: CRM® Trainings are intended exclusively for professionals who are trained, licensed mental health professionals (i.e., counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, community psychiatric nurses, etc.). By signing up for the training, you will confirm that this applies to you. If you are currently a student and interested in attending a CRM® training, you are welcome to join us upon receiving your license to practice; however, no active students are qualified to attend a CRM® training. You must participate in all aspects of training, including practice time, and be present throughout the entire training to qualify as having completed the course.
Payment Plans: For those in the U.S. who want a payment plan, there is a ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ option through PayPal, which is available to you during the checkout process.