Social Health is the Key to
Mental Health

Listening Training for Professionals:
A Weekend Intensive Opportunity

Recover What's Missing in Your Clinical Practice

Listening Training Pro fills a crucial gap in mental health. "Common factors" like empathy, acceptance, and authenticity are proven to improve client outcomes, yet they tend to be underrepresented in most clinical training.

If you've felt like something is missing from your own practice and crave greater satisfaction for yourself and your clients, LT Pro is your answer.

Benefits of this training:

Be more effective as a therapist and improve client outcomes
Ethically deepen the therapeutic relationship with clients
Support burnout prevention in yourself and your coworkers
Enrich your work environment and culture

Listening Training Pro is for Clinical Professionals who work in a variety of settings including, but not limited to:

Private practice
Community Health and non-profits
Government agencies
Schools and other education oriented settings
Residential and outpatient services
Hospitals and Clinics
Wilderness Therapy

Resource yourself and your clients

Balance logic with empathy and intuition
Harness co-regulation techniques for powerfully healing trauma
Learn effective conflict resolution and compassionate boundary setting techniques with clients and coworkers
Explore guidelines for safe, legal and appropriate self-disclosure in order to foster more connection with clients

LT Pro Modules

1: Rethinking Addiction and Mental Health

Exploration of mental health challenges and addiction as symptoms of disconnection in/from society.
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2: Breaking Down Shame

Learning to minimize shame and stigma; the #1 factor preventing meaningful connection and healing from trauma.
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3: Personal Harm Reduction

Learning and utilizing a model for empowering someone to create a personal harm reduction plan, for both substance-related and process addictions, in a way that facilitates connection and trust.
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4: Setting Compassionate Boundaries

Understanding boundaries as bridges into stronger relationship and deeper connection. Navigating ethical self-disclosure and the importance of practitioner authenticity in the healing process.
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5: Holding Space for Difficult Emotional Experiences

Navigating challenging situations with clients, including return to use and suicidal ideation. Includes presentation and discussion of legal and ethical considerations.
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6: Practicing Listening & Connection in a Clinical Setting

Strategies for bridging your listening practice into the world and into your work, as well as how to leverage it for self-care and burnout prevention.

What Sets Seekhealing Apart?

SeekHealing offers a unique and revolutionary model of Social Health as a means of achieving personal and collective healing from trauma, addiction, and other mental/emotional wellness challenges.

Because relationships are so important to all aspects of health–mental, emotional, and even physical–we promote social wellness as a key strategy for an overall healthy life.

Seeking Healing is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to fostering social health and reducing instances of overdose and deaths of despair. We are committed to changing the face of the mental health field to reflect a truly compassionate approach and transcend shaming and labeling.

Jennifer Nicolaisen

Jennifer Nicolaisen is the co-founder and Executive Director of SeekHealing. After leaving a successful corporate career in events management, Jennifer started SeekHealing in 2017 to address the lack of social support for people in recovery from addiction. Since then, the organization has quickly grown to be a leader in the emerging field of social health. Jennifer graduated with a BA in Linguistics from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2012 and is also a nationally recognized ceremony guide, minister, and relationship coach.

Jennifer Garrett

Jennifer Garrett is on the Board of Directors for SeekHealing and partnered with . She is currently a therapist and the clinical director for Resilient Mind Counseling in Asheville, NC. She is dually licensed as a Licensed Clinical Addiction Specialist, Licenced Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Supervisor, and Certified Clinical Supervisor ( LCAS, LCMHCS, and CCS) in the state of North Carolina with experience in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), Harm Reduction, and Trauma.
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If you have questions about this training:
Contact info@seekhealing.org

SeekHealing’s mission is to facilitate meaningful human connection to strengthen social health, end loneliness, and equip people with the power to give and receive authentic support.

SeekHealing Asheville

50 S. French Broad Avenue #138 Asheville, NC 28801
(828) 222-5029

SeekHealing Waynesville

116 Depot St
Waynesville, NC 28786
(828) 222-5029

Social Health is the Key to Mental Health

Listening Training for Professionals: A Weekend Intensive Opportunity