CPI is excited to offer this new opportunity to therapists, pastors, and churches. Whether online or in-person, you can request single- or multi-day speaking engagements with Founder and Scholar-in-Residence, Eric L. Johnson, Ph.D.
Review the list of available topics and click to request an engagement. Or suggest a topic not listed below.
Therapists &
Therapy Practices
Pastors &
Ministers
Churches &
Nonprofits
For Therapists & Therapy Practices
T1 Christian Therapy is Relational Therapy
Summary
A thorough overview of the relational basis of Christian therapy and how it differs from modern, secular therapy. The Trinity is a relational God and humans are created in his image. A Christian worldview, therefore, sees relationship as the primary modality of therapy. It would include some discussion of the Relational Pyramid (Triune God, others, oneself, and one's' relational history), with a special focus on the impact of one's family-of-origin, and the healing potential of having a close relationship with God, a therapist, and one or more healthy Christian friends.
Duration
3 hrs to 3 days
A thorough overview of the relational basis of Christian therapy and how it differs from modern, secular therapy. The Trinity is a relational God and humans are created in his image. A Christian worldview, therefore, sees relationship as the primary modality of therapy. It would include some discussion of the Relational Pyramid (Triune God, others, oneself, and one's' relational history), with a special focus on the impact of one's family-of-origin, and the healing potential of having a close relationship with God, a therapist, and one or more healthy Christian friends.
Duration
3 hrs to 3 days
T2 Carditive Therapy: Working with the Emotions in the Heart
Summary
The emotions are meaningful features of human life that provide some of the richest sources of therapeutic movement. In this seminar we look at the purposes of the emotions in a fallen world, being to work with them therapeutically, and see how they contribute to the formation of a beautiful soul.
Duration
3 hrs to 2 days
The emotions are meaningful features of human life that provide some of the richest sources of therapeutic movement. In this seminar we look at the purposes of the emotions in a fallen world, being to work with them therapeutically, and see how they contribute to the formation of a beautiful soul.
Duration
3 hrs to 2 days
T3 Promoting Redemption in the Window of Tolerance
Summary
People developed automatic neurobiological ways to respond to harm when they were growing up: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. An important part of Christ-centered therapy involves helping counselees identify these embodied patterns, while calming their nervous system, in order to modify the negative emotion schemes that formed and maintained them and to introduce redemptive resources that can further their modification, so they can develop a safe place and find rest and peace in Christ more consistently.
Duration
1-3 hrs
People developed automatic neurobiological ways to respond to harm when they were growing up: fight, flight, freeze, and fawn. An important part of Christ-centered therapy involves helping counselees identify these embodied patterns, while calming their nervous system, in order to modify the negative emotion schemes that formed and maintained them and to introduce redemptive resources that can further their modification, so they can develop a safe place and find rest and peace in Christ more consistently.
Duration
1-3 hrs
T4 Can Christians Have “Parts”?
Summary
Internal Family Systems Therapy has found great therapeutic success in helping people identify and harmonize "parts," aspects of the self that often began developing in childhood and formed a quasi-independent perspective or orientation that has a consistent, if rather simple, pattern of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that can be activated in situations that resemble the context of their origins, but that individuals typically identify with themselves (in contrast to DID). Does the Christian therapy community have good reasons to be skeptical of "parts," or is this perspective towards therapy be incorporated into its work with Christians? Relevant Christian teaching and therapeutic wisdom will be offered to develop a distinctly Christian approach to therapy with parts.
Duration
1-3 hrs
Internal Family Systems Therapy has found great therapeutic success in helping people identify and harmonize "parts," aspects of the self that often began developing in childhood and formed a quasi-independent perspective or orientation that has a consistent, if rather simple, pattern of thinking, feeling, and relating to others that can be activated in situations that resemble the context of their origins, but that individuals typically identify with themselves (in contrast to DID). Does the Christian therapy community have good reasons to be skeptical of "parts," or is this perspective towards therapy be incorporated into its work with Christians? Relevant Christian teaching and therapeutic wisdom will be offered to develop a distinctly Christian approach to therapy with parts.
Duration
1-3 hrs
T5 Redemptive Differentiation, Redemptive Integration, and Elaboration in the Healing Journey
Summary
In this workshop, we explore three, very practical ways that Christ's redemption and union with him can orient and guide therapy with Christians.
Duration
3-6 hrs
In this workshop, we explore three, very practical ways that Christ's redemption and union with him can orient and guide therapy with Christians.
Duration
3-6 hrs
T6 Working at the Highest Levels Possible, but the Lowest Levels Necessary: Multiple Dimensions of Human Beings (Embodied, Psychosocial, Ethical, and Spiritual) and How They’re Interrelated
Summary
Secular therapy reduces human complexity to biopsychosocial dynamics. A Christian worldview takes into account such dynamics, but also recognizes humans have ethical and spiritual qualities that impact psychopathology and enrich therapy by offering additional resources to work with.
Duration
3-6 hrs
Secular therapy reduces human complexity to biopsychosocial dynamics. A Christian worldview takes into account such dynamics, but also recognizes humans have ethical and spiritual qualities that impact psychopathology and enrich therapy by offering additional resources to work with.
Duration
3-6 hrs
T7 Christian Trauma-Based Narrative Therapy: Working through One's Story in Light of Christ's Story
Summary
This approach to therapy concentrates on doing Christ-centered story-work with Christians with unresolved trauma.
Duration
2 hrs to 3 days
This approach to therapy concentrates on doing Christ-centered story-work with Christians with unresolved trauma.
Duration
2 hrs to 3 days
T8 Training in the Distinctive Practices of Christ-Centered Therapy
Summary
Each of the following is a therapeutic practice distinctive to Christian therapy:
T8A - Therapeutic Prayer: Praying from Head to Heart (1-6 hrs)
T8B - Lectio Divina: Reading the Bible from Head to Heart (1-6 hrs)
T8C - Using the Imagination in Christ-Centered Therapy (1-6 hrs)
T8D - Chair-Work in Christ-Centered Therapy (1-6 hrs)
T8E - How Christian Meditation Works (1-3 hrs)
T8F - Working with Religious Defenses and Spiritual By-Pass (1-3 hrs)
Each of the following is a therapeutic practice distinctive to Christian therapy:
T8A - Therapeutic Prayer: Praying from Head to Heart (1-6 hrs)
T8B - Lectio Divina: Reading the Bible from Head to Heart (1-6 hrs)
T8C - Using the Imagination in Christ-Centered Therapy (1-6 hrs)
T8D - Chair-Work in Christ-Centered Therapy (1-6 hrs)
T8E - How Christian Meditation Works (1-3 hrs)
T8F - Working with Religious Defenses and Spiritual By-Pass (1-3 hrs)
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