Beyond Basic Skills

We emphasize inner development and self-awareness as you learn to apply essential, yet challenging, relational skills in your work with clients.

When you enroll in our certificate program, we help you engage more deeply with the nuances of essential, yet challenging, relational skills such as skillfully introducing optimal stress for lasting change, successfully navigating transference~countertransference reactions, and negotiating vicarious trauma, activations, and triggers with sensitivity. What makes this certificate program unique is that we specifically focus on your inner development and self-awareness as you learn to apply relational skills with compassion, therapeutic presence, and integrity.
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Each month, we do a deep dive into an essential relational skill so you can become more grounded in your unique professional expression.

Over the course of the program, we help you develop and refine skills you may have learned about from university classes, journals, articles, textbooks, or workshops, but now want to focus on more intentionally as you are seeing clients.

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Clinical support is an integral part of the program.

Are you are a graduate student or intern, starting your private practice, or working at an agency or a school?

We can support you in your work with clients. Whether in video group consultation or private Facebook group, the community provides a nonjudgmental environment for personal and professional support, consultation with instructors, and networking opportunities.
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WHAT'S INCLUDED?

We help you make your evidence-based education and training more effective by bringing compassionate awareness and mindful participation to your role in the therapeutic relationship. We teach you how to bring more presence, clarity, and compassion into your work with clients as you build a healthy balance of confidence and humility in yourself and the clinical process.

  • Access your online core curriculum and experiential exercises at your own pace.

  • Participate in LIVE bi-weekly group video calls to get real-time support, feedback, and answers to questions from dedicated instructors who are invested in your success.

  • Engage with an exclusive private Facebook community of nonjudgmental mental health professionals who are on the same journey as you, to build your network and support each other.

  • Access resources and consultations at a reduced fee.

HOW DO I START?

Get to know us by taking a look around our website and/or asking colleagues about us. If we feel like a good fit for your next professional adventure, register for the certificate program. When you register for the program, you will be invited to join our private Facebook group with your instructors and peers.

  • Register for the Certificate Program

  • Join Our Relational Therapist Private Facebook Community

Instructors

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Tamara Thebert

Lead Instructor

Tamara Thebert, MFT is a licensed psychotherapist (#53456) and psychospiritual educator in Berkeley, CA in the San Francisco Bay Area. She the CEO and co-founder of Inner Science Institute (InSci), providing courses and events for lifelong learners as well as mental health professionals interested in fulfilling continuing education units. An integrative institute informed by the inner sciences of psychology and spirituality, InSci offers transdisciplinary education and training to those interested in personal transformation, social change, and spiritual awakening. Tamara has degrees and certificates in integral counseling psychology, neurobiologically-informed trauma treatment, mindful self-compassion, meditation, spiritual counseling, and ecopsychology. Since 2004, she has studied and trained in spiritual and psychological traditions from all over the globe and is dedicated to teaching spiritual principles and practices specifically tailored to improve mental and emotional health. In her private practice Tamara specializes in helping women recognize & amplify inner resources to recover from trauma, addiction, anxiety, and depression while attending to the important relationships in their lives. To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.psychospiritualcounseling.net.

Deborah Yarock

Lead Instructor

Deborah Yarock, MFT is the co-founder of Inner Science Institute (InSci), providing courses and events for lifelong learners as well as mental health professionals interested in fulfilling continuing education units. An integrative institute informed by the inner sciences of psychology and spirituality, InSci offers transdisciplinary education and training to those interested in personal transformation, social change, and spiritual awakening. Deborah has degrees and training in integral counseling psychology, psychological process work, re-evaluation counseling, and extensive experience in all phases of addiction treatment. Since 1995, while teaching and mentoring pre-professionals in the field community mental health, Deborah expanded services by developing and running practicum sites. She has also created avenues to advance cultural competency, address stress and vicarious trauma, and encourage comprehensive grief support. Throughout her career, Deborah has respected and addressed the practical realities of life alongside deeper identity and soul-searching aspects of therapeutic work. To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.deborahyarockmft.com.

Susan "Quasi" King

Clinical Consultant

Susan “Quasi” King, CAS is a Clinical Consultant at Inner Science Institute and uses her 30+ years of experience as a certified addiction specialist in community mental health to support clinicians with processing countertransference reactions and impasses when confronted with clients’ addictive behaviors, navigating the relationship between pain management medication and recovery, with particular expertise in developing assessment and treatment planning for clients with dual diagnosis who need a unique approach tailored to the severity of their experience. Quasi is also quite skilled at collaborating with psychiatrists and medical professionals when faced with challenges and systemic obstacles. Susan offers consultations for professionals and pre-professional via phone and video. Feel free to contact her today for a consultation, to explore ways she might be able to help you in your work, or to provide training to your staff. For more information about her private practice, go to https://susankingintegrative.com.