Dedicated to improving our community’s mental wellbeing, CEC offers educational programs throughout the year for community members and professionals in the helping fields. Examples of professional trainings have included Resilience for Professionals led by Sydney Elks, LPC, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Basic Training led by Rivers Edge Institute, and LGBTQ+ cultural competency training led by Loving Beyond Understanding. Examples of community trainings have included Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) parenting classes led by Raise the Future.
CEC provides high quality training and supervision for mental health professionals new to the field. This training is based on the Noeticus Training Triangle™, which covers clinical skills, administrative effectiveness, professional growth and self-care. CEC supervisors are experienced, licensed clinicians who undergo a 45-hour program that meets the standards for the National Approved Clinical Supervisor Training Credential — this far exceeds the state standards for supervisory training.
For more information on our CEC internship program, click here.
CRISIS RESOURCES:
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org
Veterans Crisis Line
Dial 988 then press 1
Text 838255
Colorado Crisis Service – https://coloradocrisisservices.org
Karin Lee Hughes is Board-certified in family medicine and hospice/palliative medicine. She has worked in end-of-life care for 20 years and currently focuses on mind-body medicine where she works with individuals and groups to foster resiliency and mind-body integration.
Karin has completed additional training in yoga (groups and individuals), mindfulness-based somatic therapy, post-traumatic growth somatic therapy, polyvagal theory, mind-body medicine, resiliency, Reiki, and meditation. She is very passionate about the care of the whole person and how nature affects health.
Dr. Karin Hughes has been teaching about wellness for many years, more recently focused on resiliency and mind-body skills. For this particular course, she will be the “teacher-in-training,” having attended the course in Fall 2021.
Sydney Elks holds a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, and a Master’s degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Amsterdam. She is currently a professional counselor in private practice in Grand Junction, where she specializes in trauma work with people of all ages.
At the heart of Sydney’s approach both as a counselor and resilience consultant and facilitator, is the firm belief that each of us has the internal resources to affect positive change in our lives. It is her joy and privilege to provide tools to help connect people to these resources.
Alongside two of her colleagues, Michelle Trosclair, MA/LPC, and Joan Mulleady, MA/LPC, Sydney developed and implemented a Resilience program geared toward helping professionals, focusing on building personal and professional resilience, and the prevention and mitigation of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma. The Resilience program has been offered yearly since 2018, providing support for more than 100 individuals in the Grand Valley.