Presence Psychotherapy Training:
Winter 2026 Live Online
by Michelle Lepak
OUTLINE
January 30, 2026
4:00pm EST – 5:30pm
I: Overview of Presence Psychotherapy Model
- Resource, Regulation, Processing
- Creating Safety for Client to Talk About Their Spirituality in Trauma Treatment
- Introduction to Four Dimensions of Presence
- ORBITS Process Overview
- Types of Memory, Parts of the Mind
- Common Denominators of Evidenced-Based Trauma Treatments
II: Four Dimensions of Presence:
- Presence as an Ever-Present Resource in Trauma Processing
- Benefit of Each Dimension of Presence for Regulation and Processing
- How Clients can Orient to Presence in Every Session
- Overview of Three Processes to Easily Facilitate Presence Awareness
- Experiential Learning Activity: Turn The View as an Affect Regulator and Trauma Healing Agent
- Reflective View
- Presence Aware of Parts
- Part of the Mind Viewing any of the Four Dimensions of Presence
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to help clients access implicit traumatic memories.
Participants will be able to define implicit, explicit, procedural, semantic, emotional and sensory traumatic memories.
Participants will be able to name the qualities and therapeutic aspects of the Four Dimensions of Presence.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy.
January 31st, 2026
10:00am – 1:15pm EST including 15 minute break
I: Didactic
- Safely Processing Trauma Through Presence Awareness
- Attachment Wounds: Definition & Processing with Relational Presence
- Treating Attachment-Related Negative Beliefs
- “Broaden and Zoom” for Presence to Become Aware of Part(s) of the mind
II: Video: Session Demonstration: Facilitating Relational Presence
Through Guided Practice
- Reflective View Concept for Differentiation
- Observing and Reflecting Client’s Reference to Presence While Reporting or in Non-Verbal Expression
- Expanding on Client’s Organic Presence Reference
III: Experiential Practice
IV: Didactic
- Protective Conscious
- Zoom and Broaden
- Views
V: Live Demonstration
2:15pm – 5:00pm EST including 15 minute break
VI: Experiential Practice Facilitating Relational Presence During Trauma
Processing
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe how Presence Awareness can help heal attachment wounds, provide regulation during trauma processing, and reprocess negative beliefs and emotions.
Participants will be able to facilitate client’s awareness of the Four Dimensions of Presence.
Participants will be able to utilize the Four Dimensions of Presence while working to protect parts of the mind.
Participants will be able to demonstrate how to use Reflective View techniques to help clients regulate affect during trauma processing.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy.
February 1, 2026
10:00am – 1:15pm EST including 15 minute break
I: Didactic
- Utilizing Client’s Spirituality in Trauma Processing
- Presence Prompts to Facilitate Grounded & Spacious Presence Awareness
- Techniques to Attune to Client’s Unfolding Practice in Session to Facilitate Presence Awareness
II: Live Demonstration: Guidance Facilitating Spacious and Grounded
Presence
2:15pm – 4:45pm EST including 15 minute break
III: Experiential Practice: Facilitating Expanded Relational and Grounded
Presence in Trauma Processing
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe and utilize personal connections to spirituality to trauma treatment to heal trauma.
Participants will be able to practice the skill of listening for and facilitating client’s Presence Awareness through client’s narrative.
Participants will be able to demonstrate how to use the Reflective View technique to help clients regulate affect during trauma processing.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy.
February 27, 2026
4:00pm EST – 5:30pm EST
I: Didactic
- Assessing Resilience – Over and Under Attributing Resilience and its Consequences
- Treating Panic Attacks With Presence Awareness
- Relational Concepts of: Irrational Guild, Shame, Idealization, Grief, Generalized Anxiety, Hopelessness
- Relational Attunement: Words Affect Memory Between the Words
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe how Presence Awareness can be utilized during panic attacks and dissociation.
Participants will be able to name 3 specific Turn the View options and describe how each is useful in trauma processing.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy
Saturday 28, 2026
10:00am -1:15pm EST including 15 minute break
- Didactic
- Define Continuum of Transcendent Presence Awareness
- Spiritual Bypass versus Regulated Processing
- Use of Transcendent Presence for Regulation in Trauma Processing
- Attachment Wounds – Schizoid Process and Dissociation
- Live Demonstration: Live Session Demonstrating Utilizing
Transcendent Awareness to Heal Trauma
2:15pm-4:45pm EST including 15 minute break
III. Experiential Practice: Facilitating Transcendent Presence Within ORBITS Process to Treat Trauma
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to differentiate trauma consciousness and presence consciousness.
Participants will be able to evaluate when to utilize Broad and Zoom lenses to regulate or facilitate processing.
Participants will be able to facilitate Transcendent Presence awareness to regulate trauma processing without creating spiritual bypass.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy.
March 1, 2026
10:00am – 1:15pm EST including 15 minute break
I: Didactic
- I-Illuminate ORBITS Process
- Accessing and Processing Nuance of Negative Trauma Induced Beliefs
- Range of Negative Relational Trauma Induced Beliefs
- Healing Through Felt Sense Juxtaposition of Negative Trauma Induced Beliefs
- Presence Psychotherapy Techniques for Healing Attachment Wounds and Strategies
II: Live Demonstration: Demonstrating Assessing and Healing Procedural
Memory
2:00pm – 4:30pm EST including 15 minute break
III: Experiential Practice: Accessing and Processing Layers of Memory
Utilizing and of the Four Dimensions of Presence
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to describe how the “I” of ORBITS process can Invite, Inquire & Illuminate and facilitate trauma processing and resolution.
Participants will be able to describe how to attune the client’s non-verbal communication to access implicit procedural, semantic, emotional and sensory trauma memory.
Participants will be able to specify how to work with fight, flight, submit and attach utilizing Presence Awareness.
Participants will be able to evaluate when to utilize Broad and Zoom lenses to regulate or facilitate processing.
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Intended Audience:
This course is intended for all practitioners who seek to better understand Presence Psychotherapy.
March 14, 2026
12:30pm EST– 4:30pm EST including 15 minute break
- Didactic
- Explain How to Teach Clients Mindfulness-Based Skills in Between Sessions to Regulate and Broaden Identification of How They are With ORB Tool
- Integrate Existing Client’s Spirituality into Trauma Processing
- Termination: in Session in the Training: Use of Four Dimensions of Presence in Termination
- Discussion and Closing
Goal:
Participants will be able to use Presence Psychotherapy in their work with clients.
Objectives:
Participants will be able to evaluate which Dimension of Presence to utilize at various points of a session.
Participants will be able to describe how to help clients regulate affect between sessions utilizing Four Dimensions of Presence techniques..
Methods:
Lecture, Live Demonstrations, Experiential Exercises, Bibliography
Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing
Clover Educational Consulting Group is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Clover Educational Consulting Group maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Presence Psychotherapy Institute has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7994. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Presence Psychotherapy Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.