Friday, March 7, 2025 9am to 12pm
About this Event
**This event is open to the public, and is appropriate for licensed mental health professionals (social workers, licensed counselors, psychologists) who work with children and families that have experienced complex trauma.**
This two-part interactive online offering is designed to help participants develop an understanding of complex trauma impact, assessment, treatment and public health implications and addresses the intersection of complex trauma with immigrant & refugee children and families.
Course Offeriings:
Presenter: Cindy Rollo, MSW, LCSW‐C
Presenters: Lyda Holguin-Gaviria, PhD, LCPC, NCC & Cindy Rollo, MSW, LCSW‐C
Each session is 3-hours in length. The first session will provide an introductory exploration of complex trauma to aid participants to think about behavior through a trauma lens and the second session will focus on complex trauma specifically related to immigration trauma in refugee and immigrant children and families residing in the United States. For participation in the second session, it is recommended you attend Part I – Complex Trauma 101 if you do not have a full understanding of Complex Trauma.
See website for more information on each session.
Cost: Complex Trauma 101 - $135 / Complex Trauma in Immigrant & Refugee Children - $175 / Complete Series (both Sessions) - $270
Target audience: These are introductory - intermediate level three-hour workshops for licensed mental health professionals (social workers, licensed counselors, psychologists) who work with children and families that have experienced complex trauma
Presenters Bios:
Cindy Rollo, MSW, LCSW‐C, is a trainer, supervisor, and clinician specializing in services for youth and family systems with a focus on trauma. Cindy has been involved in bringing trauma‐informed, healing-centered training and system change to mental health professionals, administrators, graduate students, child welfare workers, case managers and support staff who provide care in a range of community and residential settings and serve diverse populations. She is a national trainer for Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF‐CBT), trainer for the Complex Trauma Training Consortium (CTTC) of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), and co‐developed and implemented a graduate level course on Evidence‐Based Mental Health Treatment with Children and Adolescents.
Dr. Lyda Holguin-Gaviria, PhD, LCPC, NCC (she, her, hers) is a counselor educator and supervisor, who is a licensed clinical professional counselor in Maryland, and a National Board-Certified Counselor. She proudly identifies herself as an immigrant in the United States. Dr. Holguin-Gaviria completed her Ph.D. in counseling at The George Washington University and master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at Villanova University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from The Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Cali-Colombia. She also attended the English Language Institute at the University of Delaware where she learned English as a second language and with academic purposes. Currently, she is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Florida Atlantic University teaching counseling courses for master level students. She is trained in Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Parent Child Interaction Therapy, and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) evidence-based interventions to support children and families exposed to single and complex trauma. Dr. Holguin-Gaviria has experience providing clinical services in outpatient, inpatient, community-based, school, and private practice settings. Her clinical and research interests are dedicated to understanding mental health issues in immigrants and minoritized populations compromised as a result of trauma, poverty, micro- and macro aggressions, and other remarkable factors associated with the process of cultural adjustment (e.g., barriers with language, legal status, finding jobs, and accessing education and health). Dr. Holguin-Gaviria is also interested in promoting research that is more inclusive and accurately represents the heterogeneity and diversity of Latinxs in their research samples.
The presenters have no actual or potential conflict of interest and/or commercial support relevant to this presentation.
Continuing Education:
The Center for Child and Family Traumatic Stress at Kennedy Krieger Institute is authorized by the Board of Social Work Examiners in Maryland to sponsor social work continuing education learning activities and maintains full responsibility for this program. This training qualifies for Category I continuing education units.
Psychologist:
Kennedy Krieger Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Kennedy Krieger Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Licensed psychologists will be granted 2.75 CE credits for each training session attended in full.
Visit Event Website for more details: Complex Trauma Training Series
RSVP: 2/28/25