Supporting Presence, Awareness, Connection, and Embodiment

The Real Cost of This Work

You became a therapist because you wanted to help people heal. What you may not have expected was that you’d have to leave parts of yourself behind in the process.

 

Years of professional development may have made you more skilled—but not necessarily more alive in the room. Somewhere in the process of becoming a good therapist, you may have begun to feel that you've lost touch with some essential part of your own humanity.

 

Nearly half of clinicians in the U.S. experience burnout. But the statistics don't capture what it actually feels like.

 

It feels like showing up fully for clients while running on empty yourself. It feels like years of working alone with no one who truly understands what this work takes. It feels like the slow accumulation of unexpressed reactions — uncertainty, doubt, discomfort, frustration, grief — that you've learned to manage, contain, or simply set aside.

 

Therapists are trained to hold space for others. What the profession rarely asks is: who holds space for you?

 

Perhaps the next stage of professional development isn't simply learning more about how to do therapy.

 

Perhaps it's creating space to explore who we are while we're doing it—to be supported in our own development and rediscover greater aliveness, enjoyment, and fulfillment in our work.

"For many years I have felt lonely and hungry for connection in a profession that I have experienced as mostly disconnected. What a refreshing experience of helpers being real together."  

— SPACE 2025 Participant 

What SPACE Offers

"The last 15 years of solo private practice have been pretty isolating. [SPACE] made me feel like I'm not alone — that there's actually a community of others doing what I think of as the real therapy."

— SPACE 2025 Participant

"I've noticed different states that I often cut myself off from to hold it all together for the client. [SPACE] is helping me move toward just being myself in the room — not leaving myself behind."

— SPACE 2025 Participant

SPACE is a year-long experiential program for therapists — not a training in new techniques. Beneath the various modalities, interventions, and skills therapists learn and practice is the person who is learning and practicing them. This program focuses on developing that person.

 

In six experiential classes, you'll explore the interior life of the therapist: the reactions we've suppressed, the vitality we've lost, the parts of our humanity we've been taught to hide. You'll do this inside a genuine community of colleagues who understand the specific weight of this work — because they're carrying it too.

 

Rooted in relational, humanistic, psychodynamic, and mindfulness-based orientations, SPACE is designed to cultivate three things at once:

  • The personal space to examine what stands between you and your full presence as a therapist
  • The community space to be seen, supported, and held by peers walking the same path

  • The sacred space to reconnect with the deeper impulse that brought you to this work — and find it sustainable

     

$3,000 Registration

 12 Payments of $250

Continuing Education Information

Brad Kammer

CTTC Training Director & Senior Trainer,

 Psychotherapist

Brad Kammer, LMFT, LPCC,  is the Founder & Director of the Complex Trauma Training Center. Brad is the creator of the SPACE program and also developed and teaches CTTC’s Inside-Out Learning Series. Brad is a licensed psychotherapist, educator, consultant, executive producer of the Transforming Trauma™ Podcast, and co-Author of The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma and The Workbook for Healing Developmental Trauma. Brad is a Senior Trainer for NARM® Therapist and NARM® Master Trainings, and mentors NARM® Therapists. For over 25 years, Brad has been committed to supporting individuals and communities in the transformation of trauma and is passionate about helping resolve the widespread impact of Adverse Child Experiences (ACEs) and Complex Trauma (C-PTSD). Brad’s work focuses on the integration of Somatic Psychology, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Relational Models, and wisdom from Traditional Cultures and Spiritual Traditions.  Brad lives in a small town in Northern California with his family and loves anything related to music, food, outdoors, and travel.

Stefanie Klein

CTTC Assistant Training Director and Senior Trainer, Psychotherapist

Stefanie Klein is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, NARM® Master Therapist, and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner with over 30 years of experience practicing psychotherapy with adults. She has spent the past two decades specializing in the treatment of trauma and anxiety. Stefanie serves as the Assistant Training Director for the Complex Trauma Training Center where she is also a consultant and faculty member in NARM Therapist Trainings and the SPACE program for psychotherapists. As a mentor and teacher, Stefanie is dedicated to supporting therapists in developing greater effectiveness, ease, and fulfillment in their professional roles. Stefanie is based in Los Angeles, California.

Lisa Gillispie

CTTC Trainer, Psychotherapist

Lisa Gillispie, LPCC-S is a licensed clinical counselor specializing in somatic and trauma-informed care. Since 2019, she has served as a Lead Training Assistant in NARM® Trainings and is currently a Trainer in NARM through CTTC. Prior to becoming a counselor, Lisa spent over two decades as a trauma-informed bodyworker and is a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. This foundation shapes the way she works - bringing together relational depth, nervous system awareness, and respect for the body’s role in healing and change. Lisa is deeply passionate about supporting fellow therapists in developing sustainable, embodied approaches to working with complex trauma, and brings warmth, depth, and clarity to her teaching. Lisa is based in Columbus, Ohio.

Dr. Marcia Black

CTTC Trainer, Psychotherapist

Marcia Black, PhD is a licensed psychologist, faculty member at the Complex Trauma Training Center, and Trainer and NARM Master therapist. Mentoring students and Training Assistants, and nurturing our growing community of graduates committed to ongoing professional and personal development is a passion she brings to CTTC. Marcia’s mentorship is relationally focused, inviting exploration into therapists’ inner experience and supporting their own growth, alongside that of their clients'. Marcia has been in private practice in the SF Bay Area for over 40 years. She specializes in treating complex and developmental trauma in individuals, couples and, intergenerationally, as manifested in parenting issues.  Outside work, adventures in nature and time with young children are among Marcia’s greatest pleasures, and influences.