Worth it PESI recommendations!
I know PESI has been getting some hate lately.
But as someone from a "third world country", PESI has been my most affordable option in taking trainings from real experts in their fields.
Here are some I can recommend:
2-Day Clinical Hypnosis Training with Dr. Eric Willmarth - I just finished this and this is THE Greatest Training I've taken so far. Why? Because it actually allowed me to do hypnosis! Dr. Willmarth demonstrated how to induce trance and how to deepen it, then told his live audience to split into groups and practice. I watched the groups practice, and seeing people who are also total beginners be able to do hypnosis gave me the sense that I could just copy what they were doing. So I practiced with a friend and it worked! He also gave many, many ways and options of how and what to do with hypnosis. I got so much out of this even as it is an on demand course. Dr. Willmarth is very entertaining and fun to learn from.
C-DBT training course with Dr. Lane Pederson (edit: this is the one that comes with the free manual) - this is also a very good course as I felt guided every step of the way on how to conduct a DBT session, heck, how to set up a DBT team! Dr. Pederson is the most engaging and humorous of all the PESI trainers I have watched so far. Personally not a fan of DBT other than DBT skills, but still I highly recommend learning DBT from Dr. Pederson because you get to see how DBT can be integrated to other therapy modalities.
ACT Online Intensive with Dr. Richard Sears - Dr. Sears was able to finally make me grasp ACT, which I thought (from graduate school) to be such an abstract therapy. His course is filled with experiential exercises which gave me the confidence to do the same with clients (with variations). I got a feel firsthand of what can work and what can't, and on how to approach a client's problem through the ACT processes. Not as engaging as the first two since here, Dr. Sears speaks to the camera, but it was still a course where you would be able to learn in an "easy way", minus the complex but clinically unusable jargon. You would feel confident to conduct a session, ACT style, after this course.
SFBT course by Elliott Connie - the man exudes solution focus! This is the first PESI training I took, and it got me hooked to PESI trainings ever since. I felt confident to conduct an SFBT session as a beginning therapist after this.
Courses I DID NOT like:
DSM 5-TR Differential Diagnosis with Dr. Margaret Bloom - it was difficult to follow Dr. Bloom in her discussion.
DBT course with Dr. Charles Jacob - somehow, it felt like Dr. Jacob knows DBT on paper, but did not really practice it. That was the sense I got (maybe I'm wrong). In talking about DBT skills, he explained the skills, but he didn't really give concrete examples of how he taught or used it with patients.
Courses that are 50-50:
Certificate in Neuroscience for Mental Health Professionals - it is made up of six speakers. Some were speaking to people over Zoom, some were recorded, some were with a live audience. I liked all the speakers except one. Since the talks are separate and stand alone by themselves, there was a lot of repetition over the materials covered by one speaker.
I would like to get people's opinion on the following:
IFS trainings (especially by Dr. Schwartz)
CBT-I training
CPT training
And others that you found good!