Bundle
The Ethics of Healing I and II

Bundle contains 2 on-demand courses:
Ethics of Healing I (3.0 CEs)
Ethics of Healing II (3.0 CEs)

About this bundle

The first 2 courses in the 6-course Ethics of Healing series, a Let Us Heal Movement Series.

The Ethics of Healing - A Let Us Heal Series is an advanced professional training for mental health professionals working with trauma survivors across complex systems of care. While most clinicians are trained to treat symptoms, far fewer are prepared to recognize, prevent, and repair the systemic harm that often follow trauma, including misdiagnosis, institutional betrayal, re-traumatization, and ethical injury.

This multi-course program integrates trauma neuroscience, ethical psychology, survivor-centered practice, documentation ethics, and systems accountability into a unified learning experience. Participants examine how legal, medical, educational, forensic, and digital systems can unintentionally replicate harm—and how psychologists can ethically intervene to mitigate risk and restore dignity, even when systems cannot be changed.

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This bundle contains BOTH Ethics of Healing I and Ethics of Healing II - a total of 6.0 CEs of training!

Course 1
Ethics of Healing I: Trauma Neuroscience & Survivor Experience - Foundations for Ethical Psychological Practice

Presented by: Christy Wise, Psy.D.

We cannot claim to treat trauma if we do not recognize its language.
Every shutdown may be a request for safety.
Every so-called resistance may be a history speaking.
Ethical psychology begins where certainty ends—and listening begins.

This course equips licensed psychologists and advanced mental health professionals with a neurobiologically grounded and ethically rigorous framework for understanding trauma, betrayal, and survivor behavior. Moving beyond symptom-based diagnosis, the course examines how chronic threat, interpersonal betrayal, and institutional harm shape the brain, nervous system, and meaning-making processes of survivors.

Participants explore trauma’s impact on the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis, autonomic nervous system, and neuroplastic adaptation, with emphasis on how survival responses are frequently misinterpreted as psychopathology. Integrating contemporary trauma neuroscience with Betrayal Trauma Theory and the concept of moral injury, the module illuminates how psychological harm deepens when trusted individuals or institutions fail to protect.

Critically, the course challenges psychologists to examine professional power, ethical blind spots, and documentation practices. Through case vignettes and applied ethical analysis, participants learn how well-intentioned clinical actions can unintentionally replicate institutional betrayal—and how to interrupt that cycle. The module is designed to enhance clinical accuracy, ethical accountability, and survivor-centered care across clinical, forensic, medical, and institutional contexts.

Course 2
Ethics of Healing II: Systemic Re-Traumatization - Ethics Beyond the Therapy Room

Presented by: Christy Wise, Psy.D.

Ethical psychology is not only about what happens in the room.
It is about what we normalize, what we document, what we enforce,
and what we choose not to question.
When systems harm survivors, ethics demands more than neutrality—
it demands courage.

This Course examines how psychological harm is perpetuated not only through interpersonal trauma, but through the very systems meant to provide care, protection, and justice. Designed for licensed clinicians and advanced mental health professionals, the course frames systemic re-traumatization as a central ethical concern—one that emerges through policies, procedures, institutional culture, and professional silence rather than overt misconduct.

Participants explore institutional betrayal, procedural harm, and epistemic injustice—the ways survivors are discredited, misunderstood, or erased as knowers of their own experience within clinical and institutional settings. Drawing from trauma psychology, ethics, and philosophy of knowledge, the course expands ethical responsibility beyond the therapy room to include documentation, organizational participation, and systems-level decision-making.

Using real-world cases from healthcare, courts, schools, and correctional environments, the module demonstrates how unexamined policy adherence can replicate powerlessness, coercion, and moral injury. Clinicians leave equipped with practical frameworks to identify ethical risk, challenge harmful norms, and use professional influence to reduce systemic harm—while remaining aligned with ethical standards and legal mandates.

This course positions psychologists not only as clinicians, but as ethical actors within systems—capable of either reinforcing institutional trauma or interrupting it.

What You Will Learn

By the end of the full training series, you will be able to:

Develop a sophisticated, neurobiological understanding of trauma that explains survivor behavior without pathologizing adaptive survival responses.

Recognize and prevent secondary victimization by identifying how clinical practices, policies, and documentation can contribute to betrayal trauma and moral injury.

Strengthen ethical clinical decision-making by integrating trauma neuroscience with an awareness of power, institutional context, and the downstream impact of professional actions.

Cultivate a survivor-centered ethical stance that prioritizes dignity, consent, context, and relational safety alongside professional standards and legal obligations.

Increase diagnostic accuracy and reduce harm by differentiating trauma-based adaptations from psychiatric disorders commonly misapplied to survivors.

Strengthen ethical competence in complex systems such as healthcare, legal, educational, military, and correctional settings.

Expand ethical reasoning beyond individual clinical interactions to include documentation, policy enforcement, organizational culture, and professional silence.

Develop the ability to identify institutional practices that unintentionally replicate trauma, silence survivor voice, or prioritize liability over care.

Recognize systemic re-traumatization as an ethical issue, not merely a procedural or administrative concern.

... and more!

Who is this bundle for:

Anyone can enroll in and learn from this series of courses. It is designed for any and all mental health professionals who deal directly with clients.

See individual course pages (links below) for information about CE approvals.