The Division of Community Behavioral Health (CBH) at Rush provides professional training and education programs for trauma recovery, with or without substance use. CBH has a special interest in promoting healing of communities that have been systemically marginalized and continuously traumatized. CBH believes in centering the voices of survivors and the mental health providers who work alongside them to fight for systemic change.
Natalie R. Stevens, PhD
Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) Training – Professional Training
“To heal our communities, we must regain authorship of our own stories and tell the tales we conceive as our futures.”
Rachel Godsil and Brianna Goodale in Telling our Own Story: The Role of Narrative in Racial Healing
Exposure Therapy (NET) is a mental health/counseling intervention that can provide significant relief from trauma-related distress in a short period of time. Training in NET is offered using live and asynchronous experiential learning via workshops and consultations (see upcoming workshops offered at Rush). NET training workshops and consultations provide learners with evidence-based, trauma-focused mental health tools through gatherings in community spaces and online, strengthening social connection to foster community recovery.
Current NET workshops focus on maternal-perinatal trauma, birth equity, and support for new parents / caregivers, especially affecting people of color and immigrant communities in Chicago. We also have experience training clinicians who provide treatment for individuals and groups affected by gun violence, substance use, incarceration, and housing instability and homelessness.
Our NET trainers are part of a co-creative international network of practitioners, educators, and researchers called “NET Collect.” We work together to address complex and continuous trauma - both individual and collective - at the intersection of multiple global public health crises: Systemic racism, mental health and substance use, human trafficking, maternal and perinatal mortality, refugee and immigration crises, and countless human rights violations.
CBH at Rush offers expert training in NET embedded within a global network of experienced practitioners and in consultation with Vivo International, an independent non-profit organization committed to the provision of mental health services to “those who need it most,” scientific laboratory and field research, sustainable development and human rights advocacy.
Lead Trainers
Primary Admin Contact
Renee Odom
Email: renee_m_odom@rush.edu
Phone: 312-942-1633
Tuition: $600 per registrant*
Continuing Education Credits: 16.75 Hours
Available for psychologists, counselors, LCSWs
(CMEs and CNEs also offered)
* Please inquire about student / trainee discount, sliding scale and scholarships; no applicant will be denied based on ability to pay tuition.