SIIMDA Soul Care

Training Opportunities

Are you called to invite others into Jesus’ healing presence?

SIIMDA Soul Care offers formation-based, trauma/neuroscience-informed training for spiritual directors, ministry leaders, therapists, coaches, and caregivers who desire to embody healing presence and skillful accompaniment.

Training Offerings

Trauma-Informed Spiritual Direction and Holistic Healing Program

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Certified SIIMDA Soul Care Practitioner

Sexual Health & Healing

Restoring a sacred, integrated vision of sexuality within Christian formation and care.

Who it’s for: Spiritual directors, ministry leaders, therapists, and educators.

What you’ll gain:

  • Trauma-informed sexual formation frameworks

  • Understanding sexual addiction, betrayal trauma, and sexual shame

  • Skills for accompanying individuals and couples with wisdom and compassion

Format: Specialized courses, workshops, and intensives.

Spiritual Formation & Healing

Speaking:

  • Seminars

  • Workshops

  • Presentations

  • Retreats

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SIIMDA Soul Care Courses Online Learning

Deepening intimacy with God through embodied, relational transformation.

Who it’s for: Individuals, groups, leaders, and communities.

What you’ll gain:

  • Practices that integrate body, emotions, and spirit

  • Formation beyond behavior management

  • Increased capacity for presence, discernment, and love

Format: Courses, retreats, and group experiences.

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Continuing Education

Trauma-Informed Ministry Training

Equipping churches and ministries to become safer, wiser, and more healing spaces. By embracing trauma-informed ministry, communities can foster understanding, promote healing, and offer a supportive space where individuals can find solace and restoration on their path towards recovery and deepen one’s experience God.

Who it’s for: Pastors, ministry leaders, church staff, and lay caregivers.

What you’ll gain:

  • Understanding trauma’s impact on faith, relationships, and discipleship

  • Skills for responding to spiritual abuse, betrayal trauma, and crisis

  • Tools for cultivating cultures of safety, humility, and repair

Format: Workshops, intensives, and custom trainings.

Who Can Benefit From the Training?

  • Pastors

  • Spiritual Directors

  • Clinicians

  • Mental Health Providers

  • Therapists

  • Psychiatrists

  • Social Workers

  • Chaplains

  • Church Leaders

  • Caregivers

  • Psychologists

  • Physicians

Anyone called to the work of Jesus’ healing ministry.