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Introduction: Overview of PIPA Training Program
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PreviewWhat you can expect from the PIPA program (Video and Downloads)
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GROUP 4
with Esly Carvalho, PhD, TEP
Modules 1 ao 5: recorded
Module 6: August 2, 2025
Consultation: August 29, 2025
Audio: English | Subtitles: not available
Are you looking for practical ways to increase your income, optimize your work time, and expand your impact on people's lives through psychotherapeutic groups focused on specific topics?
PIPA is our Professional Intervention Programa in Adversity. It is much more than just a response to disasters or extreme situations. It offers an innovative and evidence-based approach that equips you to work with groups effectively and safely, designing interventions around key themes like anxiety, emotional regulation, stress management, burnout, grief, strengthening inner resources, and even early interventions for traumatic experiences, among other relevant topics in contemporary mental health.
With this program — combining five on-demand modules and two live online sessions — you’ll discover how working with groups can be a game-changer for your clinical practice.
- Earn more per hour: By working with multiple participants at once, you significantly increase your hourly income potential. The total value generated is much higher than an individual session during the same time frame, even if each participant pays a lower rate.
- Create themed groups: PIPA enables you to structure groups around high-demand, specific topics. This makes outreach easier, attracts targeted audiences interested in personal growth, well-being, and overcoming common challenges.
- Reach more people: You’ll be able to provide psychotherapeutic interventions to individuals who might not otherwise access one-on-one care. Group settings can feel less intimidating, are more affordable, and offer the powerful support of shared experience. You’ll broaden your impact by promoting mental health in a community-based format and reaching far more people.
- Achieve powerful clinical outcomes: Master techniques for emotional stabilization, the installation of positive resources, and group-adapted principles of desensitization and reprocessing. PIPA teaches you to apply scientifically grounded tools safely and effectively in group settings, achieving meaningful change even in complex, challenging scenarios.
You do not need to be an EMDR psychotherapist to take PIPA or apply its adapted techniques. However, professionals familiar with EMDR will find it even easier to integrate and deepen the use of PIPA’s exercises in group contexts.
MODULES 1 TO 5
ON-DEMAND
3 hours of theoretical classes in video format. Access to the recording is valid until September 29, 2025.
MODULE 6
LIVE ONLINE
August 2, 2025
from 11 AM to 5 PM
(Eastern Time – EDT)
CONSULTATION
LIVE ONLINE
August 29, 2025
from 3 PM to 5 PM
(Eastern Time – EDT)
With in-depth theory and practical training, you'll master group interventions and achieve greater clinical outcomes, profitability, and lasting social impact!
This program is divided into three parts:
- Part 1: Modules 1 to 5 (recorded classes) provide a foundational theoretical introduction to trauma and teach exercises for stabilization, desensitization, and reprocessing. These recorded videos cover the essential knowledge that PIPA professionals must understand in order to respond to questions from their group participants. There is a quiz at the end of each module, requiring a minimum passing score of 70% to progress to the next module.
- Part 2: In Module 6 (5 hours live), practical exercises are taught that are essential for fully implementing the program with others in the future. Attendance at this live training is required to ensure a deeper understanding and to help participants develop the necessary skills and practical confidence. Each participant will experience the personal impact of the exercises and practice them with peers in small breakout groups.
- Part 3: Two hours of mandatory live online consultation are provided to monitor participants' progress. The course certificate is only issued after this consultation is completed.
See how PIPA can transform your clinical practice, your professional routine, and your income potential:
Limited client capacity
"I want to help more people in less time."
This course will help you expand the reach of your interventions and teach you how to make the most of limited time and resources in times of adversity.
Lack of confidence applying effective techniques in groups
"I’m afraid of making mistakes when adapting individual techniques to group settings."
PIPA teaches clear, safe, evidence-based protocols adapted for group contexts.
No ready-made guides for themed group sessions
"I want to facilitate groups, but I don’t know how to structure the sessions."
This course provides ready-to-use group models and materials.
Struggling to increase income without burnout
"I can’t earn more without working too many hours."
PIPA empowers you to work with groups, enabling scalable income in less time and providing therapy to more people who need it.
And much more!
Target Audience
The PIPA Program is ideal for psychotherapists who want to enhance results, increase income, and help more people at once by offering themed group sessions to those facing recent or past adverse experiences. To participate, you must be a licensed professional in your country:
- Psychologist; or
- Psychiatrist; or
- Medical doctor with training in Psychotherapy.
Enhance your psychotherapeutic knowledge with this course!
Frequently Asked Questions
WHEN AND WHERE WILL THIS COURSE TAKE PLACE?
- This course includes 5 recorded modules that you can watch and rewatch at your convenience, as long as it’s before the live online Module 6, which will take place via Zoom on August 2 (Saturday), from 11 AM to 5 PM EDT. After that, we will hold the mandatory Consultation, also live online via Zoom, on August 29 (Friday), 2025, from 3 PM to 5 PM EDT.
WILL I BE ABLE TO ASK QUESTIONS DURING THE COURSE?
- Yes! Part of the course time is dedicated specifically to a Q&A session, where you can ask your questions live and also learn from the questions of fellow participants.
HOW LONG WILL I HAVE ACCESS TO THE RECORDING?
- You will have access to the theoretical modules of the PIPA program until September 29, 2025.
WILL MODULE 6 AND THE CONSULTATION BE RECORDED?
- No. Therefore, attendance at both live online sessions is mandatory in order to complete the program and receive your certificate.
DOES THIS COURSE PROVIDE CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS?
- Yes! This course offers ten advanced continuing education credits recognized by the EMDR Global Network (EGNw) and Asociación Iberoamericana de Psicotrauma (AIBAPT). Participants must request the credits directly from the association if they wish to redeem them.
WILL I RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE FOR THIS COURSE?
- Yes! The certificate of completion for this course will be issued after you have watched all 5 recorded modules, passed each module’s quiz with a minimum score of 70%, participated in the live Module 6, and attended the mandatory Consultation.
CAN ANYONE TAKE THIS COURSE?
- You must be a licensed Psychology or Psychiatry professional, or a licensed psychotherapist physician in your country to take this course.
Meet the Instructor
Esly Carvalho, PhD, TEP
Brazilian clinical licence: 01/1.162
Esly Regina Carvalho is a specialist in the treatment of trauma and adverse experiences, with over four decades of clinical and teaching experience. She is:
- President of the TraumaClinic Group, the pioneering organization in Brazil promoting EMDR Psychotherapy Training, as well as offering other training programs, advanced continuing education courses, TraumaClinic Methodology Licensing, book publishing, and clinical work;
- EMDR Trainer of Trainers. She has trained numerous professionals in Brazil and around the world and served as a Trainer of Trainers for the EMDR Institute (USA) from 2004 to 2023;
- Specialist in Psychodrama, certified as a Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner (TEP) by the American Board of Examiners in Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy; Fellow of the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama (ASGPP); honorary member and founder of the Asociación de Psicodrama y Sociometría del Ecuador (APSE);
- Renowned author, with several published books, including bestsellers "Healing the Folks Who Live Inside" and "Heal Your Brain, Heal Your Body";
- Ph.D. in Psychology, fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish, with international clinical experience. She served as President of EMDR Ibero-America (2007–2013) and Vice-President of AIBAPT, the Ibero-American Association of Psychotrauma (2019–2022).
Lately, Dr. Esly has been committed to passing on everything she’s learned so that others can overcome life’s challenges. She is married, has a daughter who is also a psychologist with a Ph.D., and is absolutely passionate about her grandchildren.
Course Curriculum
US$ 397
Part of the income from this course funds support the work of the TraumaClinic Network of Solidarity, enabling us to provide free or low-cost training to others in the PIPA Program.
- 3 hours of recorded videos: Modules 1 to 5.
- Access to the on-demand content until April 14.
- Downloadable files with instructions.
- Live class for Module 6 on February 15, from 11 AM to 4 PM EDT.
- Two hours of live group consultation on March 14, from 3 PM to 5 PM EDT.
- 10 advanced credits recognized by EMDR Global Network (EGNw) and the Asociación Iberoamericana de Psicotrauma (AIBAPT).
INVESTMENT
US$ 397.00
- 3 hours of recorded videos: Modules 1 to 5
- Access to the on-demand content until September 29, 2025
- Downloadable files with instructions
- Live class for Module 6 on August 8, 2025
- Two hours of live group consultation on August 29, 2025
- 10 advanced credits recognized by EGNw and AIBAPT
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