Training
Sharpen Your Skills. Expand Your Tools. Maximize Your CE Hours
Building Competency With Confidence
While graduate education provides the foundation, most clinicians enter the field with limited experience applying assessment or integrating new modalities into real-world practice. The APA’s Guidelines for Clinical Supervision in Health Service Psychology and Competency Benchmarks emphasize lifelong learning, self-assessment, and the ethical responsibility to practice within one’s scope—yet few structures exist to support clinicians in expanding that scope once formal training ends.
Finding reliable, high-quality guidance for beginning a new intervention, adopting a new population, or working with complex diagnostic tools is notoriously difficult. Practitioners are often left choosing between expensive continuing education courses that lack clinical depth or trial-and-error learning in isolation.
This service aims to fill that gap.
These consultation-based trainings are designed to support clinicians in building applied competency in specific areas of practice. Each session blends instruction with conceptual discussion and real case-based application. The goal is simple: to help you work with greater clarity, confidence, and clinical precision as your practice evolves.
Testimonials
Greg T
"I’ve taken plenty of CE courses, but this was something else. Cody’s training didn’t just teach me how to interpret tests—it changed the way I think about assessment altogether. I left with an integrated process that brings my clients into the work, rather than pushing them away. The soft assessment techniques were a revelation. It’s the first time assessment has actually deepened the therapeutic alliance for me"
Jesse W
"This was exactly what I needed to finally bring assessment into my therapy work. I had touched the NEO and BSI in grad school, but never knew how to actually use them with clients. Cody made the process clear, relevant, and clinical—never academic for its own sake. The training gave me tools I now use every week, and my case formulations are sharper and more collaborative because of it."
Rachael G
"The consultation-based format was incredibly refreshing. It wasn’t just a lecture—I got to bring in my real cases, ask specific questions, and get practical help in real time. Cody struck the perfect balance between technical expertise and therapeutic insight. I left feeling more competent, more confident, and honestly more connected to the heart of why I do this work."
Theory to Practice Introduction to Assessment
Start using psychological assessments to inform treatment—without the overwhelm.
This package offers a hands-on introduction to three foundational tools that can immediately strengthen how you understand your clients, structure interventions, and track meaningful progress. The measures are intentionally selected for their clinical utility, affordability, and ease of integration—ideal for therapists ready to move beyond intuition alone without getting lost in complexity.
Introductory Battery
NEO Personality Inventory
A trait-based personality measure that reveals how clients approach emotion, structure, and relationships—offering insight into affect regulation, motivation, and interpersonal style to inform deeper, therapy-aligned case formulation and treatment planning.
BSI or SCL-90-R
Brief, standardized screeners that capture psychological distress with clarity—helping you prioritize treatment targets, track clinical severity, and articulate change over time, especially when clients have difficulty identifying or communicating what feels wrong.
QOLI (Quality of Life Inventory)
A strengths-based tool that evaluates satisfaction across life domains—allowing you to center the client’s values, balance symptom relief with purpose, and create plans that move beyond pathology toward a more engaged, meaningful, and personally fulfilling life.
Most therapy is guided by intuition, experience, and the therapeutic relationship—and for good reason. But when clinical judgment is supported by well-integrated assessment data, treatment becomes sharper, more targeted, and often more effective. This training introduces three tools—the NEO, BSI/SCL-90-R, and QOLI—that elevate your work without overcomplicating it. You'll learn how to use them not as diagnostic requirements, but as instruments for precision: refining case conceptualizations, tracking real change, and grounding your insights in something more structured than clinical instinct alone. These tools don’t replace good therapy—they make it deeper, more sophisticated, and more responsive to the complexity of your clients. If you're looking to move beyond talk alone, this is where you start.
Highlights:
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Learn how to interpret the NEO, BSI/SCL-90-R, and QOLI through a therapy-first lens
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Create integrated formulations that blend symptom, structure, and life satisfaction
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Identify markers of change that support deeper therapeutic goals
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Use assessment to build—not break—the therapeutic alliance
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Deliver feedback that promotes insight, engagement, and real-world change
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Develop a foundation in collaborative assessment without needing formal certification
Who It’s For
This package is ideal for therapists who:
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Want to start using assessment in treatment but don’t know where to begin
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Learned these tools in graduate school but never used them clinically
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Are looking to anchor their intuition in structured, effective data
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Prefer clarity over jargon—and care about making assessment useful
Advanced Collaborative Assessment Training
From Test Battery to Therapeutic Transformation
This training prepares you to deliver collaborative assessment as a fully autonomous, short-term clinical intervention—where testing itself becomes a transformative process. Building on the introductory training, it goes deeper into nuance, interpretation, and clinical meaning. You’ll learn how to guide clients through a dialogic structure that surfaces story, conflict, and growth potential—enriching ongoing therapy or standing alone as treatment. This model elevates assessment into a therapeutic encounter: relational, precise, and insight-driven.
Full Collaborative Assessment Battery
NEO + PAI (Personality Assessment Inventory)
A powerful combination of trait-based and clinical measures that offers a dual-lens view of personality. Together, they create a clinically rich, norm-referenced profile that helps you map emotional regulation, interpersonal style, and diagnostic clarity with depth and precision.
TAT (Thematic Apreception test)
A projective storytelling tool that gives access to unconscious themes, relational templates, and inner conflicts—bringing emotional depth and symbolic richness to your assessment while opening powerful therapeutic dialogue through narrative material.
BSI or SCL-90-R
Brief, standardized screeners that capture psychological distress with clarity—helping you prioritize treatment targets, track clinical severity, and articulate change over time, especially when clients have difficulty identifying or communicating what feels wrong.
WAIS-V (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale)
A comprehensive cognitive measure that reveals not just intellectual functioning, but how clients approach problems, sustain effort, and respond under pressure—providing insight into executive function, processing style, and real-world application.
QOLI (Quality of Life Inventory)
A strengths-based tool that evaluates satisfaction across life domains—allowing you to center the client’s values, balance symptom relief with purpose, and create plans that move beyond pathology toward a more engaged, meaningful, and personally fulfilling life.
Curated Soft Assessment Battery
Non-standardized, client-engaging tools that capture dynamic in-session material—revealing patterns, resistance, meaning, and symbolic content that deepen rapport and enrich formal results with nuance, context, and psychological texture.
What separates competent assessment from transformative assessment isn’t the number of tools used—it’s how well they’re woven together. This section is designed for clinicians who want to move past formulaic interpretation and into the kind of integrative thinking that reveals complexity, contradiction, and core psychological truths. If you've ever sensed that your assessments were accurate but somehow incomplete, this is where you learn to close that gap—with nuance, cohesion, and clinical authority.
Integration: How to Use These Tools Together
Testing is most powerful when it’s not siloed. This training emphasizes how to integrate data across multiple sources to build a formulation that’s dynamic, not fragmented.
You’ll learn how to:
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Compare structural and symptomatic profiles across tools
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Resolve contradictions and highlight converging patterns
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Use projective material (e.g., TAT) to bring life to objective results
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Balance strengths and vulnerabilities in treatment formulation
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Match tools to clinical questions—not the other way around
We’ll also cover how to translate assessment findings into working treatment plans—using results to inform interventions, track change over time, and communicate more clearly with clients and other providers.
Incorporating Soft Assessments in a Therapeutic Testing Space
Not all meaningful data comes from formal tools. You’ll also learn how to incorporate soft assessments—brief drawing tasks, sentence stems, observational themes, symbolic behaviors, and subtle in-room reactions—to add richness and therapeutic engagement to the assessment process.
These soft methods can:
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Deepen rapport and lower resistance during testing
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Add qualitative texture to structured findings
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Give voice to parts of the client that may not emerge through standardized formats
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Bridge the gap between testing and the therapy relationship
When used skillfully, soft assessments don’t just support testing—they make it feel like part of the therapy.
FAQ
Format & Structure
Each training begins with a collaborative review of your current level of competency, experience, and clinical goals. Together, we identify the skills you want to strengthen and build a plan that matches the depth and direction of your practice.
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60–75 minute sessions – available as one-time consults or an ongoing series
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Initial planning discussion – to assess your current skill level and clarify training goals
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Customized scope of training – tailored to your needs, pace, and practice context
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Follow-up materials – may include curated readings, sample reports, or assessment tools
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CE-credit eligible – Trainings count toward self-guided Ce in Vermont
What You'll Leave With
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Clear frameworks you can use again and again
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Confidence in reading, interpreting, and applying assessment data
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A sharper sense of clinical precision in your treatment process
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Documented hours that actually improve your practice