Your Gift Keeps on Giving: Innovation in CPE and Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy

February 22, 2021 Written by Dagmar Grefe, Chair, Foundation for ACPE

Filed under: Foundation

Thanks to our generous donors, the Foundation for ACPE was able to award $36,000 in funds to four projects that support innovation in CPE and spiritually integrated psychotherapy.

The funded Innovative CPE Project, “Taking CPE to the Streets” is a partnership between the Urban CPE Consortium, Eden Theological Seminary, and LiveFree St. Louis. As part of a Level I CPE Extended Unit, Eden Theological Seminary students will complete clinical hours at LiveFree St. Louis (a satellite of LiveFree Illinois), providing spiritual care to clients, amid them receiving free PPE and COVID-19 testing, employment resources, non-perishable food items, and police reform initiatives.

Three projects were funded by the Mission Advancement Program (MAP) Fund. The first project, “Translating the Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) Curriculum into Korean,” will be led by ACPE Psychotherapist Dr. Samuel K. Lee at Claremont School of Theology. This project is intended to translate ACPE’s Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) curriculum into the Korean language to make the SIP training available to Koreans and Korean Americans to help expand the membership and the work of ACPE internationally. Once the translation task is completed, the SIP curriculum will be delivered through the Doctor of Professional Counseling degree of Claremont School of Theology, which is projected to launch in August 2022. Sam Lee is also offering the SIP certification program in Korea to the Korean Association of Pastoral Counselors and to the Korean Association of Christian Counselors.

The second project funded by MAP, “Anger Works SIP Psychospiritual Interventions,” will be led by ACPE Psychotherapist Carol ZA McGinnis of Messiah University. This project is intended to expand online content from an established anger.works website to include SIP content, and result in a free app that will provide interactive access to content and materials to the public. Additional research will include psycho-spiritual interventions in graduate field experience with an emphasis on SIP principles and practices. This project will raise awareness and open new avenues of development for mental health professionals who would benefit from further training that would lead to the new SIP credential.

The third project funded by MAP, “Healing of the Soul for African Americans” will be led by ACPE Psychotherapist Rosalind Stanley of Because of Grace Consulting & Training Services. This project is intended to support research to expand the “Healing of the Soul for African Americans” training to eight more individuals, as well as provide the lead trainer with ACPE SIP training as a value-add for the sustainability of the project. The Healing of the Soul Ministry is a prayer counseling modality that leads people to soul healing. Topics include psychoeducation and prayer counseling ministry that addresses Negative Generational Patterns, Issues and Sins, Disgrace-filled Thoughts and Beliefs, Disgrace-filled Words, Unhealthy/Ungodly Soul Connections, Grief, Losses and Trauma, Grace Place (for safety), Grace-filled Moments (Inner Healing), and Dispensing Darkness, as well as other miscellaneous emotional and spiritual concerns.

For more information about Innovative Program Awards or MAP Fund Awards, please contact Jasmine Okafor, ACPE Development Specialist.

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