Events Calendar

Please contact Psychotherapy Commission Administrator, Latasha Matthews with questions related to psychotherapy events.

Member Price

$400

Non-Member Price

$400

ACPE SIP Training Level 2 with Russell Siler Jones (online in Zoom)

The SIP training program is a multi-disciplinary, inter-spiritual, multi-racial community of persons gathered for education, connection, and formation in the work of spiritually integrated psychotherapy. It serves licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals (i.e., counselors, social workers, marriage and family therapists, pastoral counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction specialists, and more), as well as graduate students in any of those disciplines who seek to explore the ways spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning influence their own lives and the lives of their clients.

Friday-Saturday, February 27-28, 2026

  • 2/27/2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
  • 2/28/2026, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST

March 19th - April 10th, 2026 (TBA: one 3-hour date in collaboration with the participants)

The 15-hour SIP Program Level 2 Training includes the following three-hour courses:

  • Course 2.1 Working with Spiritual Resources, Part 2
  • Course 2.2 Working with Harmful Spirituality and Religion
  • Course 2.3 Spirituality and Belief System of the Therapist
  • Course 2.4 Spiritually Integrated Case Conceptualization, Part 1
  • Course 2.5 Spiritually Integrated Case Conceptualization, Part 2 TBD

For course descriptions and learning objectives: https://acpe.edu/education/psychotherapy/spiritual-integrated-psychotherapy

Continuing Education Credit Available: 15 NBCC credit hours

ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7004. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. ACPE: The Standard for Spiritual Care & Education is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

ACPE Provider 2045, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ACPE maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/01/2024-11/01/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 15.0 Social Work Clinical continuing education credits.

Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0301.

Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers. #SW-0852.

This program is offered online using Zoom - If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact us.

Contact the ACPE SIP Trainer, Russell Siler Jones, for more information, including registration information.
Who Should Attend

All mental health practitioners interested in learning more about the integration of spirituality in psychotherapy are welcome to attend yet the material has been geared toward those individuals who are licensed or on the path toward licensure.  SIP certification is only possible after a full mental health license has been obtained from your state of practice. 

CE inquiries can be made directly to Latasha Matthews at latasha.matthews@acpe.edu
Contact Information

Russell SIler Jones

Email

russell@russellsilerjones.com

Speakers
  • Russell looking at camera and smiling

    Russell Siler Jones

    ThD

    Dr. Jones has practiced psychotherapy in Asheville, NC, since 1996 and has directed the Residency in Psychotherapy and Spirituality for CareNet/Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist since 2008. He is author of Spirit in Session: Working with Your Client's Spirituality (and Your Own) in Psychotherapy (Templeton Press, 2019) and of ACPE’s SIP curriculum.