Self-Meaning Based Therapy®: Understanding Core Self-Meaning, Attachment, Trauma, and Experiential Change 10/24/26
Date/Time
Time: 12:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Eastern
Location: LIVESTREAM
Cost: $99.99
Credits: 5 CE Credits
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Presenter(s)
CEU Creations presents:
Self-Meaning Based Therapy®: Understanding Core Self-Meaning, Attachment, Trauma, and Experiential Change 10/24/26
FEATURING:
- The role of attachment, trauma, and meaning-making in shaping core self-experience
- An introduction to SMBT case conceptualization and clinically responsible application
EVENT INFO:
12:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Eastern
Webinars open 15 minutes before the hour, except for 3-hour courses, which open 30 minutes before the hour. Registration ends 30 minutes before the webinar opens.
COST:
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS:
Social Workers:
ASWB ACE – 5 Clinical CE credits
New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work – 5 Contact hours
Psychologists:
APA – 5 CE credits
Counselors:
NBCC ACEP – 5 Contact hours
NY State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners – 5 Contact hours
Addiction Professionals:
NAADAC – This course is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
Nurses:
California Board of Registered Nursing – This course is not eligible for California Board of Registered Nursing Contact hours.
Case Managers:
CCMC – This course is not eligible for CCMC CE Contact hours.
Long-Term Care Administrators:
This course is not approved for NAB/NCERS participant hours.
Attendance or applied credit certificate available for other credentials.
Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure the transferability of CE credits.
Counselors: If this course awards Ethics hours, please note that some states do not recognize Ethics hours; in those cases, Contact hours will be awarded.
Target Audience: Social workers, psychologists, and counselors
Counseling Skill Group:
N/A
OVERVIEW:
This 5-hour training introduces Self-Meaning Based Therapy® (SMBT) as a clinical framework for understanding how early attachment experiences, trauma, relational patterns, and unconscious meaning-making contribute to the development of core negative self-meaning. Participants will explore how emotionally salient experiences may become internalized as identity-based conclusions, shaping perception, emotional regulation, interpersonal functioning, compensatory strategies, and symptom presentation across the lifespan.
The training will examine the theoretical foundations of SMBT, including attachment theory, developmental psychology, unconscious and primary-process experience, trauma-related neural encoding, and the role of bilateral stimulation in accessing nonverbal, somatic, emotional, and symbolic aspects of self-experience. Participants will learn how SMBT differs from traditional talk therapy and EMDR, including its focus on enduring self-meaning rather than discrete traumatic memories or cognitive beliefs.
Clinical discussion will include appropriate client selection, limitations and contraindications, case conceptualization, identification of core negative self-meaning, and use of SMBT-informed narration to support therapeutic processing. Emphasis will be placed on ethical, trauma-informed, and clinically responsible application, including recognition of client readiness, scope of competence, and the need for further training before independent use of specialized SMBT interventions.
OBJECTIVES:
By attending this training, you will be able to:
1. Describe the theoretical foundations of Self-Meaning Based Therapy®, including the role of attachment, early relational experience, trauma, unconscious processing, and meaning-making in the development of core negative self-meaning.
2. Identify common clinical presentations associated with negative self-meaning, including compensatory strategies, relational patterns, emotional reactivity, shame-based self-experience, and symptom patterns that may persist despite insight-oriented or cognitive interventions.
3. Differentiate SMBT from traditional talk therapy and EMDR by explaining its clinical focus on enduring, relationally encoded self-meaning rather than solely on cognitive beliefs, symptom management, or discrete traumatic memories.
4. Evaluate client readiness, clinical limitations, and contraindications for SMBT-informed work, including considerations related to psychosis, marked dissociation, active substance use, severe psychopathology, alexithymia, rigid cognitive processing, and limited reflective capacity.
5. Apply introductory SMBT-informed case conceptualization strategies to identify potential core negative self-meaning, associated somatic/emotional/symbolic experiences, and compensatory patterns within a trauma-informed and ethically responsible treatment framework.
AGENDA (all times are Eastern):
1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Self-Meaning Based Therapy® (includes a 10-minute break)
4:00 p.m. – 4:40 p.m. Midway Reset
4:40 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Self-Meaning Based Therapy® (includes a 10-minute break)
PRESENTER BIO:
Dr. Lawrie Ignacio is a clinical psychologist, educator, and co-developer of Self-Meaning-Based Therapy® (SMBT) and Intensive Psychodynamic Couple Therapy (IPCT). Her work explores how implicit self-meaning, formed in early life, shapes identity, suffering, and relationships. Based in Honolulu, she teaches and mentors doctoral students while contributing to community care through the co-founding of Hawai'i's first pro-bono virtual mental health clinic. She presents nationally and internationally.
Dr. Graham Taylor is a clinical psychologist whose work integrates psychodynamic, humanistic, and trauma-informed approaches with neuroscience. He is co-developer of Self-Meaning-Based Therapy® (SMBT) and Intensive Psychodynamic Couple Therapy (IPCT). His work focuses on how implicit self-meaning organizes emotional and relational life, and how therapy can access these deeper layers. He teaches, consults, and contributes to professional dialogue through writing, speaking, and podcasting.
COURSE PARTICIPATION INFORMATION:
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This live webinar is fully interactive; a computer is required. Attendees may ask and answer questions throughout the presentation and participate in instructor-led discussions. Zoom account is not required.
You will receive a reminder email approximately 24 hours prior to the start of the training and a link to join the webinar will be in your CEU Creations account under Member Profile.
To receive credit, you must log in on time, attend the entire presentation, and interact.
POST EVENT: When the training ends, your attendance will be processed using Zoom analytics. Once processed, the evaluation link will be available in your account and we ask that you complete it within 3 days of the training. Once your evaluation is complete, your certificate will be available in your CEU Creations account within 24-72 hours.
Please contact us at [email protected] with any questions.
FINE PRINT
SOCIAL WORKERS: CEU Creations, #1239, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/24-11/22/27. Social workers completing this course receive 5 Clinical CE credits.
CEU Creations, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0616. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
PSYCHOLOGISTS: 5 CE credits. CEU Creations is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. CEU Creations maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS: 5 Contact hours 
CEU Creations has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6941. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CEU Creations is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. CEU Creations, 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-0199. This activity is approved for 5 Contact hours.
ADDICTION PROFESSIONALS: This event is not eligible for NAADAC Contact hours.
NURSES: This event is not eligible for Nurses Contact hours. CEU Creations is an approved provider of nursing CEs through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Provider number: CEP17905. All states retain their own licensing authority through their own boards. Please make sure to check with your own state board to ensure transferability of the CE credits.
Cancellation Policy: Registrants must cancel their registration in their CEU Creations account. No email, faxes, or mail cancellations will be accepted. Cancellation fee: $25. Refunds will not be given for cancellations within five (5) business days prior to the workshop date.
Accessibility Accommodations: At CEU Creations, we are dedicated to providing an inclusive and accessible experience for all individuals. We strive to ensure our continuing education content, website, and services are usable by everyone, regardless of ability. We are continually working to enhance accessibility and user experience for all of our users. If you encounter any barriers, have questions, or wish to request accommodations, please don’t hesitate to reach out. You can contact us at [email protected] and a member of our team will review your message and respond promptly.
Event Cancellation and Rescheduling Policy: In the event that CEU Creations cancels or reschedules an event, registered participants will be given the option to receive a full refund, a credit toward a different event of the same value, or to transfer their registration to the rescheduled date.