Etiotropic Trauma Management (ETM) Trauma Resolution Therapy (TRT)
Counselor, Associate Counselor, and Manager Certification Information and Agreements

Kinds of ETM certifications or License:

• Certified ETM Counselor
• Certified ETM Associate Counselor
• Certified ETM Manager
• Licensed ETM Trainer and Supervisor (Currently Not Available)

Certified ETM Counselor

The Certified ETM Counselor designation provides recognition that an appropriately credentialed professional has successfully completed the ETM Professional Training School (including the online school and its beta version) and is in compliance with the ETM Counselor Certification Agreement. An appropriately credentialed professional, in this use meaning that the professional retains a valid license, certification, or degree from a recognized authority, for example, a state government or academic institution, to provide therapeutic assistance to the public. Examples of an appropriately credentialed professional include, but are not necessarily limited to, psychiatrists, psychologists, MSWs (Masters in Social Work), licensed professional counselors, chemical dependency counselors, some pastoral counselors (referring to those who retain a publicly approved and granted license), and people with advanced counseling degrees (where no government licensing authority prevails).

The Certified ETM Counselor designation authorizes professionals to administer, within the parameters of the professional's own (primary) licensing or certification authority, the ETM program. ETM Certification does not provide the authority to participate in the delivery of psychotherapeutic services not recognized or otherwise covered under or in the professional's primary licensing program.

Certified ETM Associate Counselor

The second ETM Certification provides people who have a need to address or in other ways manage, or participate in the management of, psychological trauma, as such management falls within the purview of special organizational situations. "Special organizational situations" refer to those situations where government agencies, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and medically-based (hospital) programs require an employee to function as a participant in the management of trauma-causing events or people affected by such events. Examples of organizations that meet the "special situations" criteria include, but are not limited to shelters and halfway houses for children/adolescents, battered spouses, and other similarly affected people. Other examples of people qualifying for the Associate ETM Counselor designation include, but also are not limited to, emergency medical services, administrative, nursing, teaching and law enforcement personnel. The Associate ETM certification is valid only within the context of that, or similar, employment; the certification does not transfer to private practice, unless proper credentialing is otherwise attained.

Criteria / Limitations / Upgrades: Associate ETM Counselor

The Associate ETM Counselor certification is subject to the following limitations and criteria for the administration of the ETM program:

1. Assessment, evaluation and the formation of treatment strategies must be supervised by a Certified ETM Counselor.
2. Facilitation of the TRT long form, all 5 written phases as applied to long-term trauma, must be supervised (co-facilitated) by a Certified ETM Counselor.
3. Facilitation of the TRT short form for addressing near-term traumas must be supervised by a Certified ETM Counselor.
4. The Associate designation may be upgraded (without retaking the training program) to Counselor or Manager certification upon acquisition of proper and legal credentialing within the particular clinical professional organization by the individual’s local governing authorities.

Certified ETM Manager

The ETM manager certification recognizes that a professional (not necessarily clinical) has completed the ETM School and agrees to apply, where organizationally appropriate, the approach to organizational management process and in a manner commensurate with the ethical and professional training guidelines governing the particular organization's operations. Examples of professionals who qualify for the ETM manager certification include school principals and administrators, school district superintendents, school counselors, emergency medical, fire and police chiefs, military officers, hospital/treatment facility administrators and hospital marketing personnel, and government agency supervisors and managers.

Licensed ETM Trainer (no further trainer licenses are available at this time)

The ETM Trainer license recognizes that an individual has successfully completed the ETM Trainer training process and is authorized to present the ETM School to the group of professionals designated (to receive ETM training) by the related ETM Training Module Agreement and in accordance with that agreement.

The ETM Licensed Trainer is authorized to provide ETM professional supervision to ETM Counselors, Associate Counselors, Managers and Presenters.

Students and Counselors-in-Training

A student and counselor-in-training (CIT) may attend the ETM School and acquire both the cognitive and experiential aspects of the theory for the purpose of eventually becoming an ETM certified clinician: the student or CIT may pass the exam and participate successfully in the experiential component of the curriculum.

There are, however, some prospective differences for this participant's training and eventual certification from the training of licensed clinicians. For example, a licensed professional or person employed in a special position that requires an understanding of experiential forms of therapy is assumed by an ETM School Presenter to be thoroughly trained in such experientially-based models; the student or CIT, however, may or may not be so trained. Thus, the Presenter conducts this special training (for students and CITs) with an eye toward conveying some of the additional information that often accompanies such facilitation exercises; both the student and the CIT require more attention from a Presenter than is otherwise administered by the ETM School to other participants: the additional training is a function of the relationship between the Presenter and the student and is outside of the training scope of the standard ITMS curriculum.

Accepting such a training relationship is the responsibility, choice, of the Presenter. We recommend that the student complete a prerequisite in grief resolution or client centered therapy, or have considerable practical experience in the use of these therapies before attending the ETM School. Regardless of whether the student or CIT successfully completes the ETM School, neither the student nor CIT qualify for associate ETM certification status unless the particular student or CIT is employed in a professional position that requires the special certification. The student or CIT may, however, upon the eventual attainment of a particular professional license or upon gaining pertinent employment, qualify for and be accorded either ETM Counselor Certification or associate certification, depending on the license attained or employment gained. Lastly, there are no time limitations between the student's or CIT's successful completion of the School and ETM certification.

Clinical Certification Disclaimer

ETM certification does not provide permission to non credentialed/non professional people, excepting those who work within the parameters of the special organizational situations described above, to administer the clinical component (TRT) of ETM to the public. Specifically, ETM certification does not provide authorization to any individual who is not properly trained and licensed to engage in the business of providing psychotherapeutic or other professional therapy services, to include providing those services in private practice settings. Exceptions follow.

Exceptions to ETM Certification

Any person may, through the reading of the ETM information system, use the information in a general sense to advance the interests and good health of trauma victims or other people harmed by traumatic events, but only use the information within compliance of governing local, state, federal or any community's laws. People who use this information are forewarned, however, that ETM training for professionals, managers, and volunteers is required for optimal ETM application results, and that failure to acquire the proper training, or in lieu of that training acquire proper supervision from this Network, can have deleterious effects on the end users of the applications.

Moreover, near-term trauma emergency-immediate protocols (1-6) may be used by non ETM trained personnel, but with an understanding that the follow-up intermediate protocols providing for etiology reversal require ETM training for appropriate application, except where such training is waived by this Network because the professional has acquired the proper supervision from the Network.

ETM Certifying Authority

The certifying authority for the ETM certification program evolves from the precedent established through the program's historical existence and a natural need to ensure that professionals who administer ETM are properly trained and functioning in agreement with the guidelines for that administration as set forth in that program. Jesse Collins (and Craig Carson in his absence), by virtue of his (1) creation of the ETM model, (2) knowledge of its functionings, and (3) rights and responsibilities as set forth in copyright law, are the determiners of what constitutes being "properly trained" and administrative "guidelines." Any person designated by the author(s) as a Licensed ETM Trainer has the author's permissions to professionally convey ETM theory to other clinicians / managers and certify qualified professionals as ETM Counselors, Associate Counselors or Managers. Through application of the ETM Professional Training Module and the accompanying text, ETM School participating professionals are shown the proper use of the ETM program.

ETM Counselor Certification Agreement

ETM certification is subject to this (following) agreement.

Upon successful completion of the ETM TRT School, the Certified ETM Counselor, associate counselor or manager agrees to:

1. Use the ETM model where appropriate for the purpose of helping people affected by psychological trauma to resolve that trauma (reverse its etiology) in accordance with the definition of trauma resolution (etiology reversal) provided in the ETM School, and in accordance with the guidelines for administering the ETM TRT models, as those guidelines are presented in this information system.
2. Apply ETM ethically. The counselor will refrain from applying ETM in a way that interferes with other therapeutic processes. The counselor will follow the ethical standards governing the counselor's or therapist's particular discipline of professional study and practice.
3. Refrain from soliciting people into the ETM program. "Solicit" means to "entreat." There is no restriction against offering ETM to anyone. "Offering" refers to notification of services and education about the same.
4. Comply with the criteria for ETM Certification or Associate Certification; the preceding discussion provides the referenced criteria.
5. Comply with copyright law when using all ETM materials and publications. Compliance includes not changing ETM TRT educational materials from the form presented by its authors, or copying or setting to celluloid or any storage presentation technology (like computer technology) any ETM TRT information without the express permissions of the author or his designated authority, in this instance to include Craig Carson. Note on the home page of http://etiotropic.com that ETM and TRT and their full names, and all educational materials shown on the website, to include the ETM Tutorial, are federally registered U.S. copyrights and are given in addition to national U.S. Copyright Agency protection by international copyright authority.
6. Not in engage in professional training unless designated as an ETM Trainer by the ETM certifying authority. "Training" means to impart the intellectual material with the intent that it may be used by a professional in the treatment of anyone or organizational management.
7. There is no stipulation that precludes a Certified ETM Counselor's or manager’s providing ETM education and educational materials (created by the ETM authors) to professionals, laymen, or clients, as long as such provision is in accordance with copyright law and agreements with the ETM certifying authority. "ETM education" refers to the process through which people, including professionals, are informed about the ETM theories and methodologies, but without the intent to convey the information for the purpose of providing the receiver of the information with the authority to administer the ETM models to the public or to any person; professional ETM training must be provided by an authorized ETM Trainer.
   
   The Certified ETM Counselor or Associate ETM Counselor designation is permanent, but conditional on compliance with this agreement.

Clinical ETM TRT Certification Disclaimer

ETM TRT certification does not provide permission to non credentialed/non professional people, excepting those who work within the parameters of the special organizational situations described above, to administer the clinical component (TRT) of ETM to the public. Specifically, ETM certification does not provide authorization to any individual who is not properly trained and licensed to engage in the business of providing psychotherapeutic or other professional therapy services, to include providing those services in private practice settings.

*Beta Version

“Beta” is a term used in software publishing that refers to a developing program which is being distributed to certain and sometimes highly technically knowledgeable people (as opposed to laymen) prior to the final or public version is sold. Beta programs are normally made available at reduced charges. In this instance, “beta” refers to this online school being made available to professionals at the reduced charge from the normal public or non beta charge, while the program is being distributed in its non final stage. The value of this effort to software producers like me is substantial as the program can be tested against considerable real life use. For example, you may be taking a quiz and become confused by a question’s ambiguity. I would give you credit for the answer and apply your feedback to the beta testing effort which would review the problem and make the necessary corrections. When the beta program has served its purposes, it will be discontinued and the consumer (corrected and final) version launched at the full price.

After the first 7 years of teaching TRT, I began to make it available only through ETM TRT licensed trainers. The feedback went from students to the trainer and then to me. In this beta instance, there is considerable computer technology integrated into students' questions pertaining to ETM TRT theory and practice. Hence, I’m providing all of the feedback process directly with the students, as my trainers with whom I work, like Craig Carson, are not skilled in this kind of distance learning computer technology.

Please enjoy yourself and have a pleasant and meaningful learning experience

Thank you for signing up for ETM TRT training and certification. I hope and feel confident, including given that you are participating in the beta version of the ETM TRT online school, that you will enjoy and find productive the learning experience. Moreover, if 25 plus years of observation of ETM TRT’s application, and appraising detailed feedback from administrating professionals of ETM TRT’s applications to patients and organizations, can be taken as appropriate examples of what you can expect from the administration of ETM TRT in real settings, then I know that you will be professionally and deeply impressed as well as clearly moved by the models’ extraordinarily profound effects on traumatized people and organizations.

Sincerely,

Jesse Collins