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Using Experiential Therapy with Telehealth

Enroll in the Online Self-Study course and complete it at your own pace.
1.5 CE hours available for behavioral health clinicians upon completion.

In a virtual world where clients can feel distant, how do you create the safety, depth, and connection needed for true healing? Experiential therapy offers a way forward—inviting clients to feel, embody, and transform rather than just talk.

Telehealth has expanded access to care, but it also challenges clinicians to adapt. This course shows you how to bring action-oriented, experiential methods into virtual sessions, ensuring your clients don’t just process their struggles—they experience real breakthroughs.

Enroll in the 1.5 CE Online Self-Study for $30

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Taught by seasoned clinicians Sheila Maitland, LCMHCS, CSAT and Amber Tolbert, LCSW, LISW-CP, this course draws on decades of practice in trauma treatment, family systems, experiential modalities, and clinical supervision. Both instructors have built thriving practices and trained countless clinicians in making therapy more embodied, relational, and effective—even online.

Their approach blends clinical rigor with practical tools you can use immediately. You’ll learn how to set safety and boundaries as the foundation, integrate creative experiential enactments, and adapt techniques like psychodrama, sociometry, and transactional analysis for individual, couples, and group therapy in telehealth settings.

Topics include: creating psychological safety and trust online, structuring groups for deeper connection, using sociometry and role play to bypass defenses, blending top-down and bottom-up approaches, adapting experiential therapy for trauma, codependency, and relational work, and applying techniques across individual, family, and group telehealth sessions.

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Instructor

Sheila Maitland, LCMHCS, CSAT, is a clinician, supervisor, and trainer with over 20 years of experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups through SteppingIntoWholeness.com.  She owns the Relationship Enrichment Center in Matthews, NC, where she integrates family systems and experiential therapy, and also facilitates workshops through Stepping Into Wholeness. Sheila provides clinical supervision and continuing education for North Carolina therapists, specializing in trauma treatment and professional development. A Certified Daring Way Facilitator and longtime consultant with the Experiential Training Institute, she is passionate about guiding both clients and clinicians toward growth, resilience, and wholeness. You can find Sheila here.

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Instructor

Amber Tolbert, LCSW, LISW-CP, graduated from the University of South Carolina with dual Master degrees in Social Work and Public Health. She is a clinical supervisor and is dually licensed in South Carolina and North Carolina as a Licensed Independent Social Worker in Clinical Practice. Her experience over the past 14 years has taken her to many different mental health settings, and she has experience with all ages.

Amber owns a holistic multi-state group practice, “The Healing Collective”. She leads a team of 7 trauma specialists, 3 support staff, and a transformation coach in virtually supporting all of North and South Carolina through traditional and non-traditional therapeutic services.

You can find Amber here.

Key Takeaways:

  • Screen effectively for group work: Gain clarity on how to assess clients for readiness and suitability.

  • Create authentic safety: Learn practical strategies to establish trust, commitment, and protective guidelines in virtual therapy.

  • Apply experiential tools across contexts: Discover action-oriented interventions that work with individuals, couples, and groups.

Why this course?

  • Expand your toolkit: Go beyond talk therapy with proven experiential methods adapted for telehealth.

  • Learn from experts who live this work: Sheila and Amber don’t just teach experiential therapy—they embody it in their practices, training, and lives.

  • Meet the stakes of today’s practice: Clients are isolated, anxious, and yearning for deeper connection—this course equips you to meet them where they are.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify how to assess a client for participation in group

  • List traits to identify when screening a client

  • Describe how to create safety and commitment in a group

  • Identify specific action-oriented experiential therapy enactments that are effective in individual, couples, and group therapy

In a time when clinicians are being asked to do more with less, this training helps you rediscover the creative, embodied heart of therapy—even through a screen.

Enroll in this course today to bring deeper safety, connection, and transformation into your telehealth sessions.

This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Instruction consists of 1.5 hours of video instruction and a post-test.

Enroll in the 1.5 CE Online Self-Study for $30

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Availability: From the time of registration, you have six months to access the coursework.

Who Should Attend: This course is intended for clinicians who provide behavioral health services.

Teaching Methods: This is a non-interactive, self-study course. Teaching methods for this course include recorded lectures, videos, a post-test, and a course evaluation.

How to attend: Directions for completing a course can be found by clicking here.

This program was recorded on March 22, 2023.

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