Live Event

Holistic Recovery: A Trauma-Informed, Integrative Health Approach to Treating Addiction

Sat, Aug 29th, 2026

2:00pm – 4:00pm US Eastern Time

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Event Details

Sat, Aug 29th, 2026

2:00pm – 4:00pm US Eastern Time

(11:00am – 1:00pm US Pacific Time)

2 CE Hours

Live Event

Profession Group

Addictions

About the Event

Addiction is rarely just about the substance. Beneath most substance use disorders is a dysregulated nervous system shaped by trauma, chronic stress, and unmet needs—a system doing its best to survive.

In this workshop, participants will explore an integrative, trauma-informed framework for understanding and treating addiction that addresses the whole person through a biopsychosocial-spiritual lens: body (somatic), mind (cognitive), heart (emotional-relational), and soul (existential/greater meaning).

Participants will learn to organize the landscape of integrative and complementary interventions using three practical lenses: which domain of the person an intervention primarily engages, which nervous system state it is best suited to, and how it is delivered—from clinician-led modalities to client-directed practices to foundational health behaviors. Along the way, the workshop examines the current evidence supporting these approaches and models a clinically grounded perspective on popular frameworks such as polyvagal theory, distinguishing what research supports from what remains under debate. Participants will leave with a practical framework for matching integrative interventions to a client’s presenting state and most depleted domain, sequencing care so that insight-oriented work builds upon a foundation of regulation and connection, and identifying resources for continued learning and exploration.

Live Event

This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Martin Lajoie

Dr. Marty Lajoie, PsyD is the founder and director of Holistic Psychology Inc., an integrative mental health therapist group practice in Santa Rosa, CA. He has also worked for the past decade in psychological leadership at Duffy’s Napa Valley Treatment, an integrative treatment center for substance addictions in Calistoga. For several years, he helped develop and direct Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy programs at Be The Change in Mental Health and Window’s Health Clinic in Sonoma County. He earned his Masters and Doctorate in clinical psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where he conducted dissertation research on integrative and psychedelic-assisted approaches to treating substance use disorders. He underwent post-doctoral training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing (MI), Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR), Brainspotting, and Nonviolent Communication (NVC), as well as certification in Integrative Mental Health and Neurodynamic Breathwork facilitation, and post-graduate certification training in psychedelic assisted therapies with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and Polaris Insight Center.

Dr. Lajoie is also an instructor in the addiction counseling department at Santa Rosa Junior College, where he teaches several classes in the substance use disorder counseling department including neurophysiology and pharmacology of addiction, and mentors students entering the field. In the decade prior to psychology, Marty worked as a residential care counselor at the County of Sonoma’s child protective services shelter, and in the decade before that, he produced and performed at large-scale events in the San Francisco Bay Area electronic dance music scene. In his personal life, Marty has been a consistently active and contributing member of addiction recovery support communities since 2004 — an experience that, in particular, inspired him to further his education and become the psychologist he is today.

Target Audience

This live interactive is intended for Addictions professionals, including addiction counselors, art therapists, counselors, marriage & family therapists, music therapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, school counselors, school psychologists, and social workers. It is appropriate for all levels of knowledge.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

1 Define integrative health and distinguish it from single-modality and purely alternative approaches.
2 Describe a biopsychosocial-spiritual model of whole-person care.
3 Explain substance use disorders through a trauma-informed, biopsychosocial-spiritual framework of nervous system dysregulation.
4 Identify evidence-based integrative interventions and map each to the domain it engages and the nervous-system state it serves.
5 Apply a brief integrative assessment to identify a client’s most depleted domain and generate a whole-person treatment plan.

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2 Psychologist CE credit hours

2 Social Worker CE credit hours Clinical

Eligible until Aug 29th, 2026

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American Psychological Association (APA)

2 CE credit hours Clinical

Eligible until Aug 30th, 2026

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2 CE credit hours Clinical

Eligible until Aug 30th, 2026

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2 CE credit hours

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NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)

2 CE credit hours

Eligible until Aug 29th, 2026

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Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (FL CSW, MFT, MHC)

2 CE credit hours

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Eligible until Mar 27th, 2027

Impact CE, a service of CE Learning Systems, is approved by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling (Provider # 50-315).

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2 CE credit hours

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Florida Board of Psychology

2 CE credit hours

20-1392644

Eligible until Jul 23rd, 2028

Impact CE, a service of CE Learning Systems, is approved by the Florida Board of Psychology (Provider # 50-315).

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Missouri Credentialing Board (MCB)

2 CE credit hours

Eligible until Aug 29th, 2026

AddictionCounselorCE is an approved provider of the Missouri Substance Abuse Professional Credentialing Board (Provider #101). AddictionCounselorCE maintains responsibility for this course and its contents.

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New York Education Department Board of Social Work

2 contact hours

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2 CE credit hours

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New York Education Department Board of Mental Health Counseling

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 11:00am US Pacific Time.

2:00–2:05 PM: Welcome & Introduction

2:05–2:20 PM: Integrative Health & Trauma-Informed Foundations

2:20–2:40 PM: The Nervous System in Addiction

2:40–2:55 PM: Addiction Through an Integrative Lens

2:55–3:20 PM: Integrative Interventions and Their Evidence

3:20–3:35 PM: Clinical Application

3:35–3:55 PM: Q&A / Open Discussion

3:55–4:00 PM: Closing & Resources

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