Tere's Background:

Tere Tyner Canzoneri, M.Div., LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and spiritually integrated psychotherapy trainer with more than 40 years of experience in counseling, education, and pastoral care. Her work is grounded in curiosity, spirituality, and deep respect for human diversity, with a long-standing commitment to helping people explore meaning, identity, and growth. As an instructor, she brings a present-focused, reflective approach that integrates psychodynamic and systems theory with trauma-informed practice and mindfulness-based perspectives.

Tere’s professional formation includes extensive training in psychodynamic and systems theories, along with continued engagement in emerging understandings of trauma, neurobiology, and emotional health. Her approach may incorporate mindfulness, internal family systems, imago therapy, and bilateral stimulation techniques when appropriate. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Services and Social Philosophy from Mercer University, a Master of Divinity from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia. She also completed a residency in pastoral counseling at Georgia Baptist Medical Center. She is a former diplomate of the American Association of Pastoral Counselors and currently serves as a trainer in Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy with ACPE.

Throughout her career, Tere has been shaped by cross-cultural experience, including formative years living in Asia, which deepened her appreciation for multiple perspectives and ways of meaning-making. Her teaching reflects a belief that personal history matters while emphasizing the importance of awareness and change in the present moment. She brings to her role as an instructor a reflective, dialogical style that supports learners in developing curiosity, ethical sensitivity, and thoughtful integration of spirituality within psychotherapeutic practice.



Content & Course Format:

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.



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