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SIP Training Level 1 with Beth Toler, Tere Canzoneri, and Melissa Lemons
Session dates are as follows:
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| Feb 19, 2026 |
6:30-8 pm |
| Feb 20, 2025 |
9 a.m-4 pm |
| Feb 21, 2025 |
9 am.-4 pm |
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What is the Spiritually Integrated Training Program?
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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Beth's Background:
Beth Toler, M.Div., Th.D., LMFT, is a licensed marriage and family therapist, educator, and ordained minister with more than 20 years of experience across clinical, academic, and ministerial settings. Her work integrates.jpg)
psychotherapy, theology, and spirituality, with a holistic approach grounded in family systems therapy, trauma-informed care, and spiritually integrated practice. Beth brings clinical expertise and deep listening to her teaching, emphasizing compassionate presence, thoughtful engagement, and the role of meaning-making in healing and growth.
Beth completed her doctoral studies and clinical training at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology and began her private practice in 2010. She has since practiced in Georgia and Pennsylvania, currently offering virtual therapy across both states and in-person services in the Greater Philadelphia area. Her professional experience includes work in parishes, hospitals, universities, psychiatric facilities, and recovery centers, as well as over fifteen years in private practice with individuals, couples, and families. She also serves as a graduate-level professor, teaches counseling and pastoral care in seminaries and counseling programs nationwide, and has held leadership roles including Clinical Coordinator for CACREP-accredited programs.
Beth holds a Doctor of Theology from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, a Master of Divinity from Duke University Divinity School, and a Bachelor of Arts from Mercer University. Ordained in the American Baptist Churches, USA, she continues to bridge ministry, clinic, and classroom in her work. She serves on the Psychotherapy Commission of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and is President of the Journal of Pastoral Care and Counseling. Her writing and research focus on the methodological and practical implications of integrating religion and spirituality into the counseling process, supporting learners in developing thoughtful, ethically grounded approaches to psychotherapy.
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.
Melissa's Background:
Melissa Lemons, PhD, LPCMH, is a licensed professional counselor of mental health, counselor educator, and pastoral counselor whose work integrates psychotherapy, spirituality, and attention to cultural and individual
differences. With experience working with individuals, couples, families, and groups, she brings a relational and holistic perspective to her role as an instructor. Her teaching is shaped by decades of clinical practice, supervision, and work in higher education, as well as her commitment to meeting people where they are and helping them build resilient, meaningful connections in their personal and professional lives.
Melissa currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Wilmington University and is also a co-pastor at Unity Lutheran Church. In addition to teaching and supervising, she works as a spiritual director and clinician, drawing on an eclectic therapeutic approach that adapts to the needs and preferences of those she serves. Her areas of focus include relationships, anxiety, depression, spirituality, parenting, blended families, sexuality, and trauma, with particular sensitivity to cultural context, humor, curiosity, and compassion in the learning and therapeutic process.
She holds a PhD in Pastoral Counseling with a focus in Counselor Education and Supervision from Loyola University Maryland, a Master of Divinity from Union Theological Seminary, a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Bowie State University, and a Master’s degree in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, San Diego. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Yale University. Melissa’s professional formation reflects a deep respect for the whole person and a belief that effective counseling and education are grounded in authentic relationships, careful listening, and thoughtful integration of psychology and spirituality.
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