SIP Training Levels 1 & 2 with Karen Sussan & Steven Ingram Session dates are as follows: SIP Training 1: 02-03-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 02-17-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 03-03-2026 12:00 pm -03:00 pm 03-17-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 03-31-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm Register Here for SIP 1.  SIP Training 2: 04-14-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 04-28-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 05-12-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 05-26-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm 06-09-2026 12:00 pm - 03:00 pm Register Here for SIP 2.

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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Karen's Background

Karen Sussan, LMHC, is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and EMDR Certified Therapist with nearly 30 years of experience in psychotherapy and chaplaincy. Her work is grounded in a holistic, client-centered outlook shaped by a deep concern for human suffering and a belief in each person’s inherent capacity for healing and transformation. Drawing from her experience in private practice and hospital-based chaplaincy, she brings a broad and integrative perspective to teaching that emphasizes common humanity, dignity, and the therapeutic relationship as a conduit for meaningful change.

Karen has specialized training in trauma-informed psychotherapy, including EMDR, and has focused in recent years on working with trauma, pain, and medical issues. Her clinical experience includes complex grief and loss, postpartum concerns, medical trauma, chronic pain and medical conditions, and medical phobias. She continues to expand her understanding through ongoing study, including current learning around preverbal trauma, attachment, emotional regulation, and the somatic dimensions of early relational experiences. These interests inform her teaching with an emphasis on depth, integration, and ethical responsiveness to human suffering.

Karen completed her graduate education at the Fordham Graduate School of Social Services and holds certificates as an EMDRIA Certified EMDR Therapist (2024) and an ACPE Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy Trainer (2019). As an instructor, she draws upon her long-standing commitment to lifelong learning, trauma-informed care, and spiritually integrated psychotherapy, offering learners a thoughtful, grounded approach to integrating theory, practice, and personal formation.

Steven's Background:

Dr. Steven Ingram, D.Min., LPCC-S, is a licensed professional clinical counselor and experienced educator with more than 30 years of providing counseling services to individuals, couples, families, and groups. His professional life has been shaped by a longstanding passion for understanding human emotions and behavior, cultivated through graduate study and his work as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Dayton and United Theological Seminary. In addition to maintaining an active counseling practice, he continues to teach and supervise, drawing on decades of clinical experience and a deep respect for learning that emerges from both professional practice and lived experience.

Dr. Ingram is an ACPE Spiritually Integrated Psychotherapy (SIP) Program Trainer and brings a broad, integrative perspective to instruction. His work emphasizes psychotherapy and interpersonal talk therapy, with particular attention to anxiety, grief, marital and couples counseling, and the ways spirituality, religion, and the search for meaning shape emotional and relational life. His teaching is informed by experience across the lifespan, helping learners understand how early developmental patterns connect with adult concerns, and how relational, collaborative approaches support meaningful change.

Dr. Ingram earned his Doctor of Ministry in Mental Health Counseling from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, a Master of Education in Community Health Services and Counseling from the University of Dayton, and a Master of Divinity in Institutional Chaplaincy from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. As an instructor, he integrates his background as a counselor, educator, writer, and speaker to emphasize authenticity, careful attention to language, and the central importance of relationship in psychotherapy, supporting learners in developing skills that foster deeper connection and more fulfilling therapeutic work.

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