Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill
Psychotrauma, Psychoneuroimmunology & Neuroimmune Parenting
ETI Online Certificate I
What you get:
497 Certificate I + 21 NBCC CE Hours (FAQs) Unlimited lifetime access
21 hours of content to watch on demand
Researched-infromed psychoeducation
A step-by-step guide to ETI clinical framework
Handouts and worksheets
Reading recommendations for extra learning
Expressive Trauma Integration™ Certificate I is approved for 21 NBCC continuing education clock hours in home study format ACEP No. 7955.
ETI Online Certificate I
The Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) Online Certificate I offers clinicians an opportunity to deepen their theoretical foundations and clinical skills for working with the complex and multidimensional impacts of trauma. With approximately 21 hours of recorded instructional content, edited from live interactive webinars, this training combines research-informed perspectives with practical interventions and clinically applicable strategies that participants can integrate into therapeutic practice.
Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) is an integrative therapeutic framework that explores the effects of trauma and chronic dysregulation on emotional, cognitive, relational, behavioral, and physiological functioning. ETI synthesizes perspectives from neuroscience, attachment and developmental psychology, expressive and body-oriented therapies, cognitive reframing, behavioral approaches, mindfulness, nutritional psychology, psychophysiology, and psychoneuroimmunology into a cohesive clinical model. The program also explores integrative approaches to nervous system regulation, stabilization, and behavioral optimization, including perspectives associated with biohacking frameworks.
Training programs addressing trauma vary in theoretical orientation, scope, and clinical emphasis. The ETI framework is grounded in the recognition that traumatic stress can influence multiple interconnected aspects of health, functioning, adaptation, and interpersonal experience. As a result, effective clinical work often benefits from an integrative approach that addresses emotional, cognitive, physiological, relational, behavioral, and meaning-making dimensions of healing and long-term stabilization.
The ETI Online Certificate I provides clinicians with an overarching conceptual framework and practical interventions designed to support assessment, regulation, integration, stabilization, and long-term therapeutic sustainability in clinical practice.
Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this program, participants will be able to:
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Describe the neurobiological, developmental, emotional, cognitive, relational, and physiological impacts of trauma across the lifespan.
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Explain the relationship between nervous system dysregulation, stress physiology, attachment disruption, sensory processing, and trauma symptom presentation.
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Identify core principles of the Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) framework as an integrative, research-informed approach to trauma integration.
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Apply foundational concepts from expressive, body-oriented, mindfulness-based, cognitive, relational, and psychophysiological approaches to clinical case conceptualization and treatment planning.
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Use psychoeducational tools to help clients understand trauma responses, nervous system activation, self-regulation, and the process of trauma integration.
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Apply hands-on interventions that support grounding, emotional regulation, body awareness, stabilization, and client-centered integration.
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Differentiate clinical strategies for supporting self-regulation in adults, children, adolescents, and family systems affected by traumatic stress.
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Describe the role of sensory processing, somatic awareness, movement, expressive methods, and bilateral integration in trauma integration work.
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Integrate psychoeducational, relational, experiential, expressive, and body-oriented interventions into clinical work with trauma survivors.
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Develop an individualized sustainability plan that supports long-term stabilization, self-regulation, therapeutic integration, and continued clinical progress.
Topics cover approximately 21 hours of instructional content on the following topics.
(1) Psychological First Aid (1.75H)
(2) Sustainability - maintaining progress over time (8H)
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Psychoeducation
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Redefining Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth
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Food and Mood (Nutritional Psychology)
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Self-compassion, Mindfulness & Mindlessness, and Playfulness
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Trauma Processing and Narrative Integration
(3) Secure Attunement Framework (3.25H)
(4) Self-Regulation in Adults (4H)
(5) Self-Regulation in Kids (3.5H)
(6) What is PANDAS and what are neuroimmune conditions (1.25)
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Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill
As a trauma researcher, psychotherapist, neurodivergent parenting specialist, and double PANS mom, I am dedicated to supporting individuals and families who encounter complex mental health circumstances.
As a PANS mom, I aim to provide parents with valuable information about the importance of an appropriate intervention timeline, raise awareness about PANDAS/PANS/AE, and offer hope to families navigating these complex conditions.
As a survivor of developmental and complex trauma born and raised in Israel, my mission is to support individuals and families in the journey of trauma integration, targeting all aspects of health and offering you a path toward wellness.
My primary tools for interacting with clients are rooted in attachment-based psychotherapy, neuroscience, and expressive therapies. Additionally, I have researched and self-studied nutritional psychology and integrative psychotherapy to broaden my approach.
I have developed the ETI approach based on three pillars: experiential psychoeducation (Six Stages Trauma Integration Roadmap), Secure Attunement Framework, and Individual Sustainability Plans in order to identify the root causes and biohack dysregulation (PTSD).
Biohacking involves using knowledge and practices from biology, genetics, neuroscience, and nutrition, translating to "Do-It-Yourself practices."
This work has led me to focus on the interactions between emotional states, nervous system function, and the immune system, an area known as Psychoneuroimmunology. This interdisciplinary field is crucial for understanding complex neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms that do not respond to standard therapies.
I consult individuals and families with complex mental health conditions, investigate root causes, and tailor short—and long-term intervention plans. I often collaborate with specialists to target all aspects of health toward maximum wellness.
I understand the challenges of parenting children in complex situations. I experienced medical gaslighting and gaslighting by other professionals, family, and friends, which was confusing and painful.
With two decades of experience, I am here to provide hope and competence to help you navigate your way forward.
What Therapists Say
Clinician (ACSW)
The ETI certificate is one of a kind.
I enjoyed the workshops with
Dr. Gertel Kraybill because they provided me with the tools and knowledge to work with children who have experienced trauma and have difficulty expressing their emotions.
I have seen a tremendous difference when I apply the tools learned. I have witnessed clients' express what they feel. I highly recommend the ETI series with an expert in the field of trauma work and a survivor. Trauma work is not easy via telehealth. After completing the ETI webinar series, I feel more competent to work with clients during challenging times. I encourage you, your organization, and your colleagues to join the ETI series, you will find that it is worth the value.
Clinician (LCPC)
The workshop was amazing. The experiential activities keep things engaging. I used the Squared Breathing technique to assist clients in a mindfulness activity and even used some of the grounding exercises. It was an extremely useful workshop. I am definitely going to take some more to build on the techniques and understanding until I have integrated them into everyday practice.
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Clinician (LCSW-C)
Thank you for the presentations. I found the information exceptionally useful.
Clinician (Psy.D)
Odelya is a serious student of trauma and the many ways to help clients heal from their traumatic experiences. Her creative and sensitive way of being with clients comes through loudly in her teaching. The activities that she uses can fit with a wide range of client presentations and can help change clients' awareness of their bodies and the places/ways they are carrying trauma. I felt that I learned a great deal and was so happy that I attended this workshop. I am glad that I will be doing future ones as well.
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Clinician (LCPC)
Excellent. Great facilitation, experiential, discussion, and collaboration.
Clinician (LCPC)
This series provides deep energetic as well as clinical resources for clinicians. I highly recommend it for other practitioners looking to deepen approaches that provide practical, nuanced approaches to integrating expressive modalities in trauma work with the client."
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Clinician (MSW)
This workshop has opened my eyes to many new ways of working with clients.
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Clinician (LCPC)
One of my favorite workshops was Psycho-education in trauma and expressive therapies with. There was so much rich material and Dr. Kraybill was a fabulous educator.
1. Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Critical incidents caused by accidents, crime, violence, and natural disasters are inevitable in all communities, and readiness to respond is essential. Meeting basic survival needs is, of course, the highest priority in crisis response, but it should not be the only concern.
Psychological first aid, made available as a part of early response to crisis, has proven effective in mitigating stress responses and assisting trauma survivors to maintain a sense of safety and containment immediately after critical incidents.
In this 90 minute webinar, participants will be introduced to concepts of psychological first aid (PFA) as well as key concepts of psychosocial support and the three stages of trauma response: PFA, Psychosocial Support, and Trauma Processing.
Additionally, participants will be introduced to specific grounding activities found to be effective in the aftermath of critical incidents.
Presentation includes:
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Review key concepts of crisis response, particularly Psychological First Aid (PFA) and the Dos and Don’ts of PFA.
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Review key concepts of the ETI trauma response timeline.
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Review strategies for sustainability in times of high stress or post-trauma.
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Introduce several exercises for grounding and containment as part of psychological first aid response.
2. Designing Sustainability Plans
This five-session series introduces principles for helping clients sustain progress over time. A special focus is working with clients to design an Individualized Sustainability Plan (ISP) and how to expand the scope of therapeutic intervention to address all aspects of wellness.
Why is Sustainability important?
Research and practice make it clear that maintaining gains achieved in treatment is one of the biggest obstacles for trauma survivors. An Individualized Sustainability Plan (ISP) addresses this reality with a carefully constructed framework of information, techniques, and practices to provide ongoing cognitive, physical, emotional, spiritual, and social maintenance for clients as they face adversities.
An ISP supplements existing therapy and therapeutic approaches, providing a foundation of personal stability that enables clients to better cope with the inevitable downturns. By actively assuming that difficult moments are inevitable and equipping clients with tools for responding, an ISP increases clients' ability to move through difficult moments rather than be dragged down by them.
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Session One: Introduction to ISP, the ETI framework, and roadmap after stress/trauma, how ETI approach applies to psychotherapy in different settings.
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Session Two: Reframing Resilience and Post-Traumatic Growth in the Context of ISP.
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Session Three: Simplified Experiential Self-Compassion. Step by step guide to learn how to embody self-compassion.
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Session Four: Body Wellness (gut, brain, nutrition, inflammation, immune system, etc.) based on emerging research demonstrating the need to address inflammation and underlying infections when addressing mental health symptoms.
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Session Five: Integration and Narrative Processing. An experiential guide to narrative processing in the context of ISP.
3. Secure Attunement Framework
Working with survivors of developmental trauma (trauma that took place ages 0-6) requires a different framework of treatment than work with trauma experienced later in life.
During the first two years of childhood, the brain is wired to develop through reciprocity and attuned attachment. When this fails to happen, the sense of mis-attunement that follows as a consequence leads to a continuous state of physiological distress. Since the resulting trauma is caused in reference to others, treatment must also take place in the context of an attuned relationship.
The brain develops from the bottom upward. Lower parts of the brain are responsible for functions dedicated to ensuring survival and responding to stress. Upper parts are responsible for executive functions, like making sense of what you are experiencing or exercising moral judgment.
Development of the upper parts depends upon prior development of lower parts. The brain is meant to develop like a ladder, from the bottom up. When stress responses (typically due to consistent neglect or abuse) are repeatedly activated over an extended period in an infant or toddler, sequential development of the brain is disturbed. The ladder develops, but foundational steps are missing and many things that follow are out of kilter.
Developmental trauma can manifest in a variety of ways and thus often goes unrecognized: Sensory processing disorder, ADHD, Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Conduct Disorder, DMDD, Eating-Disorder and Body Dysmorphia, Self-Harm, Major Depression, Bi-Polarity, personality disorders (especially borderline personality disorder), PTSD, cognitive impairment, speech delay, learning disabilities, and more may have developmental trauma at their core.
This series includes two 90 minute sessions) on theories and treatment practices of developmental trauma and how to apply them in clinical practice.
Presentations include
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Overview of the ETI Secure Attunement Framework and how to apply it to developmental trauma.
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Developing therapeutic adeptness in blending bottom-up experiential modalities (expressive arts and somatic/body-oriented approaches) and top-down approaches (narrative processing) in the context of a secure-attunement framework.
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Developing a clear understanding of the foundational role of attunement in brain development in the early years of life and matching intervention to the age when the trauma took place.
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Understanding trauma integration in the context of developmental trauma, based on case presentations of treatment plans.
4. Biohack Dysregulation Adults
Self-regulation is at the core of trauma therapy, since virtually all trauma survivors deal with ongoing stress symptoms and complex emotions.
This three-session series is on how, as a therapist, to work most effectively with clients on self-regulation via teletherapy. The series will review the theory and practice of self-regulation and provide step-by-step guidance on how to adapt it to the online session.
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An expanded toolbox (10 exercises) for self-regulation work with clients who were already trauma survivors before the pandemic and now face additional crises.
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Incorporating bottom-up experiential modalities (expressive arts and somatic/body-oriented approaches) and top-down approaches (cognitive and behavioral narrative processing) into existing approaches to therapy, and combining the two.
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How experiential self-regulation facilitates neuroplasticity and enhance vagal tone, and how to deploy tools for self-regulation in ways most likely to facilitate these.
1. Psychological First Aid (PFA)
Parents often invest a considerable amount of time and resources in various forms of therapy for their children. While these therapies may provide some relief initially, they often fail to bring long-term stability.
It's essential to consider the right time and approach for each type of intervention. Even when the timing is appropriate, a single form of therapy may not be sufficient to achieve the necessary stability.
It's crucial to address all aspects of health simultaneously, including emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual, and social aspects.
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What PANDAS/PANS/AE individuals and families need to know about the nervous system and immune system from a psychoneuroimmunology perspective.
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What elements should therapy include for a child and family facing the debilitating impact of PANS/PANDAS/AE.
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What is the optimal timeline to integrate interventions.
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What is Parental PTSD and what is a sustainability plan.
5. Biohakc Dysregulation Kids
Understanding self-regulation is fundamental in trauma therapy, as it is a key aspect for dealing with ongoing stress symptoms and complex emotions, especially among children and teens with a developing brain.
In this series, you will learn a new experiential language to introduce psychoeducation to your clients (and their parents) ages 6-18 and practical hands-on exercises, to practice and learn how to employ self-regulation experiential exercises with kids and teens.
Session Includes:
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A conceptual framework for assessing client symptoms of stress and trauma (ETI Roadmap) and working with clients on self-regulation in the context of that framework.
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Tools (16 exercises) you can use with clients aged 6-18 for self-regulation, designed to be effective with trauma survivors or those who experience stress and anxiety symptoms.
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Therapeutic adeptness in blending bottom-up experiential modalities (expressive arts and somatic/body-oriented approaches) and top-down approaches (cognitive processing) into one seamless therapeutic process.
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Develop a clear understanding of the foundational role that self-regulation plays in facilitating neurogenesis, neuroplasticity, and vagal tone, and a good understanding of how to deploy experiential tools for self-regulation in ways that facilitate these in clients.
6. PANDAS/PANS: Psychoneuroimmunity
Are you a therapist working with children, teens, and young adults with tics, OCD, ODD, ASD, restrictive eating (anorexia) and body-dysmorphia, suicide ideation, psychosis, schizophrenia, bipolar? Are you working with these age groups and some of your clients do not respond to therapy? Are your clients described by others as "troublemakers”, "defiant" “hyper,” “bad,” “not smart,” “challenging,” “unfit,” etc?
Therapists with clients displaying any of the above need to have an up-to-date understanding of Autoimmune Encephalitis (AE), a syndrome with wide-ranging physical, emotional, and development implications that is now estimated to affect at least one in 200 children in the US (and some researchers say a far higher number).
This presentation provides information and psychotherapy intervention plans for clients with neuroinflammatory psychiatric symptoms AE, also known as Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) or Pediatric Acute-onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS).
Does this program offer NBCC continuing education credit?
Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) Training has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7955
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Expressive Trauma Integration™ (ETI) Training is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
What kind of certificate will I receive and how do I obtain it?
Participants must complete all instructional content, complete the required program evaluation, and successfully complete the post-test assessment in order to receive a Certificate of Completion and continuing education credit.
Once you complete viewing the course content, you will receive instructions and links to complete the program evaluation and post-test assessment.
Participants must achieve a minimum passing score of 80% on the post-test assessment and complete the required program evaluation in order to receive continuing education credit.
Certificates are issued only after successful completion of all required program components.
What if I would like a Certificate of Completion but do not need continuing education credit?
Participants who wish to receive NBCC continuing education credit must complete all instructional content, complete the required program evaluation, and successfully complete the post-test assessment with a minimum passing score of 80%.
Participants who do not require continuing education credit may request a general Certificate of Completion after completing the instructional content without completing the post-test assessment.
Does this program offer continuing education credit for non-counselors professionals?
Expressive Trauma Integration™ Certificate I is approved for 21 NBCC continuing education clock hours in home study format.
NBCC continuing education credit is widely accepted by many state counseling boards and may also be accepted by additional professional licensing boards and organizations, depending on individual state regulations and professional requirements. Participants are encouraged to verify acceptance with their own licensing board, employer, or professional association prior to registration.
Many psychologists, marriage and family therapists, social workers, educators, coaches, and allied health professionals participate in ETI programs for professional development and interdisciplinary training purposes.
In some cases, professional boards or associations may recognize NBCC-approved continuing education programs through individual application, petition, reciprocity, or special approval processes initiated by the participant. Requirements vary by jurisdiction and profession.
Participants are responsible for determining whether this program meets the continuing education requirements of their specific licensing board, credentialing organization, employer, or professional association.
What if I do not need continuing education credit?
You are welcome to participate in the program even if you do not need continuing education credit.
To receive a Certificate of Completion, all participants must complete the instructional content, complete the program evaluation, and successfully pass the post-test assessment with a minimum score of 80%.
Participants who do not require continuing education credit may simply choose not to report or use the 21 NBCC continuing education clock hours.
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Do I need to be an artist or expressive therapist to participate or to apply these methods with my clients?
No, these are simple techniques that anyone can learn to use in clinical settings. While we will use art-making, drawing, and role reversal, our focus will be on the process of expression and experiencing "imaginal space", not on the end product.
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