About CMI™
Core Values of CMI™
Critical Memory Integration, or CMI™, is based on a carefully crafted set of Core Values that have guided the creation of this new therapeutic system. We believe these values will resonate with change-makers in the mental health community and inspire those to join us on the leading edge of mental health care. Together, we can renew a focus on mental wellness and see lives rebuilt and restored.
Who Can Benefit from CMI™ Training
Designed for Clinicians by Clinicians.
Critical Memory Integration (CMI™) is designed for and has been implemented by mental health clinicians, including counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. CMI™ is structured to place the individual’s presenting and emerging concerns at the center of the therapeutic endeavor. As a result, clients feel heard and validated, and therapists can fill the role of empathic witness who is a partner in their healing journey and values their experience.
CMI™ was designed to be used with individuals who present with diagnoses of anxiety, depression, stressor- and trauma-related disorders, eating disorders, problems in relationships, and personality disorders.
Domains of CMI™ Principles
- Who is your client?
- What are their needs?
- What experiences are they coming in with?
- How does their culture inform their experience?
- What do they need from you as their therapist?
- What does it look like to be a high-performing therapist?
- How much of being a therapist is impacted by your own personal healing journey?
- How well do you sit with your own emotions?
- What is your attachment style?
- How well do you attune to your own emotions and the emotions of those around you?
- What’s your level of emotional fluency?
- How have you honed your clinical skills?
- What is your level of empathetic responding?
- How do you hold space and sit with others’ uncomfortable emotions?
- How do you target and integrate memories?
- How well do you understand the science of memory and emotions?
- How does the nervous system interface with memory and emotions?
- What are emotions?
- What is the biological process of creating an emotion?
- How do you work with your clients on emotional regulation?.
- How do you work with your clients on nervous system regulation?
- How do you work with your clients on memory regulation?
Taking CMI™ Training Nexus
Our multi-course training is designed for licensed mental health professionals.
CMI™ Specializations one-day workshops are Coming Soon!
There are TWO COURSES of CMI™ NEXUS training:
Foundations of CMI™
Online Live Webinar Training
COURSE ONE is an online, synchronous training focused on clinician development. This 2-day training prepares clinicians for the Clinical Application of CMI™. This training is a live, online class led by our clinical facilitators. This course contains a self-paced pre-work prerequisite that offers access to the Introduction to CMI™ workshop.
Clinical Application of CMI™
In-Person Training
COURSE TWO is an in-person training focused on clinical skills. This 2-day, experiential training includes memory integration principles, the CMI™ protocol, clinical application, and in-person practicum. Upon completion of this training, clinicians will be eligible for 31.75 CEs.
Introduction To CMI™
On-Demand Online Learning
An on-demand didactic training and preparatory workshop. This 2-hour workshop provides an overview of the main concepts of Critical Memory Integration, including key terminology, critical memory theory, conceptual framework, and paradigm shifts of the CMI™ model.
Access to the Introduction to CMI™ workshop can also be gained through registration for CMI Course One: Foundations of CMI™.