The Center for Childhood Recovery
RRP CLINICIAN TRAINING
Learn RRP from the inside out.
An experiential training for clinicians who want to understand relational trauma not only as a clinical model, but as something that happens between real people, including ourselves.
Your inner child is allowed to be in the room. They just can't be responsible for running the group.
What Makes This Training Different
You won't learn RRP by standing outside of it.
RRP (Relationship Recovery Program) is a complex relational model, and learning to facilitate it takes time. This isn't a training where you learn a set of techniques, receive a certificate and are left to figure out the rest on your own.
Before learning to facilitate RRP, you'll experience the process from inside the group yourself. Over 2.5 years of weekly training, you'll move gradually from participant to facilitator. You will be practicing the model, exploring your own relational patterns and triggers, developing your clinical skills, and eventually bringing the real challenges from your own RRP groups back into training and consultation.
And you'll do all of this in relationship with other clinicians. Because if we're asking our clients to do relational work, we believe we should be willing to do it too.
How the Training Works
RRP Clinician Training is a 2.5-year commitment, with training taking place weekly.
RRP is a complex relational model, and it takes time to learn, practice and become comfortable working with it.
This training is intentionally long-term. Rather than learning the model in a short course and then being left to figure it out on your own, you'll learn it gradually. You learn first by experiencing the work yourself, and then through ongoing practice, facilitation, consultation and community.
01- EXPERIENCE
Before learning to facilitate RRP, you'll experience the model from inside the group yourself. This gives you the opportunity to understand the work as a participant and to notice your own relational patterns, triggers and adaptations as they emerge.
02- PRACTICE
You'll have lots of opportunities to actually practice the work through role-play, inner child dialoguing, screening interviews, difficult conversations, client scenarios and consultation. The goal isn't to know exactly what to do all the time. It's to become increasingly comfortable recognizing what's happening and working with it in real time.
03- FACILITATE
You'll gradually move toward building and facilitating your own RRP group. We'll work through the practical pieces together by finding and screening members, interviewing potential clients, assessing fit, preparing people for group and navigating the situations that come up once you're actually doing the work.
04- COMMUNITY
We don't believe clinicians should be learning relational work alone and in isolation. Part of RRP training is walking the talk and working relationally with other clinicians, bringing questions and challenges into consultation, learning from each other and having people to turn to when you need another perspective.
As your experience grows, the community grows with you. You're not just learning a model; you're becoming part of a community of clinicians who are learning, practicing and developing this work together.
Why RRP?
The Relationship Recovery Process was developed by Amanda Curtin, LICSW, beginning in the early 1990s. It's a unique model that brings together relational work, psychodrama and other experiential practices, inner child dialoguing, reparenting skills and psychoeducation.
One of the things I love about RRP is that we aren't only talking about relational patterns or trying to understand where they came from. In a group, we actually get to see them happen. The ways we learned to manage closeness, conflict, rejection, attention, vulnerability and belonging tend to find their way into the room with us.
Someone might notice that they're taking care of everyone else instead of talking about themselves, or that they immediately assume someone is angry with them. Someone might withdraw when there's conflict, feel deeply rejected when another member disagrees with them, or realize how difficult it is to let the group see them when they're struggling. These moments give us something real to work with, rather than only talking about what might happen outside the room.
RRP also incorporates experiential work and psychodrama, along with concrete reparenting skills that people can continue using outside of the group. That combination is part of what makes the model so different from a lot of the trauma work I had experienced before.
A Growing Interest in the Model
Patrick Teahan first experienced RRP as a client and has since played a significant role in bringing the model to a much wider audience. Through his clinical work, membership community and very popular YouTube channel, he has introduced a large number of people to RRP and to this way of understanding childhood trauma. He and his collaborators are also conducting ongoing research into the model and its outcomes.
As RRP has become better known, more people are specifically looking for clinicians and groups that offer this work. There still aren't many clinicians trained in the model, and learning it well takes time. That's one of the reasons we've chosen to make this a long-term training with ongoing practice, consultation and connection with other clinicians rather than trying to teach RRP in a short certification program.
Ready to Join Us?
Apply for the Next RRP Clinician Training Group Early 2027
If you're interested in joining the next training group, we'd love to hear from you. The application gives us a chance to learn a little about you, your clinical background and what is drawing you to RRP.
Because this is a long-term, experiential training, we're thoughtful about putting each group together. You don't need to already know RRP or have experience facilitating groups.