Sacred Moments for Growth & Healing
Presented by
Dreya Blume, LCSWThis training introduces psychotherapists to the thoughtful design and ethical integration of rituals into therapy, emphasizing practices that honor clients’ values, cultural backgrounds, and spiritual perspectives. Participants will explore how rituals can enhance engagement, reflection, and healing, while maintaining professional boundaries and clinical integrity.
Overview
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs – Meets Criteria for Health Equity or Cultural Competence CEs Recorded: April, 2026
Rituals can be a powerful bridge between intention and transformation, providing clients with structured, meaningful ways to mark transitions, process grief, celebrate growth, or cultivate self-compassion.
This training introduces psychotherapists to the thoughtful design and ethical integration of rituals into therapy, emphasizing practices that honor clients’ values, cultural backgrounds, and spiritual perspectives. Participants will explore how rituals can enhance engagement, reflection, and healing, while maintaining professional boundaries and clinical integrity.
Through case examples, discussion, and guided exercises, attendees will learn how to co-create therapeutic rituals that support client empowerment, personal insight, and emotional processing. Therapists will leave with practical tools to integrate rituals into sessions, helping clients deepen connection to themselves, their intentions, and their paths toward growth.
Objectives
Develop an understanding of the role of ritual in therapeutic growth and healing. Learn strategies for designing and integrating ethically-informed, culturally sensitive rituals into therapy. Identify ways to use ritual to support client insight, self-compassion, and transformative change
About the Presenter
Dreya Blume (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, author, and educator. Dreya began working in the mental health field in 2004 in southwest Virginia, where she spent almost two decades serving the local transgender community as a gender therapist. She recently moved to Durham, NC, where she focuses on offering continuing education training to therapists and coaching for private practice clinicians who want to expand their business uniquely. Dreya loves to write and is the author of several books, including, “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” “Journaling the Tarot,” “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” and “Tarot for Transformation: Using the Major Arcana to Discover Your Best Self and Create a Life Worth Living.” All of Dreya’s books (under her former name, Andy Matzner) are available here: https://dreyablume.com/books. Dreya is also passionate about teaching. Before becoming a mental health clinician, she spent many years teaching English as a Second Language in places such as Japan, Australia, Thailand, and Hawaii. Once in Virginia, Dreya worked as an adjunct professor for almost twenty years at Hollins University, teaching gender studies and sociology in their Master of Liberal Studies program. In addition, she spent twelve years teaching future social workers in the human services program at Virginia Western Community College. Learn more about Dreya on her website: https://dreyablume.com/.