Marti MacGibbon, CADC-II, ACRPS, CAPMS, President of Mentari Human Trafficking Survivor Empowerment Program, Inc.
Date: Monday November 16, 2026
Time: 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, EST
Marti MacGibbon provides both clinical and experiential insights as she shares her unique expertise during this in-depth session in a way that only she can. Marti reveals her down-to-earth personal recovery experience with candor and heartwarming humor to illustrate how trauma resolution in her own therapy set her on the path for post-traumatic growth. This session will discuss mindfulness practices, cognitive behavioral work, and cognitive reframing as tools for trauma resolution. Attendees will consider post-traumatic growth (PTG) within a bio-psycho-social-spiritual framework, and as a common and universal experience. So often, mental health professionals and service providers tend to focus on post-traumatic stress, while not embracing the opportunity to examine post-traumatic growth as both a process and an outcome. Benefits of PTG include seeing new possibilities, sparking positive changes in relationships, expanding coping tools and strategies, and deepening appreciation for life itself. During this two-hour workshop, Marti also explores secondary and vicarious PTG in a refreshing new light. Upon completion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Explain how PTG is not the opposite of PTSD
• List examples of mindfulness practices as tools for managing trauma and PTSD
• Verbalize the impact of trauma on individuals with substance use issues and vice versa, and how trauma resolution and SUD recovery work together toward long-term positive outcomes for individuals and society
• Describe at least one scenario in which behavioral health professionals can facilitate post-traumatic growth and trauma resolution
• Acquire narrative skills and terms related to PTG (ex: stress-related growth)