Training Conducted By

Roy Van Tassell, MS, LPC-S, Director, Trauma and Evidence-Based Interventions for Centene Corporation

Roy Van Tassell, MS, LPC-S, is Director of Trauma and Evidence-Based Interventions for Centene, providing training in trauma, assessment, evidenced-based interventions and consultation to treatment providers and the community. He has been a member of the federally funded National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) since 2002, and co-chairs the NCTSN’s subcommittee for Children with Problematic Sexual Behaviors.

His professional background of over 40 years is diverse, having worked with children to seniors in residential, inpatient, outpatient, and partial hospital settings. Mr. Van Tassell has trained nationally in over 26 states and is an approved master trainer/consultant in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Roy was in the first train-the-trainer cohort with the TF-CBT model developers and served as faculty for nine national and state Learning Collaborative trainings for TF-CBT; including for the National Child Advocacy Center in Huntsville Alabama, the University of Tennessee’s Center of Excellence and as a trainer/consultant for the national Effective Provider, Train-the-Trainer program for the American Psychological Association.

Roy is an approved National Trainer for the advanced topic: TF-CBT for Problem Sexual Behaviors in Children; as well as for Components for Enhancing Clinician Experience and Reducing Trauma (CE-CERT), an evidence-informed model for secondary traumatic stress; and an approved trainer for the Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE), a non-clinical approach for improving interactions between any adult and child. Since 2005 he has been part of the Oklahoma Dept. of Mental Health’s statewide training and dissemination of the TF-CBT model.

Roy has co-authored a chapter: Beyond Self-Care: Understanding and Mitigating Secondary Trauma in Child Service Systems. In Child and Family Serving Systems: A Compendium of Policy and Practice. for the Child Welfare League of America, as well as An Overview of the Special Issue on Child Trauma, for the Juvenile and Family Court Journal [Maze, Van Tassell, Marsh and Fransein; 09/2008; 59(4):3-5]

Additionally, Roy has provided a variety of advanced trainings in TF-CBT and other trauma-informed care topics with each of the TF-CBT model developers: Drs. Judith Cohen, Anthony Mannarino, and Esther Deblinger. Roy manages his stress by using his CE-CERT skills, spending time with family and granddaughter, being an avid cyclist, and enjoying a great coffee.