Shame and the Disowned Self: Overcoming Internal Attachment Disorder

Objectives

Explore how to help clients develop curiosity toward their child selves rather than overidentifying with parts that hate vulnerability
Explore how to access clients’ inherent empathy and compassion for others
Explore how to become an “attachment broker,” using visualization and somatic techniques to bring a mindful adult and wounded child together
Explore how to help clients understand the role of early attachment wounds in their presenting issues

Copyright : 24/03/2017

The Attachment Dance with Traumatized Clients

Objectives

Determine how to handle the impact of disorganized attachment and traumatic transference on the client-therapist relationship
Explore how to recognize how your own attachment experiences can evoke counter-transreferential responses that can influence therapy
Ascertain how to integrate strategies that can strengthen attunement
Explore how to apply approaches that address testing behaviors and increase secure attachment

Copyright : 24/03/2017

When Unresolved Attachment Trauma Is the Problem: Working with Avoidant and Disorganized Clients

Objectives

Focus on how to identify three different styles of troubled attachment with special emphasis on the avoidant and disorganized styles
Focus on how to recognize why some clients begin to dissociate once they’ve formed a positive attachment with the therapist and why empathy can backfire
Focus on how to enhance your skills for creating a safe haven and secure attachment bond by becoming more sensitive to clients’ nonverbal, relational, and somatic cues
Focus on how to increase your capacity for intersubjectivity and incorporating well-timed humor and playfulness in your style

Copyright : 24/03/2017

Trauma Therapy in Perspective: Lessons from the Past 25 Years featuring Janina Fisher

Objectives

Explore how to integrate EMDR therapy into an existing framework for trauma treatment.

Outline

The limitations of exposure therapy and alternative strategies for bolstering cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral resilience
The contribution that brain science, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and the practice of “dual awareness” can make to trauma recovery
Practical methods for heightening right-brain-to-right-brain communication in therapy

Promoting Post-Traumatic Growth: From Devastation to Hope featuring Lisa Ferentz

Objective

Assess the concept of Post-Traumatic Growth and how it differs from simple recovery from trauma.

Outline

Help clients tap into their deepest inner wisdom by reinforcing personal strengths and tapping into remembered resources
Integrate writing exercises, drawing, role-plays, guided imagery, and the creative arts to enrich the therapy experience
Guide clients through the key transition points in the process of post-traumatic growth