Full Course Description


CBT, DBT & EMDR Strategies to Free Clients from Codependency, Narcissistic Abuse & Attachment Trauma

You see codependency in so many clients… and yet, many therapists skip over directly treating it.

Your clients are left suffering with a lack of boundaries, obsessively people pleasing, blaming themselves endlessly, self-sabotaging and unable to make simple decisions…

To make matters worse… They’re often in toxic relationships experiencing narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and have layers of attachment trauma.

Get your codependent clients to learn new skills AND take them beyond the walls of the therapy room to radically change their lives.

Join Krystal Mazzola, LMFT whose dedicated her career to breaking codependent clients free of the shackles of painful relationships, self-hate and more. Get essential skills from CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness & Narrative Therapy to move your clients forward in life. In just three self-paced modules you’ll learn:

  • How to co-occurring PTSD, Anxiety, Personality & Mood Disorders
  • Integrate CBT, DBT, EMDR, Mindfulness & Narrative Therapy techniques
  • Rebuild your client’s sense of self, create compassion & self-regulate
  • Red flags in assessment
  • Overcome perfectionism, fantasy thinking & damage from narcissistic abuse
  • Step-by-step guidance in the four main treatment stages

All this AND printable assessments, worksheets, in-session exercises and real-world case studies!

Don’t let any clients slip through the cracks… Get expert training!

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Objectives

  1. Investigate signs and symptoms of codependency.
  2. Theorize how codependency presents with and impacts mental health disorders.
  3. Appraise impact of codependency, narcissistic abuse and other behaviours on client’s mental health.
  4. Formulate a comprehensive plan to guide clients toward interdependent, healthy relationships.
  5. Employ skills to implement treatment targeting core boundary issues.
  6. Apply DBT skills to clients struggling with codependency. 
  7. Utilize skills from EMDR, CBT and narrative therapy to combat codependent thoughts, behaviours, and triggers.
  8. Build insight into how clients exhibit codependent symptoms in the therapeutic relationship.

Copyright : 24/06/2022

Narcissistic Abuse for Therapists: Empower Clients to Break Free and Recover from Gaslighting, Emotional Manipulation and Coercion

You may be working with a victim of narcissistic abuse without even knowing it.

Clients in your caseload who lack self-esteem, can’t say no, and blame themselves for everything may have been emotionally manipulated, controlled, and gaslit through a narcissistic relationship.

But without the right training you could be failing to see the subtle signs, leaving you without a key piece of the puzzle…and keeping them trapped in emotionally damaging and often dangerous relationships.

Now with this one-day training you can get the clinical guidance and tools you need to help clients free themselves from the cycle of narcissistic abuse and overcome its toxic legacy in therapy!

Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC has helped hundreds of clients identify, understand, and heal from narcissistic abuse from interpersonal relationships. She is the author of the Amazon best-selling book The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse (Callisto Media, 2020).

Watch Amy and get the strong foundational understanding of narcissistic abuse dynamics and treatment you need to:

  • Recognize overt and covert signs of narcissism in a variety of contexts
  • Open your clients’ eyes to gaslighting and other manipulative tactics of narcissists
  • Avoid clinical missteps that could alienate these clients
  • Build assertiveness in clients who can’t say no
  • Teach clients to develop healthy boundaries without guilt
  • End clients damaging self-blame and help them be their own individual
  • and much more!

Don’t miss this chance to help clients break the cycle of narcissistic abuse and regain their personal power!

P.S. As popular culture continues to shine a spotlight on the problem, more people than ever before are seeking therapists well-versed on narcissistic abuse. This training will leave you better positioned to work with this growing client population!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze how abuse from individuals with narcissistic personality disorder in the context of romantic relationships, friendships, and family relationships can lead to long term effects for clients.
  2. Differentiate narcissistic abuse from other forms of emotional abuse to improve your ability to recognize the subtle signs that clients may be victims.
  3. Employ in-session psychoeducation approaches to help clients become aware of narcissistic behaviour in their lives and recognize the consequences.
  4. Analyze common mistakes made by practitioners in the treatment of survivors of narcissistic abuse.
  5. Employ exercises to help survivors of narcissistic abuse build assertive communication skills.
  6. Investigate the current research and treatment limitations surrounding work with survivors of narcissistic abuse.

Copyright : 11/03/2022

Codependence: Treatment Strategies for Clients Who Lose Themselves in Others

Extending far beyond its roots in addictions work, codependence is a universal issue that shows itself in a variety of diagnoses, from anxiety and depression to trauma-related and eating disorders.

Join Nancy Johnston, MS, LPC, LSATP, MAC, NCC, addictions and codependency expert, for this compelling 3-hour webinar designed to provide guidance, insight, and straightforward strategies for clients who are:

  • Over-focused on caring for, fixing, controlling, pleasing, and/or conflict-avoiding 
  • Adult children of an addict 
  • Spending session talking about someone else 
  • Having difficulty allowing their children to become independent 
  • “Too resilient”; downplay suffering, forget how hard something was 
  • Struggling to leave an abusive situation or relationship 
  • Afraid to make necessary changes despite being unhappy  
  • Numb or unaware of what they want or feel
  • And more! 

Taught in everyday language and filled with practical tools, this is a recording you don’t want to miss!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Apply the codependency paradigm as an underlying factor for common presenting problems, symptoms and diagnoses.   
  2. Determine the origins of codependent behaviours to support case conceptualization and decrease pathology or stigma.   
  3. Utilize clinical strategies to increase client’s self-understanding, self-awareness, and skills to attend to their internal well-being.   

Copyright : 09/07/2020

Untangling Toxic Relationships

Helping clients disentangle themselves from a toxic relationship is difficult but important work, especially when powerful “trauma bonds” continuously draw them back to emotionally or physically abusive partners in an unconscious attempt to heal past wounds. How can therapists guide clients toward a conscious awareness of what’s keeping their relationship toxic and emotionally transactional? And how can we determine if a trauma-bond dynamic can be repaired in a relationship? In this recording, learn a specific process to help clients recognize the spectrum of toxic relationships, heal the wounds that create trauma bonds, and rediscover their Self. You’ll discover how to: 

  • Map the five stages of the trauma bond so clients can recognize the patterns in their relationship, reduce shame, and build pathways for change 
  • Explore concrete tools to help clients reclaim and reparent the Self 
  • Use an experiential “cord-cutting” intervention that releases clients from toxic dynamics to open themselves to post-traumatic growth

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Objectives

  1. Evaluate the spectrum of toxic relationships and trauma bonding in a clinical framework that can be used to assess and treat clients and heal relationships. 
  2. Assess the specific psychological dynamics that can interfere with treatment with clients in toxic relationships and trauma bonds. 
  3. Apply 3 clinical interventions to be used with clients for healing relationships and overcoming traumatic bonding. 

Copyright : 17/01/2021

Somatic Approaches for Relational Trauma

When it comes to tapping into clients’ natural resources for healing from trauma, the body is an invaluable tool. Not only does it store information about our early attachment experiences, but it shows the signs of epigenetic and transgenerational influences. The body reveals how trauma negatively impacts relationships with friends, partners, colleagues, and loved ones. But research and experience show that trauma behaviours aren’t set in stone. Pulling from the latest developments in Somatic Experiencing and neuroplasticity, this recording will teach you a dynamic toolkit of body-oriented approaches for treating early developmental trauma as well as helping clients improve nervous-system regulation and repair relationships. You’ll explore:

  • The neurophysiological and embodied underpinnings of healthy relationships
  • How to create a vibrant experience of resilience and wholeness in your work
  • How implicit memory shapes our physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery
  • Three skills to work with the autonomic nervous system to rebound from trauma and overwhelm

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Objectives

  1. Appraise the concepts of attachment theory, interoception, and the window of tolerance in the treatment of psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder.
  2. Evaluate the theory that traumatic memories are stored primarily in implicit memory.
  3. Formulate a treatment process based on the approach of Somatic Experiencing for the treatment of trauma and discuss risks and limitations.
  4. Practice three skills to work with the autonomic nervous system to rebound from trauma and overwhelm.

Copyright : 11/03/2022

Trauma and Attachment

Christina Reese has dedicated her life’s work to helping those with trauma cope to live healthier, happier, and more fulfilling lives. In her newest book, Trauma and Attachment, she has created a resource to guide clients from a place of fear, anxiety, and trauma to healthy attachment.

In this comprehensive yet accessible book, Dr. Reese provides an attachment framework for treating clients who have experienced a multitude of traumas, ranging from abuse and neglect to medical traumas, natural disasters, and exposure to violence. Through a variety of worksheets, exercises, and activities, this book provides clients with the tools they need to develop a foundation for healing so they can find feelings of safety and security within relationships again.

Inside, clinicians will find tools to help clients heal from the impact of:

  • Abuse by helping them establish safety and security within relationships.
  • Neglect by teaching them to find their voice and express their needs.
  • Medical trauma by helping them adjust to a new normal and better tolerate uncertainty.
  • Natural disasters by using mindful grounding techniques to navigate sensory triggers and cultivate mind-body awareness.
  • Witnessing violence by restoring clients’ sense of felt safety and helping clients identify what they can control to keep themselves safe.