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When our clients carry the wounds of trauma, abuse and neglect, these dynamics don’t just impact their current relationships with partners, family members, friends and co-workers – they can also play out in the therapeutic relationship.
Enactments within the therapy space can be powerful and disturbing experiences, for both client and therapist. When working with the non-verbal, un-integrated experience of trauma, they may feel overwhelming.
When we learn how to spot them, and develop the resources to reflect on what is happening, enactments can also become a potent means of therapeutic repair – and the bridge to relational healing.
In this all-new, multi-disciplinary recording, you will have the opportunity to reflect on working with such complex relational dynamics from several crucial clinical vantage points:
Watch each speaker for an engaging, in-depth presentation, filled with guidance and insight you can immediately use in your practice. Then these three experts will come together for an exclusive panel hosted by fellow UKCP registered psychotherapist and PESI UK Director Tracy Jarvis addressing questions and clinical challenges that we face every day.
You’ll end feeling alert to the impact of trauma and associated relational dynamics wherever and whenever they manifest – with the skills to manage their impact, strategies to mitigate secondary trauma, and knowledge of how to turn a potentially overwhelming enactment into a therapeutic opportunity.
PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 4.5 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Soth - Complex Relational Dynamics Handout (3.24 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Complex Trauma - Anne Aiyegbusi Handout (7.36 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Kathy Steele - Countertransference and Enactments Handout (1.00 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Michael Soth is an integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP). His work and teaching is oriented towards a full-spectrum integration of all therapeutic modalities and approaches. Inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions, he is interested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole.
Michael Soth is an integral-relational Body Psychotherapist, trainer and supervisor (UKCP). His work and teaching is oriented towards a full-spectrum integration of all therapeutic modalities and approaches. Inheriting concepts, values and ways of working from both psychoanalytic and humanistic traditions, he is interested in the therapeutic relationship as a bodymind process between two people who are both wounded and whole.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Michael Soth is the founding member and training director of Oxford Therapy & Self-Development and maintains a private practice. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Michael Soth is a contributor to CPD organizations in the UK.
Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a group analyst, forensic psychotherapist and mental health nurse. Her nursing career in the NHS saw her gaining experience in the range of roles ‘from ward to board.’ However, her clinical practice was based in forensic mental health services, including 15 years as a consultant nurse in secure services for women. After taking early retirement she returned to the NHS on a part time basis and manages a clinical network offering training and consultancy to build workforce capacity for supporting people with the diagnosis of personality disorder. Anne is also a director, psychotherapist and consultant nurse for Psychological Approaches, a community interest company providing training and consultancy to public sector agencies working with complex needs and offending. Anne has published and presented widely in areas relating to complex trauma and attachment issues, especially as related to forensic services, ‘personality disorder’ women’s mental health and racism.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a practicing psychotherapist, consultant nurse, and group analyst. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. and receives royalties as a published author. She is an instructor at the Queen Mary University of London. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Anne Aiyegbusi is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Group Analysis and serves as the Chair of the Training Committee for the Governance Working Group, Diversity in Training Group, and Forensic Psychotherapy Society.
Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a psychotherapy and training center, and is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She frequently teaches about trauma and dissociation around the world, and has authored or co-authored numerous publications in the field. Kathy has received several awards for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She is co-author of The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation of the Personality and Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (2006) and Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists (2011). She is currently writing a practical clinical manual on treatment, resistance, and impasses in dissociative disorders with Suzette Boon, PhD, and Onno van der Hart, PhD.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Kathy Steele maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with Emory University, and Transformational Counselling Centre. She receives royalties as a published author. Kathy Steele receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Kathy Steele is a member of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
Common enactment issues in supervision
With Michael Soth
The modern - and especially somatic - trauma therapies, aided by revolutionary neuroscientific understandings, have made a profound contribution to the field over the last 20 years. Increasingly, trauma therapists come into supervision distraught, frustrated and despirited because it is not working as it ‘should’. The assumption that the same trauma theories and techniques can equally well be applied to developmental trauma is now becoming questionable. As soon as developmental trauma is involved, what really matters is the client's implicit and unconscious experience of the therapeutic relationship, regardless of the therapist's competence and input. The relational complications and vicissitudes that arise between client and therapist used to be the province of psychoanalysis and depth psychotherapy, but they can now be seen to be relevant to trauma work, too. In this talk you’ll learn:
Inter-relational complexities of trauma in groups, teams and institutions
With Anne Aiyegbusi
Complex trauma dynamics reverberate through all levels of the treatment setting. This presentation will focus on inter-relational complexities of trauma in groups, teams and institutions.
By the end of the presentation, you will have an awareness of :
The key to using countertransference to resolve relational enactments
With Kathy Steele
When the client is highly dissociative, the therapist is vulnerable to intense and sometimes overwhelming emotional experiences that are often projections of fragmented parts of the client, or non-verbal enactments of unintegrated trauma. We will discuss these emotions that range from positive to negative, and how to understand and use them therapeutically.
Participants will be able to:
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