To practice on-target, effective, relevant, and empirically based psychotherapy we need a map to the core processes of personality growth and dysfunction. Attachment-focused interventions take us to the heart of the matter with every client and show us how to move them into emotional balance, secure connection with self and others, and resilience in the face of life’s challenges. Every session then becomes a safe adventure for both therapist and client.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy is an attachment-based, trauma-focused model of psychotherapy. Just as when children attach outwards to their parents to find a sense of safety, in IFS therapy, parts attach inwards to the Self, and find a safe haven and self-regulation. While many attachment-focused therapies tend to focus on the corrective experience that occurs between the therapist and client, in IFS therapy this becomes somewhat secondary to the facilitation of a healing connection between the client’s Self, and their protective and wounded parts that hold the residues of traumatic experiences. Concurrently, the therapist notices their own parts that become activated in the therapeutic dyad, with the aim of remaining in their own regulated Self-led state, in order to effectively facilitate the client’s process. The client’s Self provides the corrective experience, and in particular, the relationship between the Self and the vulnerable parts leads to inner, and ultimately, outer transformation.
This practical session provides an introduction to Internal Family Systems therapy for clinicians and will cover:
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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Conflict and regrettable incidents are the driving force for couples seeking couples therapy. Couples are tired of constant fighting and they often present when distressing events have fractured their relationship. Such distressing events include (but are not limited to) breaches of trust, incidents of secrecy, and situational violence. As therapists, we want to help couples process these disruptive events and there are many existing processes and interventions that we can apply to do this.
But how do we know if these have worked or not? And what are our measures for success?
It is through the prism of reflective functioning that we can tell if resolution has been achieved or not.
Integrating contemporary attachment theory with research-based couples therapy, this seminar will introduce markers of reflective functioning that therapists can encourage clients to achieve and which will be a measure of resolution of regrettable incidents. These include:
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Effectively discerning attachment and attunement wounding from trauma is foundational to effective therapy. This presentation will enable clinicians to discern attachment from trauma and from attachment trauma, and understand critical elements of the interface between these psychological wounds to enable effective and targeted therapeutic interventions.
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This presentation is for anyone who has felt stuck with clients who refuse to engage with treatment and seem to be in an endless round of avoidance, unhelpful coping mechanisms, and deep distress.
TEAM-CBT is an advanced form of cognitive behavioral therapy developed by renowned psychiatrist and author, Dr David Burns. This presentation will give you a practical framework to use some of the most helpful methods of TEAM-CBT that address problems of trauma.
Discover the latest innovations in the CBT field and help your trauma clients move towards healing.
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Complex trauma is highly damaging but frequently unrecognised and inappropriately treated. While current research in the neurobiology of attachment has major implications for treatment of trauma, the potential of these insights is not widely operationalised in clinical practice, and confusion about the differences between ‘complex’ and ‘single incident’ trauma persists.
This training event addresses the stakes of recognising and responding to complex trauma (which comes in many guises) in light of current research findings and their implications for treatment.
Clinical and research insights establish that effective approaches to complex trauma are “phased” and need to engage physical as well as cognitive and emotional processes (‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’) This poses challenges to standard perspectives (i.e. insight-based and cognitive behavioural) which privilege ‘talk’ and which thus require some reconsideration. Core features of effective therapy for complex trauma will be delineated and discussed.
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"This seminar addresses one of the most current and relevant challenges faced by therapists today. I present this training based upon the latest research along with my experience as a therapist and clinical supervisor." Pam Stavropoulos
How will you benefit from attending this training?
Attachment and trauma are overlapping realities.
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Trauma can leave us fearfully doubting ourselves, disconnecting us from ourselves and others. The younger we are the more extensive and insidious the impacts are on our lives and relationships. Attachment Theory helps us understand this.
In this presentation, I will demonstrate various ways you can help your clients reconnect with their own truth, knowing, and wisdom. I will demonstrate ways you can help them see and deal with fears. I will demonstrate ways you can connect your clients to the parts of them that are calm and wise and that do know what to do.
I will show you safe and beneficial ways of working with dissociation. I will model and differentiate ways of staying warmly connected with the client, of ‘following their process’, and of helping them be with their inner processes.
We will use journaling techniques as they are powerful tools of connection to self. Clients can continue to develop
The presentation will be experiential. When you experience something that works for you, it goes down to your foundations, and you will be able to do it with others. So bring paper, pencils or pens you like to use. This is preferable to working on screens.
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Life is a series of regulation plateaus and changes. We gain and lose these regulation capacities moment to moment, day to day, week to week. This is a natural and often unconscious part of life. Over time individuals, families and relationships develop their own unique regulation patterns.
With trauma, either a single incident or long-term, these patterns become interrupted, unintegrated, and dysregulated. This affects our ability to stay in embodied connection with ourselves and with people and situations in our lives.
Consistently poor or absent parental attunement is also a major disruptor of our capacity to maintain these regulatory patterns of flow within self and between self and others. In such circumstances the most potent regulator, a safe and secure ongoing human connection is unavailable, inconsistent, or threatening. Resulting in anxious, avoidant and disordered attachment patterns.
In this somatically oriented seminar, we will identify and observe how these disruptions occur energetically in the physical body. The cognitive, emotional, and behavioural correlates of different regulatory patterns will be presented. Special focus will be given to how these patterns affect one’s current attachment patterns and sense of connection. In the context of a few case studies, some interventions will be presented and demonstrated that have been found to be effective in the restoration of these natural energetic regulatory rhythms.
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Broaden your perspective on trauma from a family systems approach, and its capacity to help to heal attachment and traumatic wounds. You will also learn how to apply Circular Questioning in family sessions to give you a 'scaffolding' in your work with families as well as a powerful method for helping families recover from individual and family traumas.
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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: