Birmingham
This course will look at the burning questions that so many therapists have when working with this client group, including:
How should you engage with 'parts'? How can you avoid 'retraumatising' the client? How do you work with the client who can't properly remember the trauma?What do you do with the client who cannot stay present during a session? How do you deal with dependency? Is integration the goal? How do you pace sessions?What do you do if you can't get the adult 'back' at the end of a session? How do you deal with stuckness? How do you avoid traumatic reenactments within the therapy room and the therapy relationship? What pitfalls are there in this work?How do you look after yourself whilst working with such demanding and at times overwhelming content and trauma? How do you deal effectively and empathically with self-harm and suicidality? How do you process traumatic memories? Do you allow the client to 'switch' or do you keep the 'adult' present? And many other questions
This course is for you if:
You want more confidence in the work you're doing, or plan to do, with traumatised clientsYou want practical, effective suggestions on how to work in the sessionYou want to better understand the mechanics of trauma and how they can be applied to work with your individual, unique clientsYou want to feel less alone and isolated in your workYou want to understand your dissociative clients better, and know how best to support themYou want to have a roadmap for the work you are doing, rather than taking each session as it comesYou want to expand your toolkit for working with dissociative statesYou want to gain a theoretical framework to direct and support your work, which will enhance not only your work with your client but also help you to take full advantage of supervisionYou want to be encouraged and inspired – that recovery is possible, and is possible for your clientsYou already have some understanding and experience of trauma and dissociative disorders but you want to go deeper and sharpen your skillYou want answers to the questions listed above.
COST
£90 inc VAT (concessions and discounts available.
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