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Intensive Trauma Therapy Training Starts June 3 This workshop will outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of intensive trauma-focused therapy, review the research, and teach, in detail, how to do it. Participants must already be trained in EMDR or PC. The focus is on how to sequence the various types of interventions that are normally done over the course of trauma-informed treatment, how to manage certain types of clinical issues, and how to manage the business aspect. Participants will learn the step-by-step system for implementing intensive trauma-focused therapy and will conduct guided/supervised intensive trauma-focused therapy with one another. This is an experiential training. Participants will be able to: ✅ Develop and implement a comprehensive trauma-informed treatment plan. ✅ Problem-solve a challenging case using the trauma treatment framework. ✅ Implement the set of procedures required to provide intensive trauma-focused therapy to clients. Information and Registration: https://lnkd.in/gVEfp8mh #emdr #intensives #intensivetraumatherapytraining

Intensive Trauma Therapy Training Starts June 3 This workshop will outline the potential benefits and pitfalls of intensive trauma-focused therapy, review the research, and teach, in detail, how to do it. Participants must already be trained in EMDR or PC. The focus is on how to sequence the various types of interventions that are normally done over the course of trauma-informed treatment, how to manage certain types of clinical issues, and how to manage the business aspect. Participants will learn the step-by-step system for implementing intensive trauma-focused therapy and will conduct guided/supervised intensive trauma-focused therapy with one another. This is an experiential training. Participants will be able to: ✅ Develop and implement a comprehensive trauma-informed treatment plan. ✅Problem-solve a challenging case using the trauma treatment framework. ✅Implement the set of procedures required to provide intensive trauma-focused therapy to clients. Information and Registration: https://lnkd.in/gVEfp8mh #emdr #intensives #intensivetraumatherapytraining

Really helpful reflections about how time is experienced in an EMDR intensive Vs a typical weekly therapeutic-hour (50-55 mins). So agree with this! #emdrintensives

#7 Intensive Thursdays ⏰ TRAUMA & TIME = A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP Trauma devastatingly disrupts the ordinary linearity and unity of our time experience, our sense of stretching from the past to an open future. 💡 3 THINGS I LEARNED ABOUT TIME IN THERAPY SESSIONS 1️⃣ Time just does not quite work in the same way when you experience trauma, and also not really in the TRAUMA THERAPY SESSION. 2️⃣ Time can always feel a bit distorted or have its own dynamic and secret agenda. Often, moments can feel forever and last only 2-3 minutes (...and I did time them for my clients once to prove it). 3️⃣ However, as a therapist, I chronically get nervous with 50-minute sessions after 20 minutes because I want to go into experiential/deeper work. Still, I need to balance it with how much and what to open to ensure the client is okay when the 50 minutes are over.  Sometimes, it feels like I and the time are in constant competition, and there is never enough of it. ⌛ 🧑🎓 Trauma Intensives offer a solution here. They alleviate the time pressure that therapists and clients often feel by fostering a more organic and authentic process. Are you also in a constant race with time and feeling like you want to adhere to the clients' time but have the clock right in front of you ticking? ➡️ Trauma Intensives might be the solution. Please comment below if you can relate.  . . . #PTSD #CPTSD #TraumaTreatment #EMDRIntensive #SchemaTherapy

Do you know that your client can sense if youre clear on your treatment focus with them? Yep, even without seeing your notes 📝. A client who does good work and reaches therapy goals is a client who is in the hands of a therapist whom is cognizant of the inner and outer world of the client. — 🛋️When I sit with clients, I’m listening in with a third ear about their stories they did or didn’t experience, their hopes, and fears, and dreams. And, I reflect on what missing experiences or developmental milestones we can help them experience, or find ways to replicate, in therapy or out of therapy, to move them along in their lives. And training - my ongoing training keeps me abreast of methods and creative and science based methods I can use to help provide clients relief. All this to say - therapy isn’t just the clinical hour ⏰It’s the time spent reflecting on it, tweaking treatment goals and being intentional in our work. — Need some help getting here? I’ve got something for you! 👩🏫 I’ve created a trauma training where I help you get more intentional in your treatment planning - And I teach you ways to be focused in your work so your clients feel crystal clear about their work with you, and able to trust the process - and see and experience marked shifts along the way. Good news 📣 We are now accepting applications for our June Trauma Training COHORT. We’ve got a whole module filled with scientific and creative assessment measures. These help you to come up with clear and focused treatment plans for best clinical outcomes. Your clients will feel the shift. I’m here to help you grow- and I look forward to supporting you. Want more info? Comment COHORT below ⬇️ to get a cooy of the full Trauma Training Syllabus. ----------------------------------- 📢 Therapists! | Follow Esther Goldstein LCSW for continued content and support to deepen your trauma informed work/to add to your trauma toolkit. #traumainformedcare #traumainformed #traumatraining #traumainformedpractice #traumatherapist #therapistsofinstagram #traumatherapists #therapistlife #therapisttips #therapytips

Please join Elizabeth Davis, MS December 13-14 for Attachment & Dissociation Assessment & Treatment: An Introduction to Foundational Skills. Information and Registration: https://lnkd.in/gdhBdXBk The impact of unprocessed childhood trauma/loss, from the perspective of attachment theory and structural dissociation theory, will be explored as a foundation for understanding, assessing, and treating complex trauma. This workshop will provide tools to both assess and work with attachment trauma and dissociation, as well as offer a structured approach to ensure client readiness and proper preparation for trauma work. Participants will be introduced to using integrative strategies such as attachment resourcing, ego states/parts work and metacognitive/mindful awareness to build affect tolerance for processing trauma and addressing dissociative barriers. Participants will be able to: *Identify four attachment styles based on modern attachment theory *Describe how insecure attachment style can contribute to dissociation *Apply 3 effective grounding and soothing tools to manage dissociative symptoms *Utilize 2 assessments to determine level of dissociation in a client with complex trauma *Evaluate if your client is ready for trauma processing This is an advanced workshop for experienced trauma therapists who are already trained in EMDR, PC, or similar. Registration: https://lnkd.in/ddzjKZWR #traumatherapy #therapytraining #emdr #emdrtherapy

NEXT WEEK! Necessary and Sufficient? Trauma and the Person-Centred Approach - LIVE event with Jan Hawkins. Fiona has invited Jan Hawkins to share her views on the sometimes debated, but fundamental principle of 'necessary and sufficient'. It is an invitation to re-examine any ‘rules’ of engagement as person-centred therapists, to explore what the terms ‘necessary and sufficient’ mean for each and how they have been taught. In the presenter’s experience, many trainees and even experienced therapists, fear developing their own unique and creative therapeutic selves as they have been taught that there is a set of rules to be followed which include the phrase ‘the core conditions are both necessary and sufficient…….’ and this has stifled their development such that they feel the only way to be effective with trauma is to train in other more technique-based traditions. This person-centred therapist prefers to think of the ‘core conditions’ as the ’core attitudinal qualities’ which are ever evolving as we as therapists evolve. That we learn, we deepen and we continue to become, throughout our careers. That these core attitudinal qualities are therefore both necessary and sufficient for growth and change in the client because we are continuing to grow, change and learn ourselves. If we think that what we learned in our first person-centred course, which usually did not include any training on trauma, is the only way to work, then naturally the idea that other training and techniques to add on, are needed to work with trauma, abound – both with person-centred therapists, and those outside the tradition who do not understand its potency. You can join in LIVE or purchase the recording. Use the link below to choose. https://buff.ly/3PGcjSh #therapistsConnect #training4therapists #counselling

I love parts work. But what I would say is, instead of us trying to name a part, we can ask the part to name itself. When you’re feeling reactive, there will always be a discomfort that is the exact equivalent of the reactivity. Find the discomfort, choose to become “discomfort” from the inside out in the same way an actor chooses to fully embody a role without identifying with it. Speak directly with discomfort., “‘ name of discomfort’, what have you come to share about ‘ name of reactivity’?” When you do this, discomfort will share. The alternative would be like asking “Esther, what has Andy come to share about his(for example) anxiety?“ Andy might at that point say “why are you asking Esther? Why aren’t you asking me?” Would love to hear your thoughts.

Beautiful Esther Goldstein LCSW! - I'd add another question for your sub-personality... 'What positive thing are you trying to do for me?' - A sub-personality that seems to be holding us back or causing internal trouble of some kind usually has a positive intention, e.g., to protect from hurt; behaving as it does to benefit us but in a way that's not productive. - Once you have that information you have the potential for behaviour change. - AND it's brilliant for me, being long in the tooth, to see the sub-personalities/parts work from Gestalt Psychology and Psychosynthesis, and other areas, being adopted creatively in this model. #midlifewomen #personalgrowth #spiritualgrowth #psychotherapy #meaningfullife #women #gestalt #psychosynthesis