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Sexual Trauma Clinical Training: Interventions to Cultivate Safety, Release Shame, and Nurture Boundaries

Therapists working with sexual trauma survivors navigate a challenging terrain.

These clients often finish therapy feeling misunderstood and trapped in their suffering, leaving therapists to grapple with frustration and helplessness themselves.

This struggle is understandable, considering that sexual assault survivors experience prolonged PTSD symptoms, heightened triggers, and enduring trauma from close relationships.

Unfortunately, conventional trauma training falls short in addressing these complex challenges, which only intensifies therapists’ doubts about whether they can truly make a difference.

To bridge this gap, we’re offering an advanced training program led by sexual trauma expert Erika Shershun, LMFT. This training equips therapists with the necessary tools to provide effective guidance for sexual trauma survivors on their path to recovery.

The comprehensive training comprises practical exercises, client resources, interactive activities, and focused Q&A sessions.

By watching, you’ll gain:

  • A deep understanding of the profound and layered effects of sexual trauma
  • Effective clinical strategies for compassionate and open conversations with clients
  • Powerful somatic techniques to address triggers, flashbacks, and dissociation
  • Empowering interventions to help clients restore shattered boundaries and reclaim their lives

Embark on this journey of aiding survivors, fostering empowerment and healing, while simultaneously providing therapists the support to feel more capable and attuned.

Purchase now for unlimited access to this transformative training opportunity!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Utilize somatic therapy interventions and techniques to support victims of sexual trauma.
  2. Provide psychoeducation on polyvagal theory for clients regarding why they responded the way they did during the traumatic event(s).
  3. Teach clients how to recognize what state their nervous system is in and tools to shift their state.
  4. Provide psychoeducation on trauma and memory to help ease clients confusion around the traumatic event(s).
  5. Differentiate and learn how to work with triggers, flashbacks, and dissociation.
  6. Teach clients how to feel into, physicalize, and verbalize boundaries.
  7. Implement strategies to help clients regulate the emotional distress of anger, grief, and shame.
  8. Deepen your understanding of why survivors may struggle with intimacy issues, and steps they can take to recover.

Outline

Examining the Profound Impact of Sexual Trauma

  • In-depth exploration of the psychological effects of sexual trauma
  • Comprehensive examination of the nuanced manifestations of trauma
  • Advanced strategies for therapeutic conversations with clients
  • Therapeutic techniques to facilitate somatic safety in clients
  • Guided experiential exercises to enhance personal and professional presence and attunement

Decoding the Role of the Nervous System

  • The intricate interplay between the nervous system and trauma responses
  • In-depth exploration and application of polyvagal theory
  • Skillful identification and assessment of different nervous system states and their influence on client reactions
  • Techniques to facilitate state shifts and find regulation

Mastering Memory, Triggers, Flashbacks, and Dissociation

  • Breakdown of the complex dynamics surrounding memory, triggers, flashbacks, and dissociation in the context of sexual trauma
  • The intricate relationship between trauma and memory processes
  • Practical tools to manage triggers and process flashbacks
  • Skillful interventions for dissociative experiences and restoring a sense of safety and control over client narratives

Reconstructing Boundaries

  • Assessment of the impact on boundaries as a result of sexual trauma
  • Advanced strategies to facilitate clients in embodying and articulating healthy boundaries
  • Techniques to rebuild a coherent sense of self and agency
  • Self-care exercises to mitigate vicarious trauma and burnout

Cultivating Emotional and Physical Resilience

  • Understanding the emotional landscape experienced by sexual trauma survivors
  • Advanced interventions to address complex emotional experiences, including anger, rage, shame, grief, nightmares, and intimacy issues
  • Techniques to guide clients through the intricate terrain of complex emotions
  • Strategies for emotional and physical resilience
  • Processes to thrive beyond the impact of traumatic experiences

Ethical Considerations

  • Scope of practice
  • Limitations of research
  • Counselor self-care
  • Referrals and healthcare collaboration

Target Audience

  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychotherapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 11/17/2023

EMDR and DBT for Interpersonal Trauma: An Integrated Toolkit to Treat Survivors of Physical, Emotional and Sexual Abuse

Clients who’ve suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse carry a heavy burden; traumatic memories leaving deep emotional wounds they can struggle to move past.

EMDR can be a lifesaver for these clients, allowing them to process these memories and reclaim their lives.

But even with the best tools, your road to successful treatment isn’t easy. The material is tough. Sessions can get intense. And when sessions end, clients still need to navigate relationships with others (and themselves) that have been complicated by their traumatic pasts.

That’s why if you use EMDR, integrating DBT can be a game-changer – giving you a powerful toolkit for addressing the emotional and relational aspects of interpersonal trauma as you process the traumatic memories they just can’t forget.

Watch this training led by Katelyn Baxter-Musser. Certified in both EMDR and DBT, Katelyn has helped thousands of clinicians get the most out of EMDR and DBT. She’ll provide you a step-by-step guide on how to use DBT skills to enhance the effectiveness of EMDR, resulting in more comprehensive trauma recovery for your clients.

Under Katelyn’s expert guidance you’ll learn how to seamlessly integrate two of today’s most proven approaches, so you can:

  • Enhance client readiness for EMDR
  • Help clients better manage emotional intensity during EMDR sessions
  • Address complex relational issues associated with interpersonal trauma
  • Boost distress tolerance skills to support trauma processing
  • Improve interpersonal functioning in clients through DBT-informed interventions
  • Tailor EMDR and DBT interventions to meet the unique needs of your clients
  • Skillfully work with a wide range of clinically challenging trauma clients

Don’t miss this opportunity to take your EMDR therapy to the next level with the DBT skills to make sessions more effective than ever before.

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Program Information

Objectives

  1. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental concepts and principles of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and explore how these approaches can be effectively integrated to support individuals who have experienced interpersonal trauma.
  2. Acquire an in-depth understanding of how DBT and EMDR can be utilized to help clients regulate their emotions, reduce trauma triggers, and enhance stability in the face of trauma-related symptoms.
  3. Review the existing evidence-based research on the efficacy of EMDR and DBT in managing trauma symptomology, and critically analyze their applicability in clinical practice.
  4. Develop strategies for seamlessly incorporating DBT principles and techniques into the various phases of EMDR therapy, to enhance treatment outcomes for trauma survivors.
  5. Utilize the biosocial theory of DBT and the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model of EMDR to effectively conceptualize and understand the complex needs of clients with interpersonal trauma and create comprehensive treatment plans.
  6. Identify specific treatment goals and targets that align with the unique needs and challenges of survivors of interpersonal trauma, and tailor therapeutic interventions accordingly to promote healing and recovery.

Outline

Interpersonal Trauma: Neurobiological, Physiological, and Psychological Perspectives

  • Exploring physical, emotional, and sexual abuse
  • Neurobiological, physiological, and psychological processes involved
  • Long-term consequences of interpersonal trauma
  • Recognizing risk factors
  • Prevalence rates and barriers to disclosure of interpersonal trauma
  • Impacts on relationships with others and oneself

Assess for Interpersonal Trauma in the Clinical Setting

  • Recognizing warning signs, symptoms, and comorbidities
  • Differentiating physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in the clinical context
  • Screening and assessment measures for identifying trauma in clients
    • Trauma Symptom Inventory
    • CAPS
    • Dissociative Experiences Scale
  • Developing a trauma-informed approach

DBT Skills for Trauma-Related Symptoms, Triggers, and More

  • Research on DBT and survivors of interpersonal violence
  • DBT components and how the biosocial theory relates to trauma
  • Goal and targets of treatment
  • DBT tools for managing crises and creating safety plans
  • DBT validation strategies and creating a safe therapeutic environment
  • How DBT helps clients set healthy boundaries

EMDR for Traumatic Memories Related to Interpersonal Violence

  • How the AIP model relates to trauma processing
  • Characteristics and phases of EMDR
  • Goal and targets of EMDR therapy
  • Challenges and complexities of working with survivors of IPV
  • Managing dissociation and other challenges
  • Resourcing and grounding techniques to enhance stabilization and containment

Integrating EMDR and DBT in Trauma Work: Enhancing Resilience and Coping During Stabilization and Trauma Processing

  • How EMDR and DBT complement each other
  • Assessing clients’ needs and treatment priorities
  • Common goals for survivors of interpersonal violence
  • DBT treatment planning strategies to identify specific targets for EMDR
  • Enhancing EMDR readiness with DBT emotional regulation skills
  • DBT coping skills for calm and focus in EMDR sessions
  • 5 practical ways to fuse DBT skills directly into EMDR sessions
  • Case studies
  • Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Therapists
  • Art Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

Copyright : 10/06/2023

Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)

Trauma treatment is rarely straightforward.  Clients want help but resist connecting emotionally. Many are tormented by critical self-hating thoughts or want to die, jeopardizing their ability to process the trauma.  TIST is a new trauma-informed treatment that directly addresses the challenges, not just the events, of a traumatic past.  In TIST, we view these trauma-related thoughts, emotions, and impulses as communications from fragmented, disowned trauma-related parts.  When clients form meaningful attachment relationships to these young, rejected parts, the trauma often resolves spontaneously.  When the parts finally experience safety and care, the traumatic past feels done and behind them. 

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Summarize the Structural Dissociation model  
  2. Identify thoughts, feelings and bodily responses indicative of trauma-related parts 
  3. Describe three interventions for stabilizing parts and resolving the trauma 

Outline

Fragmentation and Self-Alienation as an Adaptation to Trauma 

  • Why clients fragment to survive 
  • What tells us that a client is ‘fragmented’? 

 

Overcoming Self-Alienation and Self-Rejection 

  • Acknowledging and responding to traumatized parts  
  • Welcoming them home: forming internal attachment bonds to heal trauma 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Psychotherapists
  • Social Workers
  • Case Managers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurses
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Clinical Nurse Specialists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals
  • Occupational Therapists & Occupational Therapy Assistants

Copyright : 10/14/2023