Full Course Description
Working with Complex Trauma Clients: Putting the Pieces Together with Janina Fisher, PhD and Frank Anderson, MD
Successful treatment of complex trauma requires being able to work with all parts of your clients—the parts that clients identify with as “me” and the disowned parts they have despised, disowned or dissociated.
Without giving voice to all parts and resolving the conflicts between them, your treatment efforts can fall short, leaving clients to continue their daily struggle with suicidality, self-harm, addiction and other self-destructive behaviors.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) are two of the most effective evidence-based tools available to clinicians today for safely and effectively working with clients’ trauma-related parts.
And this 2-Day online workshop is your chance to train with two of the biggest names in the trauma field as they share the demonstrations, case studies and tips you need to bring the power of these clinical approaches into your own practice!
Watch Frank Anderson, MD, IFS Institute lead trainer and program consultant and Janina Fisher Ph.D., international trauma expert and creator of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment as they show you how you can use these contrasting yet complementary approaches to:
- Understand complex and unstable clients as systems of fragmented parts
- Overcome roadblocks to working with extreme symptoms of trauma
- Re-interpret self-destructive behavior as the actions of protector parts
- Repair the injuries of traumatized child parts
- Bring curiosity and compassion to habitual states of hopelessness, shame and self-blame
- Heal wounds caused by repeated relational violations.
Don’t miss the opportunity to join not one, but two legendary trauma clinicians and trainers.
Purchase today and feel more confident than ever before in working with all your trauma clients’ parts!
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess clients for signs and symptoms indicative of parts and/or their internal conflicts.
- Stabilize at-risk clients with the Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment Model.
- Articulate the Internal Family Systems model for working with parts in therapy.
- Assess the pros and cons of psychoeducation for client understanding of parts.
- Formulate parts structure as they manifest in thoughts, emotions, body sensations and actions.
- Evaluate parts that sabotage self-compassion or self-acceptance.
- Implement mindfulness-based techniques to increase internal awareness.
- Overcome the disruptive influence of extreme protective parts.
- Implement techniques for increasing ‘self-energy’.
- Utilize interventions that create an increased sense of connection to disowned parts.
- Manage the common roadblocks and pitfalls that interfere with the effective healing of early attachment wounds.
- Demonstrate techniques IFS and TIST techniques that may facilitate ‘self-healing for trauma clients.
Outline
DAY ONE
Workshop Overview: Frank Anderson and Janina Fisher
Trauma and Dissociation [Fisher]
- Dissociation and fragmentation as normal responses to trauma
- How fragmentation aids survival and adaptation
- Repeated re-activation of trauma responses and traumatized parts in the context of safety
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) [Fisher]
- Applying a parts model to personality disorders and complex PTSD
- The Structural Dissociation Model
- Re-interpreting client symptoms as manifestations of parts
- Mindfulness-based techniques for working with parts
- Stabilization of symptoms and impulses
- State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
Internal Family Systems [Anderson]
- IFS Model
- Parts and psychopathology
- The 6 F’s, working with protective parts
- State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
Trauma and Dissociation, cont. [Anderson]
- The Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation
- Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
- Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
- Beyond the 6 F’s in IFS
DAY TWO
Self-Leadership in IFS [Anderson]
- Therapist parts
- The dimensions of Self-Energy
- Differentiating empathy from compassion
Healing from Within [Anderson]
- The healing process in IFS
- Unloading family of origin and cultural burdens
- Rewiring implicit emotional memory
Repairing the Injuries of Traumatized Child Parts [Fisher]
- Developing internal communication
- Concept of ‘missing experiences’
- Developing client ability to offer reparative experiences to parts
- Welcoming the parts home now
Contrasting Approaches to working with Parts [Fisher, Anderson]
- Sharing reactions to video excerpts
- Discussion of strengths and limitations of each approach
- Participant Q&A
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/01/2021
Part Three | Janina and Frank’s Framework Healing Childhood Trauma
Copyright :
02/01/2021
To Forgive or Not to Forgive? Releasing the Pain of Relational Trauma
Forgiveness is often a triggering and complicated issue, particularly as it relates to relational trauma or complex PTSD. Some clients don’t want to forgive their abusers, even after they’ve severed all ties. Others hold onto anger and resentment but stay in unhealthy relationships. And some will forgive and struggle with not getting what they’d hoped for as a response. In this session, we’ll explore different dimensions of forgiveness: when it's premature and when it’s forced, when it's used to avoid feelings of pain and betrayal, whether it's necessary to fully heal from abuse, whether it serves the victim or the perpetrator, and when it leads to true acceptance and freedom. You'll discover how to help clients:
- Release the wounds that another has caused, so they’re freed to no longer carry the trauma inside
- Heal and name their internal wounds by learning to speak up for what they know to be true
- Determine whether forgiveness may be helpful for them to fully heal from relational violations
Program Information
Objectives
- Propose three steps required for forgiveness to be achieved by someone who has been relationally violated.
- Catalogue the core components of healing relational wounds.
- Assess the qualities of resilience that are necessary for clients to overcome complex PTSD.
Outline
- Explore the various dimensions of forgiveness as an area of clinical concern
- Explore when forgiveness is used to avoid feelings of pain or betrayal
- Determine whether forgiveness is necessary to fully heal from abuse
- Understand whether forgiveness serves the victim or the perpetrator to improve clinical outcomes
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/18/2023
Grieving the Lost Childhood
How we deal with loss is complicated by a society that recognizes only certain types of losses. The loss of a safe and loving childhood may not be an obvious one, but therapists know the cost to their clients when it's not acknowledged. When left unprocessed, the intense pain of grief often leads to anger, either towards their attachment figures or themselves. In order to help clients safely grieve the wounds of childhood, we must have the right tools. In this session, you’ll discover a mindfulness-based somatic approach that:
- Uses the body to achieve the optimal levels of sadness needed to process grief
- Increases our clients’ ability to not only tolerate grief but befriend it in order to live at peace with losses from childhood
- Diminishes the effects of isolation and loneliness in the past and present
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess the physical and emotional consequences of acute loss.
- Distinguish 3 variables associated with complicated bereavement.
- Develop a practice of mindful grieving with clients.
- Demonstrate 2 somatic-oriented interventions for regulating the intensity of grief.
Outline
- The physical and emotional consequences of acute loss
- The key factors that complicate the grieving process and how to help in therapy
- How to facilitate “mindful grieving” in therapy
- Implementing Somatic interventions for regulating the intensity of sorrow
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Physician Assistants
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/19/2023