Module 4

Responses to Trauma

Understanding Trauma Reaction and Survival Strategies and how they show up in our clients' lives.

OUTCOMES:

● Teach your clients how to link trauma to their coping mechanisms.

● Identify explicit and implicit triggers

● Develop your sixth sense as a therapist

● Be an expert in neurotransmission, neuroplasticity, and somatic memory to educate your clients

● Tools to regulate the Limbic Nervous System in every session

● Remove pathology from cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and existential coping responses.

● Know when you are colliding or colluding with your clients and how to recommit to the treatment structure

Module 5

Trauma Assessment & Intervention

Assessments are more than handing a questionnaire to your clients. In this module, I give you the nuances you need to assess your clients' struggles properly.

OUTCOMES:

● Become an expert diagnostician identifying pressing concerns

● Assess clients' needs to improve their level of functioning

● Assess clients' readiness and capacity to engage in deeper trauma processing

● Use instructions and best practices for over 20 assessment types (including mood, attachment, trauma, somatic, dissociation, OCD, and more)

● Learn how to use the DES and MID for clients with dissociation

● Determine which assessments should be administered via hard copy, verbally, or other creative means.

● Learn replicable interventions

Module 6

Challenges To Treatment

Bring your clients to the finish line. You want your clients to be successful but what does success mean?

OUTCOMES:

● Skillfully navigate rupture and repair

● Set, track and reach clear treatment goals

● Use effective scripts to initiate meaningful feedback conversations

● Keep yourself in check. Is transference and/or countertransference showing up?

● Avoid flooding or stagnation by properly pacing the treatment plan

● Know when and how to refer out