Online via Zoom – Friday, 7th March 2025.
9 am – 3 pm.
An introduction to Complex Trauma 101 (with a brief look at dissociation).
This introductory webinar offers the basics for you to begin to gain confidence to work in this challenging area. It addresses why complex trauma and related dissociation requires adjustments to our practice.
If we are more familiar with general counselling work, complex trauma brings a new depth and dimension many professionals struggle to cope with. Some providers worry they will ‘get it wrong’ or ‘make things worse’ and mistakenly believe that there are ‘many specialists out there’ so they do not offer help to these clients at a time when there is such unprecedented demand and so few specialist providers in Aotearoa.
This training is designed to assist you in how to adapt your approach to start working with clients with these needs, and to do so with increased confidence. The evidence-based tri-phasic model is a useful framework to expand your ability to pace the work and to learn how to widen your window of tolerance to the complex material you may hear.
It will help you in turn to help your client to build their own confidence and window of tolerance, to move towards recovery from the trauma they have suffered. As you put on your oxygen mask, you are then better placed to help the other to put on theirs, as they are coming up for air from their trauma experiences.
Workshop Content
Stance of the therapist: Understand the key principles and implications for changes in practice when working with complex trauma and beginning to look at dissociation.
Unfortunate consequences: Grasp the implications and risks if these adjustments are not made. This will be illustrated by the washing machine of chaos, the avoidance void, and the rabbit in the headlights.
Pacing the work and timing your interventions will be demonstrated with the ISSTD Tri-phasic model for working with complex trauma (International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation). The pacing is there for the safety of the client and of you!
Establishing a framework for best practice. A few guiding principles are recommended and illustrated within this tri-phasic approach to help build your client’s window of tolerance.
Resources that can assist phase 1 are offered and considerations about readiness for phase 2 will be discussed. Anonymised cases are used to illustrate.
Caring for you too! Understanding how hearing about trauma can traumatize you (vicarious traumatisation) is a crucial part of the work. This will be discussed as how you too can manage within your own window of tolerance, and to gradually expand it over time.
Who Should Attend:
Counsellors, psychologists, psychiatrists, and other therapists and mental health workers who are engaged in general counselling practice currently but who want to gain more confidence working with complex trauma and dissociation. If you often have people who consult with you, but you are not sure how to frame a suitable approach, this webinar may also help you to pace the work effectively and safely.
Spaces are limited so book today to ensure your place.
Price: $320.00 pp Inc GST
For more information and to register – please visit the website:
**Note our Special Offer***
https://www.grow.co.nz/working-with-complex-trauma-and-dissociation-101
For queries, please contact Faye Johnson – faye@grow.co.nz / 027 607 3000.
NOTE – If your organisation is interested in having Diane present face-face as a private workshop to 20 or more of your team, please contact Faye.