Facilitator: Meghan Reilly, LCSW
Friday, February 28th, 9:00am-4:30pm
The Hive Dance Studio, 4706 N Ravenswood Ave Chicago, IL 60640
$195
CCIH strives to make training accessible for as many participants as possible. For this workshop, we are offering a lowered fee of $150 for students or other participants in need of a reduced fee. Contact Victoria at officemanager@theccih.com to request.
6 CEUs are offered for LCPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, Nurses, and Clinical Psychologists.
Couples come to us struggling with patterns that they have been “practicing” for months, years – sometimes decades! These patterns can be experienced as conflict, communication difficulties, trouble connecting and more. Histories of trauma in one or both partners create layers of experience that are complex and nuanced. They require therapists to have a framework for understanding and facilitating work with both the spoken and the unspoken in the room.
Just as in trauma-informed individual therapy, in relationship work we privilege regulation in both the individual experiences in the room as well as in the relationship dynamic between partners. Using a phase oriented treatment, we hold a frame that helps folks find stability and increased safety in their relationships, in order to create lasting change.
In our time together, we will use our understanding of the neurobiology of attachment and trauma to create a framework for working with couples. This workshop will include theory, experiential practice with intervention, and case study.
In this workshop we will:
- Use trauma theory and attachment theory as well as a parts model and the window of tolerance to explore building a collaborative frame that focuses on the “relationship as client” being treated in the room.
- Study and explore experiential strategies for assessment and intervention with folks who also have a history of trauma.
- Use case examples to demonstrate interventions with couples that privilege regulation and presence as access routes to change in relational dynamics.
Meghan Reilly
Meghan’s practice is grounded in a commitment to anti-oppressive mental health treatment across a wide range of presenting concerns. Her practice seeks to contribute to the growth of a more compassionate society via ethical treatment for individuals, couples, and families.
Meghan draws from over 20 years of clinical practice in her treatment approach and works from an integrative model of both relational approaches and body-centered interventions, providing trauma-informed care. She specializes in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders.
In addition to her Oak Park-based clinical practice with individuals and couples, she provides training and consultation to organizations and clinicians seeking to deepen their work as trauma-informed agencies and psychotherapists.
A graduate of the University of Chicago (2004), Meghan completed the Level I Training for the Treatment of Trauma (2011) and Level II Emotional Processing: Meaning Making and Attachment Repair (2018) through the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute of Boulder, CO. She has been a supervisor and trainer at CCIH since 2011 and teaches Couples/Relationship Therapy in the master’s program at the University of Chicago. For further information: https://meghan-reilly.com/