The Complex World of Trauma

Whether they specialize in it or not, all therapists will encounter complex trauma in their practice.

Complex trauma may show up in our offices in the form of clients who are experiencing relationship difficulties, feeling a lack of interest in the world, struggling to keep a job, or feeling like life isn’t worth living. Its treatment requires that therapists address not only the wound that was suffered, but also the strategies that folks have developed in order to survive.

Complex trauma also touches our own experience, history, and feelings about suffering in the world, which can be overwhelming. This means that it is essential that mental health practitioners have adequate support and resources in their work.

In this workshop, we will explore all of this complexity together, from both from a theoretical perspective and a sense of what it is like to be on the journey with someone for whom trauma has shaped their experience of the world.

In this workshop we will:

• Define Complex Trauma and how it shows up in clinical practice
• Explore the neurobiological basics of trauma informed care
• Introduction to dissociation as a coping strategy
• Identify the clinical skills and personal resources needed to treat complex trauma and dissociation
• Discuss working with attachment wounding and how it shows up in the therapeutic relationship

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