Description
This training offers an integrative, trauma-informed approach to working with adolescents and adults impacted by attachment wounds, trauma, and dissociation. Drawing from evidence based models including IFS, Structural Dissociation, EMDR, somatic therapies, and expressive arts modalities, participants will learn practical, parts-oriented interventions through case examples, clinical transcripts, and video demonstrations. Emphasis is placed on strengthening self-regulation, reducing dissociative barriers, enhancing internal collaboration, and supporting lasting healing, resilience, and growth across developmental stages.
Learning Objectives
- Identify how complex trauma can present in treatment and associated barriers to progress.
- Explain the utilization of a trauma and attachment-focused lens in case conceptualization with adult and teen clients.
- Recognize how dissociative qualities and symptoms can present across the lifespan.
- Describe ways to work with and manage dissociation utilizing somatic and creative arts interventions.
- Apply skills and interventions drawn from Internal Family Systems Therapy and Structural Dissociation to engage in parts work.
- Utilize somatic resourcing and prescriptive play therapy activities to decrease dissociative episodes in and out of session during preparation and reprocessing phases of EMDR.
- Apply dissociation theory and a screening interview of children/teens/caregivers to evaluate children and educate parents about problematic behaviors through the lens of dissociation.
- Apply the principles of curiosity and gradual exposure, gentle reflection to allow dissociative parts of self to emerge during stabilization and processing.
- Distinguish self-states and use developmentally appropriate ego- state language through drawings, sandtray.
Questions? Please email belewis@pittsburghcit@gmail.com