Reactive patterns don’t change just because clients understand them.
You’ve seen this with your trauma clients. They understand their patterns and have processed painful memories with you…
Yet, when real-world triggers hit, the same shame, fear, or reactivity comes right back.
That’s because you need to work at the level where emotional responses are wired to repeat.
Structural Emotional Reorganization (SER) is designed to engage that level, drawing on principles from established models like EMDR, EFT, and DBT.
…to help clients explore pathways toward more regulated, intentional responses rather than emotional reflexes.
In this one-day training you’ll join Antonieta Contreras, LCSW R, CCPT II, author of Traumatization and Its Aftermath and developer of the Structural Emotional Reorganization integrative framework.
As she teaches you how to apply this neuroscience-informed approach in your own clinical work, expanding your toolkit for engaging clients who feel hijacked by old reactions.
Join this 6 hour training and gain:
Refine your ability to help clients move beyond default reactions toward adaptive emotional responding!
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Understand Why Emotional Patterns Persist in Trauma Treatment
Understand Emotional Architecture and Structural Patterning
Clinical Application of Structural Emotional Reorganization (SER)
Intervention Strategies for Deconstructing Emotional Scripts
Clinical Interventions for Reorganizing Emotional Responses and Restoring Flexibility
Case Examples and Clinical Applications
Antonieta Contreras, LCSW R, CCPT II, is a licensed clinical social worker, trauma specialist, author, and educator with over a decade of clinical experience working with individuals impacted by complex trauma, developmental trauma, dissociation, and relational injury. She is the author of Traumatization and Its Aftermath: A Systemic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders (Routledge, 2023) and How Deep Is the Wound? A Guide to Investigating, Understanding, and Resolving Your Emotional Pain (2025).
Her work focuses on clarifying the full spectrum of emotional injury – from extreme and complex trauma to more common yet highly impactful emotional wounds – through a neurobiological and systemic lens. She supports clinicians in moving beyond oversimplified nervous system explanations toward precise, developmentally informed case conceptualization and effective treatment planning. Her approach integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, dissociation theory, and relational models into clear, accessible frameworks that enhance clinical decision making without sacrificing depth or nuance.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Antonieta Contreras has employment relationships with NY Counseling Services, The Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, Instituto Medico Imaya, Instituto Peruano de Psicología Contextual S.A.C, Udima University of Madrid, IPC, and New York University. She is the developer of the Emotional Architecture Model and Structural Emotional Reorganization framework. Antonieta Contreras receives royalties as a published author. Antonieta Contreras receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Antonieta Contreras is the co-founder of the New York Association of Trauma therapists and a member of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation.
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Understand Why Emotional Patterns Persist in Trauma Treatment
Understand Emotional Architecture and Structural Patterning
Clinical Application of Structural Emotional Reorganization (SER)
Intervention Strategies for Deconstructing Emotional Scripts
Clinical Interventions for Reorganizing Emotional Responses and Restoring Flexibility
Case Examples and Clinical Applications
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