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Working with Complex Trauma Clients

Working with Complex Trauma Clients

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Successful treatment of complex trauma requires being able to work with all parts of your clients—the parts that clients identify with as “me” and the disowned parts they have despised, disowned or dissociated.

Without giving voice to all parts and resolving the conflicts between them, your treatment efforts can fall short, leaving clients to continue their daily struggle with suicidality, self-harm, addiction and other self-destructive behaviors.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) and Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) are two of the most effective evidence-based tools available to clinicians today for safely and effectively working with clients’ trauma-related parts.

And this 2-Day online workshop is your chance to train with two of the biggest names in the trauma field as they share the demonstrations, case studies and tips you need to bring the power of these clinical approaches into your own practice!

Watch Frank Anderson, MD, and Janina Fisher Ph.D., as they show you how you can use these contrasting yet complementary approaches to:

  • Understand complex and unstable clients as systems of fragmented parts
  • Overcome roadblocks to working with extreme symptoms of trauma
  • Re-interpret self-destructive behavior as the actions of protector parts
  • Repair the injuries of traumatized child parts
  • Bring curiosity and compassion to habitual states of hopelessness, shame and self-blame
  • Heal wounds caused by repeated relational violations.

Don’t miss the opportunity to join not one, but two legendary trauma clinicians and trainers.

Purchase today and feel more confident than ever before in working with all your trauma clients’ parts!

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

Here's What You'll Learn


DAY ONE

Workshop Overview: Frank Anderson and Janina Fisher

Trauma and Dissociation [Fisher]

  • Dissociation and fragmentation as normal responses to trauma
  • How fragmentation aids survival and adaptation
  • Repeated re-activation of trauma responses and traumatized parts in the context of safety
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) [Fisher]
  • Applying a parts model to personality disorders and complex PTSD
  • The Structural Dissociation Model
  • Re-interpreting client symptoms as manifestations of parts
  • Mindfulness-based techniques for working with parts
  • Stabilization of symptoms and impulses
  • State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
Internal Family Systems [Anderson]
  • IFS Model
  • Parts and psychopathology
  • The 6 F’s, working with protective parts
  • State of the evidence, risk and limitations of the model & application in clinical practice
Trauma and Dissociation, cont. [Anderson]
  • The Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation
  • Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
  • Overcoming roadblocks, working with extreme symptoms of trauma
  • Beyond the 6 F’s in IFS
DAY TWO

Self-Leadership in IFS [Anderson]
  • Therapist parts
  • The dimensions of Self-Energy
  • Differentiating empathy from compassion
Healing from Within [Anderson]
  • The healing process in IFS
  • Unloading family of origin and cultural burdens
  • Rewiring implicit emotional memory
Repairing the Injuries of Traumatized Child Parts [Fisher]
  • Developing internal communication
  • Concept of ‘missing experiences’
  • Developing client ability to offer reparative experiences to parts
  • Welcoming the parts home now
Contrasting Approaches to working with Parts [Fisher, Anderson]
  • Sharing reactions to video excerpts
  • Discussion of strengths and limitations of each approach
  • Participant Q&A

Everything You're Getting


  • Approx. 12 Hours of content
  • Up to 12.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts


Janina Fisher, PhD

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.

Frank Anderson, MD

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Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation and is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Dr. Anderson has lectured extensively on the Neurobiology of PTSD and Dissociation and wrote the chapter “Who’s Taking What” Connecting Neuroscience, Psychopharmacology and Internal Family Systems for Trauma in Internal Family Systems Therapy – New Dimensions. He co-authored a chapter on What IFS Brings to Trauma Treatment in Innovations and Elaborations in Internal Family Systems Therapy, and recently co-authored Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual.

His most recent book, entitled Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems was released on May 19, 2021.

His memoir, To Be Loved, was released on May 7, 2024.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Frank Anderson maintains a private practice, is the co-founder of the Trauma Institute, and is the co-founding producer of Trauma Informed Media. He receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Frank Anderson is a member of the New England Society Studying Trauma and Dissociation and the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

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Media Type:
DVD
Also Available:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
RNV057170
Duration:
Approx. 12 Hours
Copyright:
Feb 01, 2021
Publisher:
PESI, Inc.

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