Adult clients who’ve experienced childhood emotional abuse and neglect can be some of your toughest cases.
Not only are working with issues like fragmented self-identity, dissociation and difficulty forming healthy attachments – you’re often left trying to identify and reprocess what may be unrealized, absent, or lacking…
…all while trying to attune to experiences for which the client struggles to have words.
Now in this training you’ll get everything you need to become more skilled at working with these clients than ever before so they can move past their traumatic childhoods and finally heal.
Under the expert instruction of in-demand trauma trainer and consultant Sarah Freeze, LCSW, you’ll get a complete toolkit full of the very best interventions from CBT, EMDR, Somatic therapy and more PLUS the step-by-step instructions you need to master them so you can:
Break down defenses and open clients to the vulnerability great therapy needs
Create a safe internal space for clients to explore and release tension and trauma
Use easy-to-use exercises to regulate overwhelming emotions
Apply interventions to help clients reclaim agency and autonomy
Help clients process unseen wounds they have trouble verbalizing
And much more!
This program is sure to add tremendous value to your work as you guide clients on a journey of healing and transformation.
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Sarah Freeze, LCSW is a psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker in private practice based out of Denver, CO. She is a certified EMDR therapist, and her practice includes psychotherapy, consultation, and teaching. She specializes in treating trauma/PTSD and utilizes EMDR, psychodynamic, relational, and Sandtray therapies. Her passion is working with adults who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect and emotional non-recognition, using a person-centered and culturally informed framework. Beyond her private practice, Sarah has clinical experience in community and agency settings, working with children and adults who have experienced sexual abuse, sexual assault, physical abuse, and domestic violence. With a strong background, she takes great care in applying clinical research into practice. Discover more at sarahfreezelcsw.com.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Sarah Freeze is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze is a member of the Colorado Society for Clinical Social Work and the EMDR International Association.
Identify the clinical implications of the link between childhood trauma and the development of Complex PTSD, insecure attachment, and emotional dysregulation.
Utilize attachment theory with adult populations with childhood abuse and neglect experiences.
Develop individualized treatment plans for clients with differing attachment styles and experiences of childhood relational abuse.
Identify how clients adapted to unavailable and dysfunctional caregivers in childhood.
Determine how childhood trauma can lead to dissociation and the resulting implications for therapeutic approaches.
Use resourcing skills to foster resilience and reduce the risk of dysfunctional or abusive relationships in the future.
Determine how to track the body and return to the window of tolerance.
Use the five stages of recovery to inform case conceptualization.
Use ego states to facilitate psychotherapy for clients with childhood abuse and neglect experiences.
Choose two skills for somatic resourcing to achieve appropriate grounding.
Utilize mentalization to intervene with destructive or negative thoughts and beliefs.
Identify components to an integrative treatment plan using multiple treatment approaches.
Outline
Childhood Abuse and Neglect Experiences
The Latest Research and Relationship with Complex Trauma
Newest Research on ACE Studies
Relationship with Complex PTSD
Impact on Attachment and the Therapeutic Relationship
Recognition of the Used Child
Experiences of the Used Child
Lack of Care and the Loss of Words
Therapeutic Objectives and Transference
Childhood Abuse & Neglect and Adult Dissociation
Understand Traumatic Responses
Neurobiological Aspects of Trauma
Polyvagal Theory and the Window of Tolerance
Dissociative Systems and Disorders
Structural Dissociation
Identify and Decode Dissociative Language
Assessment and History Taking
Assessing Attachment, the Body and More
Understand Adult Attachment
Skill: Assess Attachment Based on Client’s Conversational Style
Skill: Five Adjectives to Describe Your Caregiver
Assess the Body and One’s Ability to Care for Oneself
Online Sandtray as an Expressive Nonverbal Technique for Self-Understanding
How Clients Adaptations to Dysfunctional Caregivers Informs Treatment
Understand how the Child Maintained Connection
Common Adaptations and Defenses
Skill: Identify Unspoken Agreements between Child and Parent
Understand and Work with the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Understand the Mind: Cognitive Behavioral Strategies
The Five Stages of Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
Thoughts, Feelings, and Communication
Skill: Recognize Emotions and the Cognitive Triangle
Work with Negative Cognitions and Shame
Mentalization and Meta Interventions
Reconnect With the Body: Somatic Tools for Healing
Resource the Body
Finding Balance with Becoming Ungrounded or Overgrounded
Psychological Effects of Poor Posture
Regulate Arousal or Mood Using Breath
Skill: Somatic Container
Integrate the Mind, Body, and Emotional Experience: Using EMDR and Parts Work
Introduction to Ego States
Identify Parts of the Self
Skill: Identify a Part that is Blocking Processing
Facilitate Co-consciousness
Skill: Hold a Parts Meeting
Case Examples of Using EMDR with Childhood Abuse and Neglect
Move Forward With New Ways of Living
Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self
Resourcing to Strengthen Adult Self
Skill: Circle of Love
Skill: Use an Online Sandtray for Relational Resourcing
Identify Missing Resources and Taking Action
Overcome Relational Wounds
Set Boundaries (Somatic and Interpersonal)
Decision Making and Deferment of Gratification
Trust, Intimacy, and Relationships
Address the Need for External Validation
Feel Whole and Learn Healthy Self-Care Patterns
Proximity-Seeking Ways of Being for Connection
Play, Pleasure, and Positive Emotions
Challenge One’s Window of Tolerance
Elements of a Healthy Self-Care Pattern
Skill: Caring for the Baby Procedure
Target Audience
Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Nurses
Physicians
Therapists
Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields
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