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2-Day Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Clinical Tools from CBT, Ego States, EMDR, and Somatic Therapy

2-Day Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Neglect: Clinical Tools from CBT, Ego States, EMDR, and Somatic Therapy

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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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This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.

Here's What You'll Learn

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

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 12 hours of video content
  • Up to 12.5 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

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Meet Your Experts

Sarah Freeze, LCSW

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Sarah Freeze, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and recognized specialist in the treatment of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of childhood abuse and neglect in adulthood. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she completed the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute’s child trauma specialization. Sarah currently maintains a private practice in Denver, Colorado, providing individual and group psychotherapy, EMDR intensives, and consultation for psychotherapists. Her integrative approach draws from EMDR, psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, ego state theory, sand tray therapy, and self-compassion frameworks – modalities uniquely suited to the layered, identity-level wounds that childhood trauma produces. An Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician and an Evergreen-status EMDR Consultant, Sarah provides both individual and group consultation to therapists with a specialized focus on attachment, dissociation, ego states, and complex trauma.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice. She is a consultant with Evergreen. Sarah Freeze receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and EMDR International Association.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS059926
Duration:
12 hours, 40 minutes
Copyright:
Nov 07, 2024
Format:
Audio and Video

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