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Rejection Trauma Workshop

Rejection Trauma Workshop

Standard - $249.99 $132.49 Anniversary Sale 2026 - 47% off!
Available Now for Pre-Order - This item will be available 4-6 weeks after the event has taken place.
Also Available: Live Webinar
  • Easy-to-use interventions to help clients release healing fantasies
  • Tools for working with unprocessed rejection memories
  • Strategies to bring implicit shame into explicit awareness
  • Use the therapeutic relationship to create secure attachment experiences
  • Case studies that make application simple

 

Clients who experienced parental rejection have built their entire identities on the belief that they are fundamentally unlovable, defective, or “too much.”

But here’s the thing. These clients aren’t going to respond to CBT reframing or positive affirmations in treatment.

You need tools to access their hardwired attachment patterns, work with implicit core beliefs and shift the emotional meaning those experiences still hold today.

That’s exactly what this training gives you.

You’ll watch trauma specialist Sarah Freeze, LCSW who’s taught thousands of clinicians how to up their game in treating complex trauma.

She’ll give you the specialized skills and tools to treat traumatic rejection wounds, shame and attachment injury at every level: developmental, relational, cognitive, and emotional.

Sarah will show you how to use EDMR, parts, work, narrative reconstruction, self-compassion and relational psychodynamic interventions …

… so you can identify your clients’ attachment deficits, build their missing internal resources, rewrite their rejection-based identity and process the grief of their lost childhood.

PLUS, she’ll show you how the therapeutic relationship itself – including ruptures, repairs, and your own countertransference – can be used to create the secure attachment experience these clients have been searching for their whole lives.

Too many clients are carrying this deepest wound – sure that they are, and always will be, alone.

Purchase now and become the therapist that can help clients finally feel chosen, worthy, and safe in connection.

Here's What You'll Learn


Rejection, Trauma, Chronic Shame and Psychopathology

  • Types of rejection and their relationship with psychopathology
  • Identity-based rejection: compounding factors
  • Parental rejection in childhood and developmental trauma
  • Insecure attachment, rejection sensitivity, and pathological narcissism
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks
  • Case example: David, 42, anxious-avoidant attachment

Working with Core Needs and Shame-Based Identifications

  • Core beliefs: “I’m Bad” and environmental failure
  • Reconstruct the client’s developmental history and environmental deficits
  • EMDR’s AIP model and unprocessed rejection memories
  • Development and maintenance of chronic shame and isolation
  • Skill: Three types of Resource and Development Installation exercises

Internal Attachment Repair and Developing an Inner Soothing System: Parts Work, Narrative and Self-Compassion Tools

  • Clinical Skills to Address Rejection and Shame in the Moment
    • Bring implicit shame into explicit awareness
    • Parts of self: the rejected child, the harsh critic, the protector
    • Use shame-sensitivity techniques
    • Case example: Elisabeth, 56, complex PTSD, disorganized attachment
  • Create a more positive and adaptive self-concept
  • Link events and emotions: connect adult patterns to childhood rejection experiences
    • Co-create a coherent narrative
    • Establish co-equality in the therapeutic relationship
    • Self-compassion and self-parenting techniques
  • Risks, research and limitations

Processing the Grief of the Lost Childhood

  • Grieving the “healing fantasy”
  • Mourning the self
  • Sentence completion exercise
  • Risks, research and limitations

Use the Therapeutic Relationship as a New Attachment Experience

  • The Relational Foundation
  • Empathic attunement and vitality affect
  • Mutual affective bond
  • Use your own feelings to enhance clinical outcomes
  • Interpret countertransference
  • Therapeutic use of self-disclosure about relational dynamics
  • Process the inevitable rupture and repair

Everything You're Getting


  • Approx 6 hrs of video content
  • CE information to come

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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
Also Available:
Live Webinar
Product Code:
POS151007
Duration:
Approx 6 hrs
Copyright:
Nov 23, 2026 Available Now for Pre-Order

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