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Advanced Therapeutic Skills Workshop 5: Working with Complex Transference

Advanced Therapeutic Skills Workshop 5: Working with Complex Transference

At nscience, we are proud to launch a new, highly-immersive and therapeutic skills focused set of online evening sessions with internationally acclaimed Trauma expert Kathy Steele. At each of these evenings, we will explore one special topic per session relevant to working with challenging clients who have experienced complex trauma and dissociation. Each session will be focused on specific practical clinical skills. This will include a 75-minute didactic training module with time for comments, questions, and clinical applications. Next, we will offer 90 minutes of case consultation – attendees can bring anonymized cases for discussion. Attendees can sign up for individual sessions or for the entire series of five sessions at a discounted price.

Times:

6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, London UK

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm, New York, USA

For discounted tickets for the full five parts of these training series please visit: Advanced Therapeutic Skills Toolbox: Managing Clinical Challenges from Complex Transference to Idealized Fantasies

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£ 69.00

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Course Credits

CPD: 3 / CE: 2.75

Speaker(s)

Kathy Steele

Course length in hours

3 hrs of video content

Location

Online streaming only

Full course information

Understanding complex transference within the context of developmental trauma unveils a multitude of adaptive strategies that clients adopt due to the absence of secure attachment. These strategies, although initially protective, often manifest as maladaptive and give rise to an array of conflicting transference patterns with the therapist. In developmental trauma, clients acquire many strategies that help them relate to others in the absence of secure attachment. These strategies are often maladaptive and lead to multiple and contradictory transference patterns with the therapist. Clients may be alternately passive, aggressive, competitive, seductive, seeking attachment, and avoiding it. Additionally, they might perceive themselves as victims while expecting the therapist to rescue them. This complex landscape necessitates therapist’s adeptness in recognizing these patterns and employing compassionate approaches to directly address them, fostering the cultivation of more adaptive and secure attachment strategies.

This session will train participants to discern prevalent relational strategies arising from complex trauma, serving as substitutes for secure attachment strategies. Also, we will delve into the nuanced realm of employing compassionate approaches in therapeutic interactions.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify common relational strategies in complex trauma that substitute for secure attachment strategies
  • Employ ways to relate compassionately and collaboratively with clients to help them modify their relational approaches

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What's included in this course

What you’ll learn

This session will train participants to discern prevalent relational strategies arising from complex trauma, serving as substitutes for secure attachment strategies. Also, we will delve into the nuanced realm of employing compassionate approaches in therapeutic interactions.

Learning objectives

  • Identify common relational strategies in complex trauma that substitute for secure attachment strategies
  • Employ ways to relate compassionately and collaboratively with clients to help them modify their relational approaches

You'll also be able to...

Develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels in clients and for safer trauma therapy

Identify and acquire recovery options and strategies for trauma clients inappropriate for trauma memory processing, particularly for those who don’t want to and those who decompensate or dysregulate from memory work

Also develop the ability to interpret and modulate the body’s nervous system (sensory and autonomic) to regulate arousal levels for professional self-care

About the speaker(s)

Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been treating complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment issues since 1985. She is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Services and is Adjunct Faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US.  Ms. Steele is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD) and has also previously served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). She has been involved with developing treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders and well as for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Ms. Steele has received a number of awards for her work, including the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD, an Emory University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, and the 2011 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions.  She is known for her humour, compassion, respect, and depth of knowledge as a clinician and teacher, and for her capacity to present complex issues in easily understood and clear ways using an integrative psychotherapy model that draws from both traditional and somatic approaches. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer.

She has co-authored three books as part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology: The Haunted Self: Structural dissociation of the personality and chronic traumatization (2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, & Steele – W. W. Norton); Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists (2011, Boon, Steele, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton); and most recently, Treating trauma-related dissociation: A practical, integrative approach (2017, Steele, Boon, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton). She has also (co)authored numerous book chapters and journal articles.

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nscience UK is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. nscience UK maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

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