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DEEP DIVE: Mastering PTSD and Complex Trauma
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DEEP DIVE: Mastering PTSD and Complex Trauma
A Deep Dive Video Bundle
Video course packs, including all notes are available immediately on booking. The access links for each of the courses included in this Deep Dive are part of your ticket.
Online video access remains available for 1 or 3 years from the date you receive the video course, depending on your ticket type.
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There is no known commercial support for this programme.
CPD certificates will be issued separately for each session.
£852.00 – £952.00
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This comprehensive learning package brings together five high-calibre video courses from some of the most respected voices in trauma therapy — including Janina Fisher, Babette Rothschild, Christiane Sanderson, Arielle Schwartz, and Kathy Steele.
It’s designed for clinicians seeking a deeper understanding of how to work with clients affected by both single-event PTSD and the more entrenched, relational wounds of Complex PTSD (C-PTSD). Whether you’re newer to trauma work or looking to consolidate and expand your current practice, this bundle offers a powerful blend of diagnostic insight, body-oriented techniques, and real-world therapeutic strategies.
Across 35 CPD hours, we’ll explore how traumatic stress reshapes the nervous system, disrupts attachment, and alters identity — and what this means for treatment. You’ll gain access to practical, somatically informed tools that can be integrated into a wide range of therapeutic modalities.
Included Courses
1) Body-Oriented Therapy for PTSD & Complex Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher | 3 CPD Hours | £70 value
Mindfulness-based and somatic strategies to regulate a traumatised nervous system and challenge procedural memory.
2) Conceptualising PTSD and Complex PTSD
Christiane Sanderson | 5 CPD Hours | £135 value
Deep dive into diagnostic criteria, subtypes, co-morbidity, misdiagnosis, and trauma-informed formulations.
3) Practical Strategies for Complex PTSD
Dr Arielle Schwartz | 9 CPD Hours | £249 value
A phase-oriented, integrative approach for treating clients with prolonged and repeated interpersonal trauma.
4) The Psychophysiology of PTSD and Trauma
Babette Rothschild | 12 CPD Hours | £249 value
Learn to make trauma therapy safer using sensory and autonomic strategies to modulate arousal and avoid retraumatisation.
5) From Chaos to Clarity: Healing Complex PTSD
Kathy Steele | 6 CPD Hours | £149 value
Explore the impact of early trauma on adult functioning, with practical methods for working with shame, dysregulation, and relational wounds.
What You Will Learn
- Distinguish PTSD from Complex PTSD and understand differential diagnosis
- Assess the impact of early, repeated trauma on emotional and relational development
- Use somatic, mindfulness, and body-based interventions to regulate trauma responses
- Apply polyvagal-informed strategies for working with arousal, affect, and dissociation
- Build emotional and sensory tolerance in clients prior to trauma processing
- Identify red flags for misdiagnosis (e.g. BPD, bipolar, psychosis) and reformulate safely
- Learn pacing strategies for trauma work to avoid retraumatisation
- Develop trauma-informed case formulations using real-life case vignettes
- Implement tools to protect yourself from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
Who Is This For?
This bundle is ideal for:
- Psychotherapists, psychologists, and counsellors looking to deepen their trauma expertise
- EMDR and sensorimotor practitioners seeking to enhance their somatic and diagnostic fluency
- Mental health clinicians working with clients who present with shame, dissociation, emotional dysregulation, or trauma-linked relational difficulties
- Practitioners wanting flexible, self-paced CPD with immediately applicable strategies
Whether you’re working in private practice, the NHS, or community mental health, this bundle will equip you with the clarity and clinical confidence to navigate the layered presentations of trauma survivors.
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What's included in this course
- Presented by world-class speaker(s)
- Handouts and video recording
- 35 hrs of professionally produced lessons
- 1 year access to video recorded version
- CPD Certificate
- Join from anywhere in the world
Across 35 CPD hours, we’ll explore how traumatic stress reshapes the nervous system, disrupts attachment, and alters identity — and what this means for treatment. You’ll gain access to practical, somatically informed tools that can be integrated into a wide range of therapeutic modalities.
Learning objectives
- Distinguish PTSD from Complex PTSD and understand differential diagnosis
- Assess the impact of early, repeated trauma on emotional and relational development
- Use somatic, mindfulness, and body-based interventions to regulate trauma responses
- Apply polyvagal-informed strategies for working with arousal, affect, and dissociation
- Build emotional and sensory tolerance in clients prior to trauma processing
- Identify red flags for misdiagnosis (e.g. BPD, bipolar, psychosis) and reformulate safely
- Learn pacing strategies for trauma work to avoid retraumatisation
- Develop trauma-informed case formulations using real-life case vignettes
- Implement tools to protect yourself from vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue
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
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.
Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a licensed clinical psychologist, internationally recognised researcher and educator, and author of seminal works in trauma recovery, including The Complex PTSD Workbook, Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
With two decades of clinical specialisation, Arielle’s integrative approach bridges affective neuroscience, contemplative practice, and somatic psychology. She is distinguished for her capacity to synthesise complex theoretical frameworks—from the Adaptive Information Processing model underpinning EMDR’s efficacy, to the neurobiological foundations of trauma as articulated in the work of leading researchers like Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, and Pat Ogden—into accessible clinical applications with immediate utility. Her pedagogical approach balances scientific rigour with clinical pragmatism, establishing her as a preeminent voice in trauma-informed practice.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is an Executive Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation and a Patron of the John Bowlby Centre. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017 ), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022), as well as numerous peer-reviewed journal articles. She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment. Her treatment model, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), is now being taught around the world. More information can be found on her website: www.janinafisher.com
Christiane Sanderson BSc, MSc. is an Honorary Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, of London with 35 years of experience working with survivors of childhood sexual abuse and sexual violence. She has delivered consultancy, continuous professional development and professional training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, solicitors, the NSPCC, the Catholic Safeguarding Advisory Committee, the Methodist Church, the Metropolitan Police Service, SOLACE, the Refugee Council, Birmingham City Council Youth Offending Team, and HMP Bronzefield.
She is the author of Counselling Skills for Working with Shame, Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma: Healing from Child Sexual Abuse, Sexual Violence and Domestic Abuse, Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 3rd edition, Counselling Survivors of Domestic Abuse, The Seduction of Children: Empowering Parents and Teachers to Protect Children from Child Sexual Abuse, and Introduction to Counselling Survivors of Interpersonal Trauma, all published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. She has also written The Warrior Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Sexual Violence; The Spirit Within: A One in Four Handbook to Aid Recovery from Religious Sexual Abuse Across All Faiths and Responding to Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse: A pocket guide for professionals, partners, families and friends for the charity One in Four for whom she is a trustee.
Babette Rothschild, MSW, has been a practitioner since 1976 and a teacher and trainer since 1992. She is the author of five books, all published by WW Norton: The Body Remembers -The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (a bestseller, translated into 12+ languages); The Body Remembers CASEBOOK – Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; Help for the Helper–The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma; 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery, and Trauma Essentials: The Go-To Guide. She is also the Series Editor of the WW Norton 8 Keys to Mental Health Series (14 titles and growing). After living and working for 9 years in Copenhagen, Denmark she returned to her native Los Angeles. There, she is writing her next books while she continues to lecture, train, and supervise professional psychotherapists worldwide. Her sixth and newest book, The Body Remembers, Volume 2, Revolutionizing Trauma Treatment was published in June 2017.
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