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Trauma Certification Training | Part I

Transform your practice with this intensive 2-day Certification Workshop that will provide you with effective strategies and interventions from EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy so you can take your trauma treatment to the next level!

You’ll learn how to properly assess clients, effectively stabilize them in preparation for treatment, help them safely reprocess traumatic memories, and develop the resources they need to achieve and maintain recovery. You’ll also get detailed guidance on overcoming scenarios involving anger, resistance, and suicidality that can leave you exhausted and uncertain of how to move your most challenging clients forward.

Purchase today, get the proven tools and techniques needed to end the suffering of your clients and move them from surviving to thriving!

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Objectives

Describe the brain regions involved in trauma.
Communicate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
Establish how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
Characterize how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety in clients.
Evaluate methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
Describe how narrative therapy exercises can be employed in session to help clients talk about hotspots.
Determine how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma survivors.
Integrate techniques that can be used to “slow” emotions in clients.
Communicate how EMDR-based techniques can be used with clients to resolve traumatic memories.
Differentiate between EMDR, EFT and neuromodulation approaches.
Utilize techniques for working with anger, resistance, and suicidality in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
Communicate the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.

Outline

The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change

Key brain areas involved in trauma
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
Clinical implications of the freeze response
The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy

Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools

Simple vs. complex trauma
Intergenerational trauma
Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
CAPS-5 and PCL-5
Primary Care PTSD Screen
Dual diagnosis

Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work

Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
- Self-soothing techniques
- Grounding strategies
- Breathwork
Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work

Proven Skills and Techniques from Evidence-Based Approaches:

Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma

Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
Teach body awareness
Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
Resourcing strategies to create a safe space

CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions

Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
Memory reconstruction techniques

EMDR-Based Techniques: Resolve Traumatic Memories

Adaptive Information Processing Theory
EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
Resourcing strategies
Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma

Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences

Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
Awareness and closure – create life stories

Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks

How to handle the angry client
Strategies for the resistant trauma client
Boundary concerns
Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use

Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth

Better than normal – the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
The power of forgiveness in moving forward
Meaning making exercises

Research. Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Physicians
Psychologists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

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Trauma Certification Training | Part II

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Trauma Certification Training | Part III

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Trauma Certification Training | Part IV

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Trauma Certification Training | Part V

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Trauma Certification Training | Part VI

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Intensive Training on Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part I

You may have trauma clients who are victims of narcissistic abuse without even knowing it.

In a clinical setting, victims of narcissistic abuse can be conditioned to behave a certain way, to show only the good things. They can dissociate to remove themselves from the trauma, and struggle to talk about the abuse in therapy. Some may not even be aware of the abuse, especially if the narcissist is still involved.

If you’re like most clinicians, you only have a superficial understanding of personality disorders and the traumatic harm those with them can inflict on their partners. Without the proper training you can fail to connect the dots and miss a key component of treatment for these clients.

This program will give you the in-depth understanding and clinical tools you need to recognize the signs of abuse from Cluster B disordered partners and discover the keys to treating the survivors!

Sandra Brown, M.A., is a pioneer in the field of narcissistic and psychopathic abuse and the current president of The Association for NPD/Psychopathy Survivor Treatment, Research & Education who has worked with and researched narcissistic abuse survivors for over 30 years.

Watch her, along with experts Claudia Paradise, LCSW-R and Bill Brennan, M.Ed., LMHC, CAP, for this live two-day webinar as they show you how you can:

Identify pathological love relationships
Differentiate PLRs from other stereotypical domestic violence, addictive, co-dependent, or dysfunctional relationships
Recognize the unique relational dynamics generated from the pathology and the traumatic impact to intimate partners
Understand why certain survivor personalities seem to be targeted
Key considerations for treating the traumatic aftermath

Don’t miss this chance to add a new dimension to your trauma treatment toolbox and help survivors of narcissistic abuse find the path to recovery. Purchase today!

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Objectives

Differentiate narcissistic abuse from other domestic violence, addictive, co-dependent, or dysfunctional relationships to inform clinical treatment.
Analyze the unique relational dynamics generated from the pathology and the impact to intimate partners.
Investigate common mistakes made by practitioners in the identification and treatment of survivors of narcissistic and psychopathic abuse.
Investigate the five stages of a Pathological Love Relationship (narcissistic abuse).
Analyze Cluster B personality disorders for a better understanding of how Cluster B partners can exploit the vulnerabilities of those in close relationships.
Apply the DSM-5 Alternative Model personality disorder “four impairments” to predict relational deficits in narcissistic abuse.
Investigate co-morbid and intensification factors related to behavior of the narcissistic abuser.
Assess the role of chronic and pervasive Cognitive Dissonance in survivor symptomology.
Analyze how gaslighting, coercive control, and subterfuge in the context of romantic relationships, can lead to negative impacts on cognition.
Employ in-session approaches to help clients recognize narcissistic behavior in their partners and become aware of the consequences.
Employ psychoeducation techniques to teach survivors about personality disorders and the manipulative tactics, coercive devices and subtle signs that they may be victim of narcissistic abuse.
Utilize clinical techniques to unravel problematic beliefs that can prevent victims of narcissistic abuse from making therapeutic progress.

Outline

Pathological Love Relationships (PLR) Defined

What therapists are doing wrong
What survivors said they needed and weren’t getting
PLR Description
Theoretical influences
Differentiating these relationships from other fields and disciplines
Research and research limitations

Personality Disorders and Pathological Love Relationships

Identifying Pathological Love Relationships through personality and personality pathology
Personality disorders and the importance of the issue of ‘pervasiveness’
Symptomatic conditions -vs- characteristic conditions
How to read life patterns of the normal and the disordered
Cluster B disorders and the danger zone personalities and spectrum

Identification of Pathological Love Relationships

The DSM-5™ Alternative Model and relational pathology
The Categorical Model vs The Dimensional Alternative Model
The four core impairments in personality disorders
Definitions, descriptions and behaviors
Symptom traits vs maladaptive traits

Clinical Impressions vs Distance Diagnosing

What if I can’t diagnose the other party?
Partner-related assessments and usefulness
Developing clinical impressions, reasonable assumptions, and working hypothesis in detection

Psychoeducation for Survivors About Personality Disorders

Personality theories that create bias
The neuroscience and neurobiology of personality disorders
DSM symptoms reflected in the neuro impairments
How clients benefit from neurobiology education

Relational Dynamics and Stages of a PLR

Pre-Stage— trolling, luring and predatory targeting tactics
Early Stage— manufactured intensity, love bombing, mirroring, reflective relational tactics
Mid-Stage —coercive control, gaslighting and subterfuge
End relationship dynamics
Case studies for each stage

Survivor Personalities and Targeted Traits: Critical Considerations for Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment

Who these survivors are NOT
Survivor personality super trait elevations and its importance in targeting and recovery
- Agreeableness and cooperation: the relationship investment trait
- Conscientiousness and self-directedness: the integrity-oriented life traits
Misidentification/misdiagnosis of personality ‘Super Traits’
Codependency, dependent PD, borderline PD, empaths

Trauma Symptoms and Trauma-Informed Treatment Considerations for Survivors of Narcissistic Abuse

How these survivor’s symptoms can be different
Atypical trauma and misdiagnosis
Cognitive dissonance and its presentation in survivors
Difference in chronic and persistent CD—not your college understanding
Cognitive dissonance and its connection to PTSD intensification
Case discussion on symptomology including Executive Functioning and CD
Trauma treatment and why EMDR is helpful
Treatment limitations and contraindications

Case Study: Use the Four Identifiers to Recognize a Pathological Love Relationship

Pathology
Relational dynamics
Super trait personality
Atypical trauma present

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Addiction Counselors
Psychiatric Nurses
Psychologists

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Intensive Training on Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part II

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part I

This comprehensive training module is intended to be a main component in a larger Narcissism Certification course. The content inside covers how to treat survivors of narcissistic abuse from a trauma-informed perspective.

Program Information

Objectives

Identify survivors of narcissistic abuse and differentiate between historical and non-historical trauma clients.
Assess the specific treatment needs of survivors of narcissistic abuse and differentiate between treatment seeking and treatment needs.
Apply best practices for harm reduction in trauma treatment.
Develop a three-step protocol for trauma education during stabilization.
Apply pacing and titration in stabilization and symptom management.
Use questionnaires, topic lists, and psychoeducation tools for the assessment and treatment of survivors of narcissistic abuse.
Implement pathology education in the Structured Session Method.
Evaluate the neuroscience and neurobiology of personality disorders in relation to survivors of narcissistic abuse.
Utilize specialized techniques for enhancing pathology education and pathology education topic lists.
Identify the six must-teach concepts for pathology education and use the "link and label" technique for teaching.
Differentiate between generalized cognitive dissonance (CD) and chronic and persistent CD.
Identify the four identifiers of CD and complications of trauma and CD.
Develop best practices for CD reduction and utilize checklists, charts, and mindfulness scripts.
Differentiate between typical trauma and atypical trauma and understand the presentation of hyper and hypo arousal states with CD.
Utilize trauma assessments and differentiate between dual dysregulation and presentation/hyper and hypo arousal states with CD.
Assess the impact of survivors' super traits of personality and understand the risks associated with agreeableness and conscientiousness.
Develop strategies for working with super traits in early work and later work, using the historical impact checklist and super trait education topic list.
Evaluate the patient intake and assessment process, including prescreening tools and considerations, special screening features, and trauma assessments for survivors of narcissistic abuse.

Outline

Introduction and Goals of Treatment
Who Are You Treating? — A Survivor Overview

Problems in Identification
Historical Trauma and Non-Historical Trauma clients
Differentiation in Treatment Seeking and Treatment Needs
Overall Specific Treatment Needs of Survivors

Intervention/Harm Reduction, Trauma Psychoeducation and Skill Building for Stabilization

Early Recovery and the Stabilization Process
Eight Important Aspects in Early Treatment—Best Practices
Prior Treatment Failure
Intervention for Harm Reduction and Trauma Worsening
Three Step Protocol
Structuring for Multi-Need Clients
Trauma Education in Stabilization
Skill Building, Resourcing, and Symptom Management in Stabilization
Pacing and Titration in Stabilization
Questionnaires, topic lists, and psychoeducation tools

Pathology Education for Stabilization/Cognitive Dissonance Reduction

Implementing Path Ed in The Structured Session Method
Neuroscience and Neurobiology of PDs
Specialized Techniques for Enhancing Pathology Education
Pathology Education Topic Lists
Six Must Teach Concepts

Checklists and the “Link and Label” technique
Cognitive Dissonance (CD): The Hallmark Feature of Pathological Love Relationships

Generalized CD versus Chronic and Persistent CD
CD Etiology, Levels and Focuses
Four Identifiers of CD
Complications of Trauma and CD
The Onset of Dual Dysregulation
Behaviors Connected to CD
Eight Best Practices for CD Reduction
Checklists, charts and Mindfulness scripts

Working with Typical and ‘Atypical’ Trauma in Treatment

Trauma Assessments: Trauma Interviews and Self-Reports
Differentiation Between Typical Trauma and Atypical Trauma
Dual Dysregulation and Presentation/Hyper and Hypo Arousal States with CD
Destabilization and Dysregulation
Trauma, Cognitive Dissonance and the Window of Tolerance
Triggers in Dual Dysregulation
Neuro-Based Treatment Issues from Dual Dysregulation
Combination Problems of Executive Functioning, Dual Dysregulation, and CD
Memories and CD and Processing Issues
Working with Whole Memories or Dual Processing
Using the C-PTSD and Atypical PTSD© checklist

Survivor’s Super Traits of Personality—A Different Kind of Risk Management

How Personality Science Can Help Us Understand These Survivors
Wrong But Common Therapeutic Assumptions About These Survivors
Understanding High/Low ACE Scores
Commonalities in Research: Two Trait Elevations
Risk in the Traits of Agreeableness and Conscientiousness
Harm Avoidance as a Dimension of Anxiety
Super Traits versus Codependency
Working with Super Traits: Early Work and Later Work
Historical impact checklist, super trait education topic list and more

Patient Intake and Assessment

Prescreening Tools and Considerations
What to Use to Identify a Pathological Love Relationship
Tele-Counseling Considerations
Intake Package and Special Screening Features
Trauma Assessments
Atypical PTSD and Cognitive Dissonance Checklists
The ACE
The Partner-Related Traits Pathometry Checklist©

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psych Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part II

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part III

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part IV

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part V

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part VI

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Narcissistic and Psychopathic Abuse | Part VII

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Narcissistic Abuse | Part I

This therapeutic legal aid training is intended to help support and guide clinicians working with survivors of narcissistic abuse. Inside, you’ll find critical information on how to help support your clients through divorce proceedings, custody battles, family court, and other types of legal problems.

Program Information

Objectives

Identify the stages of litigation, legal proceedings, and gain familiarity with legal related terms (mediators, custody evaluators, etc) to better understand and support clients during various parts of their legal process.
Learn trauma-informed strategies to support clients as they process the impact of court.
Recognize legal concerns such as confidentiality, Americans with Disabilities Act, and more.
Know when and how to seek consultation, support and practice self-care when working with survivors in the legal system.

Outline

Why Doesn’t Family Court “Get it?”

How to work in a “broken system”
“Utopia Myopia” & child’s best interest
Know why survivors end up in court more
Systemic cognitive dissonance
Pathology doesn’t stop at the courthouse door
When courts don’t consider Domestic Violence

Introduction and Purpose of Family Court

Support clients through various stages of litigation
Help clients avoid deeper traumas in court
Enhance insight into client’s experience in the courtroom
Differentiate legal information versus legal advice
Identify “high-conflict” cases where IPV is present

Litigation and Family Court

Dispel incorrect notions of the judge’s role
Understand litigation as a creative process
Differences clients face in adversarial versus inquisitorial proceedings
Shortcomings of adversarial proceedings for survivors
Know what happens in each litigation stage
Alternatives to family court and litigation

Domestic Violence and Family Court

The new term, “legal abuse”
Challenges to stopping legal abuse
Differentiate criminal versus civil protective orders
The problem of family courts deciding issues of abuse
Understand common pitfalls of court
Connecting past violence to prevent future harm
Your role in advocacy
Accommodations for trauma under the ADA

Treatment Issues

Trauma associated with family course
Post-separation abuse in high-conflict cases
Account for “institutional trauma”
Big costs of “Legal Abuse Syndrome” and PTSD roots
Set clinical expectations for clients involved in court proceedings
8-Step protocol for support clients with court trauma
How court proceedings can impact the clinician & the role of self-care

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Psychiatrists
Psychologists
Case Managers
Addiction Counselors
Therapists
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psych Nurses
Other Mental Health Professionals

Narcissistic Abuse | Part II

Narcissistic Abuse | Part III

Narcissistic Abuse | Part IV

Narcissistic Abuse | Part V

Narcissistic Abuse for Therapists: Empower Clients to Break Free and Recover from Gaslighting, Emotional Manipulation and Coercion

You may be working with a victim of narcissistic abuse without even knowing it.

Clients in your caseload who lack self-esteem, can’t say no, and blame themselves for everything may have been emotionally manipulated, controlled, and gaslit through a narcissistic relationship.

But without the right training you could be failing to see the subtle signs, leaving you without a key piece of the puzzle…and keeping them trapped in emotionally damaging and often dangerous relationships.

Now with this training, you can get the clinical guidance and tools you need to help clients free themselves from the cycle of narcissistic abuse and overcome its toxic legacy in therapy!

Amy Marlow-MaCoy, LPC, has helped hundreds of clients identify, understand, and heal from narcissistic abuse from interpersonal relationships. She is the author of the Amazon best-selling book The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing from Emotional Abuse (Callisto Media, 2020).

Watch Amy and get the strong foundational understanding of narcissistic abuse dynamics and treatment you need to:

Recognize overt and covert signs of narcissism in a variety of contexts
Open your clients’ eyes to gaslighting and other manipulative tactics of narcissists
Avoid clinical missteps that could alienate these clients
Build assertiveness in clients who can’t say no
Teach clients to develop healthy boundaries without guilt
End clients damaging self-blame and help them be their own individual
and much more!

Don’t miss this chance to help clients break the cycle of narcissistic abuse and regain their personal power!

P.S. As popular culture continues to shine a spotlight on the problem, more people than ever before are seeking therapists well-versed in narcissistic abuse. This training will leave you better positioned to work with this growing client population!

Program Information

Objectives

Analyze how abuse from individuals with narcissistic personality disorder in the context of romantic relationships, friendships, and family relationships can lead to long term effects for clients.
Differentiate narcissistic abuse from other forms of emotional abuse to improve your ability to recognize the subtle signs that clients may be victims.
Employ in-session psychoeducation approaches to help clients become aware of narcissistic behavior in their lives and recognize the consequences.
Analyze common mistakes made by practitioners in the treatment of survivors of narcissistic abuse.
Employ exercises to help survivors of narcissistic abuse build assertive communication skills.
Investigate the current research and treatment limitations surrounding work with survivors of narcissistic abuse.

Outline

A Clinician’s Guide to Narcissism:
Narcissistic Personality Disorder and the Spectrum of Narcissistic Traits

DSM-5™ criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Social and culturally acquired definitions
The spectrum of narcissistic traits
Narcissistic traits without meeting criteria for NPD
Psychoeducation for survivors about NPD, narcissistic behavior and its consequences

Narcissistic Abuse and General Emotional Abuse:
Similarities, Differences and Tactics Impacting Detection and Treatment

Goals of perpetrators of emotional abuse vs. narcissistic abuse
Cycle of abuse in narcissistic relationships
Gaslighting and other tactics of manipulation and coercion
What is narcissistic supply?
Subtypes: engulfing and ignoring/neglecting

Narcissistic Abuse in Specific Relationships:
Dynamics and Impacts

Romantic/intimate relationships/sex addiction
Co-parenting vs counter-parenting
Friendships and frenemies
Family of origin – the golden child, black sheep, scapegoat, and invisible child
Lack of self-esteem, difficulties trusting others, C-PTSD and other effects of narcissistic abuse

Potential Missteps and Traps to Avoid

Everyone’s a narcissist (over-pathologizing problematic behaviors)
No one’s a narcissist (dismissing client reports because you can’t diagnose NPD)
Pushing for reconciliation or family therapy
Inadvertently gaslighting clients by questioning hard-to-spot emotional manipulation
Not focusing enough on calming the underlying trauma triggers

Victims of Narcissistic Abuse in Therapy:
Break the Cycle of Abuse through Increased Autonomy, Agency and Sense-of-Self

Building assertiveness and individuation – strategies to help clients be their own individual
- Exercises to help clients discover their own preferences, interests, desires, and goals
- Teach clients to distinguish between assertiveness, aggression, and passive aggression
- Counteract internalized messaging that assertive communication is harmful, cold, cruel, or harsh
- Prepare clients for the backlash that often attends increasing autonomy and agency
- Cultural sensitivity considerations
Exploring levels of contact and clients’ wishes regarding contact
- Developing healthy boundaries -- how to best protect themselves within the relationship parameters they choose
- Processing guilt/shame over setting boundaries and saying no
- Coping strategies for when contact is inevitable

Additional Approaches and Considerations

Trauma competency – an essential for working with these clients
Inner child work to heal attachment wounds
Is family therapy advised?
Specific modalities to explore - AEDP, IFS, EMDR, SE, BSP, Gestalt
Research, risks and treatment limitations

Target Audience

Counselors
Social Workers
Marriage & Family Therapists
Psychologists
Physicians
Addiction Counselors
Psychiatric Nurses