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


Speaker:
Sarah Freeze, LCSW
Duration:
Approx. 12 Hours
Copyright:
Nov 07, 2024
Product Code:
POS059926

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Description

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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Speaker

Sarah Freeze, LCSW's Profile

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Sarah Freeze, LCSW is a psychotherapist and licensed clinical social worker in private practice based out of Denver, CO. She is a certified EMDR therapist, and her practice includes psychotherapy, consultation, and teaching. She specializes in treating trauma/PTSD and utilizes EMDR, psychodynamic, relational, and Sandtray therapies. Her passion is working with adults who have experienced childhood abuse, neglect and emotional non-recognition, using a person-centered and culturally informed framework. Beyond her private practice, Sarah has clinical experience in community and agency settings, working with children and adults who have experienced sexual abuse, sexual assault, physical abuse, and domestic violence. With a strong background, she takes great care in applying clinical research into practice. Discover more at sarahfreezelcsw.com.


Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Sarah Freeze is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze is a member of the Colorado Society for Clinical Social Work and the EMDR International Association.


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Objectives

  1. Identify the clinical implications of the link between childhood trauma and the development of Complex PTSD, insecure attachment, and emotional dysregulation.
  2. Utilize attachment theory with adult populations with childhood abuse and neglect experiences.
  3. Develop individualized treatment plans for clients with differing attachment styles and experiences of childhood relational abuse.
  4. Identify how clients adapted to unavailable and dysfunctional caregivers in childhood.
  5. Determine how childhood trauma can lead to dissociation and the resulting implications for therapeutic approaches.
  6. Use resourcing skills to foster resilience and reduce the risk of dysfunctional or abusive relationships in the future.
  7. Determine how to track the body and return to the window of tolerance.
  8. Use the five stages of recovery to inform case conceptualization.
  9. Use ego states to facilitate psychotherapy for clients with childhood abuse and neglect experiences.
  10. Choose two skills for somatic resourcing to achieve appropriate grounding.
  11. Utilize mentalization to intervene with destructive or negative thoughts and beliefs.
  12. Identify components to an integrative treatment plan using multiple treatment approaches.

Outline

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

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Nurses
  • Physicians
  • Therapists
  • Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields

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