Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish – PESI – Treating Trauma and Complex PTSD

Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish – PESI – Treating Trauma and Complex PTSD

When working with trauma cases do you see clients go into flight, fight, and/or freeze? Do they yell at you, insult you, or leave the session? Are there times you find yourself getting angry at your clients? Do you recognize your own flight, fight, and/or freeze response? Welcome to the messy, often confusing world of trauma treatment. In this workshop, you’ll explore practical in-session techniques as well as a framework to help you recognize what’s happening when things heat up and get intense. You’ll discover how to:

• Assess the client’s motivation, stage of change, and preferred mode of learning
• Effectively build a therapeutic collaboration around each client’s individual needs
• Understand the importance of therapist transparency and empower clients by making the therapy process as safe and explicit as possible
• Explore intrafamily violence and include additional family members in your sessions

• What Does “Getting Messy” Mean?
  • Four Levels of Stress Reactivity
  • Unmanageable Stress & Self-Protection
  • Relational Perspectives of Trauma
• What Does Messy Mean to You?
  • Avoidance of Discomfort
  • Difficulty Controlling Emotional Thoughts, Behaviors, and Relationships
  • Survival Mindstate
  • Engaged Mindstate
  • Regulating the Nervous System
  • Mirror Neuron Helpers’ Journey
• Ethical Attunement
  • Therapist Awareness & Attunement
  • Reactive Style of Therapist
  • Consequences of Not Being Ethically Attuned
  • Attachment Styles
  • Defining Features of Attachment Bonds
  • Neurological Regulating
• The Collaborative Change Model
  • Fractal Model of Change
  • Mirroring = Attunement
  • Stage 1: Creating a Context for Change
  • Stage 2: Challenging Patterns & Expanding Realities
  • Stage 3: Consolidation
• Building a Therapeutic Collaboration
  • Interventions
  • Understanding the Victim/Survival Cycle
  • Noticing
  • Role-Plays
• Family Messiness
  • Skills for Working with Family Messiness
    • Video, Role-Play, Case Studies

1. Assess for stress reactivity and trauma
2. Establish criteria for understanding the importance of therapist transparence and empower clients by creating a safe therapeutic space
3. Instruct on how to utilize the Collaborative Change Model
4. Develop tools to effectively build a therapist collaboration around each client’s individual needs
5. Evaluate interfamily violence and support the inclusion of additional family members in sessions
6. Develop skills for working with family messiness