Treating Risky & Compulsive Behaviour in Trauma Survivors

with Dr. John Briere

Learn practical interventions to safely process trauma- and attachment-related memories with your clients using a number of techniques from Dr. John Briere’s Reactive Avoidance Model. Associated interventions that directly address the emotional dysregulation and easily triggered states that lead to distress-reduction behaviors will also be explored.

January 23, 2019
6:00 - 9:00 PM EST
$79 USD

How Psychological Stress Impacts Cognition

with Dana Ross, MD, MSc, FRCPC

One of the most common things that Dr. Ross hears from her patients who have lived through complex trauma is the phrase, “I think I have dementia.” People go on to report struggles with everyday memory, word recall, planning, focusing and other aspects of cognitive functioning. In this 1 hour webinar, Dr. Ross will give an overview of the latest research on trauma and cognition, and will also provide tips and approaches for coping with these stress-related symptoms on a day-to-day basis.

January 28, 2019
1:00 - 2:00 PM ET
$35 USD

Trauma and Its Impact on Relationships

with Dr. Pat Love & Melissa Caldwell Engle, MS, ATF

Dr. Pat Love will discuss important attachment conflicts that are common in relationships along with effective clinical strategies for treatment. Melissa Caldwell Engle, MS, ATF, will explain common emotional patterns that can occur in relationships. She will demonstrate how to use the Spectrum of Emotions tool to identify these patterns when working with clients who have experienced trauma.

February 25, 2019
6:00 - 9:00 PM EST
$79 USD

Vicarious Trauma in Health Care Providers

with Dana Ross, MD, MSc, FRCPC

Dr. Ross will discuss the meaning of the term ‘vicarious trauma’ and how it is commonly expressed in care providers. Preventative strategies to enhance resilience will be outlined and practical skills and examples will be reviewed. The idea of vicarious growth will be introduced as well.

March 4, 2019
12:00 - 1:00 PM EST
$35 USD

Trauma & Complex Comorbidity: Understanding the Relationships

with Dr. Colin A. Ross

Dr. Colin Ross will provide a way of thinking about the complex comorbidity seen in trauma survivors, which then leads to an overall treatment plan that takes all the different symptoms, diagnoses, addictions and self-destructive behaviors into account. The webinar will conclude with a discussion of treatment strategies for complex PTSD.

March 20, 2019
6:00 - 8:00 PM EDT
$69 USD

The Clinical Treatment of Clients in Abusive Relationships

with Jocelyn St. Cyr. LICSW

https://www.jocelynstcyr.com/

More Details coming soon!

April 17, 2019
6:30 - 8:30 PM EDT
$69 USD

Common Cognitive Errors Amongst Trauma Survivors

with Dr. Colin A. Ross

In this webinar, Dr. Ross will discuss common cognitive errors among trauma survivors. These are most prominent in survivors of severe, chronic childhood trauma but also can occur in people who have experienced a single traumatic event in adulthood. Negative distortions in thinking are included in the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for PTSD. Examples of such errors in thinking are: I am bad; the abuse is my fault; I deserved the abuse; I could have prevented or avoided the abuse; and my judgment is terrible. These beliefs are understandable and arise from normal childhood thought processes: within Dr. Ross’ Trauma Model Therapy, these different forms of self-blame are based on the locus of control shift, which he will explain. Examples of strategies and interventions for these errors in thinking will be described.

Internal Healing Dialogue: an EMDR-related method of resolving positive attachments

with Jim Knipe, PhD

More details coming soon!