Complex Trauma Fundamentals: Over 50 Must-Have Skills and Interventions from EMDR, IFS Therapy, Somatic Approaches and More

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Jennifer Sluga, LPC, SAC Related seminars and products

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Jennifer Sluga, LPC, SAC, is an EMDRIA consultant who owns Trauma Life Consulting, where she is a therapist, trainer, consultant specializing in complex trauma. For years, Jennifer has worked with survivors of trauma, helping them heal through therapy and support. Additionally, she dedicates time to training clinicians, community members and advocates on issues related to sexual violence and military trauma. This includes effective treatment practices, principles of trauma-informed survivor-centered care, the impact of trauma on survivors and systems, and social/cultural issues in sexual assault/military trauma treatment and advocacy. She is devoted to helping people to resolve old, unhealthy patterns of thinking and behaving that prevent them from reaching their full potential. As a result of this solution-focused approach, clients report feeling more empowered to make more mindful and positive decisions about the direction of their life.

 

Speakers Disclosures
Financial: Jennifer Sluga maintains a private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jennifer Sluga has no relevant non-financial relationships.

 

 

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Objectives

1. Utilize evidence-based assessments to identify traumatic events and make a trauma diagnosis.
2. Identify how attachment style is impacted by complex trauma.
3. Determine how to teach clients a simplified version of brain science to create an understanding of trauma symptoms.
4. Evaluate how the power of choice is important in trauma treatment.
5. Use five EMDR resourcing strategies to establish safety and resilience.
6. Use parts work tools to interact and integrate wounded parts.

Outline

Complex Trauma Essentials: Brain Body Science Simplified

• Recognize signs and symptoms
• Understand triggers and avoid re-traumatization
• Educate clients about trauma and its effects
• Overview of the brain’s response to trauma
• Somatic experience in trauma treatment
• Use the window of tolerance therapeutically while teaching resourcing in session

Complex Trauma Assessment and Diagnosis

• Conduct comprehensive trauma assessments
• Differential diagnosis and co-occurring disorders
• Collaborative treatment planning

Attachment and Relationship Repair in Trauma Recovery: The Foundation for Effective Treatment

• Understand attachment styles in complex trauma
• Address interpersonal challenges
• How clients’ bodies have attachments to psychosomatic patterns
• The attachment clients make to their trauma and impediments to therapy
• Promote secure attachment and healing attachment wounds

Go-To Trauma Stabilization Techniques All Therapists Need

• Grounding and self-regulation strategies
• Mindfulness and relaxation exercises
• Emotion regulation skills from DBT

Trauma Narrative and Processing: Top Skills and Strategies to Help Clients Make Sense of Their Trauma

• Explore and validate the client’s trauma narrative
• Manage dissociation and flashbacks
• Cognitive restructuring and meaningmaking
• Facilitate family or group narratives for healing

Integrate IFS Therapy, EMDR, and Somatic Techniques into Your Sessions

• The power of choice and perspective as key themes in effective treatment
• Use an IFS framework to identify protective and wounded parts related to trauma
• How IFS therapy “unburdens” clients from their wounded parts, emotions and beliefs
• 5 EMDR resourcing strategies to establish safety and resilience
• Psychosomatic techniques to address the physical manifestations of trauma
• Key considerations for working with grief, addiction, and other co-morbidities
• Research, limitations and treatment risks
• Indications and contraindications

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Art Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counsellors
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physicians
• Others in caring professions