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What’s more, upon successful completion of this course, you can earn both your Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional Level II (CCTP-II) and Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist (CSTS) qualifications*, with the cost of certification provided FREE for one year included with this course (usually £1,736.94 )

You won’t find a more comprehensive approach to treating both trauma and shame simultaneously in your practice.

Become the go-to therapist that can treat any client manifesting the combined symptoms from trauma and shame.

Treating Complex Trauma and Shame Dual Certification Course
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Usually £1,736.94
Just £149.99 Today (VAT Inclusive) - Limited time only!
Plus, earn up to 42.25 CPD Hours!
Why Trauma and Shame Combined?
 

When we treat trauma and shame as separate diagnoses requiring separate treatment approaches, we find ourselves running into insurmountable obstacles that hinder therapeutic progress.

The shame our clients experience because of their trauma gives birth to secrecy, silence, and an overwhelming fear of judgment that leaves them unable to explore their core trauma and suffering.

That’s why decades of evidence-based research and clinical experience demonstrate that releasing shame is highly correlated with relief from depression, PTSD, suicide, addiction, anxiety, eating disorders, and other clinical problems.

As clinicians, we must have the tools to address our client’s shame if we’re to have any hope of reaching the trauma at its root.

And that’s exactly what this course will equip you with.


Unlock Your Potential as a Dual-Certified Trauma and Shame Professional

With expert guidance provided by world-leading trauma and shame specialists Janina Fisher, PhD, Frank Anderson, MD, Chris Irons, DClinPsych, Kathy Steele, MN, CS, Christiane Sanderson, MSc and Linda Cundy...

...you’ll be guided through their step-by-step processes, clinical insights and practice-proven skills so you can adopt the mindset and toolbox of a shame-informed trauma clinician.

They’ll equip you with assessment tools and treatment methods that cover topics that are often sidelined in other trainings such as substance abuse, self-shaming, self-criticism, suicidality, crisis management, boundary setting and managing therapeutic transference.

Linda Cundy
Linda Cundy
This advanced-level course features such a wide scope and depth of content that successful completion makes you eligible to earn both the Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional Level II (CCTP-II) and Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist (CSTS) qualifications*!

You’ll walk away with the knowledge, expertise and credentials you need to demonstrate your commitment to healing wounds and changing lives.

Treating Complex Trauma and Shame Dual Certification Course
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Usually £1,736.94
Just £149.99 Today (VAT Inclusive) - Limited time only!
Plus, earn up to 42.25 CPD Hours!
Your Journey to Becoming a Certified Trauma and Shame Clinician
 

This dual certification course contains everything you need to know to master the treatment of trauma and shame...

...split into easy-to-digest modules that you can complete at the time and place of your choosing.

This course has been carefully designed to be an illuminating journey with each module building upon the last, so we recommend completing in order from start to finish for optimal results.

PART 1 - INTRODUCTION

 
Module #1 – What is trauma? What is complex trauma?
 
In this comprehensive introduction to the topics of trauma and complex trauma, you’ll join world-renowned trauma and shame specialist Christine Sanderson, MSc. for her unique perspective on the types of trauma informed by her decades of research and practice.

She provides a checklist for distinguishing PTSD and Complex PTSD and introduces the Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative framework to psychiatric diagnosis. You’ll explore the psychobiological, intrapersonal and interpersonal impacts of trauma, the question of resilience, and the role of shame in trauma treatment.
 
Module #2 – What is shame? Core and related concepts
 
What is shame? Where, and how, might we identify shame’s presence? What distinguishes shame from guilt? When does adaptive shame become chronic or ‘toxic’? Following her introduction to trauma and complex trauma, Christine Sanderson, MSc. now equips you with her hard-won clinical insights that you’ll need when working with shame.

She demonstrates the multifaceted function of shame and self-blame for survivors of abuse. You’ll understand why shame is such a vital component when treating multiple mental health difficulties – and why the connection is especially deep and damaging in complex trauma.
 
PART 2 – WHY AND HOW WE EXPERIENCE SHAME, COMPLEX TRAUMA AND ATTACHMENT WOUNDING

 
Module #3 – The neurobiology of shame and trauma
 
Now you have a deep understanding of trauma and shame from Part 1, it’s time to travel back to the body and back to early childhood. You’ll join Janina Fisher, PhD, one of the world’s leading authorities on trauma and shame, for a deep dive into the neurobiology of complex trauma and shame.

Janina explores how our clients remember with their bodies, including the role of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and procedural learning. You’ll gain an appreciation of why shame is so hard to shift – and master the mindset and tools you need to reframe trauma and shame symptoms as adaptive survival responses for an empathetic, non-pathologizing approach.
 
Module #4 - Threat, Drive, Soothe – Compassion Focused Therapy and the three-system model for understanding complex trauma and shame
 
Chris Irons, DClinPsych, deepens your developing bio-psycho-social understanding of shame and complex trauma with insights from the Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) approach. In CFT, formulation is based around a proven three-system modelThreat, Drive and Soothe – that can be easily shared with clients. Chris explores the impact of trauma on the drive and soothe systems, and the link in complex trauma between relational wounding, self-criticism and shame.
 
Module #5 - Shame, complex trauma and attachment: social-emotional development and family dynamics
 
We round off Part 2 of this course by tracing the roots of shame and complex trauma in early experience. Christiane Sanderson, MSc. explains the origins of shame in family and intergenerational dynamics and shares a powerful resource you can use to help clients reapportion shame.

Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Linda Cundy then provides a comprehensive overview of Attachment Theory, with reference to resilience, ‘personality disorders’, and disorganised or traumatic attachment, so you can successfully adopt an attachment-informed approach with your clients.
 
PART 3 – CLINICAL ESSENTIALS FOR COMPLEX TRAUMA, SHAME AND TRAUMATIC ATTACHMENT

 
Module #6 – Working with complex trauma: key principles and phases
 
From assessment tools and treatment goals to working with complex presentations, in Part 3, you’ll begin to utilise the clinical knowledge and insights you’ve gained so you can benefit from them in your practice!

Christiane Sanderson, MSc. starts us off with a guide to the fundamental principles of trauma-informed practice, which can scaffold any therapeutic modality. You’ll explore the three phases of trauma work – stabilisation, processing and reintegration – and the primary role of the therapeutic relationship. These frameworks will guide you in your treatment with any traumatised client who’s experiencing symptoms of shame.
 
Module #7 – Working with shame: key principles, assessment tools and treatment goals
 
What defences and strategies are you likely to come up against when treating shame – and where does the antidote ultimately lie? Christiane Sanderson, MSc. and Kathy Steele, MN, CS provide a thorough demonstration of working with shame in clinical practice.

You’ll identify the focus of shame and master taking a shame inventory and applying the compass of shame. You’ll also discover how to facilitate healing moments of connection with your clients, as well as how to avoid common clinical mistakes therapists make which only serve to intensify client shame.
 
Module #8 – Working with disorganised attachment: key principles and assessment tools
 
Having explored the common pitfalls therapists fall into when treating shame and complex trauma, you’ll now focus on the attachment patterns at the heart of many therapeutic ruptures and impasses.

Disorganised attachment, sometimes referred to as traumatic attachment, can prime clients for a life of dysregulation, moving between crisis and dissociation. It can also prime clients to become activated by therapy itself. Linda Cundy explains how to assess for, spot and respond to traumatic attachment in therapy, while Kathy Steele, MN, CS, guide you to a position of ‘collaboration before attachment’ when working with complex trauma.
 
Module #9 – Working with other relational defences in complex trauma
 
Not all relational defences, or maladaptive ways of approaching relationships, are a result of disorganised attachment. Building on the previous module, Kathy Steele, MN, CS, explores the different social motivational systems and psychological defences that may be implicated in trauma and shame work. This includes the strategy of caregiving so common in trauma survivors – and often in us therapists. You’ll also identify how a trauma symptom such as a flashback can serve an attachment avoiding or seeking function, and how to identify and treat trauma-related phobias that can arise in clients.
 
Module #10 – Working with substance use, suicidality and self-harm
 
In the final module of Part 3, Janina Fisher, PhD, provides an extensive breakdown of her Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) model. This is the pioneering integrated modality she has developed over decades, specifically for working with substance use, suicidality and self-harm, including eating disorders.

At its core, TIST makes uses of a powerful reframe: that addictive and self-destructive behaviour may be a post-traumatic survival strategy, and that recovering from either must require recovering from both. Janina explains how therapists can address the relationship between our client’s past trauma and their current behaviour – and why we must understand that, for these clients, fear of overwhelm often outweighs fear of death.
 
PART 4 – KEY APPROACHES FOR COMPLEX TRAUMA, SHAME AND ATTACHMENT WOUNDS

 
Module #11 – Somatic safety: grounding techniques and creative resources
 
In Part 4, you’ll get to grips with several key approaches for working with shame and complex trauma, beginning with key skills in the stabilisation phase. Christiane Sanderson, MSc. shares a wealth of grounding techniques, recovery tools, somatic interventions, and ways to adjust therapy from the outset to help clients feel safe.

You’ll also start to explore trauma processing, with a plethora of creative and active therapeutic approaches that foster right brain engagement. A guiding principle is that a wide menu of resources can help to restore client control and choice, which is so vital in the treatment of complex trauma.
 
Module #12 – Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and mindfulness interventions
 
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and mindfulness are key components in Janina Fisher’s integrated model for working with complex trauma and shame. Both begin with the simple power of noticing.

Janina equips you with the mindset and clinical skills involved in these approaches, including:
  • What to look for when traumatic memory is being expressed somatically
  • How to run a ‘mindful experiment’ to move clients towards change
  • Ways to combat shame using the body
You’ll also discover the vital role of the therapist’s social engagement system in signalling safety to the client.
 
Module #13 – Compassionate mind training for shame and complex trauma: mind and body exercises from Compassion Focused Therapy
 
Helping clients meet their unmet needs is key to treating trauma and shame. We return to Chris Irons, DClinPsych, and Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) to master compassionate mind training – which builds our client’s ability to use their bodies to support their minds. Drawing on recent research and Attachment Theory, Chris shares a revolutionary exercise for creating a ‘compassionate other’ through imagery, and demonstrates how you can work with shame in a complex trauma client using a compassionate rescript.
 
Module #14 – Starting to work with parts in shame and complex trauma
 
In this module, three master clinicians contribute their unique clinical perspectives on using parts work with trauma and shame.

Chris Irons, DClinPsych, covers working with missing or blocked emotions using Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with the compassionate self-serving parts acting as ‘conductor’. Janina Fisher, PhD describes how internal conflicts exacerbate shame, and shares a couple's work demonstration in which critical parts and ashamed child parts are active. Finally, through a relational psychoanalytic lens, Linda Cundy discusses internal splits and internal objects – and shares her most effective interventions for working with critical, self-shaming parts.
 
Module #15 – Deepening parts work: healing shamed and traumatised parts
 
Now you’ve explored parts work from various perspectives, you’ll get a full immersion into the world of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy – an approach that prioritises parts work and heals trauma wounds through building new internal attachments.

Leading IFS trainer Frank Anderson, MD provides a deep dive of the IFS model when working with complex trauma and shame, including why it emphasises ‘permission’ rather than ‘stabilisation’. He also relates IFS therapy to neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Theory and explores their contraindications. You’ll be guided through the steps of the IFS model, including working with protective parts and the process of unburdening.
 
PART 5 – MANAGING THE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS – SHAME AND COMPLEX TRAUMA IN THE CONSULTING ROOM

 
Module #16 – Navigating power dynamics, traumatic transference and enactments
 
In Part 5, you’ll be equipped to handle the demanding work of managing the therapeutic process when working with shame and complex trauma... with an emphasis on the triggers that can activate a therapist's parts.

Christiane Sanderson, MSc. covers this angle through a deep exploration into shame and power in the therapeutic space. Kathy Steele, MN, CS, then follows this up with her guiding principles for responding to complex transference and enactments. This includes navigating contradictory and multiple transferences, developing the key skill of mentalizing, and apprehending our own therapist countertransference.
 
Module #17 – Boundaries, crises and self-care
 
Maintaining therapeutic boundaries and prioritising self-care are essential if you are to become an expert in trauma and shame treatment whilst avoiding vicarious burnout and traumatisation.

Yet the pull to extend the frame or let our own wellbeing slip can be powerful – and often leads to therapist shame. We stay with Christiane Sanderson, MSc. and Kathy Steele, MN, CS, to discover how we can approach boundaries when clients are in crisis and the limits we must set around client anger and aggression. Christiane concludes with her thoughts on the central importance of tolerating uncertainty in complex trauma and shame work... and holding on to hope.
 
PART 6 – PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY IN TRAUMA WORK

 
Module #18 - Guide to the Psychopharmacology of Trauma, Shame and Dissociation
 
In this final module, Frank Anderson, MD, guides you through the essentials of Psychopharmacology related to the treatment of trauma, shame and dissociation. You’ll discover how to integrate psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic approaches and when you should assess clients for appropriate medication referrals.
 

Plus! When you register today, you’ll receive 3 FREE bonuses (usually £149.97!)
 
 
Healing Early Attachment Wounds – Powerful Somatic Strategies for Lasting Change with Diane Poole-Heller, PHD
 
Working with the body can help us to access early attachment wounds and shift stuck attachment patterns. In this exclusive clinical interview with attachment, shame and trauma theory expert Diane Poole Heller, she shares the methods she has found most effective for working with attachment disruptions and trauma, including:
  • How early family dynamics shape our adult attachment
  • An understanding of the unconscious dynamics that block the capacity for intimacy and connection
  • Essential information on how to alleviate stuck attachment patterns
  • How and why corrective experiences are necessary for lasting change
  • Somatic interventions for bringing implicit memory into conscious awareness, providing lasting change through corrective experiences
  • How to avoid overwhelm by ‘working the edge’.
  • And so much more!
 
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) with Trauma Survivors: Coming Home to Yourself with Dr Sue Johnson
 
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is a must-have resource that enables the therapist to map clients' emotions, needs, and fears, plus use the nature of relationships as a potent resource for healing. In this bonus workshop with Sue Johnson, developer of EFIT, you’ll discover how you can use EFIT to stay attuned with and focused on your clinical target, so you can successfully move your clients toward secure connection with themselves and others.
 
Exclusive Panel Discussion: Featuring Dr Anne Aieybusi, Kathy Steele, MN, CS and Michael Soth
 
What are the dangers of overlooking relational dynamics in trauma treatment? In this exclusive panel discussion, the experts take part in a fascinating conversation which addresses why so many of today’s therapists are unprepared to work in the relational field, and how therapists can equip themselves with the knowledge they need to combat this.
Treating Complex Trauma and Shame Dual Certification Course
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Usually £1,736.94
Just £149.99 Today (VAT Inclusive) - Limited time only!
Plus, earn up to 42.25 CPD Hours!
Who Is This Dual Certification Course For?
 
This online certification course is suitable for anybody working with traumatised clients, or seeking to increase their knowledge of how trauma and shame are interlinked. Common professions include Psychotherapists, Counsellors, IAPT Practitioners, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Nurses, and other mental health professionals.
 
Meet Your Dual Certification Course Experts
Janina Fisher

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment centre founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.

Click here for information about Janina Fisher
Frank Anderson

Frank Anderson, MD, is a world-renowned trauma treatment expert, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. He is the acclaimed author of Transcending Trauma and coauthor of Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual. As a global speaker on the treatment of trauma and dissociation, he is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of therapy.

Click here for information about Frank Anderson
Chris Irons

Dr Chris Irons is a clinical psychologist, researcher, writer and trainer specialising in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and self-compassion. He is co-director of Balanced Minds (www.balancedminds.com), an organisation providing compassion-focused psychological interventions and training.

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Kathy Steele

Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a psychotherapy and training center, and is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She frequently teaches about trauma and dissociation around the world, and has authored or co-authored numerous publications in the field. Kathy has received several awards for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.

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Christiane Sanderson

Christiane Sanderson, MSc., is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London with 30 years of experience working in the field of childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence, and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, the police and faith communities.

Click here for information about Christiane Sanderson
Linda Cundy

Linda Cundy is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, and a trainer specialising in attachment. She has taught on a number of psychotherapy training courses since the 1990s, including a long association with the Wimbledon Guild where she developed a Post Graduate Diploma in Attachment-Based Therapy. Her main practice is in Stoke Newington, where she offers attachment-based psychotherapy, counselling and clinical supervision.

Click here for information about Linda Cundy
Treating Complex Trauma and Shame Dual Certification Course
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Usually £1,736.94
Just £149.99 Today (VAT Inclusive) - Limited time only!
Plus, earn up to 42.25 CPD Hours!
Benefits of Certification
 
  • Clinical expertise: Show clients and colleagues your practice is based on leading-edge research in this complex area of mental health.
  • Client trust: Certification shows your clients you care about providing the best care possible. It reveals your professional ability to take on challenging clients and succeed!
  • Documentation of knowledge: Certification is both a professional and personal accomplishment. It’s an unbiased barometer of your training and dedication to your practice.
  • Professional recognition: Set yourself apart from the thousands of clinicians relying on outdated methods to treat their clients. Increase your opportunities for career advancement and client referrals.

 

Just three easy steps to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP-II)!
 

Step 1: Watch this online course.

Step 2: Complete the CPD quiz and instantly print your certificate of completion.

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Complete your online CPD tests and earn up to 42.25 CPD hours.
Treating Complex Trauma and Shame Dual Certification Course
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Usually £1,736.94
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Plus, earn up to 42.25 CPD Hours!
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