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Schema Therapy Training Canada Presents:

Schema Therapy for Complex Trauma

Webinar

Speaker Robin Spiro LCSW

June 19, 1:00pm - 3:00pm

Our most challenging and yet ultimately most rewarding clients are those who have experienced the most hardship in childhood – often including multiple abusers and profound emotional and physical neglect. Our complex trauma survivors come to treatment with a severely depleted “healthy adult mode” and often present with comorbidities, functional impairment, emotional dysregulation and difficulties with attachment.
 

Robin Spiro Webinar

Schema Therapy for Complex Trauma

Complex trauma clients:

In this workshop we will learn about the schemas and modes which are
commonly presented and about how everything we do in treatment – from crisis intervention to providing choices within the therapy space to respect for all modes – is in the service of developing and bolstering the healthy adult of the client. We will address the difficulties in fostering the crucial limited reparenting relationship and how to earn trust. We will also focus on one of the most difficult aspects of treating this population –
how to reach and transform the extreme coping modes, including parts of the client whoare suicidal, self-harming, angry protectors or frozen.

Often have difficulty staying within their window of tolerance, especially when thinking about and trying to share their trauma memories. There is a
tendency to dissociate, avoid or become over-stimulated and even self-harming in the process. And yet there is a desperate need to escape from the impact these memories have on their current sense of safety and self-regard. Fortunately, there are a range of methods which have been developed to render Imagery Rescripting more tolerable and to pave the way for healing. In this workshop I introduce my “titration menu” and
describe techniques which ease the way to effective trauma processing.

By the end of this workshop participants will be able to:

  1. Understand how to help the healthy adult mode achieve a greater sense of safety, choice, connection and self-esteem.

  2. Anticipate and work through obstacles to creating and maintaining an effective limited reparenting relationship.

  3. Build bridges between complex trauma clients and their vulnerable child and coping modes with curiosity, compassion and respect.

  4. Identity a variety of techniques to titrate memory treatment for complex trauma.

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Robin Spiro

LCSW

Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor

Biography

 

Robin Spiro is a Schema Therapy Trainer and Supervisor for over 25 years with a specialty in treating Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders. She has lectured internationally on these topics and facilitates supervision groups concerning general trauma issues and specifically on treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Using schema therapy as the foundation for trauma treatment, Robin also integrates concepts from other trauma treatment models, including EMDR, somatic therapies and internal family systems. Robin additionally chairs the International Society of Schema Therapy committee dedicated to the education and training of accredited supervisors.

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