Case Consultation Workshops for the Treatment of Trauma
Connect.
Even though psychotherapy is social work, the relationship between therapist and patient is a beautiful little island. But when the work gets stormy, or when you get close to the wounds that feel familiar, clinicians innately want to convene. The irony is that this is solitary work, but it feels unnatural to go it alone.
Gather.
Clinicians who want to help harder, learn bigger, and unfurl together, shine when you collect the herd. Here, you are all the same.
Grow.
I always learn bigger from the incredible people I teach, supervise, and sit with. I am a specialist in working with women with complicated histories of trauma. To me, this is the work. After all, you are witnessing the repair and regrowth of a life.
Workshop Details.
Mental health care over the last 3 years has drastically changed, both in volume of people seeking treatment, and in the prevalence and complexity of trauma histories. It is one thing to study and train in trauma, and entirely another to sit with it.
Your natural inclination is to honor the bravery of the vulnerable patients taking a chance on you to help them. You want to earnestly show up, do better, know more, and feel more confident, not just in your skills as a practitioner, but in your ability to interpret accurately for your patients, go there assuredly, and convey that you are the safe witness they have been searching for.
My experience as a clinician and social work supervisor with 20 years of psychotherapy experience, is that over the last 3 years, you are seeing many more remarkably symptomatic patient presentations that don’t match up with the revealed and understood history, and you are asking yourself: what is going on here really?
Case Consultation Workshops for Clinicians on Comprehensive Treatment of Trauma offers an opportunity for clinicians to gain an advanced dynamic perspective on complicated cases involving a trauma history. Through honest and thorough presentation, consultation, discussion, and didactic seminar, you will get answers to questions you will learn are much more commonly asked when working with patients with trauma. Participation in this workshop will provide you with a safe and educational space to process, deconstruct, and broaden your clinical framework.
The Curriculum
Provides the foundation for the treatment of a whole, complex person with a complicated history of trauma through case consultation and didactic presentations and discussions on a comprehensive study of trauma
Focuses on the therapeutic complexities of working with extensive and complicated traumatic histories by addressing the relationship between clinician and patient
Provides a boundaried, confidential, safe environment to expand clinical knowledge in the treatment of trauma while acknowledging the role and impact of the therapist
Weekly didactic, trauma - focused presentations on topics such as: Resiliency and Assessment, Affect Regulation, Attachment Dilemmas and Relationship Concerns, Issues of Transference and Countertransference, Co-occurring disorders, and Best Evidence Based Treatment and Practices
For Case Consultation, each clinician presents and workshops one pre-approved case (case appropriateness determined ahead of time through a 1:1 meeting)
The Format
The first 30 minutes is case presentation. Focus is on history of presenting conflict, family history and dynamics, diagnosis, conceptualization, and areas in which the clinician is feeling stuck or uncertain.
The remaining time is then utilized to:
Facilitate discussion surrounding case conflicts, challenges, issues of transference and counter transference, treatment strategies and interventions
Didactic presentation and discussion on a predetermined adjunctive topic to provide a greater depth of knowledge on trauma and development
Ideal Candidates
Have 1-5 years of post-masters clinical psychotherapy experience and are a licensed clinician
Are committed to providing individual insight oriented, talk psychotherapy with patients with histories of trauma
Value an opportunity to share your clinical work, provide feedback to others, and more thoroughly broaden and intensity your clinical knowledge and experience
The Logistics
Convenes weekly for 1.5 hours, for 6 week sessions
Workshops meet on Thursdays from 1-2:30pm
Has a maximum of 6 clinicians per group
Workshops are confidential and by invitation only
Workshops require a 6 week commitment by participants to ensure continuity and cohesiveness of group
Provides participants with 1.5 CEU’s per meeting, a total of 9 CEU’s per course
Meetings are held in person or via Telehealth
For participants, 6 week course fee is $300, ($50 per meeting, per participant)
If you are interested in attending a workshop, please contact me below
"For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." – Rudyard Kipling