April 15 and 16, 2025
Live Webinar

Clients who exhibit concerning problem behaviors are often challenging to therapists to not only engage in treatment but provide effective EMDR therapy. This workshop will describe how protective parts appear hostile and aggressive at home, school and community and how they attempt to torpedo therapeutic treatment through violent or destructive actions to themselves, caregivers, and the therapist. Specialized interventions are required for successful treatment that addresses such disturbing and disruptive symptoms that are encapsulated in dissociation. Participants will learn how to utilize curiosity to engage protective parts with creative interventions and help the internal system collaborate as a team so that the client can desensitize early childhood traumatic memories and caregivers work to repair attachment wounds. 

Presenter Bio:

Annie Monaco, LCSW, RPT-S, is an Licensed Clinical Consultant and faculty member of TI/CTI. Annie travels extensively throughout the US and internationally providing a multitude of trauma-informed trainings and specializes in dissociation, foster care, out of country adoption and offenders

Timeline:

April 15th, 2025
8:30 to 10:30am: Introduction to Attachment and Dissociation and practicing of Interviewing Scripts for both children and for parents. Soothing and Grounding explanation.
10:30 to 10:45am: Break
10:45 to 12:15pm: Soothing and Grounding interventions via video and practice. Identifying parts of self through creative arts methods. Guided Imagery experience for participants
12:15 to 1:00pm: Lunch
1:00pm to 2:15pm: Goals of Parts work, Therapist attributes and principles of curiosity
2:15 to 2:30pm: Break
2:30 to 3:30pm: Play Therapy conference table and examples through video
April 16th, 2025
8:30 to 10:00am: Videos of clients
10:00-10:15am Break
10:15 to 11:30am: Videos of clients

Learning Objectives:

1: Explain the function of dissociation in complex trauma as it presents at home, school and in the therapy setting

2: Apply a screening interview to evaluate children and teens for dissociation in the therapy room.

3: Distinguish self-states and use developmentally appropriate ego-state language through play with creative arts methods.

4: Integrate somatic and sensory resources to decrease dissociative episodes in and out of the therapy during desensitization and reprocessing 

5: Apply the principles of curiosity and gradual exposure to allow dissociative parts of self to emerge during preparation for EMDR.

6: Describe examples of engaging with protective parts to cooperate with and support the processing of the wounds of younger parts.

This course content is based on a publication that has been peer-reviewed, the scientific standard for evaluating academic work. All studies and scientifically derived evidence have limitations that should be considered. If you have any questions about the accuracy or limitations of the content, please contact us at support@ce-classes.com and we will get back to you.

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