Fostering Safety, Attachment, and Regulation in Complex Trauma Survivors
Date and Time:
Thursday, December 6th, 2024: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM
LOCATION:
1700 W. Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60613
Suite 302
Workshop Description:
Building a safe enough therapeutic relationship with childhood trauma survivors is one of the most important aspects of trauma healing and integration. It aids in regulation, trauma processing, reducing dissociation, and managing shame. Our complex trauma survivor clients struggle deeply to know how to regulate themselves both on their own and in our dyadic relationship because of the harm they experienced at the hands of people who were supposed to care for them. As critical as building attachment safety is with our clients, it is also the most complicated part of treatment. Relationally injured clients both fear attachment and vulnerability and long for it at the same time. They have built sophisticated defenses that make feeling safe fraught with complication. In this workshop, we will explore how to help build safety and regulation within our deeply injured clients.
Course Objectives:
Discuss the impact of trauma on the nervous system and clinically effective approaches for nervous system regulation
Weave an understanding of the fostering of internal and relational safety for developmental trauma survivors
Exploration of how dissociative processes show up in the therapeutic space
Audience:
Professional Counselors
Social Workers
Substance Use Counselors
Marriage and Family Therapists
Psychologists
Presenters:
Tovah Means Ms, LMFT (she/hers)
Tovah received her Masters of Marriage and Family Therapy from The Family Institute at Northwestern University in 2009. After graduating, she completed a 2 year fellowship at Womencare Counseling Center where she began developing her specialty in treating complex, developmental trauma and dissociation. In addition to running the practice, Tovah speaks, teaches and consults about treating complex trauma through local universities, group practices, medical practices, and Watch Hill Therapy.
Continuing Education Hours:
This program is recognized as providing 3.0 CE Hours for:
• LPC/LCPC (IDFPR license # 197.000360)
• LSW/LCSW (IDFPR license # 159.001584)
• Licensed Psychologist (IDFPR license # 268.000146)