This training workshop was conducted in Cardiff, Wales, in March 2020 for a Private Counselling Agency. Agenda items included:
- What is Trauma?
- The Trauma Imprint?
- Dissociation?
- Working With Trauma?
- Trauma and triggering events, responses and symptoms.
- Types of traumatic events.
- Trauma categories to include primary episodic, secondary vicarious, complex developmental and PTSD.
- The enduring imprint of traumatic experiences at cognitive, emotional, relational, existential and somatic levels.
- Initial effects of exposure to a traumatic event: overwhelm and unconscious physiological processes.
- Intrusive thoughts, including shaming stories, post the traumatic event.
- Use of psychoeducation.
- Dissociation, dissociative memory, dissociation and the trauma imprint.
- Memory channels and layers and types of dissociative memories.
- Working with trauma: initial stages.
- Examples of interventions used in clinical practice to metabolise and process trauma, the trauma imprint, and dissociative symptoms.
- Why does all this happen?
- Metabolisation and processing of traumatic experiences and associated responses and symptoms.
- Cathartic release.
- Examples of interventions used in clinical practice to metabolise and process trauma, its imprint and dissociative symptoms.
- Use of somatic, emotional and cognitive bridges for cathartic release and dissociated memory retrieval.
- New narratives, meaning making and integration.
