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We are pleased to let you know about an upcoming workshop offered by one of our esteemed colleagues Dr. Robert Muller |
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| For Information & to Register http://bit.ly/1gJLkiw
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December 9, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario Canada Robert T. Muller | Engaging Traumatized Clients Who Avoid Attachment, Closeness & Painful Feelings | Trauma-Informed Workshop
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Engaging Traumatized Clients who Avoid Attachment, Closeness & Painful Feelings |
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Many of our clients cope with traumatic attachment experiences by minimizing painful feelings, by becoming emotionally distant, and by devaluing interpersonal closeness, intimacy, and feelings of vulnerability. With individuals who adopt a self-protective, help-rejecting stance, psychotherapy can prove very challenging for client and therapist alike.
Dr. Muller will focus on therapeutic techniques he has developed specifically for this population, many of which he has included in his new book, Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing. Drawing on attachment theory and research, and upon a wealth of clinical experience, Dr. Muller will show how to work with such hard-to-treat clients, how to find points of entry, and ways to make contact. Using a relational, psychodynamic approach, he will consider strategies to develop the
therapeutic relationship in order to help the client regain a sense of trust in others. The individual is encouraged to take interpersonal risks, to mourn losses and to face vulnerabilities. The challenges that arise to the therapeutic relationship are used as a productive force in the treatment.
This workshop will focus on practical clinical technique. Case examples and segments from treatment sessions complement theory.
Attend this presentation, and you will learn how to:
RECOGNIZE characteristics of avoidant attachment
PRODUCTIVELY use trauma-related symptoms
MAXIMIZE client engagement throughout the process
WORK with affect
RECOGNIZE and use client transference
EFFECTIVELY MANAGE and use therapist counter-transference
PLAN for the termination phase LEARN MORE
Robert T. Muller, PH.D., C.PSYCH. trained at Harvard, after which he joined the faculty of the University of Massachusetts, and started a trauma assessment service. He is a fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation, and an associate professor at York University, where he is lead investigator in a multi-site program for the treatment of intra-familial trauma. His book, “Trauma and the Avoidant Client,” won the 2011 “Written Media Award” from the International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation, an award given for the best written work of the year on trauma. He has over 20 years of experience in the field, and practices in downtown Toronto.
Time:
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location & Date:
TORONTO
Hincks-Dellcrest Centre INSTITUTE
114 Maitland Street
December 9, 2013
Registration Fee:
Early Fee: $ 225.00
* Must register 1 month in advance
Regular Fee: $ 240.00 |
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