Anger can be one of the most challenging emotions for therapists to work with. Clients can present with critical, entitled, ruminative, avoidant, explosive and unexpressed anger. This workshop will give clinicians an opportunity to fine tune their skills in formulating and working therapeutically with anger, as well as understanding their own schema activation. The workshop will include: Demonstrations and case examples of working with anger Identifying Angry modes, including identifying somatic signatures Processing and healing interventions with anger Opportunity to…

This Schema Therapy training for developmental trauma, incorporates Interpersonal Neurobiology, Polyvagal theory, Somatic Psychotherapy, bottom up and top down approaches and phases of intervention.  The training includes 3 mornings over a three week period. Training Objectives Include: A focus on experiential and Emotion Regulation techniques in Schema Therapy to use in session with reference to the three phases of treatment, i.e., Bonding & Regulation, Schema Mode Change & Autonomy. Understanding the three phases of treatment (bonding and regulation, mode change…

Working with Shame with Dr Rita Younan and Ms Ruth Holt "Toxic Shame is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic" John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You. Shame has many "faces" and can be hard to shift and difficult to work with.  Shame can be fuelled by or held in various modes, creating "shame cycles".  Adequate intervention requires accurate assessment. This…