Did you know June is National PTSD Awareness Month? PTSD Awareness Month is a national campaign devoted to bringing more awareness and knowledge about PTSD to everyone. “Greater understanding and awareness of PTSD will help Veterans and others recognize symptoms, and seek and obtain needed care.” – Dr. Paula…
EMDR Therapy Tools for Complex PTSD – EMDR Advanced Workshop in Boulder, Colorado – May 2018 — This two-day EMDRIA Approved EMDR Advanced Workshop applies advanced EMDR Therapy Tools for working with Complex PTSD. This course will emphasize the importance of client’s EMDR readiness by introducing and applying advanced resourcing and stabilization skills. Lectures will include the physiology and neurobiology of Complex PTSD, dissociation, and why resourcing in the Preparation Phase is important to build affect tolerance. Alternative interventions will include visual, auditory and kinesthetic resourcing, as well as, pendulation interventions with an emphasis on body centered awareness. Scripts will be provided so that the participants can confidently facilitate the resourcing exercises and immediately apply the interventions into their own practices. — EMDR Trainers: Barb Maiberger, MA, LPC and Katie Asmus, MA, LPC
Did you know that Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD, or Complex PTSD) is not an official DSM V diagnosis? It is, however, a commonly used term in the field of counseling psychology. Many clinicians use this term, and are even able to recognize when someone falls into this category of experience.…
The following post was written by guest blogger, Katie Asmus, MA, LPC, BMP Complex PTSD is so very. . . well. . . complex! Those who have experienced ongoing stressful (and perhaps even abusive) life circumstances know that the impact of such a chronic state of stress is long-lasting. Our…
Therapists trained in EMDR Therapy often ask how to work with Complex PTSD due to the complexity of the treatment. An important aspects of working with Complex PTSD is learning how to resource the client so that they can stay present in their body and learn how to feel their…
We often hear in the news about trauma and PTSD, but very little on Complex PTSD. So what is Complex PTSD? Here is what Wikipedia defines as Complex PTSD: “Complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD) also known as developmental trauma disorder (DTD) or complex trauma is a psychological injury that results…
This blog post was written by guest blogger Dr. Arielle Schwartz, and was originally posted on her blog. A Synthesis of Healing A driver made a turn in front of me and suddenly I pressed hard on the brakes. My car slowed in the middle of a busy intersection. Crash!…
