How we feel towards our clients and how we experience being with them in the moment are crucial in understanding the therapeutic relationship and the dynamics of the client. While awareness of countertransference is encouraged, it is not often discussed in depth in relation to traumatized individuals.
Commencing in September 2021, this webinar series will run for one hour per week over four weeks. We will explore challenging dynamics that pull us to act urgently or to reject the client in some way, and how to recognize and manage these in ourselves, how to recognize enactments from our own histories and how they intersect with the client’s own enactments. In addition, the complex feelings of the client toward the therapist will be discussed, with suggestions for managing overly positive or negative transference. Finally, we will explore erotic transference – what it is, how to recognize it, and how to manage it.
Location
Online Webinar.
The recording will be available for viewing for 30 days following the live webinar.
About the Presenter
Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia for over three decades, specialising in the treatment of complex trauma, dissociation, attachment difficulties, and the challenges of complicated therapies. She is an adjunct faculty at Emory University, and a Fellow and past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Ms Steele teaches internationally and consults with individuals, groups, and trauma programs. She has received a number of awards for her clinical and published works, including the Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD.
