Once clients with dissociative disorders are stabilized, they need to process traumatic memories. There are many approaches to working with traumatic memory, from prolonged exposure to EMDR to psychodynamic to narrative approaches. Regardless of which approach is used, the work must often be carefully sequenced in a slow, gradual way to help the client maintain in a window of tolerance.
Recorded in May 2021, this webinar series consists of 3 x 1 hour webinars. Explore how to organise the work with dissociative parts of the client, what to look for to ensure adequate pacing, how to decide whether the client as a whole or only certain parts of the clients should participate, how to titrate experience and time to pace the work, how to pendulate to the present moment from memory, how to bracket memory work with positive experiences, among other interventions.
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.
