Developmental Trauma Certification (CCTP) Workshop

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Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C Related seminars and products

Empower Therapy Group

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Karee Powers, LCSW, BCD, CCTP-2 EMDR-C, is certified in EMDR and is an EMDR trainer and consultant. She is a board-certified diplomate in clinical social work. She has over 17 years of experience providing psychotherapy in a variety of settings including inpatient facilities, and non-profit organizations offering care for children, adolescents and adult survivors of abuse, neglect, combat trauma, sexual trauma, phobias, generational trauma, and interpersonal traumas. She was awarded a state-wide award of “Outstanding Performance” in 2011. Her private practice and training are centered on work with complex trauma and dissociation, using EMDR, CBT, psychodrama, somatic psychology, and mindfulness. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill with her Master’s in social work.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Karee Powers maintains a private practice and receives compensation as a consultant. She receives a speaking honorarium and royalties from Embody Labs. Karee Powers receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. Karee Powers is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Karee Powers has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Distinguish between developmental trauma and other forms of complex trauma. 
2. Examine adverse childhood events and the relationship to mental and physical health in adulthood. 
3. Utilize appropriate screening and assessment tools to evaluate the severity of trauma, safety concerns and client stabilization needs. 
4. Apply developmental theory to develop trauma-informed treatment plans.
5. Evaluate clients’ readiness for trauma processing.
6. Use a phase-based treatment approach with adult clients in treatment for childhood trauma.
7. Identify trauma response types as adaptive survival strategies and how they present in clinical settings.
8. Identify countertransference reactions in therapeutic practice to maintain professional boundaries and effectiveness.
9. Choose breathing and somatic interventions that clients can use when they are in acute distress.
10. Determine the benefits of parts work in conceptualizing and treating developmental trauma and dissociation.
11. Use psychodrama techniques to support clients in expressing unresolved emotional experiences and practicing new relational patterns.
12. Choose mindfulness exercises to increase clients’ present orientation and tolerance of the present moment.
13. Utilize somatic interventions to help clients regulate their nervous systems.

Outline

PTSD, Complex Trauma and Developmental Trauma

• Definitions and scope
• Distinctions between complex trauma, PTSD and developmental trauma
• Transgenerational, social and cultural contexts
• Developmental trauma as systemic and adaptive

Models of Development Overlayed with Developmental Trauma

• Models of development, both psychodynamic and neurological
• How abuse and neglect change the trajectory of development
• Primary needs

Family to Society Dynamics: Attachment, Systems, Ego State, Interpersonal Neurobiology and More

• Theories of attachment
• Systems theory
• Family Theory
• Ego state theory
• Interpersonal neurobiology
• Historical and social trauma

Psychological and Physiological Impacts of Developmental Trauma

• The neurodivergence of developmental trauma
• Understanding dissociation
• Crisis
• Disenfranchised and complicated grief
• Defenses

Assessment and Screening for Developmental Trauma

• Information to gather
• ACE and DES II, PCL, ITQ
• Co-occurring and dual diagnosis
• Holistic case conceptualization

Handling Crises, Avoidance, Countertransference and More

• Handling crisis, including suicidality
• Boundaries and the therapeutic relationship
• Parts in session and outside of session
• Review of principles trauma-informed trauma
• Planning for impasse, regression, fawning, and avoidance
• Phases of treatment
• Transference, countertransference and self-care

Trauma-Informed Mindfulness Techniques

• How mindfulness affects attention regulation, interoception, and the window of tolerance
• Mindfulness from a trauma informed lens
• Present moment awareness with an emphasis on safety and choice
• Reduction of autonomic arousal through breath and body awareness
• Guided sensory-based grounding exercises (5 4 3 2 1, orienting to the room)
• Embodied awareness practices: safe noticing, pendulation, and titration
• Research, risks and limitations

Introductory Psychodrama Techniques, Roleplays and Experiential Techniques

• Psychodrama theory and healing through experience
• Safety considerations: containment, pacing, emotional regulation
• Resourcing using psychodrama
• Adapted chair work to initiate dialogue with inner child
• Letter writing to caregivers, protectors, and younger selves
• Research, risks and limitations

Somatic Trauma Techniques

• Somatic and psychodramatic exercises
• Utilizing innate and developed resiliency as internal resources
• The importance of presence and attunement
• Body scanning with a trauma sensitive approach
• Titration and pendulation: moving between activation and calm to prevent overwhelm
• Down regulation techniques: paced breathing, vagal nerve toning, grounding through senses
• Up regulation techniques: activating movement, quicker breath, posture expansion
• Research, risks and limitations

Parts Works Techniques for Internal Harmony

• Orientation to parts work
• Structural Dissociation Model
• Ego states mapping to find protective/adult part
• Techniques to increase inner sense of safety and harmony
• Integrating parts work with CBT, DBT, EMDR, and other modalities
• Research, risks and limitations

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counselors
• Registered Psychotherapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals