Rejection Trauma Workshop

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Speaker

Sarah Freeze, LCSW Related seminars and products

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Sarah Freeze, LCSW, is a licensed clinical social worker and recognized specialist in the treatment of complex trauma, attachment wounds, and the psychological impact of childhood abuse and neglect in adulthood. She holds a Master of Social Work from the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, where she completed the National Child Trauma Workforce Institute’s child trauma specialization. Sarah currently maintains a private practice in Denver, Colorado, providing individual and group psychotherapy, EMDR intensives, and consultation for psychotherapists. Her integrative approach draws from EMDR, psychodynamic and relational psychotherapy, ego state theory, sand tray therapy, and self-compassion frameworks – modalities uniquely suited to the layered, identity-level wounds that childhood trauma produces. An Evergreen Certified EMDR Clinician and an Evergreen-status EMDR Consultant, Sarah provides both individual and group consultation to therapists with a specialized focus on attachment, dissociation, ego states, and complex trauma.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Sarah Freeze maintains a private practice. She is a consultant with Evergreen. Sarah Freeze receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Sarah Freeze American Association for Psychoanalysis in Clinical Social Work and EMDR International Association.

Additional Info

Program Information

You will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.

Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.

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Objectives

1. Examine the impact of parental rejection in childhood on adult psychopathology, attachment patterns, and shame-based identity formation.
2. Identify attachment deficits with the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model and use various Resource Development and Installation (RDI) techniques to generate new adaptive information.
3. Utilize parts work, narrative work, and shame-sensitivity techniques to address shame-based identifications and self-concept.
4. Examine how to facilitate grief processing for the “healing fantasy” and unmet developmental needs.
5. Apply relational psychodynamic interventions including empathic attunement, selfobject experiences, and countertransference interpretation to create corrective attachment experiences.
6. Examine how to facilitate the rupture and repair process within the therapeutic relationship to foster new relational skills.

Outline

Rejection, Trauma, Chronic Shame and Psychopathology

• Types of rejection and their relationship with psychopathology
• Identity-based rejection: compounding factors
• Parental rejection in childhood and developmental trauma
• Insecure attachment, rejection sensitivity, and pathological narcissism
• Limitations of the research and potential risks
• Case example: David, 42, anxious-avoidant attachment

Working with Core Needs and Shame-Based Identifications

• Core beliefs: “I’m Bad” and environmental failure
• Reconstruct the client’s developmental history and environmental deficits
• EMDR’s AIP model and unprocessed rejection memories
• Development and maintenance of chronic shame and isolation
• Skill: Three types of Resource and Development Installation exercises

Internal Attachment Repair and Developing an Inner Soothing System: Parts Work, Narrative and Self-Compassion Tools

• Clinical Skills to Address Rejection and Shame in the Moment
  • Bring implicit shame into explicit awareness
  • Parts of self: the rejected child, the harsh critic, the protector
  • Use shame-sensitivity techniques
  • Case example: Elisabeth, 56, complex PTSD, disorganized attachment
• Create a more positive and adaptive self-concept
• Link events and emotions: connect adult patterns to childhood rejection experiences
  • Co-create a coherent narrative
  • Establish co-equality in the therapeutic relationship
  • Self-compassion and self-parenting techniques
• Risks, research and limitations

Processing the Grief of the Lost Childhood

• Grieving the “healing fantasy”
• Mourning the self
• Sentence completion exercise
• Risks, research and limitations

Use the Therapeutic Relationship as a New Attachment Experience

• The Relational Foundation
• Empathic attunement and vitality affect
• Mutual affective bond
• Use your own feelings to enhance clinical outcomes
• Interpret countertransference
• Therapeutic use of self-disclosure about relational dynamics
• Process the inevitable rupture and repair

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Psychologists
• Addiction Counselors
• Registered Psychotherapists
• Clinical Psychiatric Nurses
• Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioners
• Other Professionals Who Work within the Mental Health Fields