You’re sat across from your client again. They’re hunched over in their chair, unable to meet your gaze. All the progress you’d thought you’d made seems like it never happened.
It feels like you’re back to square one.
They swing between overwhelm and shutdown. On their worst days, they resort to harmful and addictive behaviours in a desperate attempt to self-regulate — unintentionally amplifying their self-hatred and despair.
They feel damaged, broken, and worst of all... they feel responsible for what happened to them.
And without shame-informed trauma treatment, we risk reinforcing our clients’ belief that they’re the ones at fault.
That’s why, for the first time ever, we’ve brought together the world’s leading trauma and shame specialists for this online dual certification course...
... so you can master treating trauma and shame as intrinsically linked topics rather than separate entities for deeply impactful and long-lasting healing with your clients.
You’ll join Janina Fisher, PhD, Frank Anderson, MD, Christiane Sanderson, MSc and three more industry-renowned experts to master their most practice-proven interventions, drawing upon a huge range of modalities and approaches including:
- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Attachment Theory
- Trauma-Informed Practice
- Mindfulness, somatic techniques and more!
- Trauma (CCTP-2) and Shame (CSTS) certifications included!
- Earn up to 42.25 CPD hours
- Printable PDFs, slides, resources, & more
- Unlimited access to self-paced online modules
Usually £1,736.94
Just £149.99!
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What’s more, upon successful completion of this course, you can earn both your Certified Complex Trauma Treatment Professional Level II (CCTP-II) and Certified Shame-Informed Treatment Specialist (CSTS) qualifications*, with the cost of certification provided FREE for one year included with this course (usually £1,736.94 )
You won’t find a more comprehensive approach to treating both trauma and shame simultaneously in your practice.
Become the go-to therapist that can treat any client manifesting the combined symptoms from trauma and shame.
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
When we treat trauma and shame as separate diagnoses requiring separate treatment approaches, we find ourselves running into insurmountable obstacles that hinder therapeutic progress.
The shame our clients experience because of their trauma gives birth to secrecy, silence, and an overwhelming fear of judgment that leaves them unable to explore their core trauma and suffering.
That’s why decades of evidence-based research and clinical experience demonstrate that releasing shame is highly correlated with relief from depression, PTSD, suicide, addiction, anxiety, eating disorders, and other clinical problems.
As clinicians, we must have the tools to address our client’s shame if we’re to have any hope of reaching the trauma at its root.
And that’s exactly what this course will equip you with.
With expert guidance provided by world-leading trauma and shame specialists Janina Fisher, PhD, Frank Anderson, MD, Chris Irons, DClinPsych, Kathy Steele, MN, CS, Christiane Sanderson, MSc and Linda Cundy...
...you’ll be guided through their step-by-step processes, clinical insights and practice-proven skills so you can adopt the mindset and toolbox of a shame-informed trauma clinician.
They’ll equip you with assessment tools and treatment methods that cover topics that are often sidelined in other trainings such as substance abuse, self-shaming, self-criticism, suicidality, crisis management, boundary setting and managing therapeutic transference.
You’ll walk away with the knowledge, expertise and credentials you need to demonstrate your commitment to healing wounds and changing lives.
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
This dual certification course contains everything you need to know to master the treatment of trauma and shame...
...split into easy-to-digest modules that you can complete at the time and place of your choosing.
This course has been carefully designed to be an illuminating journey with each module building upon the last, so we recommend completing in order from start to finish for optimal results.
She provides a checklist for distinguishing PTSD and Complex PTSD and introduces the Power Threat Meaning Framework as an alternative framework to psychiatric diagnosis. You’ll explore the psychobiological, intrapersonal and interpersonal impacts of trauma, the question of resilience, and the role of shame in trauma treatment.
She demonstrates the multifaceted function of shame and self-blame for survivors of abuse. You’ll understand why shame is such a vital component when treating multiple mental health difficulties – and why the connection is especially deep and damaging in complex trauma.
Janina explores how our clients remember with their bodies, including the role of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems and procedural learning. You’ll gain an appreciation of why shame is so hard to shift – and master the mindset and tools you need to reframe trauma and shame symptoms as adaptive survival responses for an empathetic, non-pathologizing approach.
Psychoanalytic psychotherapist Linda Cundy then provides a comprehensive overview of Attachment Theory, with reference to resilience, ‘personality disorders’, and disorganised or traumatic attachment, so you can successfully adopt an attachment-informed approach with your clients.
Christiane Sanderson, MSc. starts us off with a guide to the fundamental principles of trauma-informed practice, which can scaffold any therapeutic modality. You’ll explore the three phases of trauma work – stabilisation, processing and reintegration – and the primary role of the therapeutic relationship. These frameworks will guide you in your treatment with any traumatised client who’s experiencing symptoms of shame.
You’ll identify the focus of shame and master taking a shame inventory and applying the compass of shame. You’ll also discover how to facilitate healing moments of connection with your clients, as well as how to avoid common clinical mistakes therapists make which only serve to intensify client shame.
Disorganised attachment, sometimes referred to as traumatic attachment, can prime clients for a life of dysregulation, moving between crisis and dissociation. It can also prime clients to become activated by therapy itself. Linda Cundy explains how to assess for, spot and respond to traumatic attachment in therapy, while Kathy Steele, MN, CS, guide you to a position of ‘collaboration before attachment’ when working with complex trauma.
At its core, TIST makes uses of a powerful reframe: that addictive and self-destructive behaviour may be a post-traumatic survival strategy, and that recovering from either must require recovering from both. Janina explains how therapists can address the relationship between our client’s past trauma and their current behaviour – and why we must understand that, for these clients, fear of overwhelm often outweighs fear of death.
You’ll also start to explore trauma processing, with a plethora of creative and active therapeutic approaches that foster right brain engagement. A guiding principle is that a wide menu of resources can help to restore client control and choice, which is so vital in the treatment of complex trauma.
Janina equips you with the mindset and clinical skills involved in these approaches, including:
- What to look for when traumatic memory is being expressed somatically
- How to run a ‘mindful experiment’ to move clients towards change
- Ways to combat shame using the body
Chris Irons, DClinPsych, covers working with missing or blocked emotions using Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT), with the compassionate self-serving parts acting as ‘conductor’. Janina Fisher, PhD describes how internal conflicts exacerbate shame, and shares a couple's work demonstration in which critical parts and ashamed child parts are active. Finally, through a relational psychoanalytic lens, Linda Cundy discusses internal splits and internal objects – and shares her most effective interventions for working with critical, self-shaming parts.
Leading IFS trainer Frank Anderson, MD provides a deep dive of the IFS model when working with complex trauma and shame, including why it emphasises ‘permission’ rather than ‘stabilisation’. He also relates IFS therapy to neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory and Attachment Theory and explores their contraindications. You’ll be guided through the steps of the IFS model, including working with protective parts and the process of unburdening.
Christiane Sanderson, MSc. covers this angle through a deep exploration into shame and power in the therapeutic space. Kathy Steele, MN, CS, then follows this up with her guiding principles for responding to complex transference and enactments. This includes navigating contradictory and multiple transferences, developing the key skill of mentalizing, and apprehending our own therapist countertransference.
Yet the pull to extend the frame or let our own wellbeing slip can be powerful – and often leads to therapist shame. We stay with Christiane Sanderson, MSc. and Kathy Steele, MN, CS, to discover how we can approach boundaries when clients are in crisis and the limits we must set around client anger and aggression. Christiane concludes with her thoughts on the central importance of tolerating uncertainty in complex trauma and shame work... and holding on to hope.
- How early family dynamics shape our adult attachment
- An understanding of the unconscious dynamics that block the capacity for intimacy and connection
- Essential information on how to alleviate stuck attachment patterns
- How and why corrective experiences are necessary for lasting change
- Somatic interventions for bringing implicit memory into conscious awareness, providing lasting change through corrective experiences
- How to avoid overwhelm by ‘working the edge’.
- And so much more!
Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment centre founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
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Frank Anderson, MD, is a world-renowned trauma treatment expert, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and psychotherapist. He is the acclaimed author of Transcending Trauma and coauthor of Internal Family Systems Skills Training Manual. As a global speaker on the treatment of trauma and dissociation, he is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model of therapy.
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Dr Chris Irons is a clinical psychologist, researcher, writer and trainer specialising in Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and self-compassion. He is co-director of Balanced Minds (www.balancedminds.com), an organisation providing compassion-focused psychological interventions and training.
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Kathy Steele, MN, CS, is Clinical Director of Metropolitan Counseling Services, a psychotherapy and training center, and is in private practice in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a past President of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. She frequently teaches about trauma and dissociation around the world, and has authored or co-authored numerous publications in the field. Kathy has received several awards for her work, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
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Christiane Sanderson, MSc., is a former senior lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton, London with 30 years of experience working in the field of childhood sexual abuse, sexual violence, and complex trauma. She has delivered advice and training for parents, teachers, social workers, nurses, therapists, counsellors, the police and faith communities.
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Linda Cundy is an attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapist and supervisor in private practice, and a trainer specialising in attachment. She has taught on a number of psychotherapy training courses since the 1990s, including a long association with the Wimbledon Guild where she developed a Post Graduate Diploma in Attachment-Based Therapy. Her main practice is in Stoke Newington, where she offers attachment-based psychotherapy, counselling and clinical supervision.
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Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More
- Clinical expertise: Show clients and colleagues your practice is based on leading-edge research in this complex area of mental health.
- Client trust: Certification shows your clients you care about providing the best care possible. It reveals your professional ability to take on challenging clients and succeed!
- Documentation of knowledge: Certification is both a professional and personal accomplishment. It’s an unbiased barometer of your training and dedication to your practice.
- Professional recognition: Set yourself apart from the thousands of clinicians relying on outdated methods to treat their clients. Increase your opportunities for career advancement and client referrals.
Step 1: Watch this online course.
Step 2: Complete the CPD quiz and instantly print your certificate of completion.
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Master Attachment-Informed Interventions Using Internal Family Systems Therapy, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Compassion Focused Therapy and More