Kathryn Rheem, T. Leanne Campbell – Healing Trauma through Connection

Outline

Practice an Emotionally Focused Therapy approach when working with couples in which one or both partners has been affected by trauma.

• Key EFT interventions central to working with emotion both intrapsychically and interpersonally
• How to pace intrapsychic and interpersonal work

Explain how traumatized partners can provide corrective emotional experiences for each other as it relates to clinical treatment.

• How to work with trauma with couples with attention to heightening and/or containing emotion
• Positively and durably shifting affect regulation capacities
• Positively and durably shifting models of self and other

Assess the most effective ways to create enactments between partners to alleviate symptoms of trauma.

• How to work with trauma with couples, and work within the ‘therapeutic window” both individually and relationally
• How to work with emotion “moment-to-moment” with the goal of facilitating bonding and trauma resolution

Incorporate an understanding of neuroscience and attachment theory with the aim of further informing your clinical decision-making and judgment.

• Clinical assessment and identification of various personal and relationship factors that impact clinical decision-making
• Impact of trauma from an attachment perspective with regard to mental health assessment and intervention more generally