4. Understanding and Working with
Dissociation
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Somatic Work with Complex Trauma or Eating, Trauma & Body Image Issues
This workshop teaches you to help clients with more severe dissociative patterns. You will learn how to:
- Use art and journal work to map and intervene into ego state (alter) splits and internal battles that manifest in troublesome symptoms and enactments
- Contain traumatic flooding using metaphor and transference
- Use ego state mapping to help your client understand their dissociated parts and build internal communication and cooperation
- Identify the trauma intrusions and re-enactments that will help clients work through and integrate lost memories, feelings, and parts of self