Healing Trauma through Connection – Kathryn Rheem and Leanne Campbell

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Although trauma often has the greatest impact our most intimate relationships, research shows that finding comfort in loved ones has the potential to undo much of the damage trauma creates in the first place. So why shouldn’t we maximize this valuable resource?

Taking an Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) approach, this workshop recording builds on neuroscience research and attachment theory to demonstrate how to access, organize, and actively engage emotion in couples therapy where one or both partners is contending with the echoes of trauma.

1. Practice an Emotionally Focused Therapy approach when working with couples in which one or both partners has been affected by trauma.
2. Explain how traumatized partners can provide corrective emotional experiences for each other as it relates to clinical treatment.
3. Asses the most effective ways to create enactments between partners to alleviate symptoms of trauma.
4. Incorporate an understanding of neuroscience and attachment theory with the aim of further informing your clinical decision-making and judgment.

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