Trauma & Attachment Conference
Core 5 Day Training Next training Dates are as follows (live online)
Summer Trauma Conference - July 11-15, 2022 Days 1 & 2 9:00-4:00 EST; Days 3-5 9:00-4:30 EST ITATM & CTIC Stream
Fall Trauma Conference - October 3-7, 2022 Days 1 & 2 9:00-4:00 EST; Days 3-5 9:00-4:30 EST ITATM & CTIC Stream
Pre-requisites: Masters Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or related field (subject to approval)
Days 1 & 2: Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment, Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation and Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential (description below)
with Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Trauma Therapist, Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing
The fields of attachment and trauma research and intervention are growing rapidly. It is apparent that this is an area all clinicians can benefit from training in as it crosses all sectors and populations in some manner. However, we know that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the readings and resources. As this is our area of specialization, let us share what we have learned through our literature and research reviews and what we have effectively put into practice with you in an engaging and practical manner. This comprehensive two-day training will provide insight into current trauma, attachment, and neuroscience research ensuring an understanding of critical information and best practice strategies for working with trauma. This training will also help you to enhance your clinical skills and learn how you can add trauma regulation and attachment healing strategies to your repertoire.
Day 2 will focus on putting it into practice. Through this Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) participants will learn how to make historical connections, engage in integrative trauma-specific treatment approaches, and promote resiliency and wellness. Participants will learn about phase-based treatment of complex trauma and review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be experienced.
Upon completion of training participants will have a strong understanding of:
Trauma-Informed Care
The Neuroscience of Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health and Violence
Sensory Regulation
Boundaries, Self-Compassion, and Healthy Relationships
Trauma Processing* Part 2
Part 2:
Day 1 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Part 1
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and the opportunity to practice techniques learned (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allows for discussion, questions, and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Days 2 & 3 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Parts 2 & 3
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Advance registration is required, limited spaces available to ensure individualized attention. Please contact reception@attch.org to register or fill out the registration form below.
Our You Tube channel has lots of brief videos which provide an introduction to the content and an introduction to some of our presenters: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkdvxfs1RlYwoHDYePZnysA
All days will be rich with research, practical examples, case studies, experiential activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.
Paper registration available here.
Days 1 & 2: Day 1 Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment, Day 2 Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation and Day 3 Trauma Processing Experiential (description below)
with Lori Gill, Founder and Lead Trauma Therapist, Attachment and Trauma Treatment Centre for Healing
The fields of attachment and trauma research and intervention are growing rapidly. It is apparent that this is an area all clinicians can benefit from training in as it crosses all sectors and populations in some manner. However, we know that it can be difficult to keep up with all of the readings and resources. As this is our area of specialization, let us share what we have learned through our literature and research reviews and what we have effectively put into practice with you in an engaging and practical manner. This comprehensive two-day training will provide insight into current trauma, attachment, and neuroscience research ensuring an understanding of critical information and best practice strategies for working with trauma. This training will also help you to enhance your clinical skills and learn how you can add trauma regulation and attachment healing strategies to your repertoire.
Day 2 will focus on putting it into practice. Through this Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) participants will learn how to make historical connections, engage in integrative trauma-specific treatment approaches, and promote resiliency and wellness. Participants will learn about phase-based treatment of complex trauma and review of best practice and evidence-based approaches will also be experienced.
Upon completion of training participants will have a strong understanding of:
Trauma-Informed Care
- What it means to be trauma-informed at an organization, service system and societal level
- Core principles, guiding values and common language of trauma-informed care
- Understanding what is helpful vs. what is harmful
- The difference between trauma-informed and trauma-specific services
- Understanding top-down, bottom-up and integrative trauma treatment modalities
The Neuroscience of Trauma, Addictions, Mental Health and Violence
- How stress and trauma affect the brain, body and behaviour
- The role of attachment in self-regulation and the capacity for relationship
- The impact of attachment injuries on child development and adult health outcomes
- Attachment dynamics in health care and human services work
- The connection between trauma, addictions and violence
- The importance of worker self-regulation and self-care in providing attunement, therapeutic presence and co-regulation for clients and in mitigating the effects of compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
Sensory Regulation
- Why trauma is a sensory experience
- Recognizing the signs of emotional and physical dysregulation
- Integration and how this relates to emotional and physiological regulation
- The use of sensory approaches to promote regulation and integration
Boundaries, Self-Compassion, and Healthy Relationships
- How trauma disrupts our boundaries and how we can learn to establish healthy boundaries
- Addressing unmet needs
- Shifting from false refuges to those that provide effective regulation
- The importance of self-compassion for forming and maintaining healthy relationships
- Differentiating intimacy from abuse
Trauma Processing* Part 2
- How to engage in trauma specific processing using the Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM)®
- How to move clients through their trauma experiences disrupting the fear looping process in a safe structured manner using the various layers of the ITATM protocol
- How to generalize amygdala messages and reframing statements for future implementation
- How to close off the session in a safe manner that reinforces the new insights
- How to work through recurrent traumas, developmental trauma, crisis experiences, complex PTSD, and how to promote integration when working with dissociation.
Part 2:
Day 1 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Part 1
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and the opportunity to practice techniques learned (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allows for discussion, questions, and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Days 2 & 3 Trauma Processing Experiential & Applied Practice Parts 2 & 3
This workshop takes participants through the trauma processing practices introduced in the core training. This workshop takes participants through experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model (ITATM) from start to finish and includes various techniques (from brief assessment, grounding, trauma processing, somatic discharging and shifting affect for completion of session in an emotionally regulated manner). Participants will experience various experiential activities inclusive of a live demonstration and further opportunities to practice trauma processing (as both the counsellor and the client) in a partner format with guidance from the facilitator. This experiential days allow for discussion, questions and reflections from participants at a deeper level as it is facilitated in a small group format.
Advance registration is required, limited spaces available to ensure individualized attention. Please contact reception@attch.org to register or fill out the registration form below.
Our You Tube channel has lots of brief videos which provide an introduction to the content and an introduction to some of our presenters: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkdvxfs1RlYwoHDYePZnysA
All days will be rich with research, practical examples, case studies, experiential activities, and opportunities for self-reflection.
Paper registration available here.
Full 5-Day Conference - 2022 Trauma and Attachment Conference
Full 5-Day conference. Early registration: $800
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees ($25.00 for full conference). There is no fee to complete an etransfer through online banking or to pay by cheque.
CTIP ITATM-A Part 1: Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment & Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation
CA$485.00
$485 +HST
CTIP ITATM-A Non Clinical Certification Series Part 1: Day 1 & Day 2 - Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment & Phase-Based Strategies to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation with Lori Gill
*Please note a convenience fee is added to online purchases.
CTIC Part 1: ITATM Training Clinical Stream: Understanding the Foundations of Trauma and Attachment & Phase-Based Clinical Applications to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation
CA$475.00
CTIC ITATM Clinical Stream Core Training:
Part 1:
Day 1: Foundations of Trauma and Attachment (core CTIP & CTIC training)
Day 2: Phase-Based Tools to Promote Healing and Integration of Trauma and Attachment Dysregulation
Core Stream * Required for certification
*Prerequisite for Trauma Processing Experiential Parts 1, 2, & 3
*Note a convenience fee is applied to online purchases.
CTIC Part 2: ITATM Clinical Stream - Trauma Processing Experiential, Demo, and Applied Practice
CA$635.00
Days 3-5 Core Stream
$620 +HST
*Pre-requisite:
1) Must have completed days 1-2 foundational training in order to complete this training.
2) Must have graduate level or higher degree Social Work, Psychology, Psychiatry or a related field.
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.
CTIP ITATM-A Part 2: Trauma Integration Experiential, Demo, and Applied Practice
CA$635.00
Part 2:
Day 1: Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model Adapted (ITATM-A) - Non Clinical Stream
Days 2 & 3: Applied Practice and Experiential of our Integrative Trauma and Attachment Treatment Model Adapted - Non Clinical (ITATM-A)
$635+HST
*Note an additional fee applies to online purchases to offset associated fees. There is no fee to complete an transfer through online banking.