Master Clinician Workshop in Frankfurt / Germany

September 9th and 10th 2016

“Schema Therapy for Avoidant Coping Modes in Personality Disorders, Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders”

Trainers: JOAN FARRELL, PhD & IDA SHAW, MA

Date: Friday 9 and Saturday 10 September 2016

Venue: IST-Frankfurt/Germany

Fee: 380,-€. Register at: EMAIL

When: 9 and 10 September 9:00 AM- 4:30 PM (UTC+2)

Location: IST-Frankfurt, Alt Niederursel 53, D-60487 Frankfurt       

This master clinician workshop is based upon the presenters’ 30 years of working with patients with severe avoidant coping modes in a variety of clinical disorders including personality disorders, dissociative disorders and complex trauma. It focuses on interventions for the challenges these clients present and the schema activation and mode triggering, which therapists encounter in working with them. The overall focus will be on experiential interventions to get through or around the Avoidant Coping Modes, heal the frightened or traumatized Vulnerable Child and diminish the control of the Dysfunctional Critic Modes. Creative adaptations of imagery rescripting and the development of the client’s “Good Parent” (part of the Healthy Adult mode) will be presented and demonstrated. Techniques to deal with flashbacks, avoidance, detachment and dissociation will be addressed – both in the session and in plans for clients to use outside of therapy. Case examples of clients who were successfully treated will be presented. The training will incorporate didactic sections, demonstrations by trainers in which the workshop participants play clients, and opportunities for participants to practice these interventions with coaching and feedback. Participants will receive handouts, which they can use to implement workshop interventions in their clinical work.

Joan Farrell, Ph.D. and Ida Shaw, M.A. are advanced level Schema Therapists and Trainer/Supervisors who co-direct the Indianapolis Center of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest, approved by the International Society Schema Therapy (ISST). Ida is an ISST Certified Child & Adolescent Schema Therapy supervisor/trainer. Both are recognized internationally as expert and enthusiastic trainers, noted for their creativity and “thinking outside the box” while staying true to the integrity of the ST theoretical model. They are the authors of numerous chapters on schema therapy and two books.