Complex Trauma Certification Course by Eric Gentry

Basics of complex trauma (C-PTSD)

Key points of C-PTSD

Adaptation to C-PTSD

Overview of the three-phase model

Evaluation and treatment of C-PTSD

Preparing the therapist

Optimization of ANS dysregulation autoregulation and treatment delivery
C-PTSD informed consent

Build evaluation skills

Quantitative assessment tools and clinical interviews sufficient to accurately diagnose C-PTSD and develop pretreatment and case plans
C-PTSD mental status test
Monitor treatment effectiveness and identify treatment flaws
First session interventions to strengthen safety, stabilization, positive expectations and therapeutic relationships

Stage 1: Safety and stabilization

Build evaluation skills (safety vs. non-safety)
Case management (external and internal hazards)
Therapeutic relationship
Stable
Common/general stabilization skills for C-PTSD
Professional skills for safety and stability
Grouping of safety and stability/resilience applications with C-PTSD
Empirical criteria for successful completion of Stage 1 with the C-PTSD client

Stage 2: Memories and Remembrances/Trauma Resolution

CBT skills to reduce avoidance, alertness, shame, discomfort, responsiveness, and distorted thinking symptoms
Compare the current evidence-based/evidence-based treatments used to address the symptoms of C-PTSD
Trauma-focused CBT
Cognitive processing therapy
Long-term exposure
Desensitization and reprocessing of eye movements (EMDR)
Rapid solution therapy/brain spotting
Somatic experience
Sensorimotor therapy
Emotional Freedom Techniques/Energy Psychology
Internal family system
Structural and strategic treatment of dissociative disorders
Ego condition therapy
Practice of therapeutic skills
Attachment trauma
Embodied
dissociation
Psychological education/cognitive reorganization
Self-regulation/relaxation
Imaginary exposure techniques (IFS, NLP reframing, Frazier’s Dissociative Table)

Stage 3: Reconnection/Resilience/Post-traumatic Growth

Strategies to achieve:
Sustainable stabilization
Voluntary regulation of physiology
Self-regulation of behavior
Self-regulation of emotions
Making meaning
Reconnect
Growth after trauma
Spiritual maturity
New opportunity
Greater strength
Greater appreciation
New relationship
Positive Trauma Therapy – Moral Healing (Gentry)
Self-regulated and direct therapeutic exposure (DTE)
Contract and honor rules

Closure: lessons learned

Explanation:

Become a complex PTSD (CCTP-II) certified clinical trauma specialist and demonstrate your expertise in treating this population of trauma patients.

While the focus of many trauma trainings is to acquire basic skills to treat post-traumatic stress, the focus of this intensive certification course recording is the complex post-traumatic stress or C- To acquire the skills to effectively treat difficult clients with PTSD.

It helps you learn evidence-based practice and heal complex traumas, including difficult reactions such as intense reactions/flashbacks. Serious “depression-like” shutdown and avoidance. Dissociation; Relationship difficulties and challenges; Chronic emotional and somatic dysregulation; Chronic pain and psychotic symptoms.

We leave this recording of a new structure that can be applied throughout the treatment course of a person with C-PTSD incorporating today’s most effective trauma treatments. Instead of trying to use one trauma treatment modality that may not work for all clients, you will learn how to accelerate treatment with this comprehensive model.