BRAND-NEW!
SERIES ON CHRONIC TRAUMA
A four-part series. You do not need to take all four workshops, but we encourage you to do so!
Understanding Chronic Trauma Part 3: Working with Borderline Clients
Presented by: Michael Lillie LMFT, MHP
When: Friday, March 8th, 2024 | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the event.
CE Credit Hours: 3 CEs (for each session; taking all four is 12 CEs) | $95.00 per session
Session One: Attachment & Dissociation as a Foundation for Working with Complex Presentations | Friday , January 19th, 2024
Session Two: Working with Narcissistic Clients | Friday, February 9th, 2024
Session Three: Working with Borderline Clients | Friday, March 8th, 2024
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Session Four: Effective Assessment for Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress, Dissociative Disorders, and Personality Disorders | Friday, May 3rd, 2024
Part Three: Working with Borderline Clients:
Therapy clients who present with chronic traumatization offer unique challenges. They may enter therapy having been given multiple diagnoses and a history of treatment failure. Depending on how they present, they may receive diagnoses of Complex Post Traumatic Stress, Borderline Personality, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Bipolar, along with many others. Some have been in therapy for many years, even decades, without achieving symptom relief and stabilization. This scenario can be frustrating for both the client and the therapist, leading to shame for clients and burnout for the therapist. Why some clients get better more quickly and others show little sign of healing from their wounds can be rooted in chronic trauma and how their personality is formed and organized. Chronically traumatized individuals may have experienced repeated developmental, relational, and acute types of disturbing and/or traumatic experiences. This type of client presentation will often have serious attachment injuries, along with higher levels and multiple types of dissociation, making traditional therapy modalities more difficult or impossible to administer.
Module #3 will explore:
- Understand the symptoms and behaviors of clients with borderline presentations.
- Understand diagnostic complexities and gender biases for clients who present as borderline.
- How a disorganized attachment style sets the frame for relationships with self and others, creating stormy and chaotic relationships.
- How secondary dissociation leads to a complex subsystem of defenses that may be impervious to traditional therapy.
- How to recognize transference and countertransference issues within the client-therapist relationship.
- The dangers, boundary issues, and ethical dilemmas that may arise when working with borderline clients.