September 9-11, 2016

With Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP & Sylvia Israel, LMFT, TEP

Many practitioners find it an intense experience to work with trauma survivors due to unbridled transference and countertransference that derails them from the leadership role. This experiential workshop helps you identify your own countertransference that gets triggered by stories of horror, terror, rage and despair. Some defenses may be denial, minimization, over-identification, and role reciprocity as you’re pulled into the dance of trauma. Observing your projections in action creates a mirror for you to develop new skills in both professional and personal roles.

Regaining your Appropriate Authority, you then mirror for clients their transferences onto you as good/bad mother or father, et al.  You’ll learn the ‘asocial response’, interrupting the cycle of projecting the past into current relationships, along with other action methods to diffuse and work through transferences onto yourself and other group members. Using TSM in practice cases you will learn action interventions for self and group members that will keep your group healthy and high-functioning.  

This is a stand-alone workshop with immediately useable skills, or a part of the training modules for TSI’s International Certification in Trauma Therapy using the Therapeutic Spiral Model (TSM). It is appropriate for medical & psychotherapeutic clinicians, educators, community workers and any experiential psychotherapists who work with trauma. 

Dates/Times:  Friday-Saturday, 9/ 9 & 10, 10am-6pm; Sunday, 9/11, 10am-4pm.

Venue: Imagine! Center for Creativity & Healing, San Rafael, CA.

Fee: $600. Send $100 deposit to TSI, 1460 Stoney Creek Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22902. 

$550 Early bird fee in full before 7/9/2016. Please contact Kate for payment by credit card. No refunds after 8/9/16.

CEUS for Psychologists, Nurses, LMFT, LCSW, LPCC, LEP available. 

Information:  Kate Hudgins, drkatetsi@mac.com

                      Sylvia Israel, sylvia@imaginecenter.net

Registration: Kate Hudgins, drkatetsi@mac.com.

Kate Hudgins, PhD, TEP, is an internationally recognized expert on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.  She developed the research-supported Therapeutic Spiral Model™ (TSM) to treat PTSD, demonstrating that experiential approaches create immediate change and new learning for those suffering various stages of breakdown, subsequent to overwhelming traumatic events. Kate has taught and worked internationally for over 20 years and is a published author and recipient of numerous awards.  www.drkatehudgins.com.

Sylvia Israel, LMFT, TEP, is an International Trainer in Psychodrama, Registered Drama Therapist & Board Certified Trainer, RDT/BCT, founding member of Bay Area Moreno Institute (BAMI), founder of IMAGINE! Center for Creativity & Healing, and Past-Director of the Bay Area Playback Theatre and is on the faculty at CA Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and Kansas State University. Sylvia is a Certified Trainer in the Therapuetic Spiral Model and has taught about PTSD and Action Methods at BAMI and at various graduate programs. Sylvia maintains a private psychotherapy practice in Marin and San Francisco.