Techniques to Help Clients Restore Trust in Themselves so They can Trust You Part 1 & 2


Trauma can leave us fearfully doubting ourselves, disconnecting us from ourselves and others. The younger we are the more extensive and insidious the impacts are on our lives and relationships. Attachment Theory helps us understand this. 

In this presentation, I will demonstrate various ways you can help your clients reconnect with their own truth, knowing, and wisdom. I will demonstrate ways you can help them see and deal with fears. I will demonstrate ways you can connect your clients to the parts of them that are calm and wise and that do know what to do.  

I will show you safe and beneficial ways of working with dissociation. I will model and differentiate ways of staying warmly connected with the client, of ‘following their process’, and of helping them be with their inner processes. 

We will use journaling techniques as they are powerful tools of connection to self. Clients can continue to develop 

The presentation will be experiential. When you experience something that works for you, it goes down to your foundations, and you will be able to do it with others. So bring paper, pencils or pens you like to use. This is preferable to working on screens.