Working with Dissociation and Self-States
Dissociation is one of those things clinicians know exists—until it shows up in your office and suddenly nothing is working. The client blanks, shifts, contradicts themselves, loses time, or becomes someone you can’t quite reach.
This training makes dissociation make sense. It reframes dissociation as a normal, adaptive function of the human mind that becomes problematic when the Self cannot remain present within overwhelming or injurious experiences. Rather than viewing dissociation as pathology to eliminate, you’ll learn how dissociation protects identity, preserves functioning, and organizes self-states around threat, trauma, and attachment injury.
Learn how self-states form, why the Self disappears or gets overridden, and how dissociation protects clients from experiences they couldn’t survive as themselves. More importantly, learn what to do in the moment—how to keep the Self present, restore leadership, and move toward integration without accidentally reinforcing the dissociation.
ONLY $45
What you’ll learn
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Identify and differentiate seven different self state schemas in which dissociation occurs.
Identify when these states may be occurring in clients.
Conceptualize the function of the active self-state schema when dissociation is present.
Develop tools to assist clients to move out of dissociation and towards healthy self-organization.
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Meet your instructor
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Meet your instructor ✳
Aron Strong, LMFT
Aron Strong, LMFT is the co-founder of inRelationship. He is also the owner of Pathways Counseling in Middle Tennessee. He is an AAMFT Approved supervisor as well as a trainer and speaker on topics such as Attachment Science, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Faith Integration, and Leadership.