Topics include: Complex trauma. Complex PTSD. Attachment disorders. Personality disorders. What’s the difference/ relationship, Phased-based treatment model based on best practice guidelines, Building and maintaining the therapeutic relationship, including maintaining compassionate boundaries and managing therapy disruptions and termination, Using the therapeutic relationship to promote emotion regulation, Understanding attachment re-enactment and betrayal trauma in order to work with challenging behaviours, including: ‘splitting’ between care providers; idolising/demonising the therapist; constant new crises; reduced motivation; external locus of control, Practical therapeutic techniques (including exposure interventions and experiential tools) drawn from: Attachment-based treatment; Emotion Focused Therapy; Dialectical Behaviour Therapy; Metacognitive and Mentalisation Therapies; Schema Therapy; Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy to help clients presenting with complex trauma symptomatology, including flashbacks, numbing and dissociation, emotional ‘hurricanes’, somatisation, self-hate, self-harming and suicidal acts, dysfunctional relationships and substance abuse, Managing and reducing vicarious trauma in the therapist.