Description:
OPD Points: 10
- Treating Complex Trauma commencing on 1 February and ending on 31 May 2025 – registration closes 23/2/25
- Treating Complex Trauma commencing on 1 April and ending on 31 July 2025 – registration closes 25/4/25
- Treating Complex Trauma commencing on 1 July and ending on 31 October 2025 –Â registration closes 25/7/25
- Treating Complex Trauma commencing on 1 October and ending on 31 January 2026 –Â registration closes 27/10/25
This international two-day self-paced online program completes Leah’s four-day core training intended for all mental health professionals working with traumatised clients. You are required to complete ‘Treating PTSD’ (Day 1-2) before enrolling in ‘Treating Complex Trauma’ because important workshop material is presented in ‘Treating PTSD’ and is not repeated in ‘Treating Complex Trauma’.
The emphasis of this two-day training program is upon imparting practical, accessible skills to use immediately with survivors of complex trauma (especially survivors of child abuse and neglect). Please note that this is not simply a recording of a past live event. This is an education package specifically designed and produced to be worked through online, presented throughout by Dr Leah Giarratano, incorporating lectures, real cases, learning quizzes and structured practical exercises.
Your self-paced fee also includes access to a scheduled livestream of your program within one year. This international online program is also available via two-day livestream in March, June, September and November annually. Please refer to the program flyer available at our website www.talominbooks.com
You will be required to commit a minimum of 15 hours of your time to participate in Days 3-4, to be worked through at your own pace. You will have three-months online access to complete the program material, with printed copies of your handouts mailed to you before access is provided. If you wish to claim OPD hours/points, your certificate of participation will be issued after you complete a quiz with an 80% pass rate. You will be able complete the quiz anytime your access period, which can be attempted the more than once.
Key Learning Objectives / Outcomes:
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.
Assessment:
Presenter / Provider:
Dr Leah Giarratano
Presenter Qualifications:
Leah Giarratano is a doctoral level clinical psychologist who has developed an expertise in the assessment and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). She has been presenting training programs in Australia since 1996 and in New Zealand since 2000. Leah is the author of seven books covering the assessment and treatment of psychological trauma and in the application of CBT. Her latest text ‘Clinical Skills for Managing Complex Traumatisation’ (2022) is available at www.talominbooks.com
