Przewlekły wstyd i C-PTSD Kathy Steele

Working with Defense Mechanisms and Resistance in Complex Trauma and Dissociation

Your client won’t, can’t, or shuts down in silence – and you don’t know if it’s resistance, a skills deficit, or your own contribution to the impasse. Kathy Steele, an internationally recognized expert in complex trauma and dissociation, shows step by step how to recognize defense mechanisms and work with them compassionately, instead of with frustration.

  • Kathy Steele
  • 4 godz.
  • 3 months access
  • Certificate of completion

220,00 zł

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About the Training

Resistance isn't a client problem to push past – it's a defense mechanism you work with

Treating complex PTSD is complex because clients protect themselves with defense mechanisms that were once adaptive

Kathy Steele shows that resistance isn't a lack of client motivation, but fear and shame that need to be understood at their source. You'll learn to distinguish egodystonic resistance (which the client dislikes) from egosyntonic, characterological resistance (a harder-to-change part of personality) – and to choose entirely different tools for each.

An internationally recognized expert in complex trauma and dissociation teaches how to recognize a client's defense mechanisms – and the therapist's own contribution to the therapeutic impasse.

Kathy Steele begins by reframing the concept of resistance itself: it isn’t an obstacle to work around, but a normal, expected part of complex trauma therapy. Behind resistance lie concrete, understandable reasons – fear and shame, avoidance of not only negative but also positive emotions, and sometimes the meaning a client attaches to their suffering („if I get better, no one will know how much I suffered”).

You’ll learn the concept of trauma-related phobias – an umbrella mechanism for avoiding inner experience, under which sit more specific phobias: of dissociated parts, of traumatic memories, of attachment, and of risk or change. You’ll also learn how you, as the therapist, can contribute to a client’s resistance – through poor attunement, unclear boundaries, an overemphasis on content instead of process, or unrecognized countertransference.

A separate section of the training covers work with clients showing high characterological resistance and with dissociated parts – including the trap of blaming a single part for a problem it is actually protecting the whole system from. Kathy Steele also teaches the specific „conflict declaration” technique – formulating statements that name both sides of a client’s inner conflict (e.g., „you want to feel better, but you’re afraid that means the end of our relationship”) without taking either side.

The training closes with a live Q&A, where Kathy Steele responds directly to specific clinical situations brought by participants.

Who It's For

Who is this training for?

Therapists working with complex trauma clients

You have clients who get stuck in therapy, avoid certain topics, or react in ways that frustrate you – and you're looking for a way to understand what's behind it.

Therapists working with dissociative disorders

You want to learn how to work with resistance that arises at the level of the whole system of dissociated parts, instead of blaming a single part for the problem.

Practitioners of all therapeutic orientations

Whatever approach you work in, you want to add concrete tools for recognizing and gently working through a client's resistance.

Helpful to have: basic experience working with clients who have developmental trauma

This is the original English-language recording, without simultaneous translation. It does not require prior knowledge of a specific therapy model – the concepts of resistance and defense mechanisms are explained from the ground up and can be applied regardless of your therapeutic orientation.

Outcomes

What You'll Learn

You'll be able to...

  • explain the main reasons clients develop persistent resistance in complex PTSD therapy
  • distinguish egodystonic resistance (which the client rejects) from egosyntonic, characterological resistance (a part of the client's personality)
  • tell apart resistance (a defense mechanism) from a skills deficit, which calls for building new competencies rather than working through resistance

You'll know how to...

  • identify hidden and overt signs of resistance through ongoing client assessment from the very first sessions
  • recognize the therapist's own contribution to a client's resistance – through poor attunement, unclear boundaries, or unrecognized countertransference
  • work with resistance in clients with dissociative disorders, without blaming a single part for the problem of the whole system

You'll practice...

  • formulating "conflict declarations" – statements that name both sides of a client's inner conflict without taking either side
  • applying at least four approaches to overcoming resistance, matched to its type and severity
  • setting boundaries with clients compassionately, without escalating conflict in the therapeutic relationship

Program

What the Training Covers

  1. Functions of Resistance and Trauma-Related Phobias

    Why clients avoid not only negative but also positive emotions, and how the phobia of inner experience breaks down into more specific phobias: of dissociated parts, memories, attachment, and change.

  2. The Therapist's Contribution to Client Resistance

    Poor attunement, unclear session boundaries, a focus on content instead of process, and unrecognized countertransference – how a therapist can unknowingly intensify the resistance they encounter.

  3. Egodystonic vs. Characterological Resistance

    Two different types of resistance requiring entirely different therapeutic approaches – plus typical patterns seen in personality disorders: idealization and devaluation, externalization, and poor mentalization.

  4. Working with Dissociated Parts

    Why blaming a single part for the system's problem doesn't work, how to tell a defense mechanism apart from a skills deficit, and how to work with parts that want to know and parts that don't.

  5. Conflict Declarations and Techniques for Working with Resistance

    A concrete technique for formulating statements that name both sides of a client's conflict, working in small steps, pendulating between the wish to change and resistance to it, and a live Q&A session.

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Nagranie wideo

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Szczegóły

Informacje organizacyjne

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Kurs prowadzi
Kathy Steele
Certificate
Imienny certyfikat z datą szkolenia, liczbą godzin
Czas szkolenia
4 godz.
Topic
Dysocjacja, Relacja terapeutyczna, Trauma
Translation
symultaniczne
Language
angielski

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Egodystonic resistance is resistance the client themselves rejects and wants to change – it’s easier to work through in a supportive relationship. Egosyntonic (characterological) resistance is part of the client’s personality; they don’t recognize it and externalize the problem onto others – it calls for longer, more patient work.

This is Kathy Steele’s original English-language recording, without simultaneous translation into Polish. If you’d prefer a Polish-translated version with a Polish-language slide presentation, see the Polish edition of this training.

No – the training introduces the concepts of resistance and defense mechanisms from the ground up, and they can be applied regardless of your therapeutic orientation.

Yes – a separate section is dedicated to the specifics of resistance in clients with dissociative disorders, including working with the whole system of parts instead of blaming a single part for the problem.

Full access to the training recording for 3 months (extendable) and a personalized PDF certificate of attendance stating the number of hours.

Your client goes silent, shuts down, or lashes out – and therapy stalls. Kathy Steele shows how to tell whether it's resistance, a skills deficit, or your own contribution to the impasse, and how to work with it compassionately.

A 4-hour clinical training on working with resistance and defense mechanisms in the therapy of complex PTSD and dissociative disorders, led by an internationally recognized expert and former president of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Original English-language recording.

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