LEVEL 2 : ADVANCED PRACTICE RET

This workshop enables clinicians who attended the two-day workshop “Deactivating the Buttons: Integrating a Trauma Lens into Counseling Framework” to refine their knowledge and skills. It is skill-based and experiential, requiring participants to take the role of both therapist and client.

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Participants receive supervised practice and feedback and expand their skills. Participants learn how and when to integrate aspects of imagery rescripting to enhance affect and rework the outcomes in traumatic memories.

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 Theoretically, this workshop:

•     Outlines and critiques common therapeutic approaches to working with trauma.

•     Shows how traumatic experiences contribute to symptoms and to emotional reactivity in relationships.

•     Describes how traumatic memories differ from ordinary memories.

•     Explains the neurobiology of  how memories are formed.

•     Draws on research about memory reconsolidation to underpin a theoretical understanding of Radical Exposure Tapping

Participants learn how to:

•     Screen for depression, anxiety and PTSD symptoms

•     Elicit from the client the components of a traumatic memory

•     Create imaginal exposure to the traumatic memory

•     Use Radical Exposure Tapping to quickly reduce arousal and transform traumatic memories into ordinary memories.

 This skills-based workshop alternates between lecture, group discussion, dyadic and small group practice and observing videos of actual therapy sessions with real clients.  The training is experiential and requires participants to take the role of both therapist and client.  In the client role, participants choose real issues and gain personal experience of the benefit of the approach.

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Download the RET ADVANCED PRACTICE workshop outline and objectives PDF

Workshops 2021