Trauma and Dissociation: Navigating the Complexities in Clinical Practice
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Trauma and Dissociation: Navigating the Complexities in Clinical Practice

Sat, Mar 1st, 2025
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Mental health professionals often experience a range of emotions when working with trauma and dissociation. Many feel a deep sense of empathy and compassion for their clients, recognizing the profound impact of trauma. However, the complexity and intensity of trauma and dissociative symptomology can also lead to feelings of frustration, helplessness, or overwhelm. Trauma and Dissociation: Navigating the Complexities in Clinical Practice offers an in-depth exploration of the connection between trauma and dissociative disorders. This session will support mental health clinicians in working effectively with trauma and dissociation- highlighting the complexities of each of these conditions, learning how to establish a safe and supportive therapeutic environment, and learning grounding techniques and stabilization strategies essential for managing acute symptoms and promoting client safety. This training will equip professionals with practical tools and approaches to enhance their therapeutic interventions and support clients.

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This live online event will be held as a Zoom Webinar. Attendees will have the option to interact through features such as the Chat and Q&A, but cameras and microphones will not be enabled.

Live Event Instructor

Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Katelyn Baxter-Musser

Katelyn is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. Katelyn’s clinical experience includes working for ten years in various roles as a case manager, child and family therapist, trauma therapist and clinical coordinator. Katelyn has worked in agencies, on Native American reservations and currently is in private practice. Katelyn works with children starting at age 4, adolescents and adults. Katelyn works with people individually, as a couple or as a family.

Katelyn is trained in and uses a variety of therapeutic modalities including DBT, CBT, TF-CBT, Mindfulness, and EMDR. She specializes in working with trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, dissociative disorders, personality disorders, grief & relationship issues. Katelyn works to help clients process a variety of traumatic and difficult experiences that cause people to feel stuck in their daily life.

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for behavioral health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Identify common symptoms and behaviors associated with trauma-related dissociative disorders.
  2. 2 Demonstrate the use of various grounding techniques to help clients manage acute dissociative symptoms.
  3. 3 Improve therapeutic interventions by incorporating evidence-based practices for trauma and dissociation.

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Dorahy, M. J., Middleton, W., Seager, L., McGurrin, P., Williams, M., & Chambers, R. (2015). Dissociation, shame, complex PTSD, child maltreatment and intimate relationship self-concept in dissociative disorder, chronic PTSD and mixed psychiatric groups. Journal of affective disorders, 172, 195–203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2014.10.008

Dorahy, M. J., Corry, M., Black, R., Matheson, L., Coles, H., Curran, D., Seager, L., Middleton, W., & Dyer, K. F. (2017). Shame, Dissociation, and Complex PTSD Symptoms in Traumatized Psychiatric and Control Groups: Direct and Indirect Associations With Relationship Distress. Journal of clinical psychology, 73(4), 439–448. https://doi.org/10.1002/jclp.22339

Ford, J. D., & Gómez, J. M. (2015). The Relationship of Psychological Trauma and Dissociative and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders to Nonsuicidal Self-Injury and Suicidality: A Review. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 16(3), 232–271. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2015.989563

Schimmenti, A. (2017). The trauma factor: Examining the relationships among different types of trauma, dissociation, and psychopathology. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 19(5), 552–571. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2017.1402400

Steel, K., Boon, S., Van Der Hart, O. (2016). Trauma- Related Dissociation. W. W. Norton & Company.

van Dijke, A., Hopman, J. A. B., & Ford, J. D. (2018). Affect dysregulation, psychoform dissociation, and adult relational fears mediate the relationship between childhood trauma and complex posttraumatic stress disorder independent of the symptoms of borderline personality disorder. European journal of psychotraumatology, 9(1), 1400878. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2017.1400878

van Dijke, A., Ford, J. D., Frank, L. E., & van der Hart, O. (2015). Association of Childhood Complex Trauma and Dissociation With Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms in Adulthood. Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD), 16(4), 428–441. https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2015.1016253

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00-11:05 am – Introduction

11:05-11:30 am – Foundations of Trauma and Dissociation

11:30-12:00 pm- Identifying Trauma and Dissociative Symptoms

12:00-12:30 pm- Creating a Safe and Supportive Therapeutic Environment

12:30-12:45 pm – Break

12:45-1:15 pm – Techniques for Grounding and Stabilization

1:15-1:45 pm – Clinical Strategies for Working with Dissociation

1:45-2:05 pm – Integrating Techniques into Practice

2:05-2:15 pm – Q&A


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