Hold the trauma (Couples Therapy): Create Emotional and Psychological safety between couples and within

Live Online Workshop

Capability: Evolving and Established

This workshop aims to draw upon the strengths of the therapist and the deepening of the “trauma informed skill sets” of the therapist. The focus is around how to promote couple’s feeling emotionally and psychologically safe in their relationship. Furthermore how do we as Social Workers “be the significant attachment other” in the therapeutic space for couples, parents and caregivers who are desperate to make sense of the “cyclical nature of the attachment trauma experience between them.”

This workshop is systemic focused on relational trauma, attachment processes and its intersection with polyvagal safety. Learn how to facilitate discussions about co-emotional regulation between partners and the dorsal vagal disconnect in trauma clients from the polyvagal theory lens. Strategies on how we assist couples to return to their emotional window of tolerance will be explored.

This workshop aims to build on the emotional interventions you bring, including practical examples and opportunities for therapists to harness their skills around how we as Social Workers play a pivotal role in assisting couples/parents/caregivers to increase their sense of safety and connection between them and within themselves.

This workshop will provide you an overview to draw upon the intersection of Polyvagal Theory, Relational Trauma and Attachment frameworks into your clinical practice and grow your confidence.

Who should attend?

Evolving and established practitioners working in a therapeutic setting or within goal-based client work with couples and/or families (including individuals presenting with relationship or family concerns). Social Workers with an interest in trauma around creating the building blocks to increasing psychological and emotional safety in their clients’ lives.

This workshop will not be recorded.

Learning Outcomes

• To assist couples to co-regulate and connect more to their ventral vagal state via Polyvagal safety exercises and increased connections.
• To increase connection between couples a sense of secure attachment in couples to cope with trauma.
• To facilitate conversations with couples to organise their trauma attachment narratives.
• To enrich clinic practice in providing the necessary conditions for safety and connection.

AASW Credential: Mental Health(FPS) and Clinical