Untangling Toxic Relationships: Helping Clients Release Abusive Cycles – Laura Copley – PESI

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Helping clients disentangle themselves from a toxic relationship is difficult but important work, especially when powerful “trauma bonds” continuously draw them back to emotionally or physically abusive partners in an unconscious attempt to heal past wounds. How can therapists guide clients toward a conscious awareness of what’s keeping their relationship toxic and emotionally transactional? And how can we determine if a trauma-bond dynamic can be repaired in a relationship? In this recording, learn a specific process to help clients recognize the spectrum of toxic relationships, heal the wounds that create trauma bonds, and rediscover their Self. You’ll discover how to: 

• Map the five stages of the trauma bond so clients can recognize the patterns in their relationship, reduce shame, and build pathways for change 
• Explore concrete tools to help clients reclaim and reparent the Self 
• Use an experiential “cord-cutting” intervention that releases clients from toxic dynamics to open themselves to post-traumatic growth

Speaker

Laura Copley, PhD, LPC

Laura Copley, PhD, LPC, is the Director of Aurora Counseling & Wellbeing and Founder of The Life Pathways and an international speaker on toxic relationships.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Laura Copley founder and director of Aurora Counseling & Well Being. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Copley receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Laura Copley is a member of the Virginia Counselors’ Association.

Objectives

1. Evaluate the spectrum of toxic relationships and trauma bonding in a clinical framework that can be used to assess and treat clients and heal relationships. 
2. Assess the specific psychological dynamics that can interfere with treatment with clients in toxic relationships and trauma bonds. 
3. Apply 3 clinical interventions to be used with clients for healing relationships and overcoming traumatic bonding. 

Outline

• Define the spectrum of toxic relationships and trauma bonding in a clinical framework that can be used to assess and treat clients and heal relationships. 

• Understand the signs of a toxic dynamic that is likely to remain abusive and detrimental to a victim’s wellbeing. 
• Explore the indicators that a relationship can heal and recover from its trauma wounds. 
• Explore the specific psychological dynamics that can interfere with treatment with clients in toxic relationships and trauma bonds. 
• Learn to identify areas of resistance and what defense mechanisms may look like in the context of a toxic dynamic. 
• Apply 3 clinical interventions to be used with clients for healing relationships and overcoming traumatic bonding. 
• Learn how to identify the wounded part of the self and what it serves through Parts Work, map the “toxic dance,” integrate the skill of “reparenting the self,” and more! 

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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