Leeds Workshop: Understanding & Treating Complex PTSD

A certificate of attendance will be issued for 6 CPD hours. Everyone interested in the subject is welcome. This course is quality-checked by The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society.

This course counts 6 hours of study towards our 18-hour Trauma-Informed Certification.

The other trauma-related courses are below and can be taken in any order:

• Leeds: Trauma, the Brain and Recovery (6 hours)
• Leeds: Vicarious Trauma, Burnout and Resilience

Your learning outcomes for this training:

• An in-depth understanding on how c-PTSD affects brain function and ways to rebalance the brain for calm
• The biochemistry of c-PTSD and recovery
• The regions of the brain involved in c-PTSD and how to calm them down
• Why a c-PTSD brain can be reluctant to seek help and move on (especially in trauma connected to domestic violence and abuse)
• The links between c-PTSD and anxiety-related disorders such as OCD, and social anxiety and how to achieve transformation
• Indentifying and coping with CPTSD flashbacks
• Meditations for healing the fragmented self
• The A.S.I.E.C.C. framework for Healing c-PTSD: A Step-By-Step Guide for Recovery

Additional materials to have access to:

• Healthy Self-Concept Meditation for Complex PTSD Survivors
• Strengthening Self-Compassion and Exposing the Inner Critics Exercise & Meditation
• Healing Toxic Shame and Strengthening Self-Compassion: Mirror Exercise, Retrospective Self-Awareness Exercise & Meditation
• Exposing and Renegotiating Trans-Generational Trauma Exercise (Family History Work) & Visualisation
• Toxic shame Reduction Meditation
• Healing the Inner Child Meditation

Other focuses:

• How to avoid the typical mistakes made in treating c-PTSD
• Tips for minimising major relapses