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Engaging Traumatized Clients Who Avoid Attachment, Closeness, & Painful Feelings

This two-day workshop aims to help therapists better understand and treat avoidant clients who have experienced trauma. The workshop will be led by Dr. Robert Muller, an expert in trauma therapy and author of the bestselling book "Trauma and the Avoidant Client." Drawing on attachment theory and clinical experience, Dr. Muller will demonstrate strategies for developing therapeutic relationships with hard-to-treat avoidant clients to help them regain trust and face vulnerabilities. Participants will learn techniques for engagement, working with affect, recognizing transference, and effectively managing countertransference to assist clients in mourning losses.

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Engaging Traumatized Clients Who Avoid Attachment, Closeness, & Painful Feelings

This two-day workshop aims to help therapists better understand and treat avoidant clients who have experienced trauma. The workshop will be led by Dr. Robert Muller, an expert in trauma therapy and author of the bestselling book "Trauma and the Avoidant Client." Drawing on attachment theory and clinical experience, Dr. Muller will demonstrate strategies for developing therapeutic relationships with hard-to-treat avoidant clients to help them regain trust and face vulnerabilities. Participants will learn techniques for engagement, working with affect, recognizing transference, and effectively managing countertransference to assist clients in mourning losses.

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Engaging Traumatized Clients Who Avoid

Attachment, Closeness, & Painful Feelings


April 26th & 27th 2018
Calgary, Alberta
A two-day workshop with Dr. Robert Muller,
leading expert on therapy for Trauma & globally acclaimed
More information go to author of the psychotherapy bestseller: Trauma & the Avoidant
http://www.talk-therapy.ca/avoidant-clients/ Client, Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing' - is aimed at
or call building our therapeutic understanding of clinical work with
403-467-7252 avoidant clients.
$399.00(early bird before March 22, 2018
(Includes a copy of Dr. Muller’s book)
Drawing upon attachment theory & research, and upon a wealth
of clinical experience, Dr. Muller explains how, as therapists,
SPONSORED BY: we can work with such hard-to-treat clients, how to find points
of entry & ways in which we can make contact. Using a
relational, psychodynamic approach, the workshop discusses
and demonstrates strategies for developing the therapeutic
relationship, such that we can assist the client regain a sense of
trust in others. We explore therapeutic techniques through which
the client is encouraged to take interpersonal risks, to mourn
losses, and to face vulnerabilities. Uniquely, Dr Muller
illustrates how the frustrating challenges that arise in
the therapeutic relationship can in fact be used as a productive
force in the therapeutic process.

Throughout the workshop, Theory is complemented by case


examples and segments from Dr Muller's own therapeutic
sessions. The workshop focuses on clinical skills that are
directly applicable in our own work as therapists.
Robert T. Muller, Ph.D., C.Psych. completed his
clinical fellowship at Harvard, was on faculty at the
University of Massachusetts, and is currently Professor The workshop aims to provide an integrative training
of Clinical Psychology at York University in Toronto. approach that enables practitioners using different
Dr. Muller was recently honored as a Fellow of the therapeutic modalities to integrate the relevant elements of
International Society for the study of Trauma & Attachment Theory and Research with their existing skills,
Dissociation (ISSTD) for his work on trauma treatment. which they can then apply to their work
And his bestseller, Trauma and the Avoidant Client:
Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing is in its third Participants will learn:
printing, has been translated, and won the 2011 ISSTD
award for the year's best written work on trauma. • How to recognize characteristics of avoidant
As lead investigator on several multi-site programs to attachment
treat interpersonal trauma, Dr. Muller has lectured • How to productively use trauma-related symptoms
internationally (Australia, Europe, U.S.), and has been • How to maximize client engagement throughout the
the keynote speaker at mental health conferences in process
New Zealand and Canada. He founded an online • How to work with affect
magazine, The Trauma & Mental Health Report, which • How to recognize and utilize client transference
is now visited by over 100,000 readers a year. • How to effectively manage and use therapist
counter-transference
http://www.yorku.ca/rmuller/ • How to plan for the termination phase of treatment

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