From Fear to Flow: Confidently Navigating Dissociative States in Complex Trauma with AEDP

Presented by Michael Mondoro, LCSW, Certified AEDP Therapist and Supervisor

Friday and Saturday, December 13th + 14th, 2024 | 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST

Level: Open to all mental health clinicians and most beneficial if you are at AEDP Level 1 (completed Immersion) or have completed an advanced Intro to AEDP course – more details below.

Description

This engaging AEDP-focused seminar is designed to help therapists expand their essential knowledge and vital clinical skills in working with dissociative phenomena—particularly as defense mechanisms—within the compassionate, healing-oriented care of individuals with complex, relational trauma (C-PTSD).

Led by an experienced Complex Trauma Specialist and Certified AEDP Supervisor and Lecturer, this presenter offers an overview of AEDP and AEDP-allied techniques that will equip and empower you to confidently work with dissociation in its most common defensive forms—such as emotional numbing, depersonalization, derealization, and dissociative parts or self-states. You’ll walk away with practical, proven strategies to get “unstuck,” including 5 experiential interventions and 9 complementary techniques, along with evidence-based essential AEDP skills to co-create safety, reduce incidences of dissociation, and facilitate healing from complex, relational trauma.

Key features include:

  • Clinical videos and participant demonstration
  • Hands-on AEDP techniques for treating dissociation and trauma
  • Cultivating authentic presence and self-care to prevent burnout
  • Insights into the neurology of dissociation
  • Addressing dissociation in communities impacted by systemic and/or race-based trauma (BIPOC & LGBTQIA+)
  • Proven experiential strategies effective across the post-traumatic spectrum

This seminar is designed for practicing mental health professionals who want to enrich their therapeutic process, enhance client outcomes, and broaden their expertise in dissociation and complex trauma. By gaining confidence in recognizing and working with dissociative defenses, you’ll transform both your practice and your clients’ healing journey.

Learning Objectives

Who Should Attend

  • Open to all mental health clinicians, with the greatest benefit for Immersion grads, those who have completed an advanced Intro to AEDP course, or An Introduction to the Fundamentals of AEDP. 
  • Note: The presenter will cover an overview of AEDP basics, though this may not provide the depth needed for all participants.

Level 1* AEDP Licensed mental health practitioners (or the local/regional equivalent to ‘licensed’*) as well as interns legally practicing under the license of a supervising practitioner. These include Counselors, Psychoanalysts, Psychologists, Psychotherapists, Social Workers, other Behavioral Health Therapists and related professionals.

If you have a question about the relevance of this course, suitability for you, and/or your eligibility for this course please contact admin@aedpinstitute.org.

Meet the Presenter

Michael Mondoro, LCSW

 Michael is a licensed therapist based in New York City and Westport, Connecticut. He is a Certified AEDP Therapist, a Certified AEDP Supervisor, an Intra-Relational AEDP enthusiast, a trauma and dissociation specialist, and an active member of the AEDP community since 2012. AEDP is one of his great loves. Michael feels privileged to be a part of the AEDP community and to mentor others to discover and deepen their therapeutic presence, courage, confidence and agency as they express their own AEDP style within the model. He offers psychotherapy as well as clinical consultation in New York and Connecticut, and online for those interested in expanding their knowledge and effectiveness utilizing AEDP across the post-traumatic spectrum. Michael specializes in helping individuals who have experienced relational trauma, PTSD and complex PTSD to securely connect, heal, transform, and flourish. He brings warmth, authenticity, humor, and deep care to those he mentors. Michael is committed to serving the LGBTQIA+ community, as well. (Read More…)

Date, Time, Location

Date: Friday and Saturday, December 13th + 14th, 2024

Time: 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM Eastern Standard Time USA + Canada

Location: Live, Online

Requirements to Participate Effectively Online: You will need a private space with a reliable Internet connection for a desktop/laptop computer that has video and microphone. Click here for AEDP’s Live, Online Learning: Requirements & FAQ’s.

Registration, Fees and Scholarships: 

Early Bird through October 24:

  • $195 USD Member Pricing (must be logged in to register)
  • $219 USD Non Member Pricing

After early bird ends on October 24:

  • $229 USD Member Pricing (must be logged in to register)
  • $255 USD Non Member Pricing
Non Member Registration

Scholarships:

Scholarships are available. To learn more and apply, please go here.

Attendance, Makeup Policy & Refunds: 

ADA: 

Disability Access: If you require ADA accommodations please contact Marilia Rodriguez, admin@aedpinstitute.org or call 813-553-1294 thirty days or more before the event so we can be sure to accommodate you.

Questions:

Course and all customer service related questions:
Please contact Customer Service Administrator
Marilia Rodriguez
admin@aedpinstitute.org
813-553-1294