The Ottawa Anxiety & Trauma Clinic in affiliation with the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre (Ottawa) presents the:
20th Annual Trauma & Dissociation 2009 Conference
What Every Mental Health Professional Needs to Know:
Integrating the Art of Ego State Therapy Into Your clinical Practice and Your Life
June 19-20, 2009
The Westin HotelOttawa, Canada
12 hours CME/MOC credits applied for
Eligible for 2 CEU’S from the Canadian Counselling Association
From South Africa:
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Dr. Woltemade Hartman Dr. Hartman is the founder and Director of the Milton Erickson Institute of South Africa (MEISA). He is the organizer and chair of two World Congresses on Ego State Therapy and is currently arranging the third congress for 2010 in South Africa. Dr. Hartman trained as an Ego State Therapist with Watkins and Watkins and is now a world leader in promoting education and training in Ego State Therapy. |
Also Featuring:
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Dr. George Fraser Dr. Fraser, MD, FRCPC is a Canadian pioneer in Dissociative and Trauma Disorders. He is presently a consultant psychiatrist with the Canadian Forces’ Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre in Ottawa. His award winning paper Fraser’s Dissociative Table Technique on accessing and managing ego states, has been translated into Japanese and is included in the core psychotherapy course given worldwide by the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). |
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Dr. Ken Welburn Dr. Welburn, CPsych is the Director of the Ottawa Anxiety & Trauma Clinic, the past chair of the Ottawa Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and Faculty of the Ottawa Group Psychotherapy Training Institute. He has been involved in teaching Ego State Therapy and other psychotherapies for 20 years. He is an innovator in the use of Ego State Therapy in anxiety disorders and trauma-related growth. |
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Major Alexandra Heber Major Heber, MD, FRCPC, is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa, Program Leader of the Operational Trauma and Stress Support Centre, and Clinical Director of Mental Health for the Canadian Forces Health Services Centre, Ottawa. In 1989 she developed the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule with Dr. Colin Ross and carried out groundbreaking research using this diagnostic instrument. She currently treats soldiers with PTSD after deployment to Afghanistan. |
About Ego State Therapy
Ego State Therapy developed from the pioneering work of Dr. John Watkins and Helen Watkins (click here to read Dr. John Watkin’s Welcome Letter to this year’s conference delegates)
Ego State Therapy is based on the premise that human personality is composed of separate parts or Ego States, rather than being a monolithic entity. This premise has universal applications in psychotherapy and is uniquely suited to healing the fragmentation of personality that results from various types of trauma including attachment disorders, childhood abuse, developmental trauma, and traumas of maturity such as rape, assaults, accidents, war injuries, and natural disasters. Ego State Therapy provides a method for promoting a sense of “family of self” for those experiencing personality fragmentation and a method of working with emotional states and states of mind in other clinical areas.
As well as CME credits, attendees will qualify for 12 hours of training in “The Fundamentals of Ego State Therapy” for those wishing to pursue full certification in the International Foundation for Ego State Therapy (FEST). Click here for certification information.
We are pleased to be able to bring another internationally recognized therapist and teacher to Ottawa as well as experts from our own city to augment Dr. Hartman’s only Canadian presentation on his USA/Canada 2009 schedule.
Learning Objectives:
- To be familiar with the history and evolution of the concept of ego states
- To be aware of how the concept of ego states can be used in affect regulation in psychotherapy
- To become familiar with the basic concepts of Ego State Therapy
- To know Ego State Therapy approaches to use grief as a resource in psychotherapy
- To know Ego State Therapy approaches to promote peak performance in athletes
- To know Ego State Therapy approaches to working with trauma in a cultural context
- To be familiar with PTSD and Dissociation as they relate to members of the Canadian Forces
- To know Ego State Theory and Ego State Therapy approaches to working with Dissociative Disorders
About the Conference
This is our 20th annual conference, making it the longest running trauma conference in Canada. Our aim is to continue to bring international experts to Ottawa to promote education and training in the field of trauma and dissociation. Past conference presenters have included such notable speakers as Rachel Yehuda, David Spiegel, Bessel Van der Kolk, Daniel Brown, Alexander McFarlane, Colin Ross, Richard Kluft, Anna Salter, Matthew Friedman, Ellert Nijenhuis, LGEN Roméo Dallaire, Alexandre Trudeau, and Massey Beveridge.
This years’ conference is once again in the heart of Ottawa, just a few minutes walk from the vibrant and the historic Byward Market, Parliament Hill, National Arts Center, National Art Gallery, Rideau Canal and the colorful Sparks Street Mall. Enjoy this year’s dynamic speakers and take in the beauty of Ottawa in June!
Dr. George Fraser
Consultant Psychiatrist
Operational Traumatic & Stress Support Centre
Dr. Ken Welburn
Clinical Director
Ottawa Anxiety & Trauma Clinic
The conference is open to health care professionals, including physicians, psychologists, social workers, nurses, occupational therapists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and other health care providers.
Planning CommitteeDr. George Fraser, Dr. Ken Welburn, Dr. Shelley Jordan, Dr. Colin Cameron, Dr. Alexandra Heber, Dr. Joy Albuquerque, Ms. Dayle Raine, RN, and Ms. Bonnie Durrett, OM.
