Trauma, Anxiety, Coping & Healing - A Two Day Workshop With:

Liliana Cané, Ph.D.
Director, Milton H. Erickson Institute of Montreal

Date: : October 16-17, 2009 Register Online
Location: : Ottawa Anxiety & Trauma Clinic
Billings Bridge Plaza, Suite 202
9:00 a.m. to 5 p.m. both days
Contact Info: : Phone: 613-737-1194  
Fax: 613-737-5884
Website: www.anxietyandtraumaclinic.com

Worshop Summary

  1. Introduction to the Ericksonian approach to hypnosis and healing
  2. Traumatic life events and their consequences
  3. Coping strategies and symptom development
  4. Centering around the client: enhancing adaptive creativity

  5. Anxiety and its logic
    1. The process of treating anxiety:
      1. Stabilizing body and mind: the relaxation response
      2. Dealing with disruptive symptoms
      3. Controlling run off imagination
      4. Using friendly narratives
      5. Avoiding avoidance responses
      6. Future orientation: feeling strong, efficient and resourceful

  6. Dissociation and its logic
    1. The process of treating dissociation:
      1. Safety first: stabilizing affect and general functioning
      2. Accessing and developing resources: the importance of creativity and positive emotions
      3. Remembering and rewriting personal narratives.
      4. Resolution or trauma and reclaiming dissociated resources
      5. Forgetting to dissociate and flexible use of dissociating abilities
      6. Renegotiating a new world view
      7. Orienting to the future: creating a satisfactory life

  7. Post traumatic stress disorder and its logic
    1. The process of treating PSTD
      1. Identifying resources: imagination and creativity
      2. Stabilizing affect and general functioning
      3. Dealing with interfering symptoms: flashbacks, concentration, attention, memory, irrational thoughts about safety, dissociation, interpersonal difficulties and other weakening reactions.
      4. Anchoring experience in self-enhancing activities
      5. Assertion training and other negotiation skills
      6. Orienting to the future: rebuilding a strong sense of Self.
  8. Conclusion: The importance of emphasizing strengths and minimizing pathology; centering on solutions rather than explanations of causality; motivating, enhancing and sustaining therapeutic progress; strategic use of hypnosis; maintaining an optimistic and positive stance through treatment an follow-up.
Liliana Cané, Ph.D., Psychologist
Director Milton H. Erickson Institute of Montreal
www.imhem.com

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