Webinar: Working with trauma in practicum
In this 90 minute webinar, we introduce useful concepts to help graduate/practicum students of counselling and psychotherapy who would like to be able to conceptualize complex trauma in a more robust way.
Live webinar was on Wednesday February 1
5PM PST, 8PM EST
If you signed up to attend, you will have received instructions to access the recording with no extra cost. If you did not sign up and you’d like to purchase the recording, click on the image below:
For $20 CAD or $116 HKD, you can access this 90 minute webinar which features useful information to help practicum students of counselling and psychology conceptualize complex trauma. Background information, as well as four top-down and bottom-up approaches are covered. Facilitated by two trauma-trained, trauma-informed psychotherapists.
This webinar is a response to conversations we’ve had with practicum students in counselling psychology who have said that they would like to feel more prepared to work with trauma (specifically complex trauma) before or during practicum.
While the webinar is specifically focused on practicum students, people who are completing their coursework or people who have just begun their career are welcome to join us!
What we will aim to cover:
What is complex trauma? Useful background information
Four different practices/perspectives to help you conceptualize complex trauma in a more robust and comprehensive way
top-down approaches
how do we recognize and work with the ways in which trauma may have impacted our clients’ beliefs, thoughts, memories, and identities?
bottom-up approaches
how do we recognize and work with the ways in which trauma may have impacted our clients’ physiological states, bodies, and emotional worlds?
Integration: time for Q&A and further deepening of the learning material
This webinar will be recorded and participants will have free access to the recording and slides afterward. Those who wish to purchase the recording may do so after the webinar for the same price as a ticket.
Your facilitators
Alli and Yumiko are pan-Pacific friends located in Hong Kong and Vancouver Island, respectively. They met over three years ago during graduate school and quickly bonded over a shared passion for understanding, treating, and educating on complex trauma. This passion has led them to pursue post-graduate training in treating complex trauma and they have each built extensive professional experience working with youth, adults, and families whose lives have been touched by relational, intergenerational, cultural, and attachment traumas.
Alli Ruttger, MACP, CCC
I’m a psychotherapist in private practice, primarily working with adults. I specialize in working with the ways that trauma impacts our identity and helping my clients shift the psychological, biological, and emotional pattens that support these identifications so that new, preferred ones can come to the forefront. I have received specialized training in NARM (the Neuro Affective Relational Model) and Narrative Therapy. In addition to my private practice work, I have a special interest in working alongside migrant workers, human trafficking survivors, and refugees in Hong Kong.
Yumiko Kakutani, MACP, CCC
I’m a psychotherapist working in a university counselling centre and in private practice working with children and families. I worked in the field of Infant Development for the last 18 years, 6 of those years for Coast Salish communities. I lean heavily on evidence based approaches like NARM (Neuro-Affective Relational Model) and include attachment neuroscience and polyvagal theory to support clients navigating the effects of trauma. I have a special interest in supporting neurodivergent clients, clients who have experienced developmental trauma, and those who are exploring their cultural identities.