Presented by: 
AnnaMarie Pemberton, LCPC, PMH-C, Certified in Brainspotting

Course Description:

Join us for a live, virtual continuing education webinar on understanding and healing sexual trauma
impacts along the reproductive path and throughout parenthood. This training addresses the prevalence of sexual trauma and is a call to action to support clients at every step of their healing. Expand your trauma-informed practice and increase both clinical competency and nervous system capacity to respond to unexpected disclosures while working within fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and with parent populations. Participants will explore the unique ways sexual trauma can emerge or resurface during reproductive and parenting transitions, common clinical presentations, the influence of attachment wounds and developmental trauma, and the impact of systemic injustice and stigma on survivors' healing.

Through expanded education on complex trauma, attachment theory, and perinatal and parenthood
population case examples, participants will learn how to preserve and enhance the therapeutic
relationship, uphold trust, strengthen protective factors, and empower clients both inside and outside the therapy room. Whether you are an EMDR trained clinician or use other modalities to work with trauma, you will leave with tools, IFS/Parts work specific interventions and resources that can be immediately applied in practice. Anna's mission is to help clinicians feel more grounded and confident in this tender work—offering survivors hope, healing experiences and the possibility of posttraumatic growth.

Course Access:
Virtual on Zoom - link will be provided prior to the workshop.

Content / Learning Objectives:

1. Describe the influence of complex trauma on the client’s experience that is often overlooked or misattributed in reproductive and parenting contexts.
2. Identify key factors that may influence how sexual trauma is later re-activated, managed, or integrated.
3. Recognize common ways sexual trauma may be expressed or experienced throughout the reproductive journey and parenthood.
4. Recognize 3 strategies to enhance client safeness, agency, self-regulation, and support both in and outside of therapy.
5. Identify 3 IFS/Parts Work and Expressive Arts interventions to support and enhance EMDR work.

Agenda:

9:00 – Introduction

9:10 – Complex Presentation versus Complex Trauma

10:00 – Sexual Trauma: Education, Stigma, and Impact

11:00 – 15-minute break

11:15 – Why Reproductive and Parenting Transitions May Activate Sexual Trauma

12:15 – Strategies for Stability and Empowering Clients

12:45 – Lunch (30 min)

1:15 – IFS/Parts Work and Expressive Arts Interventions

2:15 – Discussion

2:30 – Conclusion of Training

Policies

• Cancellations made in writing within 3 days of the event start date are eligible for a full refund, less a 3% processing fee.
• Grievances: All grievances must be in writing to Stephanie at [email protected] and will be replied to within 5-10 business days.
• ADA Assistance: In-person events are held in compliance with the ADA Act.

Additional Information

• This workshop is intended for licensed mental health therapists who have completed an EMDRIA approved basic training. Skill level: Intermediate. 
• Prerequisite for EMDRIA Credits: Participants must have completed an EMDRIA Approved Basic training in EMDR (both Part I and Part II)
• Certificates are awarded online after completion of the workshop - Participants print their own certificate after registering at CE-Classes.com, entering a keycode, and completing an evaluation form.
• Licensed Professionals should contact their regulatory board to determine course approval
• There is no known commercial support for this program.

We strive to create a supportive environment regardless of an individual’s sexual orientation, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, or religion. We will not engage in discriminatory behavior or bias.

Please reach out to AnnaMarie Pemberton, LCPC, at [email protected] with any questions.