LIVE WEBINAR: The Trauma-Bonded Relationship
A presentation of BRAIN.DOT.COM Productions
Presenter: Dr Sarah Ullman
Date: Coming in March, 2019, Stay tuned!
Duration: 60 minutes
Price: $49
Bonuses: This webinar includes downloadable Worksheets and access to the private Community Forum.
Who Should Attend: This webinar is for a general audience with or without any science or psychological background as well as those in the healthcare professions.
Materials Used: A diverse set of learning tools will be utilized that include video clips, animated slides, engaging (non-graded!) quizzes and polls, and colorful downloadable Worksheets to accompany and enhance the webinar experience.
Description: This webinar focuses on a fascinating and specific relationship dynamic that is neither unusual nor healthy. Those that are engaged in this highly chaotic and traumatic type of relationship generally have no idea what the root cause may be, and can go a lifetime without being able to understand let alone solve the issues that cause significant ongoing discord and psychological pain for each individual separately and the relationship as a whole. A trauma-bonded relationship is one that gets its start early in the life of each individual and is borne out of a chaotic and/or traumatic childhood and family environment. As mated adults, each individual in the relationship triggers the other in remarkably specific way in order to recreate deep-rooted childhood issues such as abandonment, rejection, and insecurity. This occurs in order to keep each person in a vicious but all-too-familiar cycle of chaos and emotional trauma.Neither person is quite aware of their own role in the repetitive dynamic, nor how it is intricately tied to their early developmental years. It is no coincidence that each person has somehow managed to find a mate that is from a similar early childhood background. This webinar will demonstrate how that happens and why, how the brain is able to 'sniff out' its' psychological match, and how to stop the harmful, repetitive cycle. Unless this issue is addressed, neither the individuals within the relationship nor the relationship itself will be able to effect any lasting change, and even if the relationship ends, each individual will, without treatment, simply repeat the cycle with someone else.
Upon completion of this webinar you will learn:
- how to recognize and define a trauma-bonded relationship
- what is meant by arousal dysregulation
- how to recognize the ways in which each individual within a trauma-bonded relationship psychologically triggers the other
- how the brain is able to ‘sniff out’ a trauma-bonded mate
- how to spot the signs or 'red flags' that can lead to a trauma-bonding when meeting someone before becoming involved
- how to treat and heal the individual issues
- how to treat and heal the relational issues
Presenter Info: With a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology, Dr Ullman has been educating, researching, diagnosing and treating individuals, couples, groups, families, and first responders for trauma and addiction-based disorders for 30 years, and has devoted both her research efforts and clinical work to the diagnoses and treatment specific to disorders of arousal dysregulation. This population includes children and adults that have experienced early childhood trauma such as sexual abuse, neglect, and/or violence. Unfortunately and through no fault of their own, a great many of these children, unable to self-regulate their emotions secondary to their abuse, develop issues in adulthood such as substance (drug and alcohol) and process (sex, food, self-harm, gambling) addictions, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), explosive uncontrollable anger, and personality distortions that may include Narcissistic (NPD) and Borderline (BPD) personality disorders. In addition to teaching at various colleges and universities, Dr Ullman is an active emergency disaster responder for military and governmental agencies when disaster strikes, and maintains a private practice in the Philadelphia (mainline) Pennsylvania area of the United States. A considerable portion of her practice includes a national and international clientele via HIPAA/HITECH-compliant telemental health video (web-therapy) around the world.
Please join Dr Ullman for an exciting, entertaining, and educational 60-minute multimedia live webinar wherein you will learn about the impact of psychological trauma and how the brain is altered without ever having been physically touched. You will learn about these issues and more from one of the foremost Cognitive-Behavioral and neuroscience-based experts in the field of Complex Trauma (C-PTSD), Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and Addiction from the clinician that has been researching, speaking, diagnosing, and treating those that have been impacted by psychological trauma for more than 30 years.
Everyone who signs up for this webinar will be sent a free replay, just in case you were unable to attend the live event.