May 2022
Austin AMFT CEU Event

Friday, May 13th

11:30 am - 1 pm

(Breakout Room Small Groups for Networking - First 15 minutes)

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1  CEU Hour | Approved for LMFTs, LPCs, LCSWs, & Psychologists

If you would like to receive CEUs, you must pay the registration fee and complete the evaluation form after the event. Your CEU certificate will then be emailed to you.

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This event will be recorded and accessible through our website afterward. You must be a current Austin AMFT member to access. This recording will not be available to non-members.

TOPIC

PRESENTER

PRESENTATION SUMMARY

Working with high trauma couples presents a particular set of challenges to couple therapists. This presentation provides an overview of an integrative, cross-theoretical approach to working more effectively with couples with histories of complex or unresolved trauma. Margaret Martin, LCSW, and Kathryn Barksdale, LPC, designed the Trauma Wise Couple Therapy (TWCT) framework for use by therapists within their existing model or approach to working with couples. Informed by Stan Tatkin's Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy, Terry Real's Relational Life Therapy, Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, Dan Siegel's Interpersonal Neurobiology, and with a sprinkling of deliberate practice, somatic psychotherapy, and polyvagal theory tossed in for good measure, the TWCT frame supports couple therapists' work with the most challenging couples.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Learn how Dan Siegel's nine levels of integration can be utilized as a road map for working with high trauma couples.
• Understand the three primary problem areas: factual problems, state problems, and structural problems that show up in sessions with high trauma couples.
• Understand the three primary areas of knowledge within the Trauma Wise Couple Therapist's knowledge base that help couple therapists counter these problem areas.

BIOGRAPHY

Margaret Martin, LCSW, is a PACT Level 3 therapist in private practice specializing in complex trauma. She started training with Stan Tatkin, Psy D., MFT in 2012 and now coaches students and provides adjunct training for the PACT Institute. She hosts a free, monthly online discussion group for PACT therapists and PACT-curious therapists. Margaret receives advanced training and supervision in Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), having completed the three-year core training in 2021. In 2020 Margaret joined friend and colleague Kathryn Barksdale, LPC on a clinical quest to find more effective methods for working with highly traumatized couples. Their pandemic project started with a long list of questions and resulted in Trauma Wise Couple Therapy (TWCT), a framework for increasing competency in working with high trauma couples. A training junkie, Margaret is also trained in Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and Emotional Transformation Therapy. She is a self-described neuro-nerd and is evangelical about the clinical benefits of video recording therapy sessions and deliberate practice for therapists. 

margaretmartinlcsw.com

traumawisetherapy.com

This presentation is designed to be useful for all levels of training and experience.

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