Trainings
Countertransference 'Traps' Workshop
Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 Days
Training Overview
This workshop delves into the complexities of countertransference, exploring its impact on the therapeutic process in addictions and mental health. Participants will gain insight into how their own histories and subconscious anxious reactions & reenactments can influence their work with clients. Through clinical knowledge, reflective exercises, and interactive group discussions, this workshop equips participants with strategies to recognize, contain, and address countertransference reactions, ensuring a “do no harm” approach to vulnerable populations.
Who Is It For?
Healthcare, mental health & addictions professionals
What Will You Learn?
1
Foundational Understanding of Countertransference
Understanding the importance of countertransference awareness within the treatment of mental health, substance use, and trauma work.
‘Use of self’ was an approach and yet the challenges and even risks for ‘use of self.’
The historical evolution to the understanding of countertransference as a concept.
Overview of the early evolving theories and theoretical frameworks for countertransference and transference understanding.
Overview of Transference Reactions and their potential risks.
Overview of Countertransference Reactions – Type 1 & 2
Overview of the collective unconscious Countertransference Archetypes including Mother, Father, God & Goddess, Sibling Rivalry, Anima & Animus
Countertransferences and triangulation
Exploring countertransferences and cultural bias
Understanding the role of transference/countertransferences as historically assigned role reenactments from a family of origin
2
Empathy and Its Complexities
The benefits of empathy and the messiness of empathy in the clinical work
Empathic Strain includes withdrawal, repression, enmeshment, disequilibrium, and overidentification
3
Therapeutic Relationships and Attachment
Power of Healthy Clinical Attachment
Trauma Reenactment Syndrome
4
Practical Strategies for Healing
Overview of strategies for the helping professional to recognize, contain & heal event counter-transferences
Understand the role of the clinicians history and how it will reenact within the clinical setting
Understand the role of the culture, values, political & social location within the role of countertransference
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Conceptual Frameworks
Archetypes of transference reactions
Understanding the signs of transference & counter transference reactions in clinical practice
How to effectively attend to clients’ unmanaged unconscious transference reactions.
Learning to identify and manage countertransference reactions to avoid them becoming unmanagable within the clinical work.
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