This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, a leading expert on trauma therapy and globally acclaimed author of the psychotherapy bestseller, “Trauma & the Struggle to Open Up,” is aimed at pacing therapy with trauma clients who are anxious to share. As clinicians, we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, but this can be easier said than done. Many rush into the work, seeking a "quick fix", despite a long history of interpersonal trauma.
 
Drawing upon attachment theory and research, and upon a wealth of clinical experience. Dr. Muller explains how we can work with such hard-to-treat clients. Using a relational, integrative approach, the workshop demonstrates strategies for pacing the process, to help the client face difficult traumatic material.

Dr. Muller points to the different choices therapists make in navigating the process of opening up, choices that have a strong impact on outcome.  The workshop also acknowledges that recovery from trauma is a complicated process: When clients sit with the secrecy of trauma for years, they carry it as a burden. But when they reveal too much, too soon, they may feel worse, making the pacing of opening up critical. The key is in the therapist-client relationship. Dr. Muller walks us through the relational approaches that help pace the process of opening up -so that clients find the
experience helpful, not harmful.
 
​The course aims to provide an integrative training approach that enables practitioners using different therapeutic modalities to integrate the relevant elements of treatment with their existing skills, which they can then apply to their work. Throughout the workshop, theory is complemented by case examples, practical exercises, and segments from Dr. Muller's own treatment sessions. The workshop focuses on clinical skills that are directly applicable in our work as therapists.