Cost: £25 for St Bs Counsellors and £45 for external practitioners

This 1 day workshop will concentrate on the three phases of treatment giving practical skills helpful for working with this client group. We will emphasise the importance of staying in both your client’s and your own window of tolerance as well as taking into account the limits of what might be possible to offer within the Centre. 

The focus will also be on clinical examples from any relevant case material.

Melanie the Co-founder of First Person Plural will emphasise the importance of these three stages, within the context of the impact of enduring trauma in childhood and complex dissociation. 

‘I will consider how and why these stages are never linear. I will use my lived experience to convey the importance of the first stage, stabilisation and how if this stage is not addressed steadily and comprehensively throughout the therapeutic journey may jeopardise and prevent any further work. I will share the importance of working with the individual parts/alters and how if this is not an integral part of therapy may cause further fragmentation and chaos in an already challenging situation. l will reflect on the importance of the therapeutic relationship, how this may develop and some of the obstacles to be tackled through transparent 'partnership working' with the therapist.’

https://www.firstpersonplural.org.uk/

Facilitators:

Melanie Goodwin is a dynamic facilitator and the co-founder of First Person Plural. She has lived experience of DID.

‘Over thirty years ago when my DID was first fully experienced and then recognized clinically, there was very little information and support, pre Internet days! I co-founded First Person Plural primarily to help address the isolation that so often is a part of living with complex mental health and the lack of knowledge available about DID. I ran a Playgroup and worked in Suffolk Libraries for many years, the last ten in management roles. I was drawn continuously to improve services for children. I learnt how important childhood, including playing, is as a solid foundation for my own adult, DID journey. I am very fortunate to have children and grandchildren. I received good, DID focused therapy which has allowed me to fully enjoy, in ways I knew even existed, my growing family in the last few years.’

Rémy Aquarone is an analytical psychotherapist and member of the BPC and a retired member of the UKCP. He is Director of the Pottergate Centre for Dissociation and Trauma (www.dissociation.co.uk), past President of the European Society for Trauma and Dissociation (www.estd.org) and past International Director of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (www.isst-d.org). He has specialised in the area of Dissociation for the past 25 years, offering assessments and consultancy assistance nationally to CMHTs and psychiatric services.