Date: Thursday 11 June 2026
Time: 8pm CET, 2pm EST, 11am PST, 7pm GMT
Duration: 90 minutes
Tutor: Ellert Nijenhuis, Ph.D.
Can’t attend live? Ticket holders will receive access to the recording of the public masterclass for 7 days.

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Does what I long for count in trauma therapy? Or must I simply adhere to techniques and protocols?

Do you sometimes struggle to make real clinical progress with trauma patients — even when you’re applying the right techniques and carefully following protocols? Do supervisors ever leave you doubting your own abilities? Ellert offers a unique perspective on these situations. Attend this Public Masterclass to gain greater clarity and renewed clinical confidence.

In this Public Masterclass series, Ellert Nijenhuis starts sharing what he learned while working with dissociative patients for over 40 years. His goal is to help you gain clarity and feel more confident in your therapeutic work with people with DID.

This public masterclass is ideal for:

• Psychotherapists, psychiatrists, and other therapy practitioners

  Including clinicians working with complex trauma and dissociative disorders.

• Educational and psychosocial professionals
  Who support children, adolescents, or adults with complex trauma histories.

• Medical, psychology, and healthcare students
  With an interest in trauma, dissociation, and clinical practice. Sign up with your university’s email address and receive access to the second and third masterclass for free.

About Ellert Nijenhuis

As a -now, retired-psychologist and psychotherapist, Ellert has diagnosed, treated and scientifically studied severely traumatised patients for over 40 years. He developed the Somatoform Dissociation Questionnaire (SDQ-20) and his publications include the book Somatoform Dissociation and the trilogy The Trinity of Trauma: Ignorance, Fragility, and Control. With Onno van der Hart and Kathy Steele he co-authored the book The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization.

Nijenhuis has been one of the founders of the ESTD. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation granted him several awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award.

Since 2014, he specifically concentrates on sharing his experience and knowledge regarding the psychology, psychobiology, and treatment of chronic traumatisation and dissociation.