Many traumatised patients have never been able to trust anyone, so trust is something they have yet to learn. They come to you because they need help, yet they have learned that people cannot be trusted. That double agenda shapes the therapeutic relationship. In this 2-hour online masterclass, Ellert Nijenhuis shares an experience from his own practice and shows how you can become a model of safe attachment. That way, your patient can slowly learn what trust feels like, which is essential for the healing process.

Viele traumatisierte Patient*innen konnten nie jemandem vertrauen. Vertrauen ist für sie etwas, das sie erst noch lernen müssen. Sie kommen zu Ihnen, weil sie Hilfe brauchen, und haben doch gelernt, dass man Menschen nicht trauen kann. Diese doppelte Agenda prägt die therapeutische Beziehung. In dieser zweistündigen Online-Masterclass teilt Ellert Nijenhuis eine Erfahrung aus seiner eigenen Praxis und zeigt, wie Sie zu einem Modell sicherer Bindung werden können. So können Ihre Patient*innen nach und nach erfahren, wie sich Vertrauen anfühlt: eine wesentliche Voraussetzung für den Heilungsprozess.

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A patient suddenly or frequently loses consciousness, yet medical tests find nothing. Ellert Nijenhuis shares a case from his own practice, in which it quickly appeared that a dissociative agent took over control, and how he handled the situation. You will learn to recognise such moments and respond calmly and therapeutically when they happen in your session.

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During therapy, a patient suddenly freezes: the body stiffens, movement stops, and contact seems to fade. Sometimes this can be a form of somatoform dissociation. In this 2-hour online masterclass, Ellert Nijenhuis shares an experience from his own practice and how he handled it. You will learn to recognise what may be happening in such moments, and how to stay present and respond calmly and therapeutically when your patient's body becomes rigid.

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Sometimes a controlling emotional part (EP) of a dissociative patient steps forward and shows itself as aggressive, mistrustful, or otherwise turned against you. In this 2-hour online masterclass, Ellert Nijenhuis shares an experience from his own practice and shows how to handle these moments, and how to gradually turn this part’s resistance into a cooperative relationship.

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Sometimes a dissociative patient suddenly speaks, moves or acts like a young child. This is often the fragile emotional part (EPF): a part that carries the pain, fear and longing for care from the Apparently Normal Part (ANP) and therapist. In this 2-hour online masterclass, Ellert Nijenhuis shares an experience from his own practice and shows how to meet this fragile part with warmth and clarity, enlarge her power of action while keeping the ANP adult part(s) in view.

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It is usually the apparently normal part (ANP) that comes to therapy, wanting to be free of dissociative symptoms. Yet those symptoms are where the emotional parts (EPs) come into play. The ANP is driven by ignorance: it ignores the other parts, while they long to be heard, seen, felt and respected like any other human being. This avoidance may have helped the ANP to live a “normal” life, but the symptoms won’t stop until the parts begin to cooperate. In this 2-hour online masterclass, Ellert Nijenhuis shares an experience from his own practice and shows how you can help these dissociative agents gradually move from avoidance towards cooperation.

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