The Stranger in the Mirror:

Understanding & Treating Dissociative Disorders

Upcoming Training

August 22-24, 2024

Cost: $425

Location: TBD

Knowledge - Assessment - interventions

 This training will include the history of the awareness and study of dissociative disorders with emphasis on the 19th century, 1980s, and 1990s and beyond.

We will review the scientific findings around dissociative disorders as well as review our current understandings of how dissociative processes are carried out neurologically and biologically.

Direction and guidance will be given around proper assessment of dissociative disorders including structured tools that have been empirically validated. Time will be spent reviewing diagnostic criteria including typical presentations. Various models of conceptualizing dissociation will be presented with a large emphasis on self systems (e.g. Dissociative Identity Disorder).

Once we have a standardized way to assess and conceptualize dissociation we will spend time discussing treatment principles, boundaries, and approaches. The final portion of the training will include a consultation time as we review case vignettes and clinician cases. 

Learning Objectives

  1.  To understand the dissociative phenomenon in its universal historical context and not as a transient aberration. This will include review of the evidence of the trauma origins of Dissociative Identity Disorder.

  2.  To review our current understanding of the biological/neurological mechanisms that mediate dissociative responses that with conditioning lead to pathological dissociative responses.

  3. To understand the various conceptualizations of dissociation as well as clinical criteria to assess and diagnose dissociation--including the review of various empirically verified tools for screening for and diagnosing dissociation.

  4. To develop a theoretical conceptualization for dissociative disorders that provides language and useful formulations including Structural Dissociation Theory.

  5. To understand the principles of treatment for dissociative disorders as well as appropriate boundaries and interventions for working with internal systems..

  • Kierstie Cameron

    LPC, NCC, EMDR AC & Trainer

    Owner & Clinician at Compass Consulting, LLC which is a private practice in Colorado Springs that specializes in complex trauma & dissociative disorders.

  • John Favara

    LPC

    Clinician at Compass Consulting, LLC specializing in the treatment of complex trauma and dissociative disorders.

Registration Requirments

In order to register for this training, you must be working towards or have at least a Masters degree in a related mental health field.

To Register email Kierstie@compasscos.com

Compass Consulting, LLC has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7443. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Compass Consulting, LLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.