Dissociative Identity Phenomena (DIP), Attachment, Developmental, and Complex Traumatic Wounding, and Parts Work: Advanced BSP Specialty Training ©

Developed and Presented by Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D.

Date: October 6-8th, 2023

Time: 9 am - 5:30 pm Pacific Time

Online via Zoom

This specialty training will equip practitioners with tools to assess and address dissociative identity phenomena and parts work in sessions.  Therapists will learn new advanced level concepts, techniques, and set-ups to engage the neuroexperiential processing of the client’s dissociative survival adaptations and in working with their parts.  Therapists will deepen their responsiveness to the attachment, developmental, and traumatic wounding of their clients.

Come join us and develop yourself as a provider working with complex trauma, dissociative identity phenomena, and parts.

DIP Training participants will learn to:

1.  Differentiate different types of dissociative phenomena and parts

2.  Identify the foundations of a developmental “diagnosis”

3.  Explain when assessment of dissociative phenomena is useful, and what instruments may be helpful

4.  Attune to the client’s self-system© through the lens of the 6 F’s of Trauma Response©

5.  Modify the traditional DID and C-PTSD three-stage treatment model to creatively follow the client in the spirit of “being in the tail of the comet”

6.  Utilize the two-part dual frame© for the self-system© of the client

7.  Discern when to utilize standard Brainspotting techniques with dissociative adaptations, and when to utilize specialized Building Block DIP Therapeutic Activities©

8.  Develop specialized scaffolding techniques to support the frame and the client’s self-system© to safely engage insiders and parts in trauma processing

9.  Apply a stance of humility in the repair of the therapeutic ruptures of mis-attunement, enactments, limbic countertransference, and stepping on landmines

10.  Observe and practice new Brainspotting Setups for use with dissociative identity phenomena and parts, including Advanced BlindSpotting© and the Yellow Brick Road Setup©

Pre-Requisites: Brainspotting Phase 1 and 2 required. Phase 3 or Parts training recommended, but not required.

CEUs: We are unable to guarantee CEU availability at this time, but are looking into potential options.

Materials: Materials will be sent digitally a few days before the training

Refund Policy: Please review to the refund policy presented upon check-out

Contact: For registration support or any questions/concerns in regards to the event, please contact Connie's assistant Bri at jecmenbr@gmail.com

I am also offering a monthly DIP consultation group to offer support to clinicians who are interested in learning about working with persons struggling with dissociative identity phenomenon, in expanding the skill set and knowledge in working with this population, and supporting other clinicians who are working with persons within this population. You can find registration for this consultation group here.

About Connie Johnshoy- Currie

Connie Johnshoy-Currie, Psy.D., is a Licensed Psychologist in Southern California. Connie has been working with dissociative identity phenomena, as well as developmental, attachment, and traumatic injuries, since early 1980 with her masters degree. She has been trained in specialty work with dissociative phenomena.  Her specialization in work with children and adolescents has greatly enhanced her work with developmental disruption and young child and adolescent parts and insiders.  She has worked with clients experiencing dissociative phenomena with both EMDR and BSP effectively.

Her treatment specialty areas include PTSD, Complex PTSD and Dissociative Identity Phenomenon (DIP, DID), child and adolescents, developmental and structuralization internal work, parts work, and she works extensively with second responders (mental health providers). Dr. Johnshoy-Currie provides a monthly Networking Consultation Group in both Brainspotting (since 2008) and EMDR (since 1998), currently via zoom. She offers a monthly specialty consultation group for clinicians working with children and adolescents and for clinicians seeking to develop their competence in working with dissociative identity phenomenon and traumatic injury.