Healing Our Core Issues: An Introduction to Developmental and Relational Trauma
In-Person Training (Murfreesboro)
6 CE Hours
“Healing Our Core Issues: An Introduction to Developmental and Relational Trauma”
Laura Williams, LPC-MHSP, DARTT, EMDR Certified
Ashley Dunn, LPC-MHSP, DARTT, EMDR Trained
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Presentation Date/Time
Friday, October 18, 2024
9:00am – 4:00pm CDT
(1-hour lunch not provided)
Location
Miller Education Center, Middle Tennessee State University
503 East Bell Street, Building A
Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Directions
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This presentation will introduce you to trauma from a different lens, where trauma is about the reaction in your body and why you do what you do rather than about the event that happened. The nervous system and how it handles traumatic events or disruptions will be discussed. It will also introduce you do the idea of birthrights and what happens when those birthrights aren’t met during childhood and what it looks like in adulthood when those woundings happen. And finally, it will impress upon you the importance of being a healing healer, meaning that in order to do work with your clients, you must do the work yourself.
Objectives:
- Participants will be able to conceptualize trauma as a bodily reaction rather than solely an event, recognizing the significance of the nervous system’s role in handling traumatic experiences.
- Participants will gain insight into how the nervous system processes and responds to traumatic events or disruptions.
- Participants will learn about the concept of birthrights and techniques to address and improve when birthrights are not met.
About the Speaker(s)
Laura Williams, LPC-MHSP, DARTT, EMDR Certified
Laura received her Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling from Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida in 2005. She has been in private practice in Brentwood, Tennessee, since 2016. She is a Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapist who is certified in EMDR. She has training in somatic experiencing as well as training in the effects of trauma on the nervous system. Laura also works in helping clients worth through many life circumstances including addiction, co-dependence, spiritual abuse, identity, sexual abuse and boundaries, in addition to others. In addition to private practice, Laura spent time working in a program called Epic Girl, where she focused on the world of human trafficking prevention. Today, she works primarily with adult women, although she does work with men as well. Laura founded Be Found Counseling, with her business partner, Ashley Dunn, in 2020.
Ashley Dunn, LPC-MHSP, DARTT, EMDR Trained
Ashley Dunn obtained her Masters and Specialist level degrees in School Psychology from Appalachian State University and graduate level coursework in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Lipscomb University. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Murray State University. In addition to serving women, men and teens in the private counseling setting, she has spent time working for international summer programs in Scotland and England, serving intensive educational settings as a School Psychologist for over 10 years, coaching a wheelchair basketball team, mentoring in youth ministry settings, and working with clients in a residential addiction treatment program. Ashely is trained in somatic experiencing and in the effects of trauma on the nervous system.
