Complex Trauma Training Center

Healthy relationships, whether romantic, platonic, or professional, thrive when each party is committed to transparent, compassionate interactions. One psychotherapist believes that we can create an environment for better relationships by identifying personality patterns and actively addressing the biases that each pattern elicits. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, CTTC Director and NARM? Senior Trainer Brad Kammer welcomes psychologist, author, and trainer Steven Kessler, MFT, to discuss the role that personality patterns play in our communication styles and how those patterns impact our relationships. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gkMsdTSF

A natural response to the loss of someone or something significant, grief is a journey all of us will encounter. For all its universality, however, our society has grown increasingly grief-adverse and avoidant. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth welcomes Karen Ihrig, LCSW, to share her experiences working with bereaved clients while tending to her own grief. The pair discuss the differences between grief and traumatic bereavement and the speed with which our current mental health system pathologizes rather than embraces the bereavement process. They also explore the intersectional aspects of NARM and ATTEND (attunement, trust, touch, egalitarianism, nuance, and death education), the two models that Karen employs in her Phoenix, AZ practice. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/dhJcVMdG

Connection and healing often happen amid our messiest, most vulnerable moments. The rawness of our experiences can create the space we need to welcome a new way of living, loving, and even learning. One clinical counselor has witnessed this truth repeatedly throughout her multifaceted career and personal life. Her ability to stay with discomfort and lend intuitive support has made her an effective NARM? Therapist and an outstanding NARM Training Assistant. Host Emily Ruth invites Lisa Gillispie, LPCC-S, to share observations from her role as Lead Training Assistant for NARM Therapist Trainings run by the Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC), and her multi-discipline career as a trauma-informed practitioner. The pair also discuss the ripple effect that NARM training has created in Lisa's personal healing journey. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gKH9CcRH

On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth welcomes back Brad Kammer, Training Director and Senior Trainer at Complex Trauma Training Center (CTTC), and Stefanie Klein, CTTC’s Assistant Training Director and Trainer, for a heartfelt and candid year-end conversation. The trio celebrates all that CTTC has accomplished and discusses challenges associated with creating and maintaining innovative, supportive programming. Providing a professional community for mental health professionals, CTTC offers various events and programs, including the NARM? Therapist and NARM? Master Trainings (the NeuroAffective Relational Model). We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/g6syBNRQ

As awareness of complex trauma has grown, so has the need for leaders in the field to share their wisdom and tips for helping individuals, families and communities resolve complex trauma. Over the past 5 years and 150 episodes, the Transforming Trauma podcast has been a platform for these voices of inspiration, hope, guidance and support. To celebrate our 150th episode. CTTC Director and NARM? Senior Trainer Brad Kammer joins host Emily Ruth to reminisce about the inspiring guests who have graced the 2024 season and the many heartfelt conversations that have shaped the show since its inception in January 2020. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gy6C-vwy

Did you know that the diagnostic criteria for borderline personality disorder (BPD) has remained the same since it was officially added to the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders in 1980? Forty years later, it remains deeply misunderstood by the public and isolating for those who live with the condition. One psychotherapist thinks it’s time for a change. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth talks with Mark L. Ruffalo, MSW., D.Psa., about his extensive work in the field of BPD. The pair discuss the history of BPD, its on how to apply effective psychotherapy when treating clients with BPD. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/g_8Tkkw7

The best time to work on becoming an emotionally mature partner is before entering an intimate relationship. That guidance is especially important for people who have a history of relational and developmental trauma. The second best opportunity for growth arrives in the form of triggers – those adverse emotional responses that blur the distinction between past and present. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, Emily Ruth welcomes Dr. David Richo, PhD, MFT, psychotherapist, teacher, and writer to share wisdom from his 50+ years of helping people identify and resolve relationship challenges that often mirror issues from their childhood. Dr. Richo invites us to think of triggers as trailheads, often uncomfortable but informative starting points on our healing journey. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gWyQPPwE

On this episode of Transforming Trauma, host Emily Ruth welcomes Clinical Sexologist and Psychologist Rikke Pristed to discuss the interplay between physical intimacy, trauma, and connection (or lack thereof). Sex is one of the least-discussed topics in therapy, often due to the therapist’s perceived lack of subject knowledge. Rikke believes that therapists have already developed a baseline competency in this area simply by being human. And those trained in the NeuroAffective Relational Model? (NARM?) are even better positioned to help couples improve their physical and emotional bonds. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gbs-NVyF

What is one-word that describes your deepest desire? What might be in your way of actualizing this desire? And, if you were able to actualize this desire, how might that impact your life moving forward? These are questions that people who are exploring personal and spiritual growth ask themselves and that guide their deepening connection to themselves and others. On this episode of Transforming Trauma, CTTC Director and NARM? Senior Trainer Brad Kammer welcomes Jessica Britt, Training Director of The Diamond Approach, to share wisdom from her decades-long journey of personal healing and professional development. The pair also examine similarities between The Diamond Approach and the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) in working with themes of connection, health and aliveness in healing complex trauma. We invite you to listen to the full episode and follow Transforming Trauma in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, or your favorite podcast app. https://lnkd.in/gZYTPqEp

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