Course Description

We are born with the innate capacity for self-love. But when the world we meet is traumatizing, we respond by rejecting and condemning ourselves, creating a Wounded Self built on erroneous beliefs about the worth of the self and its place in the world.

Core Self Reclamation Therapy (CSRT) is a relationally bold, new clinical model devoted to undoing the structure of the Wounded Self so that the Core Self can be reclaimed. The CSRT therapist targets the entrenched defenses and toxic shame states created by distorted mirroring and other traumatic experience, standing in on behalf of the patient’s Core Self to guide the patient back to their birthright of love.

CSRT grew out of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP) and was influenced by other experiential psychotherapy models, including Somatic Experiencing, Eriksonian Hypnosis, EMDR, Brainspotting, ISTDP, and Nancy Napier’s parts work. The model has its roots in attachment theory, affective neuroscience, memory reconsolidation research, and mother-infant intersubjectivity research.

In this 10-module course, we will explore how to enhance and accelerate healing through specific interventions that target the deepest intrapsychic wounds. Through the use of lecture, videotapes of actual therapy sessions and live demos we will explore in-depth how to reclaim the Core Self, even with the toughest and most fragile of patients.

Specifically, you will learn how to:

• embody the Fierce Love relational stance that includes championing the integrity of the patient’s Core Self; leading, redirecting, and staying on target; and holding the hope, no matter what.

• undo Core Erroneous Beliefs and maladaptive Internal Laws through Uncoupling, Core Self mirroring, Updating the Nervous System and a unique new form of Parts Work.

• micro-track and micro-attune to your patients internal states, the fuel that drives the therapeutic work.

• shore up and empower the Present-Day Self to do the work of intrapsychic healing through Parts Work.

• install and encode corrective emotional experiences to enhance memory and Meaning Reconsolidation.