Integrating Parts Work into Therapy: Getting Creative in Working with Youth, Adults, Couples and Families with Developmental Trauma From a Parts Framework

This event will be recorded and the link will be sent to all registrants afterwards. It will be available for three weeks only. Please note that all events have to be paid in full before the event takes place - regardless of the due date on the invoice.

Developmental trauma results in a breadth of deleterious effects for children and adults, however, a trauma survivor of any age also embodies and demonstrates great resilience in how they adapt and cope. In order to endure the pain of trauma and neglect, an individual can develop "parts" that can hold traumatic/somatic memory, associated affect, cognitive understanding, and self-appraisal. These parts are more or less split-off or fragmented parts of self that can present both great challenges and immense opportunities in therapy. During this workshop, we will explore creative ways of integrating parts work into therapy with clients of all ages, including how parts work can be interwoven with other models/interventions, as well as be used to understand and address clinical impasses and other therapeutic challenges and barriers. We will focus on working with youth, adults, couples, and families.

Objectives:

1. Learn relevant and applicable parts work approaches and interventions for youth, adults, couples, and families
2. Understand the theoretical underpinnings for parts work and its relevance to supporting individuals who have experienced developmental and intergenerational traumas
3. Be able to identify clinically indicated opportunities to integrate parts work with an understanding of how to decrease dissociation, increase internal cohesion and collaboration among parts, and support more compassion in relationships

Presenter: Mariah Rooney MSW, LCSW

Mariah’s clinical work with children, adults, couples and families has crossed outpatient, community, hospital and specialty care settings. She serves as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Social Work at Winona State University; has served as a trauma-informed care consultant for the American Institutes of Research; and was previously a fellow at the Trauma Center at the Justice Resource Institute. Her research and writing focuses on areas such as gender-related violence, trauma-informed body-centric interventions, developmental trauma, and systems-level interventions.

She is also the Co-Founder of Trauma Informed Weight Lifting, a program of the Center for Trauma and Embodiment at the Justice Resource Institute and creator of All Parts Welcome, a rich resource with online courses for psychotherapists, coaches and other mental health professionals interested in integrating parts work into their clinical practice.