Often our clients can complain of body dysregulation, particularly sleep deprivation. How does this affect their quality of life, their mental health, and what benefits they can get from therapy? When working with clients with food deprivation scripts – this can hinder a client’s cognitive ability to engage in therapy. In the same way, a client’s lack of sleep can affect their functioning in therapy and their levels of anxiety or depression.
In this workshop we will learn how we can treat sleep issues with our clients. The various medical and psychological considerations, and the multiple treatment approaches we can consider and offer. Often repressed or split-off trauma can cause sleep issues, night terrors, sleep walking or talking, or pervasive and persistent night-mares.
Trainer: Susie Hewitt MSc Psychotherapy, TSTA-P, UKPC Reg. mBACP Accred. Susie has suffered with insomnia for most of her life and has been working with sleep issues (not always as a primary presenting issue) for many years. Her CTA (Certified Transactional Analyst exam) case study client called her his ‘sleep therapist’, as the substantive therapeutic change he declared at the end of the process was a reduction in night terrors, nightmares, and disrupted sleep.
To apply for our Advanced Clinical training (if you have not joined earlier years) we ask that you Contact Us with information of your training to date and then, if appropriate, we will schedule an interview to see if it's appropriate to offer you a place on our training programme.
