From Fear to Formulation: How to Understand and Treat Dissociation - 4 hours
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- CE Hours Included: 4 (please see below for details)
- Format: On-Demand Webinar (“Asynchronous”, Non-Interactive) ~ At your leisure this recorded video is to be viewed at your own pace. You may pause, rewind, and fast forward at any point during the videos. You are in complete control of how you view this workshop. It also comes with a PowerPoint and references. There is a quiz at the end to ensure viewing and required by all CE approval organizations.
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- Investment: $109 (provides lifetime access!)
- Presented by: Rebecca Huls, LPC (see bio below)
- Date of Recording: November 10, 2026
- Instruction Level: Intermediate
- Target Audience: Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists
- This workshop is not yet available; by pre-registering, you will receive immediate access when it becomes available in November.
Learning Objectives:
After completing this workshop in its entirety, you will be able to:
- Describe the neurobiological and trauma-informed mechanisms underlying dissociation as an adaptive survival response.
- Explain how dissociation differs from other commonly misunderstood clinical presentations, including psychosis, personality pathology, and emotional avoidance.
- Identify verbal, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological indicators of dissociation that may emerge during psychotherapy.
- Apply trauma-informed interventions that promote stabilization and client safety when working with individuals experiencing dissociation.
Workshop Description:
What would you do if a client experienced dissociation in or between sessions? This workshop reframes dissociation as an adaptive trauma response rather than pathology. It explores the dissociative continuum, differential diagnosis, and clinical presentations. Participants will learn practical, trauma-informed strategies to recognize and respond to dissociation, improve confidence, and support stabilization in therapy.
Workshop Agenda:
- Exploring the neurobiological and trauma-informed mechanisms underlying dissociation and explaining its adaptive function as a survival response across the dissociative continuum. (45 mins)
- Current neurobiological research outcomes on dissociation
- Dissociation as a spectrum of experience
- Common misconceptions about dissociation
- Differentiate dissociation from psychosis, personality pathology, emotional avoidance, and other commonly misunderstood clinical presentations using current trauma-informed conceptualizations. (90 mins)
- Diagnostic criteria and differentiators
- Medical and cultural considerations in diagnostic approaches
- Screening tools and appropriate uses
- Recognize verbal, behavioral, emotional, cognitive, and physiological indicators of dissociation that may emerge during psychotherapy and interpret these responses within a trauma-informed clinical framework. (30 mins)
- How to discuss dissociative experiences with clients
- Exploring indicators of dissociation in session
- Apply trauma-informed interventions that promote stabilization, therapeutic presence, attunement, and client safety when working with individuals experiencing dissociation, while reducing clinician fear, avoidance, and unnecessary pathologizing. (75 mins)
- Present moment awareness exercises and activities
- Review ISSTD guidelines and phased approach to working with dissociative clients
- Explore the research body for best practice approaches in each phase
- Case Formulation and Case Study Exercises
Presented by: Rebecca Huls, LPC
4 "Asynchronous" CE Hours Included - Details by License Type Below:
- PSYCHOLOGISTS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company maintains responsibility for this program and its content. For more detailed information on the current CE ruling in Georgia, or if you are licensed in another state or country, please click here.
- COUNSELORS: The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company has been approved by the National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC) as an Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP), ACEP No. 7153. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. The Knowledge Tree, A Summit Professional Education Company is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
- GA: Counselors in GA will receive 4 Core Hours for completing this course. Please click here for more detailed information.
- SOCIAL WORKERS: The Knowledge Tree, a Summit Professional Education
Company, provider #2470, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work
continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved
Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority
on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval
period: 1/14/2026-1/14/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 4 clinical continuing education credits.
- GA: Social Workers in GA will receive 4 Core Hours for completing this course. Please click here for more detailed information.
- MARRIAGE & FAMILY THERAPISTS: TKT has applied for approval for this workshop through the Georgia Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (GAMFT). If you are licensed in another state or country, please click here for more detailed information.
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Multiple Workshop Special: There is a 10% Discount with registration for two workshops. There is a 15% Discount with registrations for three or four workshops. There is a 20% Discount with registration for five or more workshops.
Refund/Cancellation Policy: If you can no longer attend a workshop you have registered for, you can either receive a credit for another workshop or receive a refund if you are within the refund policy period. Refunds will be given for cancellations received at least five days prior to the workshop. More information about refund/cancellation can be found here.
Attendance Policy: 100% attendance, completion of a course evaluation and passing a post-test with a score of 70% or higher (you will have 2 retake opportunities) is required at any asynchronous CE program in order to receive credit for that CE program. No partial credit is given. Certificates of completion will be available in each attendee’s account once these completion requirements have been met.
ADA Requests: We will make every effort to accommodate any reasonable ADA request. Please call or email us at least two weeks prior to the event. Payment and registration are required to fulfill an ADA request.
No Conflict Policy: Neither The Knowledge Tree nor its speakers have received any commercial support for this program or its contents and will not receive any commercial support prior to or during this program.
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