Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Hello
If you’re like most therapists, you don’t know much about dissociation…
In fact, you might even be a bit afraid of it.
Or you have flashbacks from Sybil and think your client with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is going to flip into an out-of-control persona during a session.
You might think there’s a special modality that helps clients who dissociate, but you don’t know which one it is.
Well, it’s not your fault if you feel confused or ill-prepared. You didn’t learn the facts about dissociative identities in graduate school, and the popular parts methods often fall short working with DID.
“Therapists are always saying ‘Tell me what to do’,” Dr. Jamie Marich reports. “They think DID can be simply addressed with a model — a set of rules. But there is no one model.”
In Understanding Dissociation: An Insider’s View on Helping Dissociative Clients, Dr. Jamie will show you the steps to demystify dissociative identities.
Jamie is one of the few trainers on dissociation who is candid about their own lived experience with a dissociative disorder. She/they will speak to you from her insider perspective as a person with dissociative identities AND teach you proven tools she uses as an expert therapist who works with dissociative clients.
Every module brings you one step closer to becoming the therapist you aspire to be. The one who empowers, heals, and advocates. The one who understands that dissociation is a lived experience, and can help clients navigate it skillfully.
- Here is what you will learn in this on-demand course:
- Module 1: Demystifying Dissociation: Reconceptualizing the Fundamentals
- Module 2: The Dissociative Profile: Implications for Grounding, Stabilization & Preparation
- Module 3: Working with Parts: How to Navigate Aspects of Experience When No Perfect Model Exists
- Module 4: Treatment Solutions: Beyond Method and One Size Fits All Approaches
- Module 5 : Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination About Dissociation: The Role of Human Services Professional as Advocate
This isn’t just about changing your practice. It’s about changing lives — including your own.
The one who helps dissociative clients not just survive, but thrive.
Five in-depth Understanding Dissociation teaching modules taught by Dr. Jamie Marich
Five RECORDED Understanding Dissociation training calls with Jamie
Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site
Downloadable course materials
Here’s what you'll receive in Understanding Dissociation: An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
The Neuroscience of Dissociation: A Conversation with Juliane Taylor Shore
Releasing Fears of Working with Dissociation in a Clinical Setting: A Conversation with Dr. Curt Rouanzoin
Grounding & Mindfulness Practices
Free Chapter from Dr. Jamie’s book Dissociation Made Simple
Free Download from EMDR Made Simple
Understanding Dissociation Curated Resources
Plus, these special bonuses:
Demystifying Dissociation: Reconceptualizing the Fundamentals
In this module, you’ll explore the existing understanding of dissociation and gain new perspectives on what dissociation really is. Jamie shares their “coming out” story and what it means to change the paradigm of education around dissociation. You will be guided to identify your own lived experiences with dissociation.
You’ll learn:
- How dissociation is adaptive, maladaptive, and all of the above
- The importance of phenomenology/lived experience
- Perspectives from contributors on defining dissociation
- Addiction as dissociation model
The Dissociative Profile: Implications for Grounding, Stabilization & Preparation
Jamie discusses the typical profile associated with people with dissociative tendencies and teaches about strategies that help them ground themselves. She’ll focus on particular challenges when working with dissociative clients, and the importance of trauma-informed language when teaching grounding and meditation.
You’ll learn:
- Grounding and anchoring techniques
- The Dissociative Profile Exercise
- How to use the Dissociative Profile Exercise in clinical settings
- The Wheel & Window of Tolerance
Working with Parts: How to Navigate Aspects of Experience When No Perfect Model Exists
This module will teach you how to work with parts mapping in a clinical setting. Jamie focuses on languaging when working with dissociative clients and how to find the words that will work with each unique client.
You’ll learn:
- How to listen to all parts and aspects of your experience
- Why no perfect model exists
- How to identify pronouns for your clients
- How to develop a personal or system-based metaphor for a client
Treatment Solutions: Beyond Method and One Size Fits All Approaches
You will examine the concepts of healing and treatment in this module. Starting with the self, you’ll explore what “healing” means to you, the relational imperative when working with dissociative clients, and options for treatment.
You’ll learn:
- Best practices for navigating relational elements
- Treatment possibilities and cautions
- How to work with parts mapping across therapeutic modalities
- A parts journaling exercise
- A movement meditation to help listen to the parts and aspects of the internal world
Eliminating Stigma and Discrimination About Dissociation: The Role of Human Services Professional as Advocate
In the final module, you’ll discover how helping professionals can be change agents for the marginalization of dissociative disorders. You will examine how the myths and misrepresentations of dissociation create stigma and discrimination, and what you can do to educate the public. You will explore your own biases of dissociation and DID, the impact of social media on public perception, and your role as an advocate for people with dissociation.
You’ll learn:
- How to recognize myths and biases about dissociation and DID
- The impact of media and social media on dissociation
- How to eliminate stigma and discrimination of people with dissociative identity disorders
- How to be an advocate for people with dissociative disorders
In every module you will learn new skills for Understanding Dissociation:
Meet Your Presenter
Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Jamie Marich, Ph.D., (she/they) describes themselves as a facilitator of transformative experiences. A clinical trauma specialist, expressive artist, writer, performer, short filmmaker, Reiki master, TEDx speaker, and recovery advocate, she unites all of these elements in her mission to inspire healing in others. She is a woman in long-term recovery from an addictive disorder and is living loudly and proudly as a woman with a dissociative disorder with the goal of smashing stigma about dissociation in the mental health field and in society at large.
Jamie is the author of 11 books on EMDR, trauma, arts, and dissociation. Her latest books are Trauma and the 12 Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life, and Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide with Dr. Stephen Dansiger. She is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy and of Yoga for Clinicians.
CE Information:
This program has been approved for 5 distance learning CEs by NBCC and CAMFT.
Complete CE info can be found by clicking here.
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