AN EXCLUSIVE ONLINE TRAINING
Understanding Dissociation:
An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
With 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.
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.
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.
The one who helps dissociative clients not just survive, but thrive.
Warmly,
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
“People fear what they don’t understand.”
Learn from a therapist who normalizes the
phenomenon of dissociation.
Understand the definition of dissociation in a way that is more user-friendly for you and your clients
Decrease your fear of treating dissociation
Stop overcomplicating your therapeutic process for DID
Strengthen your clinical rapport with clients and open them up to greater dialogue on how to approach treatment
Navigate the intricacies of working with dissociation so you can serve your clients who experience dissociation as part of unhealed trauma and unaddressed human stress.
Here’s what you'll receive in
Understanding Dissociation:
An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
1. Five in-depth Understanding Dissociation teaching modules taught by Dr. Jamie Marich
Each module helps you understand and destigmatize dissociation, learn tools and exercises to use effectively with your clients, and develop new approaches to work with dissociative identities in your practice so you can feel confident and proud to be a dissociative identity therapist.
2. Five RECORDED Understanding Dissociation training calls with Jamie
Jamie shows by example how to build a relational model for working with dissociative clients. She shares the adaptive and maladaptive aspects of dissociation, tools for grounding dissociative clients, finding the right language and metaphors to use with individual clients, and how to be a change agent for dissociative discrimination. You’ll actually experience the tools they’re teaching so you can feel confident and assured you can help your clients when it’s you in the chair.
3. Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site
All your course materials in one easy-to-navigate platform, supported by our dedicated customer service team.
4. Downloadable course materials
Recordings, transcripts, and handouts so you can re-watch and dive in deeper at your own pace.
Plus, these special bonuses:
The Neuroscience of Dissociation:
A Conversation with Juliane Taylor Shore
In this interview, Dr. Jamie Marich "picks the brain" of fellow trauma expert and neuroscience specialist Jules Taylor Shore. Jamie, who is admittedly more of an artist than a scientist in her approach to trauma and dissociation, talks with Jules about:
- What is going on in the human brain when we dissociate
- The various neurological functions at play with trauma and dissociation
- The idea that no two human brains are alike, especially with regard to the phenomenon of dissociation
- Making neuroscience research and applications practical to the clinician
- The importance of listening to your clients and believing them
Releasing Fears of Working with Dissociation in a Clinical Setting:
A Conversation with Dr. Curt Rouanzoin
In this interview, Dr. Jamie Marich speaks with one of her clinical mentors, Dr. Curtis Rouazoin, about working with dissociation effectively in the psychotherapy space. They especially tackle the issue of fear and overwhelm that many therapists face when encountering clinically significant dissociation for the first time, and offer some steps to optimize success.
Grounding & Mindfulness Practices
Three grounding and mindfulness exercises led by Dr. Jamie for you and your clients.
Free Chapter from Dr. Jamie’s book
Dissociation Made Simple
Free PDF download of Chapter 5 - The Dissociative Profile.
Free Download from EMDR Made Simple
Free PDF download of Mindfulness-Informed Activities for Preparation, Stabilization, and Resourcing.
Understanding Dissociation Curated Resources
Jamie’s list of recommended articles and videos to deepen your understanding of dissociative identities.
In every module you will learn new skills for Understanding Dissociation:
Module 1:
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
Module 2:
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
Module 3:
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
Module 4:
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
Module 5:
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
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An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
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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.
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“Dr. Marich left our audience with a number of great tools and skills, and things to think about.”
Dr. Jamie Marich was the keynote for our…conference. Her enthusiasm and passionate approach was perfect and really set the tone for the rest of the weekend. She has just the right combination of humor, inspiring insights, and compelling motivation.
— Jaime Pollack, M.Ed., Founder and Director, An Infinite Mind
“Dr. Jamie’s… [training] is nothing shy of AMAZING!“
As the founder of the only Therapists of Color Collaborative in the State of Colorado, being trained by someone who could help digest what is a very scripted protocol, and make it more culturally relevant was imperative. She did so with ease, patience, and a bang up team of EMDR trainers!
— Rossina Schroeer-Santiago, MA, LPC, NCC, Denver, CO
“Dr. Marich's teachings on dissociation are what clinicians and dissociative clients have been needing.”
The compassionate, client-centered approaches Dr. Marich teaches are the definition of trauma-informed. We're obliged to "do no harm" but many therapists are inadvertently doing harm due to misinformation surrounding dissociation. All therapists should be required to complete training like Dr. Marich's as all therapists work with trauma and, likewise, all therapists work with dissociation.
— Sam Bergstein, MA, MSW, LISW-S, REAT, Columbus, OH
"[She] utilizes both her lived experience and evidence-based practices to normalize dissociation and demystify it"
Dr. Jamie's approach to teaching dissociation asks the learner to be curious and embrace their own experiences of dissociation. This allows the learner to gain understanding of the experience that for many professionals is challenging and disordered. As she states in a chapter title of her latest book, Dissociation Made Simple
— H LS Scarboro, LPCC, Fayetteville, NC
“She’s legendary on TikTok… She engages, attunes, enables, captivates.“
With her audiences, of whatever kind whether live or recorded… Jamie dances, with her professional expertise, her joy with her work, her rich personal experience and her listeners. Time stands still when Jamie speaks, and when she’s done – always disappointingly, as one could listen forever – she leaves a glow of wisdom and enthusiasm to take her ideas into one’s own practice and life.
— Mark Brayne, Sheringham, UK
“If you truly want to understand, from a first-person perspective, this is time well spent.”
Dr. Jamie Marich offers scholarly information, years of sound practice and, more importantly, her own lived experience as someone with dissociative experiences. Executed with a passion and heartfelt desire to help others experience, not just learn, what dissociation is and what our lives can look like, Dr. Jamie exemplifies #nothingaboutuswithoutus.
— Michelle Kahl, LPC, Know, PA
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Here’s everything that’s included in
Understanding Dissociation:
An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
PLUS THESE SPECIAL BONUSES:
ENROLL NOW
REGULARLY:
$497
ENROLL NOW FOR:
$397
Get Understanding Dissociation: An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients with Dr. Jamie Marich
If you are a BIPOC helping professional,
please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here.
We are glad to have you with us!