AN EXCLUSIVE ONLINE TRAINING
Understanding Dissociation:
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.
Redefining Grief: Curiosity and Rapport
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 Unmasking the Pain of Loss teaching modules taught by Edy Nathan
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 will 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 will 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 will 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 will 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
People are often afraid to move forward with their grief, worried that moving on is the same as forgetting. In this module, Edy will guide you in how to help clients move from being fused to their grief to being able to differentiate from their grief. Help your client let go with insight, resolve unexpressed anger, and in the process create your own better endings with your clients.
In this module, you will 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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Here’s everything that’s included in
Understanding Dissociation:
An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
Five in-depth Understanding Dissociation online teaching modules that take the stigma out of dissociation, and turn your apprehension into new approaches to work with dissociative identities in your practice.
Five on-demand Understanding Dissociation training calls that show you the skills for building a relational model for working with dissociative clients.
Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site so you can access the course materials at any time
Downloadable course materials so you can learn and refer back to them over and over
PLUS THESE SPECIAL BONUSES:
1) The Neuroscience of Dissociation: A Conversation with Juliane Taylor Shore
2) Releasing Fears of Working with Dissociation in a Clinical Setting: A Conversation with Dr. Curt Rouanzoin
3) Grounding & Mindfulness Practices
4) Free Chapter from Dr. Jamie’s book Dissociation Made Simple
5) Free Download from EMDR Made Simple
6) Understanding Dissociation Curated Resources
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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!
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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We are confident you will learn new skills in this online training. However, If during your first 7 days with this course, you don’t believe you will learn anything to enhance your practice, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.comwithin 7 days of purchase and we will give you a full credit or exchange for another course, no questions asked.
What Previous Participants
Say About Learning from Jamie
“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
Here’s everything that’s included in
Understanding Dissociation:
An Insider's View on Helping Dissociative Clients
Five in-depth Understanding Dissociation online teaching modules that take the stigma out of dissociation, and turn your apprehension into new approaches to work with dissociative identities in your practice.
Five on-demand Understanding Dissociation training calls that show you the skills for building a relational model for working with dissociative clients.
Access to the Academy of Therapy Wisdom private membership site so you can access the course materials at any time
Downloadable course materials so you can learn and refer back to them over and over
PLUS THESE SPECIAL BONUSES:
1) The Neuroscience of Dissociation: A Conversation with Juliane Taylor Shore
2) Releasing Fears of Working with Dissociation in a Clinical Setting: A Conversation with Dr. Curt Rouanzoin
3) Grounding & Mindfulness Practices
4) Free Chapter from Dr. Jamie’s book Dissociation Made Simple
5) Free Download from EMDR Made Simple
6) Understanding Dissociation Curated Resources
ENROLL NOW
REGULARLY:
$497
ENROLL NOW FOR:
$197
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!
Frequently asked
questions
Q: I was told I have to learn a special method to work with Dissociative Identity Disorder. Will this course teach me that method?
Not exactly. Because there isn’t one. We understand the desire for a clear roadmap in every situation, but human experience doesn’t work that way. Jamie Marich emphasizes the importance of methods, tools, skills, and exercises that can be adapted to different settings, situations, people, and types of dissociation, alongside your existing modalities. The course teaches you to co-create treatment plans that align with your client’s individual goals. Now, doesn’t that sound even better?
Q: I'm afraid that if I do the wrong thing with a client that dissociates, I'll cause more harm. Will this course help me prevent that?
Working with DID clients is not as complicated as most therapists make it out to be. Jamie will show you how “normal” people with DID can be, how to have conversations about dissociative experiences, and exercises for grounding if they are dissociating. You’ll also learn about how the clinical setting – with its primary relationships and education-like context – recreate the two biggest environments where original traumas occur and how to modify your ambiance to avoid triggers.
Misinformation often breeds fear. Accurate information breeds empowerment and success. When you take this course, you’ll join Jamie in her mission to smash the stigma about dissociation in the mental health field and society at large.
Q: I already work with dissociation. Why should I take this course?
If what you are already doing is working well for you and your clients, you may not need this course. But if navigating dissociation still leaves you perplexed or is not meeting your client’s goals, this course will provide valuable insights into dissociation that can help you understand it better. You’ll learn about all forms of dissociation, but more importantly, you’ll learn skills to understand your client’s unique dissociative responses and develop interventions that work for them.
Q: There are a number of Dissociative Identity experts out there. What makes Jamie special?
There are many expert opinions on how to work with dissociative clients. But few of them have personal experience with a dissociative identity. Some experts even say that people who dissociate are “faking.” People with DID can be plagued by deep suffering and distress that can impair daily living, especially when triggered, invalidated, or negated. Jamie wants therapists to know that people with DID are extremely “high-functioning,” creative, intelligent, and capable. She believes people with DID make the best “experts.”
Q: Is this course pre-recorded, or is it live where I can ask questions?
This on-demand course is entirely pre-recorded so you can absorb the material at your own pace, and learn and practice the exercises and skills.
Q: Can I get CEs for this course?
This program has limited approval for distance learning CEs. This CE program is a combined effort between the Academy of Therapy Wisdom and the presenter’s company, The Institute for Creative Mindfulness. For complete CE information, click here.
Q: What is Academy of Therapy Wisdom?
The Academy of Therapy Wisdom is an inspiring, multidimensional platform for learning, with courses & videos that are easy to use, access & digest. Our goal is to help you become a more confident, capable & compassionate therapist who works with their clients in a new way.