In-House Training

In-House Training

Naomi offers In-House training tailored specifically for the needs of your organisation. She will work with you to understand your requirements, the content and length of training.
Training options can focus on one, or a combination of the topics below. Please enquire if what you need is not listed as it is likely to be incorporated in the following topics.

For ‘Open House’ training please visit Upcoming Events

  • Structural dissociation – a ‘Parts’ approach
  • Attachment, complex and relational trauma
  • Three core trauma dynamics:
    • Locus of control shift
    • Ambivalent attachment to the perpetrator
    • Victim–Rescuer-Persecutor triangle
  • Self-harming behaviour
  • Targeting interventions at the right level: autonomic – limbic – prefrontal
  • The problem is not the problem (but a solution to another problem) – the function of symptoms and behaviours
  • Shame Compass
  • Facilitating and supporting healthy expression of emotions
  • Specific issues in PTSD, Dissociative Disorders, and dissociative identity disorder: flashbacks; flooding; numbing; hearing voices; somatization; hostile – persecutory and apparent sabotaging presentations of the client’s internal intra-psychic system
  • Trauma re-enactment in therapy and therapeutic impasse
  • Utilising transference and counter-transference
  • Navigating empathic engagement and safe boundaries for the client and health professional
  • Trauma, spirituality and healing
  • Therapist Self-care: vicarious trauma,  compassion fatigue and burn out

One can hide in the past to avoid the present, or hide in the present to avoid the past.

– Ross and Halpern, 2009

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Naomi Halpern's Speaking Schedule

30/01/2025
SCOPE, Melbourne Victoria
In-House Training

Building Protections and Resilience to Mitigate the Risk of Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury and Burnout

18/02/2025
McInnes Wilson Lawyers, Sydney
In-House Training

Building Protections and Resilience to Mitigate the Risk of Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury and Burnout

19/02/2025
McInnes Wilson Lawyers, Sydney
In-House Training

Building Protections and Resilience to Mitigate the Risk of Vicarious Trauma, Compassion Fatigue, Moral Injury and Burnout

20/02/2025
Human Rights Law Centre, Whistleblower Project
In-House Training

Part 2 Building protections against vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, moral injury and burnout

14/03/2025
Child Protection Unit, Sydney Children's Hospital
In-House Training

The Snow White 'Parts' Metaphor: Working with complex and attachment trauma

03/05/2025
In-House Training

Part 1: The problem is not the problem: What works for whom in trauma therapy with Dr Colin Ross

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