Working with dissociative parts and their voices: A practical guide for trauma therapists

Working with clients with dissociative disorders is challenging for client and therapist, including formulating the treatment plan, structuring sessions, supporting clients to understand and navigate internal conflicts, and working with protector parts who seemingly sabotage the client in session and life outside the therapy room. Some parts will be stuck in trauma while others will be driven to deny or avoid at any cost.

Betrayal trauma and attachment wounds leave the nervous system locked on high alert resulting in compromised regulatory capacities, distrust and hostility.

Dolores will present practical strategies and tools for the different steps of healing from trauma, skills to adapt procedures and techniques, allowing for safe interventions with clinical challenges working with dissociative parts.

Program Content

1. Key concepts in working with dissociative parts and their voices.
2. Formulating the treatment plan.
3. Structuring the session to work with the client and parts where they are at.
4. Supporting the client to develop the Adult Self.
5. Strategies to explore and navigate the internal system and work with conflicts between parts.

Participants will be able to:

  • describe 5 key aspects of working with Dissociative Disorders.
  • formulate and adapt the treatment plan as therapy progresses.
  • list examples of how to structure and organise the session.
  • outline 5 ways to develop the Adult Self.
  • explain how to explore the internal system and work with parts.

Working with dissociative parts and their voices: A practical guide for trauma therapists

DateStart TimeFinish TimeHoursTime Zone
July 18, 20263:00 pm6:00 pm3AEST

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Individual $AUD160 | Groups 3+ $AUD140
Until12 June 2026

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Until3 July 2026

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Individual $AUD200 | Group 3+ $AUD180

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$AUD120

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About Dolores Mosquera

Dolores Mosquera is a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in complex trauma, personality disorders, and dissociation. She is the director of the Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders. INTRA-TP) in A Coruña, Spain—a 3-clinic private institution initially founded in 2000.

She collaborates with two different Domestic Violence Programs, one focused on Women Victims of DV and another one on Males with Violent Behaviour. She belongs to the Spanish National Network for the Assistance of Victims of Terrorism and collaborates with an organisation aiding victims of emergencies, accidents, violent attacks, kidnapping and other traumatic incidents.

Dolores has extensive teaching experience leading seminars, workshops, and lectures internationally. Dolores also teaches in several Universities and collaborates supervising Clinical Psychologists in postgraduate training programs in Spain.

She has participated as a guest speaker in numerous conferences and workshops throughout Europe, Asia, Australia, and North, Central, and South America.

Dolores has published several books, book chapters and articles on personality disorders, complex trauma, and dissociation. She received the David Servan-Schreiber award for outstanding contributions to the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) field in 2017, was made Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation in 2018, for her contributions to the trauma and dissociation field, and received the MAM10 Prix David Servan-Schreiber award in 2021 to a foreign researcher who has made a notable international contribution, having advanced research in the field of EMDR. In 2022 Dolores received the award Professional of the Year in the category of Psychology for the trajectory and significant contributions in dignifying the profession (psychology).

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