Digital Seminar
Breaking Trauma Bonds: 20 Clinical Interventions and Somatic Exercises to End Toxic Cycles & Rebuild Self-Trust
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- Faculty:
- Laura Copley, PhD, LPC
- Duration:
- 7 Hours 17 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Dec 22, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150656
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Healing trauma bonded clients goes far beyond traditional paradigms.
To be effective, you need to recognize and treat the intricate web of emotional entanglements and the complex interplay between attachment and pain.
By delving into the depths of trauma bonds, you can guide your clients toward a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, where healing isn't just about alleviating symptoms but…
…rewriting the very fabric of their emotional landscape.
This training shows you the way.
Join Dr. Laura Copley, acclaimed expert in relationship trauma, specializing in trauma bonds and post-traumatic growth for a ground-breaking workshop. Dr. Copley’s celebrated book Loving You is Hurting Me has helped thousands of clinicians and clients alike find new meaning after toxic relationships. Now, you’re getting the key interventions and somatic exercises directly from Dr. Copley.
Immediately elevate your practice…
- Enhance your confidence in navigating the complexities of trauma bonds and supporting clients with "toxic" traits
- Learn powerful reparenting techniques to guide clients in exploring their origin stories
- Promote healthy dynamics and foster corrective experiences that reunite clients with authentic emotional connections
- Incorporate relational neuroscience techniques to deepen therapeutic engagement and create an integrative healing environment
- Reestablish the critical role of self-trust to help clients heal their complex trauma
By the end of this workshop, you will be equipped with a robust toolkit to effectively address trauma bonded relationships, help survivors foster resilience, and guide clients toward post-traumatic growth.
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Breaking Trauma Bonds (29.8 MB) | 71 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Laura Copley, PhD, LPC Related seminars and products
Dr. Laura Copley is an acclaimed expert in the field of relationship trauma, specializing in trauma bonds, toxic relationships, and post-traumatic growth. Her groundbreaking work emphasizes self-trust as the “secret sauce” to breaking toxic patterns and healing trauma bonds, providing clients and readers with the tools to rebuild their lives and relationships from the inside out. A licensed counselor, speaker, author, and educator, Dr. Copley is passionate about bridging cutting-edge research with accessible tools that nurture emotional resilience and foster genuine connection.
She is the founder and director of Aurora Counseling, the Shenandoah Valley’s premier trauma-informed practice for clients and training clinic for therapists. Dr. Copley also contributes her expertise through her new blog, The Relationship Reset on Psychology Today offering actionable insights for rebuilding trust and intimacy in relationships.
Her debut book, Loving You is Hurting Me: A New Approach to Healing Trauma Bonds and Creating Authentic Connection has established her as a trusted authority in the self-help space. Additionally, her podcast, Tough Love with Dr. Laura Copley, reaches a global audience with deep dives into relational challenges, featuring transformative stories and expert interviews.
A sought-after speaker and educator, Dr. Copley is devoted to advancing the conversation on trauma healing by focusing on the profound power of self-trust to repair fractured relationships and create lasting, positive change.
Financial: Dr. Laura Copley has an employment relationship with Aurora Counseling & Well Being. She receives royalties as a published author. Dr. Copley is a contributor for Psychology Today and a blogger with PositivePsychology.com. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Laura Copley is a member of the Virginia Counselors' Association.
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Objectives
- Examine trauma bonding and complex trauma through the lens of relational neuroscience and attachment theory.
- Recognize the 7 stages of trauma bonding and how they play out as toxic relational patterns, and develop strategies to intervene in ways that foster corrective healing experiences.
- Outline the 5 major attachment traumas including their origins and impact, and learn creative clinical skills to explore how these trauma wounds shape clients' present experiences.
- Recognizing the critical role of self-trust in the healing journey and discovering strategies to cultivate this essential ingredient for complex trauma recovery.
- Practice somatic therapies, narrative exposure techniques, and parts work interventions to supports client’s exploration of their inner worlds.
- Practice Post-Traumatic Growth exercises to support clients’ personal development and journey toward self-actualization.
- Integrate evidence-based approaches with innovative techniques to create effective and experiential therapy sessions.
Outline
The Trauma Bonded Client
- What are we missing with this population?
- Do more effective work with trauma-bonded clients
- Explore Dr. Copley’s research and trauma-informed approaches
- at is needed to do better work with trauma bonded individuals?
- INTERVENTIONS: “Not My Best Moment” visualization exercise and “Self-Forgiveness” practice
Preparation, Grounding, Resourcing, and Titrating
- Trauma-informed considerations before beginning therapy
- What is titrating and how to do it?
- Applied Relational Neuroscience and Positive Psychology
- Teaching clients “The Art of Discernment”
- INTERVENIONS: Polyvagal-inspired “Meet Your Nervous System” and “What Grounds Me?” exercise, Havening Techniques for safety, Parts Mapping for “Creating Inner Guardians” and client’s “Gathering Place” Activities, Intro to Bilateral Stimulation
Attachment Traumas, Family-of-Origin Issues & Reparenting
- How the 5 major attachment traumas are linked to worthiness
- Know how attachment traumas play out as current reactions and behaviors
- Examine and undo the impact of family-of-origin roles and attachment wounds
- Reparent the inner child and its wounds
- INTERVENTIONS: “Meeting Your Wounded Inner Child” Parts Work activity and worksheet, “Little Me Reconnection” photograph exercise, and Establishing Unmet Needs, “Dialoguing with Inner Guardians” as a Reparenting writing exercise
Assessing Toxicity in Relationships
- Identifying Protectors, Blocks, and Resistance, and a new mindsight on how to perceive them
- Sensitively overcome client resistance and prepare them for healthy self-disclosures
- Explore the continuum of trauma bonding, red flags and narcissism
- Paradigm shift away from “victim-perpetrator” mindset
- Signs of abuse
- Know the 7 stages of trauma bonding
- INTERVENTIONS: “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” resistance activity, Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples and “The Dance”, “Mapping Out the Toxic Hook” and Somatic Therapy, The Psychology of Ritual “Chord Cutting”, Somatic Experiencing Exercise, “Creating Your Self-Trust Mantra”, clinical movie analysis
Healing the Trauma in the Relationship Bond
- Your role as a guide to corrective emotional experiences
- Gottman’s research on Stages of Repair
- Help clients identify their unmet needs and “toxic hook” cycle
- Explore new narratives with writing exercises from Narrative Exposure Therapy
- How to get clients speaking to their “Embodied Self”
- Apply Brene Brown’s work on vulnerability & Ester Perel’s research on intimacy and connection
- Therapeutic questionnaire for clients’ self-exploration
- INTERVENTIONS: Qi Gong Activity for Healing Energy, Tapping-in (installing) a new narrative (“Even though I feel… I know I am…”), Narrative Exposure Therapy using storytelling and letter-writing,“Know Thyself, Trust Thyself” Exercise and how to speak on behalf of parts, “Getting to Know You,.. Again” re-connection questionnaire
Nurturing Post-Traumatic Growth (PTG)
- The key to authentic connections after trauma bonding
- How PTG looks after toxic relationships
- Incorporate the “hero’s journey” into healing
- The 5 key experiences in PTG
- Create interpersonal transformation and growth after therapy ends
- INTERVENTIONS: “Benefit Finding” exercise for Individuals and Couples, “Playlist for Parts” coming to aid an unmet need, Two-Chair Technique from Healed Self to Trauma Wounds, Trauma Transformation Timeline Exercise, and Re-authoring the story
Foreseeable Limitations and Risks
- When treatment doesn’t work
- The role of personality disorders in treatment
- Address and identify misunderstandings
- Emergence of new symptoms and triggers
- Unmet expectations, drama and disappointment
- Contraindications and Cultural Considerations:
- Newness and evidence for the presented content
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Psych Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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