RIDING THE MOVING CARPETS OF THE COMPLEX TRAUMA WORLD

  RIDING THE MOVING CARPETS OF THE COMPLEX TRAUMA WORLD; CONTRADICTIONS, PARADOXES and MULTIPLE REALITIES Facilitator: Amy Urry This workshop will explore the opportunities and challenges facing therapists and other mental health workers when working with families who have a member with a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder. People who have attracted this ‘diagnosis’ and their families often have experienced trauma and multi-generational difficulties, and have complex personal and professional networks. How do we navigate a way into this territory, create a truly helpful encounter, and find our way out again? How do we work with those who: ·  Experience relationships and emotions as fraught with danger, yet essential to survival? ·  Have a yearning to forget the past, yet a compulsion to re-live it? · Harbour a desire to be fully understood and seen, yet dread discovery? How can systemic ideas and practices be employed and modified when working with individuals, couples, families, and professional systems? Amy Urry was employed until early 2021 as a Specialist Family Psychotherapist in a Specialist Personality Disorder Service within Devon Partnership Trust [adult mental health]. She is a U.K.C.P. registered Family Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer; she has many years of experience as a Family and Systemic Psychotherapist and Clinical Supervisor working with individuals, couples, families, teams and organizations. She taught Family Therapy at Foundation and Intermediate levels from 1981 and was co-director of the Post- graduate Diploma/MSc in Systemic Practice from 1991- 2009 at Exeter University. She was on the AFT Board of Directors and Trustees 2017 - 2022, was acting executive director 2022- 2023. Please note, there will NOT be a recording or video link for the workshop