This workshop will explore the powerful and often complicated therapeutic alliance that exists between mental health professionals and clients with histories of trauma, abuse, and neglect. will discuss the coping strategies and inevitable emotional baggage that clients bring with them into treatment, the assumptions they make about therapists and the therapy process, and the impact that traumatic transference” has on the relationship. She will also look at potential triggering experienced by the therapist and how their own vulnerabilities can evoke counter-transferential responses that impact efficacy, relationship dynamics, treatment agendas and outcomes.  

Registration required at www.vscsw.org. Cost is $50 for students.