Course Description:
Often when therapists are working with a traumatized client, both client and therapist want to get to work on addressing the trauma in session but quickly find that addressing the trauma directly is so dysregulating that the therapy cannot progress. A client may become frustrated that they cannot work on the trauma without becoming overwhelmed and the therapist can also feel at a loss with how to help. In this training, therapists will learn interventions that build client capacity so that they become ready and able to face their previously unbearable painful traumatic experience. Capacities such as affect tolerance, anxiety regulation, understanding causality, self-observing capacity can be built using a graded approach that allows the client to become ready to explore trauma without distress so unbearable that it interrupts the therapy process.

Date:
Friday, January 23, 2026 from 9am-12pm over Zoom

Led by:
Leslie Auld, LMSW, ACSW. Leslie is a certified practitioner of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy and ISTDP trainer dedicated to bringing healthy emotional and relational functioning in psychotherapy, at home and at work to people through uniquely powerful training courses specifically tailored to the needs of the group or individual.

This course through Mindful ISTDP is approved by the NASW-Michigan Social Work Continuing Education Collaborative.

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* 2. How did you hear about this training?

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* 3. Please share accommodations you need for this training here:

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* 4. Attending our free Introduction to Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is strongly recommended before joining this course.

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* 5. Waiver of Liability

I, as a participant in this program, hereby assume all of the risks of participating in this event. I have agreed to execute this Waiver and Release of Liability Form for myself and acknowledge, agree to, and represent the following:

I understand that I am attending this event hosted by Mindful ISTDP, LLC in order to obtain knowledge, strategies, and techniques to address mental health.

I hereby release, waive, acquit and forever discharge Leslie Auld and Mindful ISTDP, LLC, as well as any employees, volunteers, instructors, representatives, agents, the event holders, event sponsors, and event volunteers (“Releasees”) from every claim, suit action, demand, or right to compensation for damages claimed or that I may have arising out of my own acts or omissions as a result of any advice given or otherwise resulting from my participation in this event. I further declare and represent that no promise, inducement, or agreement has been made other than what is expressed within this agreement.

I further waive and release Releasees from any liability incurred based on or resulting from the implementation of any information obtained at this event.

I indemnify and hold harmless Leslie Auld and Mindful ISTDP, LLC, as well as any other entities or persons mentioned above, from any and all liabilities, claims, demands, or actions made as a result of participation in this event, whether caused by the negligence of release or otherwise. I further indemnify and agree to hold harmless the aforementioned entities from any and all third party claims associated with my participation.

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I recognize that this Waiver and Release of Liability Form shall be construed broadly to provide a release and waiver to the maximum extent permissible under applicable law.

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