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Treating Complex Trauma: An Integrated Approach
with Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
ON DEMAND WEBINAR
This is the recording from the live steam event held on
March 26, 2026, 12:00 pm - 4:15pm ET
Education Hours: 4
Instructor: Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW
Location: On Demand
Length of Access: One Year
Cost: $169 CAD + GST/HST (if applicable)
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Workshop Description
Complex trauma develops when threat, neglect, or abuse is chronic, relational, or begins early in life. Its impacts are far-reaching; shaping identity, emotional regulation, relationships, and a client’s felt sense of safety. While single-incident trauma can lead to dissociation, shame, PTSD and other difficulties, in complex trauma these experiences tend to be more chronic, pervasive, and intertwined with identity and relational patterns. Without a clear, integrated framework, it can be difficult to know how to pace treatment or support stabilization effectively.
As trauma research grows, so does our capacity to treat these long-term effects with clarity and compassion. In this workshop, Sheri Van Dijk introduces an evidence-informed, integrated approach to understanding and treating Complex PTSD (C-PTSD), and dissociative disorders. Participants will learn foundational principles, practical grounding and emotion-regulation skills, and ways to assess and structure treatment to support safety and therapeutic progress.
You will learn:
- How to differentiate PTSD from C-PTSD and why it matters for treatment
- The triphasic approach to treating C-PTSD
- Core theories (Polyvagal, IFS, Theory of Structural Dissociation of the Personality) that inform work with developmental and chronic trauma
- Strategies to help clients manage dissociation and increase present-moment stability
- Grounding and emotion-regulation skills for early-stage stabilization
- How to pace trauma therapy to avoid overwhelm or re-traumatization
Who Should Attend?
Any helping professional who provides some form of counselling including (but not limited to) therapists, social workers, psychologists, and other mental health and/or health-care professionals.
You will receive:
- Access to the on-demand webinar for one year
- Downloadable handouts
- Certificate of attendance upon successful completion of a brief online quiz (if desired)
For more information about Sheri Van Dijk and her work, visit https://www.sherivandijk.com/.
About the Presenter
Sheri Van Dijk, MSW, RSW, is a social worker, psychotherapist, author, consultant, and international trainer who has been supporting individuals with severe and complex mental health problems since 2000. She currently maintains a private practice while offering consultation and training to clinicians worldwide., drawing on more than two decades of clinical experience in both hospital and community settings.
Sheri is widely recognized for her expertise in trauma-informed care and evidence-based modalities such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), and the Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP). She has been providing DBT-informed therapy since 2004, became a certified EMDR therapist in 2018, and serves as an EMDRIA-Approved Consultant. Sheri was awarded the R.O. Jones award for her research on using DBT with bipolar disorder, presented at the Canadian Psychiatric Association Conference.
An accomplished author, Sheri has written several widely used books that translate DBT skills into accessible tools for managing emotional dysregulation, trauma, and mood disorders, including The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for C-PTSD, The DBT Workbook for Emotional Relief, and the best-selling Don’t Let Your Emotions Run Your Life for Teens.
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