Canvas Online Version - Creating Safe/Warm Spaces for Treatment of Dissociative Clients

Join us for a 2 hour CEU on Creating Safe/Warm Spaces for Treatment of Dissociative Clients. Learn techniques that can be helpful when working with your clients/patients. This course is on canvas. You will need to use the link sent with this email and use course code WLLLA7 or you can click this link: https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/WLLLA7

Please email info@kscw.org if you have any questions!

Presently, Michael Bennett serves as a founding Board Member of The TICC Foundation, a non-profit of The Trauma-Informed Counseling Center (TICC) of Lexington where he has been providing therapy services since 2019 as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor. He additionally operates as an Accelerated Resolution Therapy provider at his solo practice Trailhead Therapy. He specializes in trauma processing and has been trained in a variety of trauma-informed modalities which he utilizes for a broad clientele: Internal Family Systems, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Accelerated Resolution Therapy, and integrates somatic therapy techniques. His clientele primarily presents with Complex PTSD, PTSD-Dissociative Subtype, Dissociative Disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mood Disorders, Attachment Wounds. Areas and populations he specializes in include clients with DID, religious trauma, comorbid diagnoses, LGBTQIA+ issues including support for gender dysphoria and gender-affirming evaluation supporting medical transition. Prior to his work at TICC, Michael served as Agency Director and as a clinical service provider of Behavioral Research Institute (BRI), a state-licensed community-based child abuse prevention agency in Tennessee. At BRI, he oversaw the provision of services for parents and children across six Middle Tennessee counties, coordinated a team of clinicians and group facilitators, and organized an annual child abuse prevention awareness community event.

Michael is presently conducting doctoral research in Intercultural Studies with international student communities across Kentucky to investigate cultural concepts of trauma and trauma treatment through the lens of human suffering and traditional healing.