Learning for Providers

Lived Experience Consultations for Providers

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“Through individual consultation with Crystals I have deepened my sense of trust in working with clients on the dissociative spectrum. Their feedback has helped me feel assured that I am providing the best treatment I can.” Dr. Rachel Bloom, Licensed Clinical Psychologist

We work with mental health providers who may feel lacking in their training and experience working with multiplicity. Most providers receive very little if any training around dissociative disorders and multiplicity, to compound this problem, stigma in the mental health field can make it difficult for those with lived experience, even those who are licensed and highly trained, to talk and teach about their experiences.

Consequently, it’s not uncommon for therapist to be learning from the client during the session rather than having the opportunity to come in prepared. This can be burdensome to the client and difficult for the therapist. We draw on our personal therapy, education, experiences a working in the mental health field and time spent in plural communities to answer questions and help therapist explore and learn how to better support their clients.

Group Learning

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“Groups with Crystals have been thought provoking, and their personal experience provides clarity. The groups have helped challenge me clinically, and develop new learning through role play.” Group Participant

Lived Experience Insights on cPTSD and Dissociative Identities: This is a unique experience in learning and getting a deeper understanding into complex trauma, multiplicity, and dissociative identities from with lived experience of both the disorder and in what’s helped or not in mental health settings. Learn about the challenges, intensity, and benefits of therapy from someone who’s sat on both sides of the couch, (ie: worked as a therapist intern and many years as a client).

Therapy Compass Calibration: This 12-week workshop examines concepts from therapeutic modalities that are intended to help with crisis preparation and trauma processing that often need to be adjusted or used differently when working with people with severe dissociation, complex PTSD and multiplicity.

Empathic Attunement for Suicidal Experiences: An interactive workshop focused on the ways we provide support, set boundaries, and handle intense feelings that come up when people are in immense pain and thinking of ending their lives.

Selves Advocacy in Psychiatry: Gain a greater understanding of Mental Health Advanced Directives and how therapists/providers can assist their clients with multiplicity who may become hospitalized or are in need of other forms of crisis support.

Navigating Differences for Mental Health Providers: An interactive course examining trauma responses, psychological defenses, neurobiology, boundaries, values, and responding to your own counter-transference and triggers as they comes up in your work.

“Groups with Crystals have been thought provoking, and their personal experience provides clarity. The groups have helped challenge me clinically, and develop new learning through role play.”