The CORE Model: An Integrated Approach to Treating Trauma

This workshop introduces the CORE Model, Connect, Orient, Resource, Establish, an innovative, intuitively integrated approach for treating trauma.

The events of life cannot be changed, but perceptions can be altered, and meanings can be reframed. An intuitively informed approach to treating trauma considers the innate, human potential for accessing adaptive resources that have been dissociated from awareness by traumas occurring both in childhood as well as in adulthood.       

With didactics, case examples, and creative exercises, participants of this workshop will explore the way in which a partnership of clinical skills and intuitive insights can facilitate a strong therapeutic alliance, promote successful achievement of psychosocial goals,foster the re-consolidation of dissociated strengths, and promote the endurance of newly accessed phenomena of resilience.

An intuitively informed model of treatment provides a context that is gentle, non-intrusive and intelligent, in which the therapeutic alliance can be more securely established and clinical modalities can become potentiated to best promote symptom recovery.

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Bette Freedson is a clinical social worker practicing in Southern Maine. A highly regarded speaker and teacher, Bette is the author of two books, Soul Mothers" Wisdom: Seven Insights for the Single Mother, and Other Realms, Other Ways: A Clinician's Guide to the Magick of Intuition. She is also a contributing author to ERICKSONIAN THERAPY NOW: The Master Class with Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD.   An approved consultant of The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis (ASCH), Bette incorporates hypnosis methodology along with the wisdom of the non-conscious mind into her writing, her teaching and her clinical practice. With early roots in public education, Bette is mindful of connecting presented material with each unique audience. She engages participants through techniques that support, encourage, and reinforce experiences for both professional and personal growth.

A frequent faculty member and moderator for conferences and intensive training programs of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Bette has also conducted independent workshops for a variety of venues including The Sweetser Training Institute, Southern New Hampshire Medical Center, National Association of Social Workers (NASW), Florida Society of Clinical Hypnosis, New Jersey Society of Clinical Hypnosis, AdCare of Maine, and The Hypnotic Idea Exchange (HIE) of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis. She also co-presented a weekend program at Kripalu entitled "A Woman's Sacred Journey." Bette Freedson served for two years as a contributing member of the NASW specialty practice section on Children, Adolescents and Young Adults. (CAYA). Currently she serves on the board of the North Carolina Society of Clinical Hypnosis. Bette Freedson lives and practices in Southern Maine.