Online Workshop - Working Efficiently with Complicated PTSD

Event Locations
Online

Event Start: Monday, 09 November 2026 at 09:00 AM

Event End: Monday, 09 November 2026 at 12:30 PM

Sessions: The workshop will spread across two morning sessions on 9 and 10 November 2026 from 9.00am to 12.30pm.
Presenter: Dr. Sharif El-Leithy, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Lead of the Traumatic Stress Service in London.

Complicated PTSD presentations can leave clinicians feeling unsure where to begin, what to prioritise, and how to keep treatment focused. Multiple trauma memories, comorbidity, dissociation, risk, strong emotions, longstanding beliefs, mistrust, and social adversity can all pull therapy in different directions.

This workshop focuses on how to work efficiently with complicated PTSD by using formulation to sort complexity, select trauma targets, and stay trauma-focused. The emphasis is not on rushing treatment but on making clearer clinical decisions:

1. What needs to be addressed directly
2. What needs adapting around
3. What can be held as context
4. What may pull treatment off track.

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

• Use formulation to sort complexity in PTSD presentations.
• Distinguish treatment targets from context, obstacles, and therapeutic “noise”.
• Select trauma memory targets when clients present with multiple or unclear trauma memories.
• Recognise when broader trauma-related meanings are shaping target choice.
• Identify common factors that pull trauma-focused treatment off track.
• Use structured clinical reasoning to keep treatment efficient, focused, and flexible.

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