CPtsd and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Series
DEVELOPMENTAL trauma impacts
THE BRAIN
Abuse is global: 30% partner violence (WHO)
Healing the professionals Through NeuroSynqt™
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Accredited Trainer – Linda Meredith
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Course Level: Advanced (Professional Training Level)
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Payment Plan available
Why can’t my client break free - or stay free?
This question lies at the heart of what many professionals quietly wrestle with when supporting survivors of narcissistic abuse and CPtsd.
Clients may appear capable and self-aware, yet find themselves pulled back into the very relationships or dynamics that cause them harm. What looks like choice is often the brain’s survival intelligence at work - trauma bonds, fractured boundaries, and old attachment templates trying to keep them safe.
Traditional methods can feel inadequate when faced with these patterns. Insight alone isn’t enough when the brain is wired for protection, not freedom.
This accredited elective course provides six in-depth courses on narcissism through a CPtsd and neuroscience lens. You’ll learn how to:
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Distinguish narcissism from narcissistic traits - and understand why that difference matters for treatment and recovery.
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Recognise the brain-based mechanisms that drive trauma bonds and cycles of re-entanglement.
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Understand how narcissistic parenting and early relational trauma shape identity, attachment, and survival adaptations that persist into adulthood.
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Address the professional’s deeper question - how to help clients truly break free, and stay free, by restoring self-trust, integration, and brain-based connection.
This elective is for those who carry both compassion and curiosity - who see beyond behaviour, and long to help clients find safety in self, not just distance from danger.
The Missing Link in Narcissism &
CPtsd Recovery
Professionals working with survivors of narcissistic abuse often face a familiar and painful reality - clients who appear capable and insightful, yet remain caught in cycles of trauma bonds, fractured boundaries, and survival-driven identities. Beneath their logic lies a nervous system and brain still coded for protection, not freedom.
Standard approaches rarely address the unique intersection of CPtsd and narcissistic abuse, or the brain-based drivers that keep survivors returning to unsafe dynamics. What looks like choice or resistance is often survival memory - a learned loyalty to danger formed in childhood and reinforced by fear of abandonment or loss of belonging.
This elective provides a clear, trauma-trained pathway for professionals and individuals to:
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Distinguish narcissism from narcissistic traits - and understand why the difference matters for treatment and recovery.
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Recognise the brain-based mechanisms of trauma bonding that keep clients looping in return and re-entanglement cycles.
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Decode the long-term impacts of narcissistic parenting on attachment, self-trust, and relational boundaries.
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Identify how CPtsd survival strategies can reinforce narcissistic dynamics and block authentic recovery.
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Apply practical, brain-based frameworks that help clients establish safety, boundaries, and a reclaimed sense of worth.
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Address the professional’s deeper question - how to help clients not just leave unsafe dynamics, but finally live free of them.
These course bridge neuroscience with compassion - helping you see beyond behaviour to the brain’s beautiful logic for survival, and how to gently rewire it toward freedom and connection.
🎧 Prefer to Listen While You Learn?
Complex trauma can make on screen reading feel heavy or disconnecting. Listening allows the brain to process the material more gently and helps you stay present as you learn.
You can now have your slides read aloud on any device using built in accessibility tools.
Full instructions for Mac, iPhone or iPad, Android, and Windows are included right inside this course.
💜 This feature is designed to support your learning style, not replace it.
🎙️ Linda’s teaching, coaching, and voice remain throughout every course. You will still hear Linda guiding you through the concepts, unpacking examples, and coaching from the slides as part of your learning experience.
👉 Use the Have Your Slides Read To You tab inside the course for device specific instructions and start listening your way through the course.
Here’s what you’ll walk away with…
- Tools to identify narcissism versus narcissistic traits and understand their distinct impacts on CPtsd survivors.
- A neuroscience-informed map of how childhood trauma wires survival patterns that shape adult relationships and relational cycles.
- Frameworks for recognising and disrupting trauma bonds and fractured boundaries that keep clients stuck in survival mode.
- Practical worksheets and infographics to use directly with clients in-session.
- Strategies to help clients break cycles of shame, manipulation, and relational sabotage while developing new pathways toward safety and self-trust.
- Confidence to explain the brain-based impacts of narcissistic abuse in clear, compassionate, and non-shaming language that clients can easily understand.
The depth of the content and the support this course offers is phenomenal! If you’re on the fence, I’d highly recommend taking the leap
Candace Alley,
CEO candacealley.com
Over the past year and a half, Linda has helped me experience growth that I thought was impossible. In a loving and compassionate manner, she has taught me tools and strategies to manage my trauma symptoms. Most importantly, she made me feel heard, seen, and understood.
Lisa Armele,
Ed.S., MA., CAS.
Linda Meredith is a powerhouse when it comes to bringing research and information together to help us understand complex trauma. More importantly, she breaks things down in a way that is easily accessible. The homework isn’t about memorising terms - it’s about embodying the knowledge while healing ourselves and supporting our clients. practically and effectively. As a professional who has had burnout 3 times, Linda's work has helped me not only return to work but to do so in increasing good health whilst helping clients globally achieve the recover results they also desire.
Sherry Yuan Hunter,
CEO Sandwich Parenting
What Makes the 6 Courses Impactful?
The combination of the six courses goes beyond generic trauma education by addressing the intersection of CPtsd and narcissistic abuse. You’ll explore how developmental trauma, attachment disruptions, and narcissistic adaptations create survival strategies that once protected children in unsafe environments - but later manifest as trauma bonds, fractured boundaries, and cycles of re-entanglement in adulthood. You’ll leave with brain-based frameworks and practical tools that transform how you approach complex client work and survivor recovery.
Through the NeuroSynqt™ lens, you’ll learn to see these dynamics not as resistance, but as the brain’s enduring attempt to preserve safety and belonging. Every framework, discussion, and experiential process invites a shift from frustration to compassion - recognising that the behaviours keeping clients stuck were once the ones that kept them alive.
Grounded in neuroscience and advanced trauma recovery frameworks, this course helps professionals and individuals to:
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Recognise how narcissistic abuse reshapes the brain, attachment patterns, and identity.
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Differentiate narcissism from narcissistic traits without pathologising.
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Understand why survival strategies like false selves and relational compliance keep clients looping in survival mode.
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Provide a clear, compassionate path from survival roles toward authentic connection and sustainable recovery.
This elective reflects the deeper purpose behind all trauma-trained work -
to move beyond symptom management and into integration
helping the brain, body, and identity remember what safety feels like in ways that finally make freedom sustainable.
helping clients reconnect with their sense of agency, voice, and identity
🧰 Made for Those Who Work in the Messy Middle of Healing
- Counsellors, psychologists, and social workers seeking advanced training in CPtsd and narcissistic abuse recovery.
- Allied health and pastoral care professionals supporting trauma-bonded or abuse-impacted adults.
- Educators and community leaders wanting a neuroscience-based, trauma-trained framework for complex trauma recovery.
- Students and emerging practitioners building professional credibility with CPtsd-specific, brain-based practice.
- Practitioners working toward certification and CEUs in CPtsd Recovery.
- Individuals with lived experience pursuing structured, professional-level CPtsd education and personal integration.
🌟 The Shift You’ll See in Clients (and Yourself)
Imagine sitting with a client who says, “I’ve got it together - career, family, friends - but I keep ending up in the same survival-based relationships.” Maybe you recognise that pattern in yourself too - high-functioning on the surface, yet shaped by old survival wiring underneath.
The six courses don’t just expand your knowledge - they transform how you see the impact of narcissistic abuse through a CPtsd and brain-based lens. You’ll walk away with clarity, confidence, and compassion to support survivors who appear strong yet are still living from survival-mode identities and relational blueprints.
You’ll be able to:-
Recognise the underlying brain patterns that drive trauma bonds, emotional dependency, and cycles of return.
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Explain the neuroscience of narcissistic abuse in clear, client-friendly language that reduces shame and self-blame.
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Validate survivors’ experiences without collusion, minimisation, or pathologising.
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Differentiate survival strategies from authentic self-expression, helping clients reconnect to their true identity.
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Guide clients to rebuild boundaries and relational safety step by step, using trauma-trained, brain-based methods.
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Strengthen your professional confidence and credibility through advanced understanding of CPtsd and relational trauma.
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Identify generational and developmental patterns that reinforce narcissistic dynamics across family systems.
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Recognise emotional manipulation and coercive control through a neuroscience lens, not a moral one.
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Support clients in releasing guilt and false responsibility tied to loyalty-based trauma bonds.
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Facilitate self-trust and identity restoration so recovery becomes grounded, not performative.
Course 1 - The Neuroscience of Narcissism, CPtsd & Developmental trauma
Course 2 - Identity, Attachment, and Narcissistic Adaptations After Developmental Trauma
Course 3- CPtsd & Trauma Bonding Recovery
Course 4- Narcissistic Relational Dynamics, the Psychological Cost, CPtsd & Gaslighting recovery
Course 5 - Narcissistic Subtypes, Relational Fallout, CPtsd & Recovery
Course 6 - Narcissistic Parenting, Developmental Trauma and Adult Recovery
CPtsd and Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Series Outline
💻 Learning That Fits Real Life ➡️
Accessible. Practical. Designed for the trauma-trained mind.
🌱 Free Weekly Supervision & Study Space
CPtsd Education
Extra CPtsd Information
Homework Canva Templates
Client Materials
Business Development
Extra Coaching Tools
🧠 The NeuroSynqt™ Difference
Adults with Complex PTSD have lived in trauma states for so long that dissociation, fragmentation, and survival scripts feel normal. Many do not recognise they are dissociating until explicitly taught how to begin reconnection and how to recognise that the brain is the driver.
Most models (polyvagal, IFS, bottom-up somatics) assume regulation is the starting point. In reality:
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Regulation is not an entry point.
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Regulation is a byproduct of integration.
Dr Dan Siegel
Why Being Trauma-Trained Changes Everything
Beyond trauma-informed into truly brain-based care
📊 Grounded in Science, Guided by Humanity
Bringing research and lived experience together
Recent studies show:
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🧩 Up to 80% of adults raised by narcissistic or emotionally unavailable parents show symptoms consistent with complex trauma
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🩺 1 in 3 mental health professionals report moderate to severe burnout (APA, 2024)
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🧠 Neuroscience confirms that trauma impacts perception, not just emotion - changing how clients interpret safety, power, and connection
This course bridges clinical research with experiential recovery, giving professionals language that resonates with both the data and the heart.
Trauma Informed vs Trauma Trained
Linda Meredith
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Complex Trauma Recovery
An Advanced, Neuroscience-Based Approach for Mental Health Professionals
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🏆 Certification Pathway
- Individual Courses - like Core Unit 7, focusing deeply on identity repair
- Full Certification - becoming a Master Practitioner of Complex Trauma Counselling, accredited globally and eligible for CEUs
This certification has been peer-reviewed and accredited by professionals in the trauma field, ensuring credibility and recognition worldwide.
Developed by Linda Meredith through years of study and application with both clients and her own recovery, the NeuroSynqt™ framework is a unique, brain-based approach that delivers results in real-world practice.