CPtsd: Trauma and Identity Architecture Series

Practitioners working with adults impacted by developmental trauma

Who are seeing:

• Clients who do not know who they are outside of roles
• Persistent shame that does not shift with reassurance
• Identity confusion despite insight and therapeutic progress
• Fluctuation between strong identity and identity collapse
• Over identification with survival roles (e.g. carer, achiever, avoidant)
• Difficulty sustaining values, direction or self-trust
• Internal fragmentation across self-narratives
• Inconsistent motivation linked to identity state
• Patterns of belonging and commitment that remain unstable
• Clients who describe feeling “different people” in different contexts

• How identity formation is shaped under developmental threat
• How psychological wounding becomes embedded within identity structure
• Why identity consolidation is disrupted in CPtsd
• How survival roles form within identity architecture
• How shame organises self-perception and identity meaning
• How identity instability presents across adulthood
• How to recognise identity fragmentation in client narratives
• The difference between survival identity and integrated identity
• How generational identity patterns influence self-concept
• Why identity does not reorganise through insight alone

Moves from:
• Interpreting identity patterns as personality or character
• Treating shame as emotional content rather than structural organisation
• Expecting insight to resolve identity confusion
• Working with behaviour without understanding identity structure
• Viewing instability as resistance or lack of motivation
To:
• Understanding identity as developmentally organised
• Recognising survival roles within identity architecture
• Identifying shame based identity structuring
• Working with identity formation rather than surface behaviour
• Aligning intervention with identity consolidation capacity

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Registered Training Provider & Accredited Trainer – Linda Meredith
Course Level: Advanced (Professional Training Only)
Flexible payment options available
On Demand digital delivery

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Course overview

The six courses within Core 7 examine how developmental trauma disrupts identity architecture, psychological wounding systems, values formation and self consolidation across the lifespan.

Many practitioners are trained in emotional processing and attachment repair. These courses clarify what occurs when early environments required survival based identity formation rather than integrated development, when psychological injury shaped self perception and when belonging, meaning and commitment patterns consolidated under threat.

Presentations often appear behavioural, relational or personality based while the underlying disruption reflects compromised identity consolidation systems.

Across the six courses, practitioners examine neuroscience of psychological wounding, identity constancy disruption, commitment bias under trauma, adolescent identity fragmentation, family systems transmission of identity roles, shame structured self perception and identity reconstruction within integration capacity limits.

Fluctuation between over identification with survival roles and identity collapse often occurs despite insight, reflecting instability within identity systems rather than lack of therapeutic effort.

These courses provide structural formulation for working with adults whose self concept remains organised around survival adaptation rather than coherent integration. Assessment is organised developmentally, differentiating survival role performance from authentic identity, shame conditioning from character structure and generational transmission from individual pathology.

Insight alone does not restore identity coherence. Without alignment to identity architecture, fragmentation cycles persist.

CPtsd is framed as a developmental integration injury affecting identity formation systems, requiring architectural reconstruction rather than behavioural correction alone.

This training addresses the identity development gap not covered in standard attachment, trauma processing or emotional regulation education. It translates developmental neuroscience and systems theory into structured clinical application.

This training is designed for qualified practitioners working with adults impacted by developmental trauma.

In clinical practice, you may notice:

• Insight increases, yet identity remains unstable
• Emotional processing improves, yet self trust does not consolidate
• Clients describe a persistent sense of “not knowing who I am”
• Shame reactivates under relational stress
• Survival roles continue despite awareness
• Generational patterns reappear across contexts

At this level of work, the challenge is rarely effort or commitment. It is often structural.

Much trauma education focuses on regulation, attachment and symptom reduction. Less attention is given to how psychological wounding shapes identity architecture, values formation and belonging systems across the lifespan.

When identity systems remain organised around survival adaptation, progress may feel partial even when meaningful work is occurring. This training addresses that layer with structured, developmentally aligned formulation.

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When identity architecture is organised around early survival adaptation, presentation may include:

• Role based functioning rather than coherent selfhood
• Chronic shame activation in relational exposure
• Identity collapse under perceived rejection or criticism
• Over identification with competence, caregiving or achievement roles
• Withdrawal when relational safety feels uncertain
• Internal conflict between values and survival based behaviour
• Difficulty sustaining consistent self narrative
• Oscillation between confidence and fragmentation
• Hyper responsibility rooted in early relational conditioning
• Decision paralysis linked to fear of belonging loss
• External validation reliance for self stability
• Values confusion despite intellectual clarity

These patterns reflect developmental identity conditioning shaped by chronic threat, relational instability and psychological wounding.

Core 7 focuses on mapping identity architecture, differentiating survival role formation from integrated selfhood and sequencing identity reconstruction within integration capacity limits.

Presentations often appear personality based or motivation related in nature. The underlying disruption reflects survival organised identity structure rather than character pathology.

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Clinical Reality

What practitioners already do well•
• Therapeutic alliance
• Emotional processing
• Trauma narrative work
• Attachment repair
• Psychoeducation and stabilisation strategies

What practitioners observe •

• Insight increases
• Clients understand developmental history
• Emotional expression improves
• Relational awareness strengthens

Yet:

• Psychological wounding remains structurally embedded
• Shame continues organising self perception
• Clients revert to survival based identity roles under stress
• Identity confusion persists despite insight
• Values instability affects decision making
• Commitment patterns remain fear structured
• Belonging is organised around survival adaptation
• Generational relational patterns repeat
• Coherent selfhood does not stabilise

Core 7 provides structural alignment for recognising when identity consolidation systems, psychological wounding processes and generational identity templates remain organised around survival adaptation rather than integrated development.

Clinical Gap

What this reflects

• Developmental disruption in identity formation stages
• Psychological wound encoding within meaning making systems
• Commitment and consistency bias shaped under threat
• Social categorisation and belonging based identity structuring
• Shame mediated identity consolidation
• Narrative fragmentation across memory networks
• Values formation under survival conditions
• Multigenerational transmission of identity roles
• Family systems differentiation limitations

Why this matters

Without identity specific alignment, emotional processing may increase awareness while identity architecture remains structurally unchanged. Insight does not automatically reorganise values systems, commitment bias or generational identity imprinting.

Identity reconstruction requires developmental sequencing within integration capacity.

Core 7 clarifies how psychological wounding, survival role formation, social belonging systems and multigenerational identity transmission interact within developmental trauma presentations.

Integration and Practice Scope

When identity architecture is organised around survival adaptation rather than coherent integration

What Practitioners Recognise

What This Reflects

• Psychological wounding embedded within identity systems
• Survival roles misidentified as authentic self
• Conditioned shame shaping self perception
• Commitment bias formed under chronic threat
• Social categorisation shaping belonging boundaries
• Adolescent identity disruption unresolved
• Multigenerational role transmission
• Reduced differentiation within family systems
• Motivational instability linked to identity state

Awareness alone does not reorganise identity architecture, values formation or family systems imprinting.

This strengthens practitioner formulation accuracy and intervention sequencing without replacing existing therapeutic orientation.

Core 7 focuses on identity architecture disrupted by developmental trauma - an area practitioners frequently encounter but are rarely trained to organise clearly.

Across the six courses, you examine how psychological wounding, identity consolidation, values formation and belonging structures develop under conditions of early threat.

Rather than viewing these presentations as personality patterns or relational style, the training maps how identity formation systems adapt when safety, belonging and self continuity are disrupted during development.

You’ll examine how shame structured self perception, survival role identification, generational identity transmission and fractured identity constancy shape adult functioning long after the original conditions have passed.

The courses clarify why insight alone does not restore identity coherence, why individuals can fluctuate between strong survival identities and identity collapse and why commitment, belonging and self definition can remain unstable even with therapeutic progress.

The courses bring practical clarity to:

• Survival identities embedded within adult functioning
• Shame organised self perception and identity collapse
• Identity instability under stress activation
• Developmental disruption of identity consolidation
• Generational transmission of identity roles
• Distinguishing survival identity from integrated adult identity

The focus is practical. It helps practitioners organise what they are already seeing in practice and understand identity disruption developmentally rather than behaviourally.

This training addresses a major gap in trauma education.
It translates developmental neuroscience and identity formation research into structured clinical formulation.

• Survival identity roles may be mistaken for personality traits
• Shame based self perception may be treated as character pathology
• Identity instability may be interpreted as resistance or lack of motivation
• Generational identity roles may remain unrecognised in formulation
• Therapeutic work may focus on behaviour without understanding identity organisation

With identity architecture formulation:

• Survival identity roles become visible within the case formulation
• Shame structured identity is differentiated from character structure
• Identity instability under stress is recognised early
• Generational transmission patterns become clinically visible
• Interventions align with identity consolidation capacity

Designed for Practitioners Working with Developmental Trauma

• Counsellors, psychologists and social workers seeking structured CPtsd training
• Allied health and pastoral care professionals supporting adults impacted by developmental trauma
• Educators and community leaders requiring applied neuroscience grounded trauma education
• Students and emerging practitioners building CPtsd specific clinical competence
• Practitioners working toward certification and continuing professional development

What NeuroSynqt™ Adds to Existing Practitioner Training

When insight, stabilisation and trauma processing do not result in structural integration.

What NeuroSynqt™ Adds

• Clear structural recognition of survival organised brain patterning

• Differentiation between insight and functional integration

• Identification of developmental disruption within identity organisation

• Recognition of survival roles embedded within adult functioning

• Structured understanding of instability under stress activation

• Identification of rigid adaptation patterns shaped by early threat

• Differentiation between trauma organised identity structure and integrated adult identity

• Developmentally informed pacing guidance

• Assessment of integration stability across activation states

This training complements and strengthens existing therapeutic approaches by addressing integration gaps in developmental trauma presentations.

What NeuroSynqt™ Does Not Replace

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What Current Approaches Do Well

Many trauma approaches effectively support:

Emotional stabilisation
Relational safety
Trauma processing
Cognitive understanding

These are essential components of trauma informed practice.

What Individuals find can Still Persist

Practitioners frequently observe that:

Dissociative access disruption remains
Fragmentation re-emerges during activation
Present-day cognitive and relational access fluctuates
Insight does not consistently prevent shutdown

These patterns indicate a gap in integration-specific training and sequencing.

NeuroSynqt™ training addresses this gap by introducing a structured, neuroscience aligned model designed specifically for developmental trauma presentations.

Regulation and Integration in CPtsd

What Regulation Addresses

Reduces immediate activation intensity
Supports short-term stabilisation
Increases tolerance for emotional arousal
Enhances situational safety

Regulation skills at a neurological level are a vital component of trauma trained CPtsd recovery work.

What Integration Addresses

Reorganises fragmented internal organisation
Restores consistent access across internal states
Supports identity coherence
Reduces state-dependent motivational collapse

Regulation alone does not restore integration capacity.

NeuroSynqt™ integration and professional billing

NeuroSynqt™ integrates within an existing professional role and scope of practice. It is not a standalone modality and is not practised or billed as a separate service.

For regulated professionals including psychologists and counsellors, NeuroSynqt™ functions as a neuroscience-based integration approach supporting assessment, formulation, psychoeducation and integration-aligned intervention.

Sessions remain billed under existing service codes and professional designations. NeuroSynqt™ informs how the work is structured and sequenced, not what is billed.

Where practitioners are eligible to bill private health or insurance providers, billing structures remain unchanged. NeuroSynqt™ does not alter diagnostic coding, insurer eligibility or licensing requirements.

For non-regulated practitioners operating in educational or professional support roles, NeuroSynqt™ must be represented strictly within the limits of that scope.

NeuroSynqt™ is always applied within an existing scope of practice and in accordance with local regulatory and professional requirements.

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NeuroSynqt™ principles

NeuroSynqt™ recognises CPtsd as a developmental integration injury rather than a behavioural or diagnostic issue.

It approaches adult presentation through structural formulation, identifying survival-organised adaptations that influence access to cognition, motivation and relational engagement.

NeuroSynqt™ does not assume a single recovery pathway. It recognises that developmental trauma produces diverse patterns of organisation requiring individualised sequencing.

Principles are shared for orientation and conceptual clarity. Application, sequencing and clinical use are taught exclusively within accredited education and supervision.

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NeuroSynqt™ Core Courses

The Core Courses form a six unit professional training sequence in developmental trauma and integration capacity.

Each course addresses a specific domain of integration and is structured to be completed in sequence, as later courses build on earlier developmental foundations.

The series strengthens practitioner formulation in CPtsd by clarifying commonly overlooked integration gaps and supporting developmentally aligned clinical application.

Browse the courses for detailed information.

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✓ Identify psychological wounding processes embedded within identity architecture

✓ Differentiate survival role formation from integrated selfhood

✓ Recognise shame structured identity consolidation

✓ Map commitment and consistency bias shaped under trauma

✓ Assess belonging based identity structuring within social categorisation systems

✓ Identify adolescent identity formation disruption

✓ Distinguish values formed under survival adaptation from integrated value systems

✓ Assess generational and family systems transmission of identity roles

✓ Differentiate low differentiation from trauma based identity fragmentation

✓ Identify narrative discontinuity across memory systems

✓ Sequence identity reconstruction within integration capacity limits

✓ Integrate identity and family systems formulation into developmental assessment

✓ Maintain professional scope clarity when addressing identity repair and systems influence

✓ Apply structural reconstruction principles across meaning, motivation, relational commitment and belonging domains

Internationally Accredited. Structurally Assessed. Professionally Aligned.

Globally Accredited

NeuroSynqt™ integrates neuroscience, developmental trauma theory and structural formulation into a cohesive clinical framework for CPtsd recovery.

All NeuroSynqt™ courses and certification pathways are internationally accredited - not through checkbox memberships, but through formal review and independent evaluation.

As a Registered Training Provider with the International Institute for Complementary Therapists, the NeuroSynqt™ framework has undergone structured peer review by qualified professionals.

This means your qualification reflects:

• Evidence informed neuroscience integration
• Developmental trauma competency
• Structural case formulation accuracy
• Ethical and scope consistent practice
• Practitioner level clinical standards

What This Certification Represents

Accredited
Courses and certification pathways are formally reviewed and internationally recognised.

Competency Assessed
Qualification is earned through portfolio and assessment - not attendance alone.

NeuroSynqt™ Aligned
Training reflects structural integration principles specific to developmental trauma.

Practitioner Focused
Designed for counsellors, psychologists, allied health and trauma professionals working with adult CPtsd.

Clinically Grounded
Strengthens formulation accuracy, intervention sequencing and differentiation clarity.

Professionally Transferable
Supports ethical billing, scope integrity and structured case documentation.

Certification Pathway Available

The NeuroSynqt™ Certification pathway provides advanced training in developmental trauma integration, structured assessment and practitioner-level application.

Every course, workbook and the entire NeuroSynqt™ framework underwent a thorough evaluation process - not just a fee for certification setup.

This means your qualification isn’t just recognised - it’s earned through standards that prioritise ethical practice, practitioner competency, and trauma-trained excellence.

Explore how psychological wounds alter brain development and identity.
Identify how meaning and direction are disrupted by developmental wounds.
Explore how trauma disrupts values and beliefs, fracturing identity.
Explore the neurobiological roots of identity disruption.
Understand the formation of negative self-image in survivors.
Explore the link between attachment injuries and fractured identity.
Identify how trauma suppresses authentic identity.
Identify how trauma-driven coping reshapes brain function.
Learn why relational safety becomes difficult after early trauma.
Connect neuroscience insights with practical identity recovery frameworks.

Learn the five stages of recovery from psychological trauma.
Identify shame and stigma as barriers to progress.
Understand why creating safety and stabilisation is the essential first step.
Explore the impact of avoidance and survival defences on healing.
Recognise how mourning and grief emerge as part of recovery work.
Understand how co-occurring conditions complicate recovery journeys.
Examine the role of reconnection in restoring identity and belonging.
Review practical interventions that support psychological wound repair.
Identify how meaning-making supports resilience and growth.
Connect recovery frameworks to daily practices clients can sustain.

Understand how childhood trauma fragments self-concept and continuity.
Explore how meaning-making supports identity integration.
Explore the development of false selves and survival-based personas
Understand how trauma disrupts identity formation across the lifespan.
Learn how identity collapse emerges in unsafe family systems.
Recognise the tension between authentic self and survival self.
Recognise how trauma shapes beliefs, values, and self-perception.
Consider how relational disconnection fuels identity disruption.
Examine the role of shame in reinforcing distorted identity.
Connect identity repair with resilience, belonging, and self-worth.

Learn differentiation of self as balancing autonomy and connection.
Explore emotional triangles and family stabilisation patterns.
Understand nuclear family emotional systems in trauma context.
Recognise projection and its role in passing down trauma.
Examine emotional cut-off and its impact on identity repair.
Learn how multigenerational transmission shapes family dynamics.
Consider sibling position and its influence on self-perception.
Explore societal emotional process as an extension of family reactivity.
Recognise anxiety as the driver of family dysfunction.
Apply practical tools – infographics, genograms, and Bradshaw’s insights.

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Free weekly supervision is included with your course enrolment.
You’re welcome to come along each week - to study, ask questions, or simply sit in community.

Supervision provides a safe, supportive environment to:

Deepen your NeuroSynqt™ and CPtsd understanding
Develop reflective practice and professional confidence
Receive real time discussion and mentorship
Reconnect with professional clarity and clinical direction

📍 Access your Supervision Module inside your student account - it contains the schedule, what’s included and how supervision supports your professional growth and personal integration.

💬 “No one heals in isolation - we heal through safe, structured connection.”

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This program includes structured practitioner only and client facing materials aligned to developmental trauma formulation and integration capacity work.

Resources are designed to strengthen formulation accuracy, pacing decisions and real time integration capacity tracking within professional scope.

Materials support session structure and between session continuity. All resources are embedded within the certification aligned learning sequence and support structured application across developmental trauma presentations.

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Regulation is essential in trauma recovery. However regulation capacity develops within integrated brain organisation rather than as an isolated skill.

In developmental trauma, integrated organisation is disrupted. Strengthening regulation without addressing integration capacity may reduce distress while leaving identity access and cognitive consistency unstable.

In CPtsd work, integration alignment precedes sustainable regulation.

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Trauma informed care improves awareness.
Trauma trained practice strengthens formulation precision.

Being trauma trained means understanding:

• How developmental threat shapes fear signalling and adult adaptation
• Why clients may present as high functioning yet remain structurally fragmented
• How integration capacity limits influence cognition, motivation and identity organisation
• Why stabilisation alone does not restore consistent access to adult self structure

When trauma is addressed at a brain based structural level rather than symptom level alone, clinical sequencing becomes clearer and practitioner decision making becomes more accurate.

Current neuroscience and developmental research consistently show that:

• Early relational and environmental threat shapes long term fear signalling patterns
• Trauma impacts perception, cognition and identity organisation - not just emotion
• Professional burnout increases when structural formulation is unclear

This education integrates research with applied formulation, supporting practitioners to work with developmental trauma presentations using structural clarity rather than symptom management alone.

Linda Meredith

Passionate, Innovative, and Dedicated to

Complex Trauma Recovery

An Advanced, Neuroscience Based Approach for Mental Health Professionals

Linda Meredith is an accredited trainer, counsellor and creator of the NeuroSynqt™ modality for CPtsd recovery. Known as a Professional Brain Untangler, Linda combines advanced neuroscience, lived experience and years of client practice to develop trauma trained education that’s both practical and deeply human.

Her work has been peer reviewed and accredited by specialists with tertiary qualifications in the trauma field, ensuring every course is grounded in professional standards as well as real world application.

👉 Want to know more about Linda’s background, qualifications and journey? Read Linda’s full story

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"Linda Meredith is a powerhouse at making complex trauma understandable and accessible. Her program is flexible, practical, and deeply supportive — allowing me to go at my own pace and truly engage with the material. What stands out is how the homework helps me embody the knowledge, not just memorise it. It’s sparked real ah-ha moments about how to support my clients more effectively. Linda’s generosity shines through everything she creates — from beautiful workbooks to business tools that make it easier to succeed as a coach. It honestly feels like she’s in my corner 24/7. This program is exactly what I needed. Thank you, Linda — you’re a gift. "

"I don’t know if anyone else can resonate, but I’m so hungry for more critical information to better serve my coaching clients that I simply cannot get enough of the material Linda creates! The Complex Ptsd survivors around the world are so fortunate to have someone as amazing as Linda Meredith creating courses for helping professionals! The depth of the content and the support this course offers is PHENOMENAL! If you haven’t started taking the course and you are on the fence, I would HIGHLY recommend you take the leap and sign up

Thanks Linda for what you do!"

“Linda has a warm, caring attitude with a sense of humour to boot about the effects of CPtsd on someone. Her insight, videos, articles, and support have helped me over humps and I have seen the effect it has had on others too. Linda speaks not only through her education, but also from her own experience. She understands what brings about CPtsd and how to help you address that trauma in a caring, kind, compassionate, and sometimes firm fashion. I highly recommend her if you are looking to heal from trauma you’ve experienced or even if you’re looking to understand more about the impact of CPtsd. Be kind, be understanding, and do yourself a favour and learn from Linda’s materials!.”

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🏆 Certification Pathway

The NeuroSynqt™ program provides practical, applied online education in the complex trauma field for qualified practitioners working with adults impacted by developmental trauma CPtsd.

Professionals may engage through flexible pathways:

• Individual Core Units focused on specific clinical domains
• Full Certification leading to recognition as Master Practitioner of Complex Trauma – NeuroSynqt™ MPCT NeuroSynqt, with CEUs available

The certification pathway has been peer reviewed and accredited by professionals with tertiary qualifications in the trauma field, supporting professional credibility and recognition.

NeuroSynqt™ courses are designed for qualified practitioners practising within their existing professional scope. Completion of individual Core Units contributes toward certification requirements but does not constitute certification independently.

Developed through extensive study, applied practice and lived clinical experience, NeuroSynqt™ provides a neuroscience based, clinically grounded framework supporting assessment clarity, structured formulation and integration aligned application in professional practice.

By leading the way with effective complex trauma recovery across the globe, we have the power to be the generation that breaks the cycle of abuse and intergenerational trauma.

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I work hard to hold it together in public, then crash in private.
I struggle to name what I feel until it overloads me.
I say yes to keep the peace, then feel resentful or empty.
I feel loyal to people who do not treat me well.
I lose time or feel foggy when stressed.
I avoid closeness or over-attach quickly, then panic.
I find it hard to trust my own judgement.
I feel shame when I try to set boundaries.
I need external approval to feel steady.
I push through fatigue instead of pausing.

My mind jumps to what could go wrong, even in safe moments.
I find it hard to remember recent details when I am stressed.
Decisions feel risky, so I delay or avoid them.
I forget good experiences quickly and dwell on the bad.
I feel numb or overwhelmed, with little in-between.
I lose words when emotions rise.
I misread neutral faces or tones as negative.
I struggle to notice body signals like hunger, tension or breath.
I do better when someone I trust is nearby.
I feel different “versions” of me in different settings.

CPtsd: Trauma and Identity Architecture Series

Core 7 - Psychological wounding, identity consolidation and generational transmission.

For professionals working with adults impacted by childhood developmental trauma.

Core 7 - MPCT - NeuroSynqt™ Accredited Professional Certification PathwayMaster Practitioner of Complex Trauma - NeuroSynqt™ (accredited globally) Certification is optional. CEU hours available for professionals.

In Brief: Short on time? This is the core of the 6 course sequence. The full training, application and practitioner depth are unpacked throughout the page.

Core 7 Trauma & Identity Architecture

How developmental trauma organises identity formation, psychological wounding and self-concept consolidation in CPtsd

Who this is for:

Who are seeing:

What you’ll learn:

What this changes:

This Core establishes how identity is organised through developmental trauma - explaining why identity confusion, shame and instability persist despite insight, therapeutic effort and safe present day conditions.

CPtsd: Trauma and Identity Series