Workshops are essentially facilitated presentations designed for those who have suffered or are suffering from pathological relationship abuse. Workshops provide science-based, empirically validated information on personality disorders, pathological relationship abuse, why this abuse occurs, and how to recover from it. Supplemental material is also provided.

The Understanding and Recovering from Pathological Relationship Abuse workshop is presented in three parts:

Part I will focus on identifying pathological relationship abuse, why this form of abuse occurs in relationships, what types of personalities are involved in this form of abuse, what causes personality disorders to develop, and the difference between pathological and non-pathological forms of abuse. There will be science-based information included on personality disorders and how to colloquially identify the type of personality you may have dealt with or are currently dealing with.

 Part II will focus on traumatic cognitive dissonance and the impact of pathological relationship abuse on the autonomic nervous system and core belief system. We will discuss the most effective treatment interventions for recovering from traumatic cognitive dissonance based on empirical research.

 Part III will be the Q & A segment of the workshop.  Questions can be asked throughout the workshop using Zoom’s chat feature and will be answered during Part III.

 *Due to the sensitive nature of the topics covered in this workshop, you are free to keep your camera off the entire time and you may also change your display name.

In order to get the most out of this workshop, questions are submitted using the chat feature and will be answered during Part III of the presentation. This method is an efficient way to get everyone’s questions answered while successfully being able to cover A LOT of material. You will also find that questions asked by other participants are extremely helpful to hear responses to.