Hidden in Plain Sight: The Identification and Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation is the title of our Wellington, New Zealand, conference. We are delighted to see this conference taking shape for 31 October – 2 November 2025, in Poneke, Wellington (Te Whanganui-a-tara). The conference will be held at Te Papa, the National museum of […]
The ISSTD Board and The Australia and New Zealand conference committee are excited to share the latest updates on the next regional conference to be held in Wellington/Poneke, New Zealand, October 31– November 2, 2025. We have the plenaries now confirmed, and they are Christine Courtois, PhD, Julian Ford, PhD, and D. Michael Coy, LICSW. […]
ISSTD is thrilled to announce our 2024 EMDR Virtual Seminar, “The Complexities of Complex Trauma, Dissociation and EMDR Therapy,” which will take place on July 12 and 13, 2024. The Seminar will feature presenters Jennifer Madere, D. Michael Coy and Marilyn Korzekwa! This two-day, virtual seminar will explore rarely covered terrain in the treatment of […]
ISSTD is excited to announce our 2023 Psychodynamics-Psychoanalytic Virtual Seminar featuring presenters Ira Brenner, Charis Cladouhos, Elizabeth Howell, Shelly Itzkowitz, Rick Kluft, John O’Neil, Adah Sachs, and Valerie Sinason This two-day virtual seminar will challenge the either/or qualities of many trauma-relevant approaches and paradigms and demonstrate how psychoanalytic perspectives can enrich and empower our therapeutic […]
ISSTD is thrilled to announce early bird registration is now open for the 2023 Toronto Regional Conference, Contemporary Issues and Interventions in the Treatment of Complex Trauma and Dissociation, through August 21, 2023. This conference will take place at the YMCA, Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This event will be an in-person event, and we do […]
Happy May ISSTDWorld! Thank you for stopping by to read about what the Virtual and Regional Conference Committee (VRCC) has been up to in its second year of being a committee! The goal of the VRCC committee is to support the continued growth of ISSTD’s regional and virtual trainings. As a group, this committee includes […]
The 2022 Australia-New Zealand Regional Conference has been a long time coming! Planning commenced in early 2020 for a 2021 conference which was, like so many events, unable to continue due to pandemic lockdowns. Instead, during 2021 the Committee pivoted and focused on developing ISSTD’s first-ever online Asia-Pacific Regional Conference. (This very successful venture was […]
We are living in extraordinary times. A global pandemic has affected every corner of the globe, and the Australia-New Zealand region had a unique perspective as it locked itself off from the world. We have also faced unprecedented climate-related disasters in recent years. But humanity is resilient, and we move forward with progressive movements such […]
The Australia-New Zealand (ANZ) Regional Conference Committee is a small group of around 15 members from Australia and Aotearoa (New Zealand) who meet approximately monthly to plan our bi-annual conferences (with some short breaks after conferences for ‘recovery’!). Due to COVID, our planned conference for Melbourne 2021 was changed to a virtual Asia Pacific Conference […]
Come and join us for our third regional conference of 2022, our Arizona Regional Conference in Scottsdale on October 7th and 8th. Titled “Transforming Trauma: Learning from the Past, Embodying the Present & Creating a Healthy Future”, participants will learn how to identify symptoms of post traumatic stress and differentiate between manifestations of PTSD and […]
