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 […]

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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 […]

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By Peter Maves & Jill Hosey, Committee Co-Chairs

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 […]

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Kate McMaugh, Editor, ISSTD News

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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By Adithy

ISSTD had to postpone its planned in-person Australia-New Zealand Regional Conference, which was to be held in Melbourne in 2021, due to COVID. Not to be deterred, the Conference Committee channeled its energy to organizing ISSTD’s first ever Asia-Pacific Conference, held virtually in November 2021. With the support of ISSTD Staff and the Board, they […]

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ISSTD is thrilled to offer an ASCH Level I (Fundamentals) Training in Clinical Hypnosis this October! Join faculty Reinhild Draeger-Muenke, Debbie Bensching, and Wendy Lemke for this trauma and dissociation focused hypnosis training. The training incorporates lots of opportunities to experience hypnosis for yourself, as well as 1:1 and small group practices to become comfortable […]

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