You will learn how to use your understanding of the AIP model to identify and organize multiple memory networks at play during history taking with clients presenting with complex traumatic symptoms. Ensuring you know where your client is stuck and choosing one neural network to reprocess at a time, enables you and your client to arrive at their destination: a reprocessed neural network. Slower is faster with complex clients. Taking the time to clearly understand your client's memory networks, enables you to process safely, effectively, and quickly (without the client getting stuck, dissociating, and you feeling lost and frustrated). You will also learn how to troubleshoot Floatback and Affect Scans that go ‘off road’ so you can stay on track: uncovering traumatic events in one memory network at a time. Example treatment plans will also be offered so you can learn to create concise treatment plans for complex clients.

Poorly planned treatment results in inefficient processing and unstable, dysregulated clients, and confused, scared, frustrated clinicians! Streamlining your history-taking process enables clinicians to properly plan, screen for dissociation, identify inadequate stabilization and emotional parts needing extra time to build a solid therapeutic alliance. A client’s AIP will not be able reprocess traumatic memories if they lacks the adaptive life experiences & resources related to the maladpative network of traumatic symptoms presented during history taking. Thearpists will learn how to use assessment phase questions during treatment planning to organize symptoms into several symptom-informed treatment plans, based on the client's overarching behavioural, affective, cognitive, and somatic themes. Clinicians will learn how how to complete a Floatback/Affect Scan on 1 network (tree) rather than the client’s entire nervous system presentation (a whole forest). Clinicians will learn which phase 2 preparation is required BEFORE a complete treatment plan is made in phase 1 in order to meet the client's neural gaps and which interweaves to use to support abreactions and blocked processing in phase 4-6.