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Lecture series
"The psychotherapeutic process in working with traumatised clients"
"The psychotherapeutic process in working with traumatised clients"
5 online lectures from Raluca Ursica(UK) and Ewa Dobiala (Poland).
1. Understanding and Addressing Secondary Trauma in Psychotherapy
2. Transference and Countertransference in Work with Traumatised Clients
3. Primary Capacities and Trauma
4. Working with Survivors of Sexual Trauma – Clinical Tools and Therapeutic Presence
5.Transgenerational Trauma
20 October - 18 November 2025
1. Understanding and Addressing Secondary Trauma in Psychotherapy
2. Transference and Countertransference in Work with Traumatised Clients
3. Primary Capacities and Trauma
4. Working with Survivors of Sexual Trauma – Clinical Tools and Therapeutic Presence
5.Transgenerational Trauma
20 October - 18 November 2025
Ewa Dobiala - psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and supervisor of the Polish Psychiatric Association. She is an International Master Trainer and supervisor in the World Association for Positive and Transcultural Psychotherapy (WAPP); a specialist in the psychotherapy of children and adolescents and community therapy.
Raluca Ursica - Counselling Psychologist, Positive Psychotherapist, Clinical Supervisor and Master Trainer for Positive Psychotherapy (HCPC, UKCP, BACP, EAP, WAPP). I've spent the past 15 years specialising in treating complex trauma, with a focus on sexual trauma and childhood abuse. My approach integrates positive psychotherapy theory and practice and body-based techniques to help clients process traumatic memories, and build resilie
Programm
5 lectures with the space for questions and supervision in the end of each lecture.
Lecture 1
Raluca Ursica
20.10.25
09.00-12.00 UK
Raluca Ursica
20.10.25
09.00-12.00 UK
Understanding and Addressing Secondary Trauma in Psychotherapy
This seminar equips psychotherapists with essential knowledge and tools to recognise, prevent, and manage secondary trauma. Participants will explore the somatic, psychological, emotional and spiritual impact of empathic engagement with trauma survivors, learn strategies for maintaining emotional resilience, and develop practices to support long-term sustainability in clinical work. Emphasis will be placed on self-awareness, boundaries, and building a trauma-informed professional culture.
This seminar equips psychotherapists with essential knowledge and tools to recognise, prevent, and manage secondary trauma. Participants will explore the somatic, psychological, emotional and spiritual impact of empathic engagement with trauma survivors, learn strategies for maintaining emotional resilience, and develop practices to support long-term sustainability in clinical work. Emphasis will be placed on self-awareness, boundaries, and building a trauma-informed professional culture.
Lecture 2
Ewa Dobiala
28.10.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Ewa Dobiala
28.10.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Transference and Countertransference in Work with Traumatised Clients
Understanding the Relational Dynamics in Trauma Therapy
Motto: “Where words are lost in pain, the body and presence become the language of truth.”
This is not only about mechanisms – it is about meeting. Transference and countertransference in trauma work are inevitable echoes of old wounds, but also an opportunity to see them anew – with someone who does not look away.
Sometimes healing begins when we stay present not despite the pain, but precisely because of it.
Understanding the Relational Dynamics in Trauma Therapy
Motto: “Where words are lost in pain, the body and presence become the language of truth.”
This is not only about mechanisms – it is about meeting. Transference and countertransference in trauma work are inevitable echoes of old wounds, but also an opportunity to see them anew – with someone who does not look away.
Sometimes healing begins when we stay present not despite the pain, but precisely because of it.
Lecture 3
Ewa Dobiala
05.11.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Ewa Dobiala
05.11.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Primary Capacities and Trauma
How Trauma Impacts Core Human Potential and Inner Development
Motto: “What was first wounded in us, longs to be born again.”
Trauma does not destroy human potential – it hides it, freezes it, obscures it. Yet, beneath the layers of pain, the capacity for love, trust, and meaning remains alive.
Therapy is not about building something new, but about allowing what was once silenced to find its voice again.
How Trauma Impacts Core Human Potential and Inner Development
Motto: “What was first wounded in us, longs to be born again.”
Trauma does not destroy human potential – it hides it, freezes it, obscures it. Yet, beneath the layers of pain, the capacity for love, trust, and meaning remains alive.
Therapy is not about building something new, but about allowing what was once silenced to find its voice again.
Lecture 4
Raluca Ursica
14.11.25
10.00-12.00 UK
Raluca Ursica
14.11.25
10.00-12.00 UK
Working with Survivors of Sexual Trauma – Clinical Tools and Therapeutic Presence
This seminar offers psychotherapists practical frameworks and therapeutic interventions for working with clients who have experienced sexual trauma. Drawing from the latest research and clinical practice, we will explore trauma-informed approaches, pacing and regulation techniques, body-based strategies, and the importance of therapeutic presence. Participants will gain tools to support safety, attunement, and healing in the therapeutic relationship.
This seminar offers psychotherapists practical frameworks and therapeutic interventions for working with clients who have experienced sexual trauma. Drawing from the latest research and clinical practice, we will explore trauma-informed approaches, pacing and regulation techniques, body-based strategies, and the importance of therapeutic presence. Participants will gain tools to support safety, attunement, and healing in the therapeutic relationship.
Lecture 5
Ewa Dobiala
18.11.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Ewa Dobiala
18.11.25
08.00-11.00 Poland
Transgenerational Trauma
Invisible Threads: Inheriting Pain, Reclaiming Resilience
Motto: “Sometimes memory lives not in words, but in the body, in silence, in fear… and in dreams of something different.”
We inherit not only DNA but also silence, fractures, and the ways of seeing the world shaped by unspoken history. Transgenerational trauma does not have to be a sentence – it can become the beginning of a courageous conversation with a past longing for witnesses and healing.
Every act of remembering can also be an act of reclaiming life and connection.
Invisible Threads: Inheriting Pain, Reclaiming Resilience
Motto: “Sometimes memory lives not in words, but in the body, in silence, in fear… and in dreams of something different.”
We inherit not only DNA but also silence, fractures, and the ways of seeing the world shaped by unspoken history. Transgenerational trauma does not have to be a sentence – it can become the beginning of a courageous conversation with a past longing for witnesses and healing.
Every act of remembering can also be an act of reclaiming life and connection.
The cost of participation in a series of lectures ( 5 lectures of 3 hours each), with access to the recording for 6 months is: 150 euro for WAPP members and 165 euro for all other participants.
Language: english with translation into russian
For all questions, please write: propptru@gmail.com
- To register and payment, fill out the form at the top of the page.
- You can pay with cards from all banks and also using paypal system.
- Certificates and CPD hours.
Language: english with translation into russian
For all questions, please write: propptru@gmail.com
