Category: Noel Mcdermott

Helping and Healing in Trauma – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

Noel will cover trauma from several perspectives and with clinical experience going back to his work from the mid 1990’s. The session will cover what trauma is, what PTSD is, how trauma develops neuro-biologically, and how that manifests in the individual and also in their relationships to others.

Trauma is a complex area of work and there is no one size fits all approach. There are common pitfalls to avoid such a re-traumatisation and secondary traumatisation of the therapist.

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Core Characteristics of Addiction and Recovery – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

In this session Noel will look at some of the core characteristics of addiction. The psychological features that are common across all fifteen recognised addictions. He will go through the fifteen recognised addictions and explain how they link.

He will look at issues in assessment and treatment. Using his clinical experience to present a humanistic and holistic view of addiction. He will look at how the issues manifest in family work and dealing with dysfunctional family systems. Noel will look at trauma and it’s relationship to addiction and treatment in recovery He will present on what we know about addiction science.

Noel will in the second section of the hour look at recovery. Explaining what it is as a concept and how it relates to addiction, codependency and family systems treatment.

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Trauma and Recovery – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

In this interview Noel will help us to think about the connection between Trauma and Recovery from Addiction.

This interview is part of our preparation for Noel’s workshop “Walking on Eggshell’s” which will be an opportunity to think more deeply about the relationship between Trauma, Addiction and early family experiences and how best to work with these in a therapeutic context.

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Couples in Recovery – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

Noel shared his experience of working with couples where one or both has issues of addiction or co-dependency. Where one or both may be in formal recovery groups such as AA or where one or both is in denial of their need for support into recovery from addiction or co-dependency. What is the impact of denial, trauma, cross-addiction, co-dependent loss of the victim-caretaker role?

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Introducing 12 Step Recovery – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

Exploring indirect and creative ways of approaching traumatic material in clients where direct talking approaches may be inappropriate or not possible.

Making meaning from a traumatic history or event is crucial in moving on and integrating the experience. As is reprocessing the emotional content to alleviate the stress of flashbacks, depression, anxiety, sleep problems and so on often associated with sever or multiple trauma.

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Dropping to the Universal: Engaging with the Potential Space to Give Voice to Traumatic Woundings – Noel McDermott

Noel McDermott

Exploring indirect and creative ways of approaching traumatic material in clients where direct talking approaches may be inappropriate or not possible.

Making meaning from a traumatic history or event is crucial in moving on and integrating the experience. As is reprocessing the emotional content to alleviate the stress of flashbacks, depression, anxiety, sleep problems and so on often associated with sever or multiple trauma.

Dealing with the trauma directly can often be contra-indicated if there are issues of age (working with young children), comorbidity with substance misuse relapse, shame, cultural and ethnic barriers to western approaches to talking therapy.

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Psychotherapy’s Role in Mutual Aid Based Recovery from Addiction and Alcoholism – Noel Mcdermott

Noel McDermott

How can we as psychotherapists engage with this process? This was the substance of the conversation with Noel McDermott. A psychotherapist who specialises in facilitating addicts into mutual aid programs.

Noel explored some of the evidence base for mutual aid, present his work in the main form of mutual aid ’12 Step’ (AA. NA. CoDA. Al-Anon. Al-Ateen. SLAA. OA. GA. UA etc). Looking at the dynamics of the steps, how they interface into psychotherapeutic practice.

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