Join us for September’s workshop with Shannon Higgins, LPC-Supervisor. We will be discussing Narcissistic Abuse/Hidden Abuse Awareness. This will help clinicians help detect someone hiding in plain sight that are endangering clients.

Learning Objectives:

1.     Gaining the distinctive ability to clearly define healthy relationships vs toxic, hidden abuse (aka Narcissistic Abuse), psychological abuse, physical abuse, emotional and verbal abuse.

2.     Learning the definition and neurobiology of what a trauma bond is (aka Stockholm Syndrome).

3.     Teaching your clients about healthy relationships vs trauma bond and supporting them to navigate them to achieve their therapeutic goals.

4.     Learning to manage your own investment with your clients’ outcome. Supporting your client’s autonomous process of developing their own goals and how to mutually agree upon these goals.

5.     Learning effective trauma informed techniques to help client heal and recover from trauma bond.

Shannon Higgins is a Licensed Professional Counselor specializing in individual, family therapy, adolescent therapy, her trademark "Moxie Recovery Program" and maintains a private practice in North Plano, TX. She is EMDR trained and specialized in Complex PTSD. Her passion (or as she will affectionately say "crusade") is to educate the public, mental health profession and court system about the signs of Narcissistic Abuse not only as a Licensed Professional Counselor but also as a survivor and now a thriver. She is also a Certified Christian Counselor through the International Institute of Faith Based Counseling and may apply this upon request.