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Mondays: 9am - 10:30am eastern

meets bi-weekly

Tuesdays: 1x Monthly from 3pm - 4:30pm

The cost is $45 per group session

Contact us for information about the next consultation meeting 

ARE YOU A CLINICIAN WHO IS READY TO:

  • Better serve your clients by diversifying your clinician toolbox

  • Be on the cutting edge of mental health modalities and hone in on a skillset that very few mental health professionals currently possess

  • Grow professionally while helping others be the best versions of their adult selves 

  • Become more successful all while fulfilling your professional purpose​

If so, then you're in the right place.

 

I invite you to attend my Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy (DNMS) training webinar.

WHAT IS DNMS?

The DNMS is a multidimensional, comprehensive, strengths-based, client-centered, ego-state therapy developed by Shirley Jean Schmidt, MA, LPC.

It’s informed by ego-state theory, developmental psychology, self-reparenting therapy, attachment theory, EMDR therapy, and an understanding of mirror neurons.

The DNMS addresses unwanted behaviors, beliefs, emotions, and urges rooted in unmet emotional needs from childhood trauma and attachment wounds.

IT'S BASED ON 2 IMPORTANT IDEAS:

  • Childhood trauma wounds form when safety needs are not met well. This occurs when bad things happen – like a tornado, hurricane, or school shooting. Attachment wounds form when emotional needs are not met well. This occurs when important good things do not happen – like parents failing to make a loving connection, soothe painful emotions, or attune. When parents are physically abusive or threatening, they inflict both trauma and attachment wounds.

  • When we’re significantly wounded in childhood, child parts of self get stuck in time. From then on, those wounded child parts feel hurt, powerless, alone, and lost. They hold negative, untrue beliefs about self and world. Reminders of a painful past can trigger a flood of overwhelming emotions, evoking a felt sense that the past is still happening now. Some child parts manage those painful emotions with troubling behaviors – like overeating, starving, withdrawing, gambling, or drinking.

The DNMS helps heal childhood trauma and attachment wounds by meeting the needs of wounded child parts to help them get unstuck from the past. It starts with mobilizing a team of loving internal Resources.

 

The Resources join the therapist in providing all the emotional support, compassion, empathy, and radical acceptance wounded parts needed in childhood but didn’t get.

 

They’re gently given all the information they need to come out of the past and into the safety of the present moment.

 

As more and more wounded parts heal, unwanted behaviors, beliefs, emotions, and urges diminish.

 

Internal conflicts fade out and self-esteem grows.

 

All this makes it easier to handle the stresses of life with adult skills and strengths.

Hi! My name is Amy. I specialize in helping people make transformational change.

 

In my 30+ years of experience working as a therapist, I have trained extensively in various approaches to successfully help both individuals and couples, and now I want to help you do the same! 

As a professional coach, I offer training, consultation, and mentorship to help you improve your clinical skills in working with trauma, unmet developmental needs, and/or couples. 

I want to help your grow your practice and thrive! 

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ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Mountain Range

WHAT PEOPLE SAY

Amy is a knowledgeable, kind and patient teacher. Her explanation of how to develop and access support from inner resources has given me a practical tool that I use in my daily life and I also share this information with my clients. I would recommend her courses to anyone wanting to have a stronger sense of self, confidence, and ways of center oneself when there is chaos either internally or externally.

Tammy Van Hinte, MA, RCC

Conflict Options Counseling

Victoria, BC, Canada

I'D LOVE TO SEE YOU AT MY NEXT TRAINING!

ALREADY TRAINED AND LOOKING FOR CONTINUED MENTORSHIP?

My consultation group may be what you're looking for! This is a great option for anyone who is already familiar with DNMS but is looking to further develop their skillset with the guidance of a trained DNMS instructor. 

I offer two groups both meet biweekly via Zoom and is available at a drop-in rate of $45 per person per session.

Mondays from 9am - 10:30am Eastern

Tuesdays from 11am - 12:30pm Eastern

 

What you get: 

  • Additional review and Q&A about DNMS training

  • Case consultation

  • Opportunities to practice new skills

If you are interested, please contact me so we can go over the details and I can add you to the list to receive the meeting notices and zoom links.

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