Episode 397: Courtney Armstrong. Attachment Styles & Complex Trauma
The Trauma Therapist
Guy Crawford Macpherson
4.5 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Courtney is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery.
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Courtney Armstrong, MEd. LPC, is a licensed professional counselor and Nationally Board Certified Fellow in Clinical Hypnotherapy who specializes in grief and trauma recovery. With a career spanning more than two decades, she is the founder of the Institute for Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy and developed her Trauma Informed Hypnotherapy (TM) approach after studying with numerous trauma experts and helping thousands of clients overcome trauma and grief.
Courtney is the author of, most recently, Rethinking Trauma Treatment: Attachment, Memory Reconsolidation, and Resilience, as well as, The Therapeutic “Aha!” (2015) and Transforming Traumatic Grief (2011).Â
In her 20 years of practice, she has helped thousands of clients recover from trauma, and experience deep personal transformation.
Courtney also offers training to mental health professionals, showing them how to use creativity, care, and humor to elicit transformation for their clients and make trauma recovery less painful. She is a regular contributor to magazines like the Psychotherapy Networker and The Neuropsychotherapist and has appeared on CBS Radio News, NPR affiliates, and networks in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Courtney also was my guest on episode 107 of The Trauma Therapist | Podcast.Â
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| 0:00.0 | I want to thank our sponsor today. Arizona Trauma Institute therapists, are you ready to transform the way you help trauma clients? |
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| 1:02.5 | tools, and private 24-7 access, Incummental meets you where you are in your recovery. Whether |
| 1:10.2 | you're managing urges or rebuilding trust, |
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| 1:18.8 | incummental.com. That's I-N-C-U-M-E-N-T-A-L.com. |
| 1:24.9 | Traumtherapist podcast, episode 397. |
| 1:41.0 | Welcome to the Trauma Therapist podcast. My name is Guy McPherson. My mission is to raise awareness of trauma and to help support and inspire new trauma workers through this podcast and my membership community trauma therapist 2.0. |
| 1:49.8 | Thanks so much for joining me today and here we go. |
| 1:57.2 | All right, guys, I just want to say that I am thrilled to have this podcast sponsored by CPTSD Foundation.org. |
| 2:04.0 | A little while ago, I actually got to meet the founder, Athena Moberg, of CPTSD Foundation. |
| 2:10.5 | We met here in San Francisco, sat down, had breakfast, and it was amazing. |
| 2:15.9 | You know, I got to feel and see her passion, the passion that |
| 2:20.7 | she has for this work, and not just for therapists and clinicians, but survivors as well. |
| 2:25.9 | CPTSD Foundation provides peer-led support and adjunctive care in between therapy sessions |
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