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Digital Seminar

Gaslighting & Relationship Trauma Workshop

IFS Therapy, Somatic and Attachment Repair Interventions for Safety, Self-Trust, and Recovery

Speaker:
Amelia Kelley, PhD
Duration:
Approx 12 hrs
Copyright:
Feb 19, 2026
Product Code:
POS150568
Media Type:
Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar

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Description

  • Spot the hidden tactics that shatter self-trust and safety
  • Somatic tools to calm the nervous system and rebuild safety in the body
  • Interventions to repair attachment wounds
  • A clear clinical roadmap to move clients from self-doubt to empowerment

 

Over the years, I’ve sat with countless clients who’ve left toxic, manipulative, and emotionally abusive relationships.

They were intelligent, resilient, and deeply self-aware – yet they questioned their reality. Am I overreacting? Did I make this up? Why can’t I trust myself anymore?”

That’s the insidious effect of gaslighting and relationship trauma. It leaves clients second-guessing their truth, confused, disconnected form their bodies, and struggling to feel safe in their own lives.

And I’ll be honest – in the beginning I felt stuck with these clients.

Talk therapy and insights weren’t enough. They needed tools to help regulate their nervous system, repair attachment wounds, and reconnect with themselves. But clinical level training that showed me how to actually do that was hard to find.

So I spent hundreds of hours researching, found the best approaches and started using them in sessions. And it changed how I practice.

Clients were finally finding words for experiences they had doubted, reconnecting with their bodies, and beginning to trust themselves again. The results were so transformative it led me to write my book Gaslighting Recovery for Women.

And now in this workshop, I want to share the IFS therapy techniques, somatic interventions and attachment repair strategies that made the biggest difference in my work with survivors.

When you join me, I’ll walk you through everything step by step so you can:

  • Spot subtle tactics of manipulation and control
  • Use somatic tools to restore body awareness and a felt sense of safety
  • Guide clients through attachment repair so they can set boundaries
  • Follow a clear clinical roadmap to move clients form confusion to empowerment

If you’ve ever felt the frustration of watching a client remain stuck in the cycle of relational trauma despite their hard work in therapy, this training is for you.

Purchase now to get the specialized training you need to help these clients truly break free and reclaim their lives!

Warmly,

Amelia Kelley, PhD, LCMHC

Author of Gaslighting Recovery for Women

 

This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

 

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Speaker

Amelia Kelley, PhD's Profile

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Amelia Kelley, PhD, is a therapist, TEDx speaker, researcher and author of several books including Gaslighting Recovery for Women: The Complete Guide to Recognizing Manipulation and Achieving Freedom from Emotional Abuse.

Her specialties include treating survivors of abuse and relationship trauma, highly sensitive persons, and adults with ADHD using a variety of modalities including Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy, EMDR, Brainspotting, and art therapy.

Dr. Kelley is an adjunct faculty member at Yorkville University in the School of Counseling Psychology and a nationally recognized relationship expert featured on SiriusXM Doctor Radio’s The Psychiatry Show as well as NPR’s The Measure of Everyday Life. Her private practice is part of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute.

In addition to her work as a clinician, she is also a certified meditation and yoga instructor whose other books include Powered by ADHD: Strategies and Exercises for Women to Harness their Untapped Gifts, coauthor of What I Wish I Knew: Surviving and Thriving After an Abusive Relationship, as well as Surviving Suicidal Ideation: From Therapy to Spirituality and the Lived Experience. She is also a contributing author for Psychology Today and ADDitude Magazine.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Amelia Kelley maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with the Art Therapy Institute. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Amelia Kelley has no relevant non-financial relationships.


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This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.


Objectives

  1. Define gaslighting and the origins of the term.
  2. Identify common tactics of gaslighting, including manipulation, denial, and distortion of reality.
  3. Distinguish the subtle presentation of gaslighting from overt abuse indicators during clinical assessment.
  4. Determine how gaslighting and emotional manipulation impact autonomy, decision-making, and perception.
  5. Examine the cycle of self-doubt and decision-making difficulties created by chronic exposure to gaslighting.
  6. Appraise the limitations of current research on gaslighting and incorporate emerging findings into ethical, evidence-informed clinical practice.
  7. Develop safety plans that address the unique risks of emotional abuse and coercive control, including psychological manipulation, intimidation, and isolation.
  8. Utilize IFS mapping techniques to understand pars roles and interactions in clients with trauma.
  9. Choose IFS-based self-compassion interventions in the treatment of trauma-related internal system burdens.
  10. Examine the potential risks, contraindications, and other considerations associated with using the IFS model.
  11. Use Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) to assist in enhancing overall wellbeing and decreasing unwanted symptoms from traumatic stress, anxiety, depression, & pain.
  12. Examine the research limitations, potential risks, contraindications, and other considerations associated with using Emotional Freedom Techniques.
  13. Use foundational somatic techniques, including titration and sequencing in trauma treatment.
  14. Identify risks and potential limitations of somatic techniques in the treatment of trauma.

Outline

Gaslighting Fundamentals

  • Family gaslighting: scapegoating, parentification, sibling triangulation and more
  • Intimate partner and trauma bonding
  • Cultural/systemic issues
  • Medical origins in “hysteria”
  • Group/religious: indoctrination and thought control
  • Covert vs. overt: subtle invalidation versus blatant denial
  • Subconscious or insecure gaslighters
  • Calculated or malicious gaslighters
  • Goals: destabilization, isolation, and power

Gaslighting in Action:

Common Tactics and the Cycle

  • How it starts: gradual “testing the waters”
  • Recognize common tactics
    • Exaggeration
    • Repetition
    • Silent treatment
    • Minimization
    • Triangulation
    • Emotional baiting
    • Blame-shifting
  • The cycle of gaslighting
  • Clinical worksheet – subtle behaviors and red flags

Psychological, Relational and Somatic Impacts of Gaslighting

  • Psychological: fractured self-trust, shame, confusion, perfectionism, fawning
  • Relational: attachment injuries, loss of validation networks
  • Physical: chronic stress
  • Gaslighting Shock Response and the Gaslighting Shock Reset grounding sequence
  • Clinical exercise: body scan plus Shock Reset script
  • Differentiate Gaslighting from other abuse
  • Distortion of reality and erosion of self-trust as defining features
  • When gaslighting overlaps with coercive control, stalking, or financial abuse

The Gaslighting Recovery Spectrum

  • Stages of recovery
  • Journal prompt: how clients may shift between stages

 

DAY 2

 

Safety Planning for Survivors of Gaslighting and Abuse

  • Recognize – Anchor – Reset – Validate – Boundaries or Exit
  • How to guide clients through each step
  • Scripts and anchor-building strategies
  • Clinical exercise: anchor menu, red-flag to boundary phrase bank

The Gaslighting Recovery Plan

  • Step 1: Recognize distortions
  • Step 2: Reconnect with inner truth and self-compassion
  • Step 3: Restore self-trust with micro-decisions
  • Step 4: Restore self-worth
  • Somatic trauma processing: titration and pendulation
  • EFT/tapping for stress
  • Research, risks and limitations

Gaslighting Detection: Patterns, Behaviors and Contexts

  • Statements and behaviors
  • Patterns
  • Contexts (family, partner, workplace, medical, cultural)
  • Risk factors (isolation, financial control, threats)
  • Clinician checklist, client self-report, and collateral prompts
  • Severity and domain totals, risk flags triggering safety planning
  • Clinical exercise: 10-item mini-screen to begin safe conversations

Internal Family Systems Tools for Treating Survivors

  • Mapping parts
    • The internal gaslighter
    • The pleaser
    • The perfectionist
    • Exiles of shame or abandonment
  • Exercise: Self dialogues with the internal gaslighter part
  • Clinical exercise: protector-to-self contract for perfectionist or fawn roles
  • Research, risks and limitations

Attachment-Focused Tools and Clinical Exercises

  • How gaslighting fractures attachment bonds
  • Reparenting Dialogue – offering attunement to invalidated parts
  • Clinical exercise: Safe Others Map for daily co-regulation
  • Guide survivors across the lifespan
  • Exercise: “Shield Up” cue practice and circle of helpers drawing
  • Research, risks and limitations

 

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Physicians
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Registered Psychotherapists
  • Other mental health professionals

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