Bestselling author Gabor Maté has become a leading voice for the destigmatization and compassionate treatment of mental health and addiction. He’s the author of four bestselling books, including When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, and the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.
He’ll discuss how trauma and emotional stress, often hidden below consciousness and interwoven into the very fabric of society, prepare the ground for disease. He’ll also explore how to unlock our natural abilities for recovery and healing, particularly at a moment when therapists are struggling in unprecedented ways.
Maté will also cover the core elements of healthy human development and what happens when critical attachments are lost or severed. He will discuss what it really means for humans to be resilient in the face of attachment injuries. What emerges is a new paradigm for relating, grounded in the present moment while not flinching from the past.
Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- other Behavioral Health Professionals
Learning Objectives:
- Measure the impacts of childhood trauma on psychological functioning and well-being in adulthood.
- Differentiate how to uncover early traumatic events of childhood and unconscious feeling states.
- Devise how to cultivate deeper therapeutic presence by bringing awareness to unconscious patterns and processes that may be exacerbating client symptoms.
- Demonstrate how to keep clients engaged in present-moment experiences using a mind-body framework.
- Evaluate recent developments in attachment research and trauma.
- Extrapolate how early loss can translate into maladaptive behaviors in adulthood.
- Propose 3 examples of skills for building resilience in the face of loss.
Course Modules / Outline
- Defining the impacts of trauma and hidden emotional stressors
- Understand the role of stress in the development of disease
- Review the stress reaction from the perspective of systems theory
- Understanding the nature of resilience as adaptation
- The ways in which we can overcome stress and foster resilience
- The social context of stress and problematic behaviors
- Moving past reaction to understanding origins as adaptations
- The attachment drive as a biological necessity
- A paradigm for developing resilience in the face of attachment loss
Why Take This Course?
- Understand the Hidden Roots of Mental & Physical Suffering
Many clients struggle with anxiety, depression, chronic illness, or addiction without realizing these issues may stem from early emotional wounds. This course helps you uncover the invisible forces driving their pain. - Learn from a Global Authority on Trauma
Dr. Gabor Maté is a pioneer in trauma-informed care. His approach blends science, compassion, and deep clinical insight to help professionals treat the whole person, not just symptoms. - Bridge Mind and Body in Therapy
Gain practical tools to keep clients grounded in the present while gently exploring painful past experiences. Learn how early attachment injuries shape behavior—and how resilience can be cultivated through attuned therapeutic presence. - Elevate Your Clinical Impact
Whether you’re a therapist, counselor, physician, or social worker, you’ll walk away with a transformative framework to improve your practice and help clients build lasting emotional strength. - Compassion-Based, Practical, Evidence-Informed
Dr. Maté’s paradigm empowers you to support healing from the inside out—by creating safety, connection, and awareness in your work with trauma survivors.
Meet the Course Expert:
Gabor Maté, MD (pronounced GAH-bor MAH-tay) is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of five books published in nearly 40 languages, including the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. For his groundbreaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His most recent book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture is a New York Times and international bestseller.
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