Training & Professional Education

Rebekkah Williams has closed her individual clinical psychotherapy practice to focus fully on national training, keynote speaking, clinical supervision, and author projects. All training offerings are designed for frontline healthcare professionals, social service agencies, counselors, first responders, and conference delegates across Canada.

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Signature Workshops & Training Modules

 

The Hijacked Self - NEW!

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Understanding Identity Distortion, Coercive Control, and the Journey to Reclamation

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• Overview:

  What happens when surviving requires becoming who someone else needed you to be? The Hijacked Self explores the profound, often-overlooked impact of sexual exploitation, coercive control, and human trafficking on identity development, self-perception, and the fundamental experience of being oneself. Moving beyond standard trauma responses, this training examines how prolonged coercion, surveillance, commodification, and exploitation become organizing forces during critical periods of childhood and adolescent development.
   

• Core Framework & Concepts:

  • Interoception, Proprioception & Attention: How survival adaptations reshape bodily awareness, autonomy, dissociation, depersonalization, and externally focused self-monitoring.

  • Reframing Adaptation vs. Pathology: Understanding how survival strategies are frequently mislabeled as pathology, resistance, addiction, criminality, or "disordered" behavior.

  • Systemic & Neurobiological Factors: Incorporating polyvagal theory, epigenetics, intergenerational trauma, institutional bias, and family dynamics.

  • Moving from Survival to Reclamation: Practical, concrete, and immediately applicable strategies rooted in trauma-informed, survivor-informed, and culturally responsive practice that cultivate agency, relational safety, and true belonging.
     

 

How to Understand Horrible Things

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The Natural Evolution Following "How to Talk About Horrible Things"

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• Overview:

  Designed for practitioners, community leaders, and support workers navigating high-acuity sexual trauma, human trafficking, and severe abuse. This intensive workshop provides actionable frameworks to process, analyze, and ethically respond to severe trauma without losing clinical grounding or human empathy.
   

• Core Takeaways:

  • Decoding the mechanics of complex trauma, dissociation, and trauma-informed linguistics.

  • Practical tools for supporting survivors of image-based sexual exploitation and trafficking.

  • Navigating professional boundaries and preventing vicarious traumatization.
     

How to Talk About Horrible Things

Examining Trauma, Linguistics, and Genuine Connection
 

• Overview:

  Language shapes recovery. Presented nationally—including at the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) National Conference—this workshop explores how word choice, clinical stance, and dialogue dynamics either foster safety or unintentionally re-traumatize survivors.
   

• Core Takeaways:

  • De-escalation strategies for acute crisis interactions.

  • Unpacking the externalized self-image in trauma survivors.

  • How to create an environment of dignity and blunt, honest safety.
     

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Attendee Feedback & Testimonials

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“The training that finally says what needs to be said. Profound, personal, and an incredible learning experience.”  Frontline Social Worker

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“The best training I have ever attended. Period.” Conference Delegate, CCPA

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“If your training never covered this, you're not alone—and this series is your missing piece.”

Community Agency Director

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Bring Rebekkah to Your Organization or Conference

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Whether you are booking a full-day staff professional development workshop, hosting a regional symposium, or seeking a keynote/training module for your team, workshops can be tailored to your agency's specific focus area.

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Common Booking Contexts:

• Social Service & Anti-Violence Agencies

• Victim Services & First Responders

• Healthcare & Mental Health Organizations

• Academic Institutions & Professional Associations

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