Mary Clare de Echevarria

I loved the parts and body work within the workshop, especially the live demo. Mary Clare you made it appear effortless and the ease between the body and identifying the part/s was just so beautiful to observe. The practicums, the teaching, links between clinical examples and theory, use of mindfulness/bodywork, all of it worked. It was such a powerful workshop.

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What others are saying about Mary Clare de Echevarria and Healing Complex Trauma

Mary Clare is an exemplary teacher – the best I have had the pleasure of studying with over my 20 years as a psychotherapist. The workshop was very well structured, the pacing was perfect and the content tailored to be of immediate use in practice.

Absolutely wonderful. Warm, holding and intelligent.

Beautiful blend of teaching and practical skills. I progressed on my own healing journey and I have felt the magic of Mary Clare’s teaching whilst with my patients this week. My practice has enhanced, my confidence in parts is growing. I will recommend this workshop to everyone I know.

An immediate takeaway approach to clients with complex trauma – an ability to spot/diagnose and address dissociation.

I loved the diving in and working with parts without worrying about which label to put on them (protector, submissive, etc). That felt quite freeing to get away from the rigidity of theoretical constructs. You are a gifted teacher and I think we all would attend more trainings with you.

For me, the weekend has helped pull together a range of different theories/ideas (EMDR, dissociated parts, IFS, body based skills/resources and polyvagal theory) and helped me see how these can be integrated even in the space of one session with a client. I feel I have a much deeper understanding of trauma, especially trauma of omission.

Mary Clare is a very skilled and talented teacher. Her style is very engaging.

You have integrated the Structural Dissociation and IFS approaches with those of Jim Knipe, Anabel Gonzalez and Dolores Mosquera in a unique and special way which you demonstrated in the client session.

I wanted to say how much I enjoyed the training weekend, and how much I valued your generosity in sharing your own experience. The authenticity I felt took my learning to a different level.

The workshop simplified all the models of dissociation/parts – just makes sense. Very well paced with enough rest and consolidation time, and the right balance of practicums.

I noticed the co-regulation between Mary Clare and us/me which made the whole training very safe and contained.

I felt familiar with much of the content (which was reassuring) but I felt a sense of how things came together. Super interesting day of therapy yesterday – more focused, succinct and (I think) effective sessions. I felt more confident in making suggestions about what might be going on for clients with dissociated parts.

I loved the clarity. The language you used was very accessible. It made thinking about DID clear.

Really interesting to notice clarity of thought in myself about what might be going on in my clients’ experience… found that in sessions this week I am working particularly effectively. Thank you!!!!!

I like Mary Clare’s conceptualisation of ‘parts’ – I was trying to incorporate IFS but it doesn’t sit right with me and previous EMDR/IFS training has seemed a bit formulaic. Thinking in terms of dissociation, fragments, flashbacks, feelings – all shut in a cupboard in childhood just works, for me and clients.

Mary Clare’s passion for this subject really brought the workshop to life.

It was a good combination of theory and practice. I thought the breathing, body work and visualisations were great. I really appreciated knowing exactly how you talk to the parts and seeing this demonstrated. I’ve learned about parts over the years but how you actually work with a client in the room is harder. It’s helpful to know how you do this in a safe, contained way. It was very helpful learning how to integrate the parts into the present adult. I feel I’ve been missing this part in the work I do with clients.

I have gained a thorough understanding of complex trauma and how to work with it.

The experiential exercises felt very thought-through – I felt safe and held. It was good to be able to work with peers – and notice how powerful this is (in just 10 minutes).

It feels like simply better psychotherapy, not only trauma work.

Wonderfully gentle and elegant method of working with parts; the sequences I absorbed and used in our final exercise felt powerful and effective.

I feel I gained more clarity into how to integrate the EMDR Attachment Focused model into working with dissociated parts.

Healing Complex Trauma integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist.

This beautifully presented workshop took me to a new place and enabled me to recognise indicators, triggers and behaviours, understand the impact of trauma and ego states across all developmental domains, and explore strategies to effectively work with clients who have experienced trauma.

Teaching and facilitation were very clear and concise. I also enjoyed and appreciated the therapy session example.

I gained more confidence in working and assessing DID. I have been using some of the techniques in the past 2 weeks with my clients and the results have been very positive.

Mary Clare was clear and used personal and client examples, and the demonstration was fantastic to observe.

I thought Mary Clare presented the material very well and facilitated the weekend well.

I found how she conceptualised and framed the concepts extremely useful and feel she modelled a warm and compassionate approach.

I feel that the weekend has opened some doors for me in integrating working with parts and body work into my practice. It also brought together my understanding of dissociation and parts work into a more cohesive whole, which is what I was hoping for from the course. It was excellent and I feel it will be very useful for me going forward in my practice.

The handouts were superb and allowed for the theory backbone while we could be more experimental in the room.

Perfect balance between theory and practice.

Your course is wonderful, you have managed to weave together so many aspects of the trauma-informed approaches, the theory and the practice in a way that is accessible, creative and healing. As well as that, you create a warm loving holding group experience that is healing in itself, modelling a way of being that is crucial in our work with traumatised clients.

I enjoyed how thorough you were in your explanation of complex trauma, how it works and how it can be healed. I liked the mix of ‘theory’ and experiential work.

I’m still processing the weekend. Very rich indeed, without being overwhelming or triggering. The perfect atmosphere was created for maximum absorption.

I found the delivery excellent – good use of theory, examples, explanations and clinical applications.

I have to say I’ve been using so much of what you taught us this week with my clients and it’s been really transformative. I’ve been working with lots of young parts left behind and talking to some protectors about how good a job they are doing while updating them on what year it is and how old the client is now. It’s been really eye opening for my clients and me. So thank you very much.

I do often find reading about trauma traumatising in itself – so it was interesting to note that my experience was that I’d been on more of a spa weekend than a trauma weekend. I think there’s something here about how reassuring it can be to work with competence, confidence and heart.

Mary Clare is an excellent gentle trainer. I was glad I did this and got a lot of understanding from it, both of myself and my work.

The way you presented the content made it feel that I just absorbed it rather than having to think hard about it. You had done such a great job of bringing together, simply and clearly, so many approaches in a way that makes sense and makes them easy to draw on in therapy – thank you for the wonderful handout.

I found the contents were excellent and pretty ground-breaking. I was really impressed by how you have merged your own experience of trauma and your own healing journey with the existing theory.

Content was just stunning. Personally transformative as well as professionally.

The workshop all hung together and was delivered seamlessly with varied activities from listening to doing things. Nothing would have improved it for me. Excellent altogether.

I so appreciated the mix of theory, personal examples, stories of working with clients, experiential exercises and live demonstration. It was balanced so nicely and was engaging throughout. I have definitely come away with concrete ideas for how to work with clients differently, and am inspired to continue learning.

The skills I learned from the last year’s workshop – I used them at home, to process my own trauma. It works wonders. Very slowly, gently, I could see myself feeling better.

Thank you so much for the weekend. I found it really inspiring and informative and it’s given me more confidence to go further in this work with my clients.

I have gained confidence in my work with clients and further ideas how to incorporate working with parts within EMDR. It was also very helpful and insightful to experience being a client/on the receiving end of this particular way of working. Overall very happy with the workshop and Mary Clare’s thoughtful and insightful approach.

I really appreciated the mix of practice and taught material. Mary-Clare’s use of her own experience to illustrate was very helpful.

The course was taught in a very clear manner and I left feeling I could integrate this knowledge into my practice straightaway. I finally have answers about how to heal, not only myself but also my clients in a much deeper way, that helps them to make sense of themselves and their lives.

This course has been the best CPD experience I’ve had and has given me much more than I was expecting for my practice.

Thank you again for another wonderful workshop. It was a great balance of practice and theory and I left with new tools that I am using and another level of understanding about myself.