Childhood Emotional Neglect – The Impact on our Clients

Overview

Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) is a form of abuse and is classed as an ACE (adverse childhood experience). CEN leads to isolation and loneliness, which in turn progresses to an inability to thrive and potential unhealthy life-style choices with life-long damage to personal relationships with parents, families, siblings, children and intimate relations. People with CEN are often great at listening; however; they are not open to sharing their own personal emotions and feelings.

Therapists need to understand the influence that CEN has on our clients that is preventing them from thriving, unable to move forward, as they feel they unworthy, unloveable, unimportant, unseen, unheard and not valued or validated. They feel powerless to be able to identify and express their emotions and feelings and unable to place health boundaries in their lives.

What you will learn:

• What is CEN
• What is Alexithymia
• How does CEN present
• How CEN impacts the brain
• Impact of social media on the brain as neglect
• Psychosocial development and CEN
• Case Study of how CEN has impacted a clients life & lifestyle choices
• What therapy looks like to support our clients

Do you reflect after a client session any of the following, then this training may be relevant to you: 

“My client doesn’t know why they feel like they do”

“My client is unable to express their feelings and emotions”

“My client feels so angry and doesn’t know why”

“My client feels stuck but wants to move on”

“My client seems to be incapable to putting boundaries in their life”

Presenter profile

Pamela Scott-Gale Counsellor and Supervisor Pamela is an innovative counsellor and supervisor with a passion for working with people with trauma and abuse and grief and loss, working within her private practice. Providing both face-to-face and online therapy with couples and individuals ranching from 14-years of age to clients into their 90’s.   Pamela is a retired Registered General Nurse who specialised in education within the operating theatre department; with over  40-years’ experience working across Scotland, where she trained, England, New Zealand and moving to Western Australia in 2010. Pamela was awarded her Masters in Counselling in 2021, through the University of Divinity and has gone on to specialise in trauma and abuse training in trauma modalities of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR),  Internal Family Systems (IFS), Polyvagal Informed Therapy (PVT) and Somatic Experience (SE) therapy, as well as a training as a Grief Recovery Specialist. Pamela became passionate about Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) after being inspired by Dr Jonice Webb’s work on CEN. Since then, it has been an aim to educate mental health practitioners and supervisees on the impact of CEN on clients and their families, children and relationships, which can be traumatic and life changing. Pamela is a board member of CoTWA. Pamela is an active member with MHPN Victoria Park WA.