WHMCA: Helping Clients Heal from Toxic Relationships
Presented by
Kate Mageau, MA, LMHCThis course will teach therapists how to help their clients recognize the signs of being in a toxic relationship, help them rebuild their strength to safely leave it, and how to rewire their neural pathways to heal from it.
Overview
4 CEs Recorded: Winter, 2025
This course will teach therapists how to help their clients recognize the signs of being in a toxic relationship, help them rebuild their strength to safely leave it, and how to rewire their neural pathways to heal from it. One in three people have experienced a toxic relationship, so even if you don’t think you have clients who have experienced this, you do. Knowing the tools to help them through current or past trauma will help them grow their self-esteem and positive self-talk, to then lessen their anxiety and depression symptoms.
Participants will:
● Learn how to normalize the experience of highs and lows throughout journey of leaving a harmful relationship and healing afterward,
● Learn how to use the self-esteem inventory to help clients see their growth, learn how to teach clients the Bill of Rights affirmations,
● Learn the components of a healthy relationship in the nonviolence equality wheel, ● Learn the types of abuse in the power and control wheel,
● Learn to teach this to clients,
● Learn how the strengths and qualities worksheet can help clients regrow their self-esteem,
● Learn how to find and share relevant meditations with clients,
● Learn four iterations of the cycle of violence and how to teach them to clients,
● Learn how to teach clients the power of positive mental rehearsal so they can take control over thought cycles,
● Learn how to teach clients how to discern for themselves between love bombing and nice gestures,
● Learn how to teach clients ways to say no, and how to use gray and yellow rocking,
● Learn how to teach clients about trauma bonding and codependency,
● Learn how to teach clients how to create a safety plan,
● Learn how to teach clients about how the brain processes and it heals from trauma,
● Learn how to teach clients how to deconstruct communication to rewrite their self-talk to be more positive and affirming.
About the Presenter
Kate Mageau, MA, LMHC (she/her) is a licensed mental health counselor, author, and advocate. As an ADHDer and a survivor of intimate partner violence, she has dedicated her career to supporting survivors and raising awareness about domestic violence. Since leaving her abuser in 2014, Kate has immersed herself in this work, drawing from both personal experience and professional expertise. She has provided guidance and support to survivors through her roles at New Beginnings and a domestic violence advocacy agency in Florida. Specializing in intimate partner violence, she has led “Healing from Toxic Relationships” support groups and helped countless clients heal through individual and group therapy. Kate is also the author of a three-book educational memoir series and the Healing from Toxic Relationships workbook, offering insights and tools for recovery.