Psykologvirke

28/05/2026

Most couples come to therapy not because they have stopped loving each other.
They come because they keep having the same fight. Over and over. Different words, different trigger, same wound.

And somewhere underneath all of it, underneath the silence, the snapping, the shutdown, two people are asking the same question in different ways:
Are you still there for me?

As couples therapists, we know this. We feel it in the room. But trauma makes that question harder to answer. It tangles the signals. It makes safety feel dangerous and closeness feel like a threat.

Working with trauma in couples therapy requires more than good instincts. It requires a map.

That's exactly what this two-day training with Dr. Leanne Campbell gives you.

You'll leave with a clear, stage-by-stage framework you can apply immediately:

The ability to identify the negative cycles your couples are trapped in, and understand the deeper emotional currents driving them. Because the argument is never really about the dishes.

The clinical tools to help partners begin to see each other again, not as the enemy, but as someone who is also hurting, also scared, also reaching. This is where the room shifts.

A concrete method for consolidating change, so your couples don't just have one good session, but leave therapy with genuine confidence in their new patterns and a hopeful outlook for what comes next.

Three stages. A clear process. Real transformation.
Leanne has spent three decades doing this work and training therapists around the world to do it too.

Join the waiting list here: https://luma.com/kkbsfcin

19/05/2026

“I don’t know what you did, but the kids are behaving better. The dinner table is… calmer. The whole family is more relaxed…”

I hear these words often from couples in therapy.

To them, it feels like magic. But as therapists, we know the scaffolding that enabled this to happen.

When we do the hard work of EFT, when we move through the Tango and reach that pivotal Move 5, we are fixing a communication problem and shifting the entire emotional climate of a home.

On the surface, we helped a couple stop fighting.

Underneath, individuals who have survived trauma, parts of themselves that were disavowed, dismissed, or ignored for “perfectly good reasons”, finally come home to themselves.

When a person finds their own experience and shares it with a trusted other, the shame begins to dissolve.

And that shift doesn't stay in the consulting room.

It follows them home. It reaches the children. It changes the way they talk, interact, sit at the dinner table.

There is no better place to be professionally than at the center of that ripple effect.

But to get there, we need more than just empathy.

We need a map. We need to know exactly how we got there so we can do it again and again for the families who need us most.

Ready to master the "how" behind this ripple effect?

Join us for the Working with Trauma in EFT course.

Let’s move beyond the "magic" and into the mastery of attachment-based transformation.

Join the waiting list here: https://luma.com/kkbsfcin

11/05/2026

When we sit across from a client with a history of profound deprivation, it is easy to get pulled into the "darkness" of their story.

The weight of the trauma can feel so vast that we, as therapists, fear we might lose the map.

But in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), we don’t get distracted by the darkness. We go hunting for "Islands of Security."

An "Island of Security" is more than a happy memory. It is a visceral, neurobiological anchor, a moment in time where the client felt seen, held, or safe.

It might be:

✨ The specific scent of a place where they felt protected.
✨ The sound of a voice that once offered comfort.
✨ A small, tangible object that represents a rare moment of care.

As clinicians, our job is to find these fragments and enlive them.

By identifying these resources, we help the client move from a fragmented trauma history to a coherent narrative.

We help them find the "Secure Base" they need to finally turn toward their partner for healing, rather than recoiling in fear.

In the Working with Trauma in Couples Therapy Training, Leanne Campbell provides the clear protocols to help you identify and utilize these anchors, even in your most complex affective enactments.

P.S. You can still join the waiting list for “Working with trauma in couples therapy” by following the link: https://luma.com/kkbsfcin

07/05/2026

In the high-stakes environment of trauma-informed therapy, we often encounter a specific type of clinical wall: the reactive derailment.

This is the moment where a client’s window of tolerance snaps shut, and they are suddenly "gone", lost to a flash of rage, a chilling dissociation, or a crushing wave of shame.

As clinicians, our instinct is often to intervene with logic or to de-escalate. But the neurobiology of trauma tells us that logic cannot reach a brain in a state of hyper-arousal.

This is where the principle of "Name it to Tame it" becomes our most powerful clinical anchor.

When a client is triggered, the amygdala (the brain's alarm system) is in full command. The prefrontal cortex (the seat of logic and regulation) goes offline.

By naming the experience in the moment, we engage what neurobiologists call "top-down" regulation.

Research, including the seminal "Hand-Holding Studies," shows that labeling a state, shifting from being the emotion to observing the emotion, sends a soothing signal to the amygdala.

It transforms a chaotic, internal threat into a manageable, externalized reality.

In EFT, "Naming it" is an act of profound validation. When we articulate the client's internal process, ”I see your shoulders tighten, I feel you moving away right now, it’s like a wall just went up to keep you safe", we aren't just observing. We are acting as a temporary attachment figure.

By naming the process, we:

Enliven the Resource: We make the "invisible" visible, allowing the client to see their reactivity as a survival strategy rather than a personal failing.

Soothe the System: Our calm, rhythmic naming of their state provides the co-regulation necessary for the client to "come home" to themselves.

Tame the Cycle: Once named, the reactivity loses its power to derail. It becomes information, a map we can use to guide the couple back to secure connection.

P.S. You can still join the waitlist for “Working with trauma in couples therapy” by following this link: https://luma.com/kkbsfcin

30/04/2026

"I believe we are deeply privileged in our profession to walk alongside our clients in such meaningful ways, whether we are working with individuals, couples, or families.

By grounding our work in an attachment frame and a relational base, the impact on their lives and interpersonal connections becomes inevitable.

Take, for example, the context of Canada and our shameful history regarding the Indigenous population.

Here on Vancouver Island, I have worked with many individuals and families from these communities.

I am constantly moved and inspired by the ripple effect this work creates, not only for the clients themselves but for the generations yet to come.

Daily, weekly, and monthly, we witness this healing in action.

As our clients do the work and begin to inhabit a sense of safety, that healing transcends the consulting room.

It bleeds into their relationships, their communities, and their cultures.

I am certain this truth resonates across the globe.

Whether we are working with survivors of war, torture, developmental complex trauma, or the acute trauma of first responders and accidents, the contexts may differ, but the parallels are striking.

Ultimately, there is a profound simplicity to it: if we can help our clients 'come home' to themselves, ensuring they are no longer alone in their pain and can share their experiences safely with others, we do more than just heal trauma.

We foster a legacy of growth and resilience. And that is truly amazing."

Dr. Leanne Campbell

There is no greater clinical privilege than helping a client finally 'come home' to themselves.

But to lead them there, you need a map that accounts for the complexity of the human nervous system.

Join Leanne Campbell and a community of like-minded practitioners in our upcoming training “Working with trauma in couples therapy”.

Master the attachment-based tools that allow for true, deep, relational healing.

Join by following the link: https://psykologvirke.ac-page.com/working-trauma-couples-therapy

30/04/2026

«Våre barn vokser opp i et samfunn der det ikke skal finnes fare. Da er kanskje angst prisen vi betaler for å leve fysisk trygt», skriver Akiah A. Ottesen, faglig leder ved Psykologvirke.

«Våre barn vokser opp i et samfunn der det ikke skal finnes fare. Da er kanskje angst prisen vi betaler for å leve fysisk trygt», skriver Akiah A. Ottesen.

24/04/2026

Some people teach from textbooks.

Dr Leanne Campbell teaches from thirty years of sitting in the room with people, couples, individuals, families, and knowing, deeply, what it takes to help them find their way back to each other.

Dr Leanne Campbell is one of the world's leading voices in Emotionally Focused Therapy. She didn't just study the model, she helped shape it.

As co-developer of Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) and co-author of foundational texts alongside Dr. Sue Johnson, her fingerprints are on the very framework thousands of therapists use every day.

But what sets Leanne apart isn't her CV.
It's what happens in the room when she teaches.

Therapists who train with her describe something that's hard to put into words, a quality of presence that makes complex clinical material feel suddenly alive.

She brings together sharp theoretical grounding, real clinical footage, and the kind of honest, grounded wisdom that only comes from decades of doing the work herself.

She has trained professionals across the globe: in loss, trauma, relational repair, attachment injuries, and each room she walks into, she says, teaches her something too.

When she's not travelling the world for this work, you'll find her in nature with her family and her dog. Grounded, connected, human.

On June 1–2 in Oslo, she's bringing all of it to you.

If you work with couples carrying the weight of trauma, this is the training you've been waiting for.

Join us here: https://psykologvirke.ac-page.com/working-trauma-couples-therapy

23/04/2026

Vel vitende om at ikke alle hjelpes tilstrekkelig av eksisterende behandling satser vi i Psykologvirke på innovasjon. Som første psykologklinikk i landet innførte vi i fjor ketaminbehandling - en behandlingsmetode som ikke hjelper for alle, men som for andre er helt avgjørende. Som med det meste annet. Det er gripende å bevitne at folk som har prøvd alt og fortsatt sitter fast i lidelse får livet i gave på nytt. Som ledd i utviklingen av dette behandlingstilbudet møtes vi til månedlige lunsjmøter der vi diskuterer saker og problemstillinger. Her fra dagens møte der behandling av kronisk smerte står i fokus, et område der Psykologvirke allerede har spisskompetanse med mange PRT-utdannede terapeuter. Vi håper å nå ut til flere med informasjon om disse nyere behandlingstilbudene til alle som sårt trenger nye alternativer. Sharing is caring. Dimitrij Samoilow Regine Larsen Jonas Sharma-Bakkevig Ivar Goksøyr Akiah Astral Sindre Kvithyld Aasli m fl.

20/04/2026

There's a moment in trauma work when something frozen finally moves.

The client finds words for something they never had words for. A feeling surfaces that had been locked away for decades. The body shifts. The room goes quiet in a different way.

As a therapist, you know that moment. You've probably lived for it.

But here's what Dr. Leanne Campbell has observed across thirty years of doing this work, first trained by Dr. Sue Johnson herself, and now one of the world's leading EFT trainers:

When that moment happens in individual therapy, it's profound.

When it happens in the room with a partner present? It can change everything.
Because trauma doesn't just live inside a person.

It lives in the space between them and the people they love most. It lives in the way they reach, or don't reach.

In the way they shut down right when closeness is finally possible. In the cycles that feel impossible to break, even when both people are trying.

The intimate partner isn't a bystander to that history. They can become part of the healing.

That's the invitation of couples therapy with an EFT lens.

The relationship itself becomes the resource. And your role as therapist shifts from holding the client alone to helping two people hold each other, perhaps for the first time.

This is the depth of work you'll step into on June 1–2 in Oslo.

Two days with Dr. Leanne Campbell, co-author of Emotionally Focused Therapy for Trauma, co-developer of EFIT, and a clinician who has brought this work to therapists across the globe.

Not just theory. Real clinical footage. A clear framework. Tools you can use in your next session.

If you work with couples where trauma is in the room, and it almost always is, this training was made for you.

Join by following the link: https://psykologvirke.ac-page.com/working-trauma-couples-therapy

18/04/2026

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