The Complex PTSD Workbook
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The Complex PTSD Workbook

by Arielle Schwartz

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Healing tools and deep insights to help you heal from childhood trauma and begin to thrive again


“What a great resource for understanding and managing PTSD.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

“A profoundly supportive and essential method for healing from trauma and grief.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

~ Wendy Stern, Founder and Executive Director, The Grief Support Network

“Offers powerful somatic therapy tools for deep healing.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

~ Donna Roe Daniell, LCSW


Healing tools and deep insights to help you heal from childhood trauma and begin to thrive again

If you are affected by complex PTSD, you probably feel that somewhere inside you there is a part that needs to be fixed. Facing unresolved childhood trauma is a brave, courageous act – and although it is difficult, with the right guidance, you can do it.


In The Complex PTSD Workbook, clinical psychologist Dr Arielle Schwartz has spent years helping those with PTSD find their way to wholeness. She also knows the territory of the healing firsthand, having walked it herself.


A practical, compassionate guide to understanding and recovering from Complex PTSD

  • Inside you’ll learn about how to:

  • Recognise the symptoms and effects of unresolved childhood trauma

  • Understand common PTSD misdiagnoses, including anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and substance misuse

  • Explore effective treatment approaches such as somatic therapy, EMDR, CBT, DBT, and mind-body healing

  • Use chapter takeaways and therapeutic journalling prompts to deepen self-understanding

  • Integrate positive beliefs and behaviours that support lasting recovery and wellbeing


Take the path toward healing and reclaim a life of wellness with The Complex PTSD Workbook.

Reviews

This is a practical guide for all those who have experienced childhood trauma. Drawing upon her extensive practice as a body-centered psychotherapist, Dr. Schwartz has created a self-care plan that includes reflective questions and easy to use mindfulness exercises that can be implemented immediately.
Barb Maiberger, author of EMDR Essentials: A Guide for Clients and Therapists and founder of the Maiberger Institute, an EMDRIA-approved provider of EMDR Trainings
Dr. Arielle Schwartz combines simplicity, compassion, humility, and deep knowledge of the field in this book for sufferers of Complex PTSD. The Complex PTSD Workbook is an immensely useful guide to negotiating the turbulent waters of this all too common human malady.
Betty Cannon, Ph.D., author of Sartre and Psychoanalysis and Founder of Applied Existential Psychotherapy (AEP)
I highly recommend this book to anyone who struggles with childhood trauma and neglect, and their painful aftermath. Step-by-step, you will find rich resources to help yourself on your journey to wholeness. Therapists who work with both mind and body will also find this a welcoming and integrative book.
Kathy Steele, MN, CS, private practice and co-author of Treating Trauma-related Dissociation, Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation, and The Haunted Self
The Complex PTSD Workbook offers powerful somatic therapy tools for deep healing, complemented by mindfulness strategies to increase stabilization and enhance overall wellbeing. Dr. Schwartz's emphasis on finding 'wholeness' will strengthen your resilience wherever you are in your life.
Donna Roe Daniell, LCSW, Balance Your Life Coaching & Psychotherapy, creator of the “Midlife Transition Healing Wave” and toolbox for Women in Midlife Transitions
Those who suffer from traumatic stress sometimes find beginning a personal practice intimidating. The Complex PTSD Workbook, with Dr. Arielle Schwartz as a compassionate guide, helps readers create a personal practice using yoga and mindfulness in the service of healing trauma.
Rob Schware, Executive Director, The Give Back Yoga Foundation
Healing from trauma is a profound process, one that undoubtedly involves confronting outstanding pain and suffering. In this book, Dr. Arielle Schwartz offers a unique emphasis on resilience and growth as related to Complex PTSD by providing a profoundly supportive and essential method for healing from trauma and grief.
Wendy Stern, Founder and Executive Director, The Grief Support Network
This is a comprehensive and usable guide to understanding and transforming complex trauma. Through relatable vignettes, The Complex PTSD Workbook explores trauma and treatment methods in accessible language suited for everyday use. Readers are invited to use journalling and self-reflection exercises to review and integrate what they've learned, so that the journey through the workbook is not only informational but experientially relevant as well.
J. Ryan Kennedy, PsyD, Executive Director, Noeticus Counseling Center and Training Institute