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Addiction & Trauma: Psychodrama Skills for Clinicians
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Addiction & Trauma: Psychodrama Skills for Clinicians

Trauma-informed action methods and a 3-stage clinical framework for working with addiction and trauma
Created byAction Explorations Education ‎ ‎
Last updated 8/2026
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What you'll learn

  • Analyze the newest research and statistics on addiction and trauma
  • Understand the relationship between addiction and trauma and why they often need to be addressed together
  • Apply a three-stage clinical framework focused on safety, trauma processing, and post-traumatic growth
  • Introduce psychodrama and action methods to clients in a clear, trauma-informed way
  • Describe how to direct a psychodramatic vignette that establishes strengths with a client to address addiction & trauma in the future
  • Demonstrate the application of Trauma-Informed psychodrama into practice for individual work or group settings
  • Apply trauma-informed principles to reduce the risk of retraumatization when using experiential methods

Course content

3 sections • 7 lectures • 3h 24m total length

  • Lecture 1 (26 minutes)26:11

    Explore the addiction-trauma nexus with psychodrama, trauma-focused approaches, polyvagal theory, and ace insights to emphasize safety and integrated treatment for recovery.

  • Lecture 2 (29 minutes)29:11

    Explore the three-stage clinical map—safety, trauma processing, and post-traumatic growth—applied through psychodrama, highlighting trauma-informed practice, biopsychosocial spiritual integration, and experiential therapies for trauma and addiction.

  • Lecture 3 (22 minutes)21:55

    Explore a three stage clinical map for trauma focused psychodrama, covering safety, defenses and integration, and examine Moreno's triadic system, the five psychodrama elements, and post-traumatic growth domains.

  • Lecture 4 (36 minutes)36:00

    Explore psychodrama for trauma and addiction, highlighting themes of worthiness, safety, hope, and unresolved endings, and applying strength-based roles, doubling, and sociometry in group work.

  • Demonstration (57 minutes)57:11

    Explore a psychodrama demonstration that uses role reversal, doubling, and self-worth work to support recovery from addiction and trauma.

  • Lecture 5 (34 minutes)33:30

    Apply psychodrama in teletherapy with trauma-informed, strength-based roles. Use doubling, role reversal, and God or self-worth roles when appropriate to build safety, autonomy, and spontaneous insight in one-on-one sessions.

Requirements

  • No previous experience with psychodrama or acting is required
  • Basic familiarity with counseling, therapy, addiction, trauma, or other helping professions is helpful
  • This course is designed as professional education and is especially relevant to clinicians, therapists, counselors, social workers, addiction professionals, and mental health students

Description

Addiction and trauma are often interconnected, and working with both requires a thoughtful, trauma-informed approach. This course introduces clinicians and helping professionals to psychodramatic methods that can support clients dealing with addiction, trauma, and related challenges. It explains in detail how Trauma-Informed & Trauma-Focused psychodrama works on retraumatization prevention and treating trauma and PTSD


You will learn a practical three-stage clinical framework focused on safety, trauma processing, and post-traumatic growth. Along the way, you will explore core psychodrama techniques including Doubling, Role Reversal, Sociometry, and strength-based roles, with attention to how these methods can be used responsibly and with sensitivity to client readiness.

The course combines clinical teaching with an extended psychodrama demonstration, giving you the opportunity to see these methods in action rather than only learning about them in theory.


This training is designed to help you better understand the relationship between trauma and addiction, recognize when experiential interventions may be appropriate, and develop practical ways to integrate trauma-informed action methods into your clinical work.


Presenter: Dr. Scott Giacomucci, DSW, LCSW, BCD, CGP, FAAETS, TEP, is the Director, Founder, & Director of Training/Continuing Education of the Phoenix Center for Experiential Trauma Therapy. He provides clinical services at the center as well as supervision, consultation, and training.

Who this course is for:

  • Psychologists, therapists, counselors, and psychotherapists working with trauma and addiction
  • Social workers and other mental health professionals who want to integrate experiential and action-based approaches into their practice
  • Addiction professionals working with substance use disorders or behavioral addictions
  • Clinicians interested in trauma-informed psychodrama and experiential therapy
  • Mental health students and early-career professionals seeking an introduction to psychodramatic action methods

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