About this course
FREE introduction to skills training for recovery from narcissistic abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom
When you’ve been involved with a sociopath (psychopath, narcissist), you’ve been gaslighted, manipulated and trauma-bonded. This is why it is so difficult, mentally and emotionally, to break free.
But freedom is possible. You can overcome the psychological abuse and restore your emotional equilibrium. Dr. Liane Leedom, a psychiatrist who was herself targeted by a psychopath, teaches you how to do it.
In this introductory webinar, you’ll learn how people become sociopaths, why they’ll never change, and how you can fall in love with them. Or, if the person is a family member, colleague or friend, how you can become trapped.
Dr. Leedom explains how you got here. Then she shows you how you can recover your mental and emotional stability. The goal is to take the first step toward building a life worth living, despite your experience with the sociopath.
Highlights
- Yes, recovery from narcissistic abuse is possible
- Why sociopaths can’t love and crave power
- How you fell in love with the sociopath
- Overview of four dialectical behavioral therapy skill sets
- Dialectics: Opposite truths that stand together
About the instructor Dr. Liane Leedom
Liane J. Leedom, M.D., is a psychiatrist and a professor of counseling and psychology at the University of Bridgeport. She is author of Just Like His Father? A Guide to Overcoming Your Child’s Genetic Connection to Antisocial Behavior, Addiction and ADHD, and Women Who Love Psychopaths: Investigating the Relationships of Inevitable Harm. She is also author of multiple peer-reviewed studies, including Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions; The Dominance Behavioral System and Psychopathology: Evidence from Self-Report, Observational and Biological Studies; The Problem of Parental Psychopathy; and Did He Ever Love Me? A Qualitative Study of Life with a Psychopathic Husband.
Read Dr. Leedom’s studies at ResearchGate.
In addition to her university research and teaching, Dr. Leedom is currently in private practice as a psychiatrist. She trained in medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. She previously served on the medical staff of several Connecticut facilities, including St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Hall-Brooke Behavioral Health Services, the Hospital of St. Raphael and the Center for Optimum Care.
Cost and credits
This is the free one-hour introduction of Skills training for recovery from abuse, gaslighting and toxic stress, presented by Dr. Liane Leedom. To watch the free webinar, register below.
Dr. Leedom’s total program has four modules plus a bonus wrap-up — 14 classes that will get you well on the road to recovery. You’ll also be invited to join private online discussion groups where you can ask questions about your personal situation. Groups are scheduled for:
- April 9, 2025
- April 23, 2025
- May 7, 2025
- May 21, 2025
Sign up for the total program by clicking the link below. (You can also take the modules individually.)
Although this course does not award continuing education credits, you will be able to download a certificate of achievement upon completion.
Learning objectives
After completing the introductory program, you should be able to:
- Describe psychopathic personality traits
- Explain why it’s difficult to get over the relationship
- Explain the optimum level of emotional activation
- Describe two basic survival principles
- Use the STOP skill to stay in control of your emotions
Program agenda for Your first step in your recovery from narcissistic abuse
1 hour class
- Yes, healing and recovery from narcissistic abuse is possible
- What makes someone a sociopath
- Two clusters of psychopathic personality traits
- Is the inability to love really absolute?
- What causes preoccupation with power?
- How did I love a sociopath?
- Why can’t I just get over the relationship?
- How trauma can affect your window of tolerance
- Understanding hyperarousal and hypoarousal
- Understanding the wise mind
- Survival principle #1: Don’t make the situation worse
- Survival principle #2: Take small steps toward healing every day
- What behaving skillfully will enable you to do
- Dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) includes four sets of skills
- Skills training assumptions
- Dialectics: Opposite truths that stand together
- Stay in control of your emotions with the STOP skill
Here’s a preview of the course:
Emotional recovery after the sociopath (psychopath, narcissist) requires conscious effort on your part, but you can do it. Dr. Liane Leedom teaches you how the skills of mindfulness enable you to achieve peace and emotional stability.
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Very helpful to my healing journey. Informative and well spoken.
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Thanks to everyone who attended Wednesday night or watched the recording. I’m looking forward to presenting the rest of the recovery skills program. You can sign up just for the next 4 weeks or the entire course it is up to you.