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2-Day Certificate Course by Janina Fisher

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2-Day Certificate Course Treating Trauma in Intimate Relationships,Healing the Trauma Legacy in Couples Therapy by Janina Fisher

Faculty:Janina Fisher

Duration:11 Hours 24 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

Archive : 2-Day Certificate Course by Janina Fisher

Outline:

Day 1 Program

The Effects of Early Relational Trauma: Emotional, Physiological, Relational

What is a ‘trauma’?
Single events versus enduring conditions
Remembering with our emotions and our bodies
Procedural or conditioned learning
Effects on brain and body

Habitually-Learned Survival Responses Recreate the Sense of Threat

Triggers and Triggering: stay prepared for danger
Animal defense survival responses in human beings
Effects of traumatic adaptation on relationships

The Danger of Closeness and the Threat of Distance

How trauma-related patterns affect the capacity for intimacy
Body and emotional memories re-create the sense of danger
Chronic conflict as activation of animal defenses
Why couples cannot process conflicts or tolerate empathy

Strategies for Working with Couples in Chronic Conflict

Create neutral space in therapy sessions
Provide psychoeducation about trauma
Inhibit destructive patterns in the therapy session
Practice of new patterns as ‘experiments’

Mindfulness-Based Techniques for Decreasing Conflict and Changing Trauma-Related Patterns

Mindfulness-based awareness of the ‘play-by-play’
Notice the effects of their actions on partner reactions
Observe with curiosity: “Am I getting what I want this way? Is this working?”

Day 2 Program

Shift from “Processing” Issues to Changing Patterns of Response

A repair model for psychotherapy in place of an insight model
The therapist as referee rather than empathic listener
Limits and boundaries on conflict in the therapy
Limitations of the research and potential risks

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Techniques for Getting to the Emotions Beyond Words

Brief introduction to sensorimotor psychotherapy
Teach couples somatic awareness and dialogue techniques
Work with the body to decrease tension and ‘charge’ in the relationship
Use movement and gesture as vehicles for communication

Externalizing Techniques for Increasing Perspective

Externalizing techniques deter conflictual verbal exchange
Diagram patterns of conflict
Use diagramming to help couples take responsibility for their actions and reactions
Connect to the wounded child in each partner
Acknowledge the role of child selves in their conflicts
Sooth and protect the hurt child self
Increase self-compassion and compassion toward partner

Description:

Even the most experienced therapist can be challenged when it comes to couples who are always at each other’s throats or in constant crisis! What do these couples have in common? They come with an unacknowledged legacy of childhood trauma or neglect.

Early childhood trauma has lasting and dramatic effects on attachment formation and on the later capacity for intimacy and mutuality. Instead of experiencing relationship as a haven of safety, traumatized couples are driven by powerful wishes and fears of closeness.

The enemy is not each other but the trauma.

In this transformational certificate recording, learn from master clinician and trauma expert Janina Fisher, PhD. She will provide in-depth training on the impact of early neglect, attachment failure, and childhood trauma on couple relationships. Janina will help you master a variety of new approaches and methods that can transform your work with your most challenging couples. You’ll learn:

How to address intense emotions and impulsive reactions that undermine the sense of safety and hope
Strategies for working with couples in chronic conflict
Mindfulness-based techniques for decreasing conflict and changing trauma-related patterns
Sensorimotor psychotherapy techniques for getting to the emotions beyond words
Externalizing techniques for increasing perspective

Through Janina’s expert insightful commentary, in-session videos of couples, case studies and examples, you’ll develop highly practical, evidence-based skills, and learn powerful assessment tools, case conceptualization techniques and proven clinical strategies that you can immediately apply in your practice.

Salepage : 2-Day Certificate Course by Janina Fisher