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Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. from Janina Fisher

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Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. from Janina Fisher

Faculty:Janina Fisher

Duration:11 Hours 39 Minutes | Format:Audio and Video

Archive : Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex

Outline:

The Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma

How the mind and body react to threat and danger
Autonomic arousal and affect tolerance
Inability to feel safe in the body
Loss of the ability to self-witness

The Nature of Traumatic Memory

“The body keeps the score” (Van der Kolk)
Implicit memories: is it memory?
Remembering situationally: ‘here’ or ‘there’?

Neurobiologically-informed Trauma Treatment

Regulating the traumatized nervous system and restoring a witnessing self
Psychoeducation: knowledge is power
Reframing the symptoms
Avoid ‘self-defeating stories’ (Meichenbaum)
Treat the symptoms, not just the event

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

Trauma and procedural learning
Tracking the body as a source of information
Use the language of the body
Body-centered techniques into talking therapy treatments

Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity

Mindfulness practices in therapy
Differentiate thoughts, feelings and body experience
Dual awareness of everyday experience
Teach mindfulness to clients

Challenges of Trauma Treatment

Secondary symptoms: anger, self-harm and suicidality, aggression, substance abuse, and eating disorders
Treatment-resistant depression and anxiety
Complex symptoms as manifestations of animal defense responses

Therapy as a Laboratory for the Practice of New Actions

Dis-identifying with the symptoms
Develop a new language and a new story
Capitalize on somatic resources for modulating the nervous system
New resources that address specific trauma symptoms

The Role of Neuroplasticity

Neuroplastic brain change
Principles of neuroplasticity
Treatments to enhance neuroplastic effects

Somatic Resolution of Traumatic Events

Repair and transformation rather than re-processing
Address uninvited memory
Tell the story to ourselves: creating internal safety
Right brain-to-right brain communication: feeling safe with others

Description:

Presented by internationally-renowned trauma expert, Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

You won’t want to miss this workshop on learning proven Somatic techniques for treating trauma with international expert and author Janina Fisher, PhD!

The techniques you’ll learn during this workshop will make even the most complex clients easier to treat – and the interventions you’ll learn directly address the underlying causes of post-traumatic stress.

Dr. Fisher will give you tools from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-centered talking therapy. These simple body-oriented interventions can be easily integrated into traditional talking therapies to address trauma-related challenges such as:

Dysregulated autonomic arousal
Overwhelming affects and sensations
Intrusive images and memories
Impulsivity and acting out
Dissociative phenomena
Numbing and disconnection

This workshop will cover recent neuroscience research that explains how traumatic experience becomes deeply embedded in both mind and body. Learn how to better assess and make sense of trauma-based symptoms and then how to apply neurobiologically informed treatment techniques in clinical practice.

Salepage : Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. from Janina Fisher