Janina Fisher – Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples: A Nonverbal Approach

Janina Fisher – Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples: A Nonverbal ApproachDescriptionHigh-conflict couples can stop even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless bystanders. When our usual ways of working don’t slow the battle, much less transform it, nonverbal approaches can help volatile couples move beyond their habitual escalations.Watch Janina Fisher as she provides simple interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that teach couples how to create safety and real intimacy in their relationships.HandoutsManual – Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples: A Nonverbal Approach (1.40 MB) 23 Pages Available after PurchaseOutlineWhat creates a ‘volatile’ couple?Early attachment, trauma, and later relationshipsAnimal defense survival responses are activated by perceived threatInhibition of the prefrontal cortex deprives them of access to perspectiveReducing volatility by helping couples communicate without wordsTracking their bodily reactions to the otherIncreasing awareness of the role of triggeringRegulating the nervous system and bodily tensionSensorimotor PsychotherapyUsing gesture and movement to practice new alternatives to conflict and reactivityFacultyJanina Fisher, Ph.DJanina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and instructor at the Trauma Center, founded by Bessel van der Kolk, MD. A faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an EMDR International Association consultant, past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, and former instructor, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Fisher lectures nationally and internationally on the integration of the neurobiological research and new trauma treatment paradigms into traditional psychotherapies.Speaker Disclosures: Financial: Janina Fisher is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.Nonfinancial: Janina Fisher has no relevant nonfinancial relationship to disclose.