Somatic Interventions for Treating Complex Trauma – Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Faculty:
Janina Fisher
Duration:
11 Hours 39 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Oct 16, 2017
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.
Handouts
Manual (5.63 MB) 53 Pages Available after Purchase
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
Faculty
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. Related seminars and products: 63
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Janina Fisher is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Janina Fisher has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
