In this groundbreaking session, we'll dive deep into the hidden mechanisms in the body that define and shape a client’s trauma healing journey. We often focus on the psychological and emotional aspects of trauma, but what if the key to unlocking lasting resolution lies within the body itself? Not just the body, but one’s biology. Through this innovative presentation, you'll gain a profound understanding of how the body, more than the mind, determines what constitutes trauma, whether one will heal and repair and how long it will take.
Dr. Aimie Apigian will share the tools and knowledge needed to transform your therapeutic approach, particularly when working with clients with a chronic disease such as autoimmunity, chronic fatigue, or digestive issues. Imagine being able to know how much trauma your client's body is holding…empowering you to know the pace and tools in the proper order needed to facilitate repair. This is an experiential session that will integrate somatic work, parts work and biology as we look at the role of the body in trauma and healing.
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How The Body Experiences And Defines Trauma
How The Body Holds Trauma: Identify and Assess The Body’s Trauma Burden
Practical Biology Repair Tools for The Trauma Healing Journey
The Biology of Attachment Trauma and Its Impact on Health
Dr. Maté dives into a deeper conversation around the special role of therapists in the healing of trauma and addictions. Discover the essential tools and qualities of a clinician that go beyond techniques to the root causes of suffering, to connecting to your in-the-present self that allows you to become a deeply wise and effective clinician.
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Current State of Trauma and Addictions Treatment
Essential Role of the Therapist
Value of the "Self of the Therapist"
Effective Approaches for Clinicians
Despite advances in trauma research and claims of “gold standard” treatments, one method doesn’t work for everybody. Trauma treatment requires addressing many different systems that can be affected in different ways in different people. Understanding how to adapt and apply interventions for individuals experiencing traumatic stress is as important as the interventions themselves. In this workshop, you’ll learn:
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Many clients seeking our help carry the weight of intergenerational adverse experiences, impacting their overall well-being and functioning. By understanding how these traumas manifest in children and families, you'll gain the expertise to engage in intergenerational healing and make a lasting impact.
Join world-renowned intergenerational trauma expert and the author, Mariel Buqué, PhD, for this must-attend training to become a skilled clinician in intergenerational trauma healing, empowering your practice to support children and generations of their family members. By assessing intergenerational trauma comprehensively, designing tailored interventions, and utilising your newfound understanding, you will guide your clients through a journey of trauma healing and transformation.
With a focus on breaking the cycles of pain and adversity that have been passed down through generations, this workshop offers a comprehensive healing protocol that will enable you to guide your clients towards emotional resilience and stamina.
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Intergenerational Trauma
Guide Clients Through Trauma Healing
Complex trauma occurs as a result of repeated or chronic exposure to extremely threatening events from which escape is impossible. As a result of C-PTSD, clients are more likely to develop feelings of profound helplessness and powerlessness with little trust that their actions will make a difference in the outcome of their lives. It is common to feel unsure about how to best support clients who feel immense shame or despair as a result of their interpersonal wounds. However, with the right training and skills you can build your confidence to effectively help clients through what may otherwise seem like a clinical impasse.
EMDR therapy is an instrumental tool that helps clients process disturbing memories through desensitizing related images, thoughts, feelings, and body sensations. Clients with Complex PTSD and early childhood developmental trauma are at greater risk for dissociation or emotional flooding; both of which can lead to re-traumatization if not addressed by the therapist. Within this course, you will learn how to safely work with client’s emotions, sensations, and psychophysiological arousal associated with dissociative states. This requires the integration of mindful body-awareness within EMDR as well as an understanding of how to attend to client’s ego states through parts work.
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
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Developmental Trauma and Complex PTSD
Modified Treatment Protocols
Trauma treatment is rarely straightforward. Clients want help but resist connecting emotionally. Many are tormented by critical self-hating thoughts or want to die, jeopardizing their ability to process the trauma. TIST is a new trauma-informed treatment that directly addresses the challenges, not just the events, of a traumatic past. In TIST, we view these trauma-related thoughts, emotions, and impulses as communications from fragmented, disowned trauma-related parts. When clients form meaningful attachment relationships to these young, rejected parts, the trauma often resolves spontaneously. When the parts finally experience safety and care, the traumatic past feels done and behind them.
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Fragmentation and Self-Alienation as an Adaptation to Trauma
Overcoming Self-Alienation and Self-Rejection
How exactly do people become stuck in their trauma, and how can they recover? Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) is a rapidly growing model that has uncovered key cognitive processes that, when addressed, can affect lasting healing from PTSD—without the need for exposure to traumatic memories. In fact, it’s one of the few effective trauma treatments that doesn’t rely on exposure. In this session, you’ll discover the key processes behind this approach, which has shown an incredible durability of results in a head-to-head trials. During this session, you will explore:
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The basis for positive results from CPT research
Common myths around PTSD recovery
Case studies utilizing PTSD
The keys behind how CPT helps clients recover from PTSD
Copyright : 13/10/2023In this workshop, we will discuss the similarities and differences between singular and global trauma. By applying IFS techniques and concepts, we will explore the ways individual therapy helps inform and expand treatment options available to those who suffer from the pervasive and often hidden effects of cultural or institutional oppression. We will also discuss how helping a group of people who struggle with collective trauma is different from treating an individual who suffers from complex PTSD and how comparing different types of violation is counter-productive to healing.
This product is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.
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Defining Systemic Trauma
Internal Family Systems (IFS) Perspective on Trauma
IFS Based Treatment Approaches for Systemic Trauma
Beyond Individual Therapy: Addressing Cultural and Institutional Trauma
Although we humans process thoughts and feelings faster when we’re not in a state of fight or flight, many traditional trauma treatments involve asking clients to focus on disturbing events, sometimes to the point of fully engaging with painful memories. Alternatively, there’s an exciting, easy-to-apply, evidence-based technique—the Flash Technique—that removes the engagement element while allowing healing to take place. In fact, there is growing evidence that shows a wide range of trauma survivors can be distracted from haunting, painful memories and still process them successfully. In this experiential workshop, you’ll discover:
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Turn theory into practice by combining Polyvagal Theory with complex trauma treatment. This workshop is designed to help integrate somatic experiencing techniques, trauma processing strategies, and nervous system regulating tools to support clients' healing from complex trauma.
Dr. Diane Poole Heller, internationally recognized attachment and trauma expert will demonstrate her attachment-informed approach by sharing a real-life client session- focused on freeing the client from the shackles of dorsal shutdown and dissociation after multiple traumatic experiences. You will learn somatic practices that effectively promote felt safety, reverse immobilisation, and healthy boundaries, while Diane shares the tools and techniques, she uses to alleviate trauma response.
Deb Dana, Polyvagal Theory expert, will discuss how to bring Polyvagal Theory into the therapy space. Deb will lead a live Polyvagal Theory activity for you to experience this in action. You will gain a nuanced understanding of trauma’s physiological and psychological dimensions, and learn skills needed to navigate the delicate balance between activation and engagement in clients’ healing processes.
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Polyvagal Theory in the Context of Trauma Response
“Unfreeze” Clients from Dorsal Shutdown and Dissociation
Engage the Fight Response
Support Trauma Resolution on a Spiritual Level
Live Demonstrations & Group Activities
Copyright : 05/10/2024Healing from sexual trauma takes a systemic approach, and even with various treatment models, therapists can feel unsure about their treatment. Sex and relationship expert, Dr. Tammy Nelson will explore sexual trauma and how the roles of victim, perpetrator, and rescuer can get played out in treatment, entrenching both client and therapist in dysfunction and prevent growth. She will share interventions and techniques to apply integrative relationship therapy, working with both individuals and couples, to create insight, awareness, and change. The three stages of treatment will be covered– 1) investigating the narrative, 2) experiencing the grief process and 3) creating a new vision for healthy sexuality. Dr. Nelson will explain activation versus automatic triggers and methods to help clients manage and learn from them. Lastly, she will share a new sexual paradigm focused on pleasure rather than dysfunction and pathology and how you can move clients toward more permanent erotic recovery.
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The data is clear: most of us will author more than one love story in our lifetime. We talk a lot about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need to create an intimate relationship. But we don’t talk nearly enough about the skills and paradigms that individuals and couples need in order to end an intimate relationship. Learning relational meta skills can help clients approach endings—and new beginnings—with more integrity and Relational Self-Awareness, reducing collateral damage to both self and others. In this workshop, discover an integrative approach for helping your clients better understand the thoughts, feelings, and common issues that arise during a breakup as well as integrating the loss and preparing to begin dating again. You’ll explore:
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The Psychology of Goodbye
Self-of-the-Therapist
Integration of Loss
Dating after Loss
A common barrier to effectively meeting the ever-increasing need for trauma-informed care is a lack of awareness of the potential role culture plays in trauma origins, symptoms, and treatment strategies. Unfortunately, a lack of consideration of the influence of culture on trauma needs can lead to unintentionally and unethical negligent therapeutic efforts. This training will help reduce the likelihood of unethical care by providing cultural considerations for professionals to consider when endeavoring to implement trauma treatment strategies. This positive and encouraging training will provide practical strategies that can help reduce professional fears, strengthen cross-cultural relationships, and increase the likelihood of ethical trauma-informed culturally competent care.
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Trauma-Informed Culturally Competent Care
Strategies for Trauma-Informed Culturally Competent Care
Betrayal is a core dynamic of narcissistic relationships – breaches of trust, emotional abandonment, infidelity, chronic deceit, and emotional abuse. These chronic betrayals, occurring within a relationship that is meant to be predicated on trust, connection, and attachment, result not just in significant psychological fallout for our clients, but also a loss of trust in other people, the world at large, and themselves. Understanding the framework of betrayal trauma theory, and the role of betrayal in narcissistic relationships is a KEY to successfully working with these clients. It means expanding our definition of betrayal past just lying and cheating, but in not meeting the fundamental roles and responsibilities of a relationship. This program will open up your understanding of Dr. Jennifer Freyd’s models of betrayal trauma theory and betrayal blindness and apply them to optimizing antagonism-informed work with clients experiencing the harmful impacts of narcissistic relationships.
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Betrayal and Why It Matters for Work with Clients Experiencing Narcissistic Relationships
Why Narcissistic Relationships Are So “Betrayal-Heavy”
“Betrayal Blindness”, “Trauma Bonding”, and Other Dynamics Keeping Clients “Stuck”
Evidence-based research suggests that there are significant limitations to pharmaceutical interventions for PTSD. Nutritional and integrative strategies for PTSD can be an effective addition. Yet how do we help clients understand the connections between their physical well-being and traumatic etiologies? What methods and interventions do we choose, at what stage of recovery, and who is a viable candidate? This workshop will explore the latest research and clinical applications of culinary, nutritional, herbal, and psychedelic medicine. You’ll discover how to ethically incorporate these methods into your practice and learn reliable tools to help your clients improve their well-being. You’ll explore:
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In this workshop you will learn that treating trauma is not about thinking differently about what happens but about creating new opportunities for learning where traumatic memories are primarily encoded. The emerging science of Interoception, or conscious awareness of bodily sensation, and its relationship to survival physiology, emotion, and embodied cognition will help guide you to new breakthroughs with your clients. You will observe an in person live session demonstration with Dr. Abi Blakeslee, renowned international expert in somatic psychology and implicit memory. Dr. Blakeslee will simultaneously illuminate the moment-to-moment processing of trauma with a volunteer while deconstructing concepts and clinical skills. Watch clinical creativity and mastery unfold and learn how deep transformation can be achieved through skills-based practice.
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