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Complex PTSD Clinical Workshop: A Comprehensive Approach to Accurately Assess and Effectively Treat Clients with Chronic, Repeated and/or Developmental Trauma

Many clinicians are trained in the treatment of single traumatic events, but are not fully equipment to treat Complex PTSD. The traditional approaches to the treatment of PTSD can fall short when working with clients with Complex PTSD. Watch this recording to learn how you can adapt your therapeutic approach to help clients diagnosed with Complex PTSD achieve more successful outcomes.

The most common question asked when treating Complex PTSD is, “where do I start?”. In this training, you will develop confidence in your ability to successfully organize and prioritize your client’s treatment goals. You will learn how to compassionately and effectively work with clients who have experienced multiple traumatic events and prolonged trauma exposure.

Successful treatment requires a compassionate therapeutic relationship and effective, research-based interventions. After this two-day workshop you will learn how to:

  • Help clients move out of crisis by building stabilizing resources
  • Prepare clients to work through traumatic memories without becoming Overwhelmed
  • Develop an integrative trauma treatment plan that includes CBT, DBT, EMDR Therapy, Somatic Psychology, Parts Work Therapy, and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM).

In this recording, Dr. Arielle Schwartz will show you an engaging and interactive way to learn valuable strategies that will allow you to successfully address the dysregulated affect and arousal states that accompany Complex PTSD. You will leave this seminar with practical tools that facilitate a strength-based approach to trauma recovery and increased resilience in clients.

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Objectives

  1. Distinguish key contributing factors to the development of Complex PTSD as it relates to client case conceptualization.
  2. Investigate how Complex PTSD impacts the cognitive, emotional, and physical health of the client.
  3. Determine how to assess clients for Complex PTSD symptoms within other diagnoses, including personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dissociative disorders.
  4. Incorporate into clinical treatment practical mind-body therapy tools to help clients feel resourced and prepared for trauma processing.
  5. Articulate the six stages of trauma responses within the neurobiology of Complex PTSD as it relates to clinical treatment.
  6. Utilize assessment tools to properly assess for Complex PTSD to better inform treatment planning.
  7. Breakdown how mutual regulation within the therapeutic relationship teaches clients self-regulation strategies that help them develop new interpersonal strengths that help with the treatment process.
  8. Integrate interventions for the treatment of Complex PTSD drawn from CBT, DBT, EMDR Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and mind-body therapies.
  9. Analyze how working within the “Window of Tolerance” can help reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization.
  10. Assess how “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions can speed up or slow down the pacing of trauma treatment.
  11. Employ the 6 Pillars of Resilience as a strength-based approach that fosters growth and integration of a positive sense of self-identity in clients.
  12. Determine resilience and protective factors to aid against the development of PTSD.

Copyright : 23/10/2018

Foundations of Somatic Therapy: The 9 Key Techniques for Effective Body-Based Therapy

Trauma is stored in the body, often beyond the reach of talk therapy.

While the thought of by-passing “talk therapy” can seem extreme to some therapists, the fact is somatic techniques have been proven to get results treating PTSD, depression, addiction, chronic pain, anxiety, dissociation, intense emotions and more.

Groundbreaking somatic therapy interventions do more than just impact the mind’s interpretation of trauma, they target and heal implicit trauma memories and release clients from decades of suffering…

…sometimes in as little as one session!

Here’s your chance to get a front-row seat to witness step-by-step somatic healing.

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Objectives

  1. Differentiate somatic psychology from cognitive-based therapy approaches.
  2. Analyze perspectives and different schools of thought on somatic therapy approaches to develop a robust understanding of body-based treatments.
  3. Develop and understanding of polyvagal theory and therapy interventions to integrate into somatic approaches.
  4. Determine how to gather embodied goals that can be achieved during a session.
  5. Develop skills (grounding, centring, posture, container, expansion, etc.) to help regulate the autonomic nervous system.
  6. Formulate questions and reasons that invite conscious awareness of bodily sensation.
  7. Utilize different forms of attention to access interception.
  8. Identify signs of down-regulation and up-regulation in the nervous system, as well as other states of arousal.
  9. Articulate the difference between implicit and explicit timelines and the therapeutic impact.

Copyright : 29/03/2023

Somatic Therapy to Tame the Survival Response and Heal Implicit Trauma Memories

This course is intended to teach therapists somatic therapy techniques for working with the survival response through in-session demonstrations.

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Objectives

  1. Integrate the use of imagery and felt sense of safety/feeling into clinical work. 
  2. Practice somatic exercises for the fight, flight, freeze response.  
  3. Integrate polyvagal theory into clinical observation and understanding of client’s body and trauma history. 
  4. Utilize different forms of attention to access interception. 
  5. Assess which part of the nervous system is active in a client. 
  6. Develop exercises the increase a client’s window of tolerance. 
  7. Formulate questions and reasons that invite conscious awareness of bodily sensation.

Copyright : 31/03/2023

Somatic Therapy to Create Healthy Attachment: Strategies to Heal Development and Relational Trauma

This training in intended to teach therapists how to repair developmental attachment wounds and other relational trauma through somatic therapy techniques – taught via in-session demonstrations. 

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Objectives

  1. Formulate developmental statements that can assist in repairing attachment styles. 
  2. Practice somatic exercises that target developmental attachment trauma.
  3. Identify strategies of how to use the relational field through social engagement and ventral vagal intervention. 
  4. Formulate I-statements that help clients put words to bodily sensations, implicit memories, and other biological processes.
  5. Analyze how image repair with implicit memory of self as infants or children can help with attachment repair and ANS regulation. 
  6. Formulate strategies to increase the parasympathetic rest and digest response through relational support.
  7. Identify ways to work with attachment and transgenerational patterns in the body and autonomous nervous system.

Copyright : 04/04/2023

Finding a Faster Way to Treat Trauma: A Neurobiologically Informed Approach

Increasingly, therapists are under pressure to provide short-term treatment for long-term issues. But how can we possibly treat trauma briefly? After all, many trauma treatments focus on helping the client remember and articulate what happened to them. It’s also especially difficult to provide short-term care for clients who exhibit suicidal or self-destructive behaviors, or for dysregulated clients who often find quick methods difficult to tolerate. So, what’s a trauma therapist to do? The answer lies in new, neurobiologically-informed treatments. Rather than treating traumatic events, neuroscience teaches us to treat their effects. In this recording, you’ll discover how to:

  • Pace the treatment to fit the demands of managed care
  • Capitalize on the body’s innate capacity to heal
  • Focus on traumatic effects rather than events
  • Apply a safe, neurobiologically informed brief therapy model that offers hope to trauma survivors

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Objectives

  1. Evaluate the theory of trauma-related autonomic dysregulation.
  2. Construct a “phase-oriented” treatment of trauma and create treatment tasks for each phase.
  3. Utilize mindfulness-based treatment techniques with traumatized clients.
  4. Practice three (3) somatic and cognitive interventions that directly address the neurobiological effects of trauma.

Copyright : 12/03/2022

Embodying Emotions

Based on the work of leading trauma experts, we know that difficult emotions, trauma and suffering are stored in the body…

What hasn’t been so clear is how to release the pain that’s deeply entrenched in our clients’ body, mind and spirit. 

Regardless of which therapy approaches you’re using, you need to be able to help your clients tolerate overwhelming and uncomfortable emotions come up…

…so you can help them with a wide range of clinical problems and diagnoses, including PTSD, complex trauma, substance abuse, attachment wounds and more.

Join Dr. Raja Selvam to learn critical somatic therapy skills every clinician should know to help their clients process trauma and more.

Drawing from research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, and body psychotherapy, Dr. Selvam shares with you a step-by-step framework so you can:

•    Help your clients stay curious in the face of overwhelming emotions
•    Build tolerance for tough emotions so you can do deep trauma and emotional processing
•    Improve your own capacity for emotional attunement with clients
•    Enhance mindfulness and spiritual practices by embodying emotions

…All while shortening treatment times with any other modalities you’re already using! 

Register now and learn how to help your clients master their emotions and take back control of their lives!

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Objectives

  1. Describe the approach of embodying emotions and list its eight diverse clinical benefits.
  2. Investigate the evidence base of embodying emotions.
  3. Implement the four steps of embodying emotions in clinical practice to meet diverse clinical goals.
  4. Implement the practice of embodying emotions in a simple seven-step protocol, of particular value in working with clients with complex traumas and psychophysiological (psychosomatic) symptoms.
  5. Identify the three important determinants of affect tolerance in clients.
  6. List the three categories of emotions with examples from each category.
  7. Implement the three strategies for working with the face-and-throat physiology in the practice of embodying emotions.
  8. Implement somatic strategies for working with existential themes (existential terror, fragmentation, rage, and shame) often encountered in working with severe traumatic experiences.

Copyright : 26/04/2023

Module 2: Embodying Emotions

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Module 3: Embodying Emotions

Copyright : 26/04/2023

Module 4: Embodying Emotions

Copyright : 26/04/2023

Module 5: Embodying Emotions

Copyright : 26/04/2023

Module 6: Embodying Emotions

Copyright : 26/04/2023