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Digital Seminar

Breaking Free of the Trauma Cycle


Speakers:
Scott Lyons, PhD, DO |  Diane Poole Heller, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Mar 21, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096470
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

Many clients find themselves stuck in a loop of repeatedly being pulled back into trauma reenactments, despite their best efforts to heal. In this workshop, we'll explore why our clients stay locked in a state of threat long after the original wounding has passed, and how the subsequent perceptual, cognitive, and somatic compensations become habits that prevent them from truly healing. Using the latest research, demonstrations, and experiential practices, we'll examine how to help clients identify and break free from the distorted thoughts and bodily responses that perpetuate the trauma cycle. You'll learn practical tools for: 

  • Recognising trauma reenactment patterns 
  • Getting to what’s preventing the release of these patterns 
  • Building a roadmap for therapy and for clients to release these painful patterns 

Credit

Program Information

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.



Canada Credit - *

NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

Continuing Education Information:  Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. 
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.  

For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

 


Canada Credit - ---

Earn up to 2.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession. 


Canada Credit - Canadian Counsellors and Psychotherapists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 2.0 credit hours.


Canada Credit - Social Workers - National ASWB ACE

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 2.0 Clinical continuing education credits.

 

Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.

 

Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.


Canada Credit - Canadian Psychologists

PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 2.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 2.0 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.


US National Boards - Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

This self-study course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming.

This self-study course offers 2.0 continuing education contact hours in the Counseling Services skill group. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance.



Handouts

Speaker

Scott Lyons, PhD, DO's Profile

Scott Lyons, PhD, DO Related seminars and products


Scott Lyons, PhD, DO is a licensed holistic psychologist, Doctor of Osteopathy, educator, author of Addicted to Drama: Healing Dependency on Crisis and Chaos in Yourself and Others, and the host of The Gently Used Human podcast. He’s also the creator of The Embody Lab, the largest online learning platform for body-based trauma therapies, and developer of Somatic Stress Release, a holistic process of restoring biological resilience, taught in over 20 countries. He’s a Certified Body-Mind Centering teacher and practitioner, a cranio-sacral Therapist, a visceral manipulation therapist, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, clinical hypnotherapist, and a 500-hour registered yoga teacher.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Scott Lyons is the founder of The Embody Lab. He maintains a private practice and has an employment relationship with The School for Body-Mind Centering. Scott Lyons receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Scott Lyons is a member of the Body-Mind Centering ™Association, the American Massage and Body Work Association, and the National Association of Personal Training.


Diane Poole Heller, PhD's Profile

Diane Poole Heller, PhD Related seminars and products

Trauma Solutions


Diane Poole Heller, Ph.D., is an internationally-recognized speaker, author, and expert in the field of attachment theory and trauma resolution. She developed a signature series on adult attachment called DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience), that facilitates more fulfilling adult relationships.

In 1989, she began working with Dr. Peter Levine, teaching for 25 years for SEI.

She's authored 3 books: Crash Course, on auto accident trauma; Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Relationships; and The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her film, "Surviving Columbine," supported community healing after the Columbine High School shootings.


Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Diane Poole Heller receives a speaking honorarium from Trauma Solutions. She is a published author and receives royalties. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Diane Poole has no relevant non-financial relationships.


Additional Info

Program Information

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

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Objectives

  1. Define the trauma cycle and its key maintaining factors, including cognitive distortions, perceptual biases, and somatic compensations.
  2. Identify the core beliefs and assumptions underlying the client's cycle of pain and develop strategies for challenging and updating them.
  3. Practise somatic techniques for settling the nervous system and restoring a sense of safety and stability in the body.
  4. Describe how to create corrective experiences that allow the client to reality-test and revise trauma-based expectations and perceptions.

Outline

Conceptualising the trauma cycle  

Recognising reenactment patterns and their role 

Cognitive restructuring and behavioural change strategies 

Resetting the nervous system through somatic techniques 

The role of the corrective emotional experience 

Risks and Limitations 

Target Audience

  • Counsellors
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Social Workers
  • Physicians 
  • Psychologists

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