Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment
- Speaker:
- Janina Fisher, PhD
- Duration:
- 2 Hours
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Copyright:
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Mar 21, 2025
- Product Code:
- NOS096449
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
As children, many of our adult clients experienced abuses they were helpless to escape or prevent. Perhaps it wasn’t safe for them to cry, look frightened, or voice emotional needs for fear of punishment. Because they had no choice other than to appear “fine,” their brains and bodies instinctively developed habits that prevented them from showing emotion. Although these strategies are adaptive in an unsafe environment, when clients come to therapy years later, their phobia of emotion and vulnerability poses obstacles in their lives—and can also pose significant challenges for us as therapists. Fortunately, modern trauma treatment affords us many ways to help survivors, including those who can’t “go there.” In this workshop, you’ll explore how to:
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Help clients resolve trauma without reliving it
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Better manage your own need as a therapist for clients to be vulnerable
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Use body- and parts-centred approaches to validate avoidance as trauma-related fear
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Develop a strong therapeutic alliance with intellectualised and avoidant clients
Credit
Program Information
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Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment (1.5 MB) | 21 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment - French (1.5 MB) | 21 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment - Italian (1.5 MB) | 21 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment - German (1.5 MB) | 21 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment - Spanish (1.5 MB) | 21 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Janina Fisher, PhD Related seminars and products
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist, founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), advisory board member of the Trauma Research Foundation, and coauthor with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
Additional Info
Program Information
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Objectives
- Articulate how traumatic memories are encoded in the brain and body.
- Discriminate intentional avoidance versus autonomic disconnection from affect.
- Implement 3 interventions for increasing client ability to tolerate vulnerability.
Outline
How we remember trauma
- The implications of brain scan research on traumatic memory
- Implicit memory and its effects
Avoidance as a survival strategy in a dangerous world
- How the body supports avoidance
- Why do therapists have as much difficulty tolerating avoidance as the client has tolerating emotion?
Resolving trauma without the need to re-live it
- Validating avoidance as trauma-related fear
- Using body-centred and parts-centred approaches to resolution
Risks and Limitations
Target Audience
- Counsellors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counsellors
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