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Digital Seminar

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


Speaker:
Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD
Duration:
6 Hours 37 Minutes
Language:
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
Copyright:
Mar 31, 2023
Product Code:
POS059423
Media Type:
Digital Seminar


Description

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

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.

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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 6.5 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 6.5 credit hours.


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

 

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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 6.5 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement


Canada Credit - Other Professions

This self-study activity qualifies for 6.5 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.



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Speaker

Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD's Profile

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Dr. Abi Blakeslee world renowned trainer in trauma recovery and the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy. She is senior faculty at Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Blakeslee holds a PhD in clinical and somatic psychology and an MA in counseling and depth psychology. Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, primary and secondary trauma interventions, neuro-consulting, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee maintains a private practice and is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy, co-founder of Relationship Repair and maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Somatic Experiencing International and Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Dr. Blakeslee receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a member of the American Association for Marriage Family Therapists, the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, the Women in Neuroscience, and the Society for Neuroscience.


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Program Information

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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.

Outline

The importance of working with survival physiology
  • Neuroanatomy of a threat response and a thwarted threat response
  • How survival responses impact attachment
  • Harness the opportunity for change in “transitional states”
  • Learn how to support and observe up regulation in your client’s body
Apply Polyvagal Theory to track the nervous system
  • Learn the difference between how to support your clients moving through transitional states of survival physiology vs Biological Completion of Procedural Movements
  • Observe the difference between Voluntary vs Involuntary Movement
  • How predatory movement, building impulse and Agency helps clients heal
  • Learn how to engage how tension patterns can move the body toward self-protection and new learning that reconsolidates implicit memories of helplessness 
  • Observe and learn step by step Interventions to work with the Sympathetic Nervous System and Active Defensive Responses
Learn about the fight response and healthy aggression 
  • Skills to work with Animal Imagery to support a client’s connection to their own ability to Protect, Respond, and connect to Instinctual Power
  • Learn Push Hands Exercises
  • How the completion of Survival Responses relates your Client’s attachment style
  • How to support Speaking up
  • Exercises for boundary work with client
  • Skills to work with freeze physiology
  • Identify primary, secondary, and tertiary dissociation

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychiatrists
  • Psychologists
  • Case Managers
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage & Family Therapists
  • Psych Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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