2-Day: Transform Trauma Recovery with Polyvagal Theory: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification Training

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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C Related seminars and products

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Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.

As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, her work is rooted in the positive psychology movement, which is focused on enhancing resources and fostering growth. She offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy, parts work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. Praised by Dr. Stephen Porges, Arielle specializes in applying his polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions. Her work can be found at the Shift Network, Sounds True, Psychotherapy Networker, Embody Lab, Art of Living, Omega Institute, and more.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz maintains a private practice and is a trainer with Advanced EMDR Therapy Trainings. She receives royalties as a published author and receives compensation as an international presenter and a yoga instructor. Dr. Schwartz is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She receives speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Yoga Alliance.

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Objectives

1. Understand the relationship between stress, trauma, and your health.
2. Apply polyvagal theory within therapy.
3. Assess Neuroception of safety and threat.
4. Discuss the tiered response to threat and hybrid nervous system states.
5. Demonstrate grounding and orientating techniques that increase client’s resources.
6. Recognise the benefits of co-regulation and the social engagement system.
7. Learn about Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as related to stress management.
8. Demonstrate how to enhance health through natural vagus nerve stimulation.
9. Explain “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions.
10. Apply tools to help clients expand their window of tolerance.
11. Apply principles of somatic psychology into trauma recovery.
12. Provide therapeutic yoga practices for your clients.

Outline

The Neuroscience of Trauma:
How trauma is held in the body and mind

• When acute trauma turns into PTSD and the difference with complex PTSD
• Early attachment wounds and the patterning of the nervous system
• How transgenerational trauma, collective trauma, and epigenetics shapes the autonomic nervous system

Assessment and Differential Diagnosis:
Address co-morbidities in trauma treatment

• How trauma might underlie other presenting diagnosis
• Differentiation between bipolar, ADHD, major depressive disorder, personality disorders and trauma
• How the autonomic nervous system shapes the health of our immune system

Applied Polyvagal Theory to Trauma Treatment:
Resource the client’s nervous system

• Psychoeducation on how the nervous system is wired to keep us safe
• Key assessment tools for the applied polyvagal theory model
• Strategies for co-regulation as a biological imperative
• Strategies for proximity awareness and relational resourcing

10 Natural Vagus Nerve Stimulation Techniques
Promote regulation, relaxation, and calmness in the body

• Promote regulation, relaxation, and calmness in the body
• Enhance the tone of the vagus nerve to improve health outcomes
• How heart rate variability (HRV) is related to stress management
• Ways to measure health of the autonomic nervous system
• How fascia or the connective tissue matrix is essential for mind-body communications
• Conscious breathing for stress reduction

An Embodied Path for Trauma Recovery
Apply somatic and body psychotherapy principles

• Safely prepare clients for the deeper work of trauma recovery with mind-body resourcing strategies
• Bilateral stimulation techniques for brain-body integration
• Help a client safely work through traumatic material at a pace they can tolerate
• Research, risks, and treatment limitations

Consider Client’s Internal Systems to Overcome Treatment Barriers

• Navigate “resistant” parts of a client’s inner system
• Attend to competing biological needs for closeness and separateness
• Polyvagal perspectives on approach-avoidance attachment dynamics
• Work mindfully with rupture and repair cycles

Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Apply the principles of polyvagal theory with mind-body awareness

• Intersection of neuroplasticity research applied to trauma treatment
• Facilitate trauma sensitive mindfulness practices
• Strategies for self-compassion and loving kindness
• The science of neuroplasticity as applied to mindful mobilisation
• Trauma-informed meditation and yoga nidra practices
• Empower growth post-trauma and help clients build resilience

Target Audience

• Counsellors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counsellors
• Art Therapists
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals