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Digital Seminar

Breaking Free of the Trauma Cycle


Faculty:
Scott Lyons, PhD, DO |  Diane Poole Heller, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours 01 Minutes
Copyright:
21 Mar, 2025
Product Code:
NOS096470
Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Access:
Never expires.


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 

CPD

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.



CPD

PESI Australia, in collaboration with PESI in the USA, offers quality online continuing professional development events from the leaders in the field at a standard recognized by professional associations including psychology, social work, occupational therapy, alcohol and drug professionals, counselling and psychotherapy. On completion of the training, a Professional Development Certificate is issued after the individual has answered and submitted a quiz and course evaluation. This program is worth 2.25 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.



Handouts

Faculty

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

Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)

Access never expires for this product.

For a more detailed outline that includes times or durations of time, if needed, please contact cepepesi.com


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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