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Unlock the secrets of trauma's impact on the body and mind in this groundbreaking 4-session intensive. Join our expert presenter as they guide you through cutting-edge approaches to trauma treatment, blending neuroscience, sensory processing, and phase-oriented techniques. You'll discover:
The connections between trauma, the nervous system, and personality
A holistic, phase-oriented approach to treating complex developmental trauma
Implement effective strategies for regulating the autonomic nervous system
Tailor interventions for clients with sensory processing challenges (ADHD, Autism, and more)
Utilize both body-based and non-body-based techniques for optimal healing
Whether you're a seasoned trauma specialist or new to the field, this comprehensive training will revolutionize your practice. Gain the skills to help your clients move from survival mode to thriving, with practical tools you can use immediately. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your trauma treatment approach and achieve better outcomes for your clients!
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 8 hours CPD for points calculation by your association.
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Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.
Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be American United States-ian....she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Thai maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a presenter, and she receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Linda Thai is the co-founder of Yoga & Twelve-Step Recovery (Y12SR). She is a board member for Asian mental health Collective. She serves as a board member for Asian Mental Health Collective.
For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.
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Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
Identify the six main trauma survival strategies.
Explain how traumatic memories become encoded and remembered.
Provide a holistic conceptualization of traumatic stress.
Utilize a non-pathologizing lens in conceptualizing adaptive, proactive responses to potential stress.
Understand the relationship between traumatic stress and health outcomes and potential DSM diagnoses.
Distinguish between fawning, appeasement, fight, flight, freeze, and dorsal shutdown as survival strategies.
Identify the impacts of trauma upon pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems and the nervous system.
Utilize the Window of Tolerance / Window of Capacity to a psychoeducation tool to empower clients to befriend and shift their autonomic states.
Identify the 5 main sensory systems and the 3 hidden sensory systems.
Identify 3 interventions for sensory avoidance and sensory seeking behaviors for each of the 5 main sensory systems and for 2 of the 3 hidden sensory systems.
Identify the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system
Identify and distinguish between blended autonomic nervous system states.
Identify common autonomic nervous system loops.
Recognize and interpret client perception, cognition and affect through the lens of the autonomic nervous system
Utilize Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts Work, trauma responses and the nervous system in order to provide effective clinical interventions
Discover novel techniques for establishing an increase in felt sense interrelational and environment safety in the therapeutic space
Practice 5 techniques to self-holding, self-swaddling and self-soothing
Identify 5 techniques for nervous system upregulation
Practice 5 techniques for nervous system down regulation
Identify 5 techniques for completing the stress response cycle.
Session 1: Getting to the Heart of Trauma Treatment: The Latest Advancements in How People Get Trapped by Trauma and New Approaches to Treatment
A non-pathologizing view of treating trauma survivors
How trauma gets stuck in the body and in the psyche
What traumatic stress really does in a human’s body and mind
How traumatic memories become encoded and remembered
Critical keys to understand about “neuroception” in trauma treatment
Trauma Adaptation #1: Reactive vs proactive responses
Trauma Adaptation #2: Fawning and appeasement responses
The important links between traumatic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and DSM diagnoses
A roadmap to holistic approaches to treating traumatic stress
Session 2: Phase-Oriented Complex Developmental Trauma Treatment: The Nervous System & Sensory Processing
Brain- and body-based techniques for grounding, resourcing and regulating the nervous system
The 5 main sensory systems and the 3 hidden sensory systems.
The impact of trauma upon pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems and the nervous system.
Working with the Window of Tolerance & Window of Capacity
Sensory processing differences: what is it and how does it present?
Sensory processing differences: strategies for grounding and resourcing.
Session 3: Structural Dissociation Theory & Parts Work: Traumatic Fragmentation & Re-Integration
The three main branches of the autonomic nervous system
Blended autonomic nervous system states
Common autonomic nervous system loops
How autonomic state drives perception, cognition and affective responses
Combining Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts Work, trauma responses and the nervous system fragmentation that require targeted interventions to support integration and healing.
Session 4: Phase-oriented complex developmental trauma treatment: Techniques for stabilization through coregulation, upregulation, downregulation, and sensory grounding.
Techniques for nervous system upregulation and downregulation and coregulation.
A whole bunch of interventions for establishing safety and for working with a dysregulated nervous system that do not require going into the body or the use of breathing techniques.
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