The Living Legacy of Trauma with Janina Fisher, PhD: Tangible Tools to Transform Clinical Practice

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. 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.

Objectives

1. Determine the autonomic, cognitive, affective and somatic effects of traumatic events.
2. Practice psychoeducational interventions that support stabilization or offer relief to traumatized clients.
3. Implement mindfulness-based techniques to challenge conditioned patterns of response.
4. Integrate somatic interventions that regulate a traumatized nervous system.
5. Utilize worksheets to discover and address trauma-related symptoms.
6. Assess the nature of current research, limitations of working with somatic techniques in trauma.

Outline

• The neurobiology: how ‘the body keeps the score”
• How the brain helps us survive
• What perpetuates PTSD?
• Working with a traumatized nervous system in clinical practice
• Risks, limitations and the nature of the latest research

• Psychoeducation: the value and meaning of language
• Making skill-building a relational experience
• The challenge of post-traumatic coping
• Recovering from self-destructive patterns of coping
• Worksheet: 10% Solutions
• Worksheet: Tracking Abstinence/Relapse Cycles

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: principles and interventions for resolving symptoms
• Somatic interventions to help clients regulate autonomic regulation
• Working with traumatic attachment patterns
• Changing attachment patterns
• Worksheet: How can you tell you are triggered?
• Worksheet: Trauma and the window of tolerance

• The structural dissociation model
• Identify the traumatized parts
• Using a parts-model in with fragmentation

• Building a compassionate relationship to one’s selves
• Mindfulness techniques specific for trauma survivors
• More client worksheets
• Integrate presented tools in clinical session

Target Audience

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