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After the overwhelming experience is over and they have survived, traumatised individuals are left with only a fragmented, confusing sense of what happened.
Traumatic reminders continue to keep the trauma ‘alive’ by repetitively re-activating the stress response system and survival defences. Unaware that these reactions are traumatic memories held in the body, clients assume that they are still in danger or somehow at fault.
Without a way to understand sensory and body memories, survivors of trauma come to either distrust themselves or distrust others. Telling the story of what they remember sometimes brings relief but does not resolve the ‘living legacy’ of traumatic reactions that continue to torment the client day after day.
Watch trauma expert, clinician and author Janina Fisher, PhD, and learn how to assess and make sense of trauma-based symptoms, such as:
dysregulated autonomic arousal
overwhelming emotions and sensations
intrusive images
numbing and disconnection
Discover how to use psychoeducation to help clients manage these overwhelming symptoms and begin to change their relationship to the traumatic events.
Become confident in how to integrate neurobiologically-informed treatment techniques into your psychotherapy.
Don’t delay! Purchase today and help clients overcome their traumatic symptoms - and finally put the past trauma to rest.
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| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
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| Transforming the ‘Living Legacy’ of Trauma: Tangible tools to transform your clinical practice (2.9 MB) | Available after Purchase |
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment centre 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, 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 is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. 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.
Determine the autonomic, cognitive, affective and somatic effects of traumatic events.
Practice psychoeducational interventions that support stabilisation or offer relief to traumatised clients.
Implement mindfulness-based techniques to challenge conditioned patterns of response.
Integrate somatic interventions that regulate a traumatised nervous system.
Utilise worksheets to discover and address trauma-related symptoms.
Assess the nature of current research, limitations of working with somatic techniques in trauma.
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