Full Course Description

2-Day Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Workshop: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Analyze the brain regions involved in trauma.
  2. Assess the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
  3. Determine how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
  4. Evaluate how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety in clients.
  5. Analyze methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
  6. Determine how narrative therapy exercises can be employed in session to help clients talk about hotspots.
  7. Justify how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma survivors.
  8. Determine how exposure, titration and pendulation can be used to “slow” emotions in clients.
  9. Support how EMDR-based techniques can be used with clients to resolve traumatic memories.
  10. Differentiate between EMDR, EFT and neuromodulation approaches.
  11. Develop plans for working with anger, resistance, and suicidality in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
  12. Debate the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.

Outline

The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change

  • Key brain areas involved in trauma
  • Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
  • Clinical implications of the freeze response
  • The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy

Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools

  • Simple vs. complex trauma
  • Intergenerational trauma
  • Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
  • CAPS-5 and PCL-5
  • Primary Care PTSD Screen
  • Dual diagnosis

Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work

  • Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
  • Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
  • Self-soothing techniques
  • Grounding strategies
  • Breathwork
  • Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work

Proven Skills and Techniques from Evidence-Based Approaches:

  • Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma
    • Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
    • Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
    • Teach body awareness
    • Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
    • Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
  • CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions
    • Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
    • Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
    • Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
    • Memory reconstruction techniques

EMDR-Based Techniques: Resolve Traumatic Memories

  • Adaptive Information Processing Theory EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
  • Resourcing strategies
  • Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
  • Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma

Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences

  • Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
  • Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
  • Awareness and closure - create life stories

Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks

  • How to handle the angry client
  • Strategies for the resistant trauma client
  • Boundary concerns
  • Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use

Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth

  • Better than normal - the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
  • The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
  • The power of forgiveness in moving forward
  • Meaning making exercises

Research, Limitations and Potential Risks

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Case Manager
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Nurses
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

Copyright : 06/06/2019

Trauma Treatment at Home: Tools and Tips for Recovery Using Telehealth

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Practice bottom-up and top-down techniques clients can begin using immediately at home.
  2. Utilize at least two behavioral activation techniques clients can utilize while at home.
  3. Theorize how the therapeutic alliance may be enhanced when working with clients remotely.

Outline

Telehealth and the Therapeutic Alliance: What to watch out for and how to enhance the alliance with traumatized clients

  • Eye contact issues
  • Body language less visible
  • “Mirroring” may be limited
  • Tips for enhancing the connection
  • Strategies to keep clients engaged

Help Clients Stay Connected and Active: Social and behavioral activation when you can’t be together

  • Social distancing vs physical distancing
  • Creating pattern disruptions with new schedules
  • Movement and exercise
  • Creating structure

Bottom-Up Trauma Treatment Techniques: At Home Strategies for Clients to Use Immediately

  • Ground and stabilization techniques
  • Somatic and sensorimotor techniques
  • Breathing techniques

Top-Down Trauma Treatment Techniques: At Home Strategies for Clients to Use Immediately

  • Meditations
  • Cognitive skills
  • Resource tapping and other EMDR skills

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Psychotherapists
  • Therapists
  • Addiction Counselors
  • Case Managers
  • Nurses

Copyright : 04/15/2020