Full Course Description
Polyvagal Theory and the Neuroscience of Connection: How a Polyvagal Perspective Can Enhance the Treatment of Trauma and Anxiety
If you’re like most clinicians you’ve been hearing a lot about Polyvagal Theory lately.
But the complicated theory that’s changed our understanding of the nervous system’s response to stress and danger can be difficult for non-scientists to grasp. And even if you can wrap your head around the complex research, you’re still left trying to figure out how to make the knowledge useable in real life.
Without the right guide, one who can simplify the science and show you how to operationalize it, you’ll be left unable to bring this important information to your practice.
Dr. Sherrie All is a licensed psychologist specializing in neuropsychology whose trainings have made complicated research and scientific concepts accessible and useable for mental health professionals across the country.
Watch Dr. All as she unpacks the science behind the Polyvagal Theory and shows you how you can immediately put it to use in your clinical work!
In this training, you’ll get:
- An accessible and user-friendly explanation of Polyvagal Theory
- Guidance on recognizing and responding to clients’ autonomic states in therapy
- Ways to create a space of safety and co-regulation using body, face, and tone
- Movement, breath and grounding practices as applied through a Polyvagal lens
Don’t miss this chance to understand Polyvagal Theory better than ever before and enhance your therapeutic work!
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Program Information
Objectives
- Investigate the clinical implications of the Polyvagal Theory’s explanation of how the nervous system reacts to social factors.
- Analyze the concept of neuroception and how it can impact autonomic states in clients.
- Assess how psychoeducation with clients about the nervous system can help generate buy-in for interventions designed to impact the nervous system’s reactions to stress, trauma and anxiety.
- Analyze the treatment implications of hyperarousal and hypoarousal on a client’s window of tolerance.
- Analyze therapeutic presence through the lens of Polyvagal Theory to help explain the mechanisms of change that presence evokes.
- Evaluate the current state of research on the application of a Polyvagal perspective to mental health treatment.
Outline
Polyvagal Theory:
User-Friendly and Accessible Explanations for Non-Scientists
- Understanding the autonomic nervous system
- The vagus nerve and how your nervous system reacts to social factors
- The complexities of fight/flight/freeze response
- Neuroception and co-regulation
- Rest and digest – the state of social engagement
Neuroplasticity Simplified:
Nervous System Change and Balance Explained
- Learn how neurologically-based conditions are treatable
- Foundations for using “neurorehabilitation”
- Train the nervous system for better coping
- Review the science, research and limitations behind neuroplasticity
Incorporate a Polyvagal Perspective into Your Daily Clinical Practice
- Why is this relevant to your clinical practice?
- Help clients cope using Dan Siegel’s
- Window of Tolerance
- Recognize autonomic states of clients
- Hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal
- How overlooking hypo-arousal in clients impacts treatment
- Therapeutic presence
Sensory Interventions to Increase Felt Safety
- Create a space of co-regulation - body, face, tone, and breath
- Visual interventions: Scanning for safety
- Auditory interventions: Safe & Sound protocol
- Tactile interventions
Apply a Polyvagal Lens to Movement, Breath and Grounding Practices
- Movement to put stress to the use nature intended
- Imagined movement: Running Faster than the Tiger
- Diaphragmatic breathing and the vagus nerve
- Non-threatening breath exercises to control hyperventilation
- Muscle tension and the vagus nerve
- Research, treatment risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
09/14/2023
2-Day: Polyvagal Theory for Embodied Trauma Recovery: Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) Certification Training
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind.
Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without addressing the physiological imbalances that trauma leaves in its wake.
While you might recognize the value of bringing the body into trauma treatment, you might not know how to do this effectively.
Watch Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, international leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma, as she bridges the path of healing between the psyche and the body.
Grounded within the principles of polyvagal theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care, Dr. Schwartz will guide you through research-based somatic tools, yoga-based breath, movement, and awareness practices to reduce the burdens of trauma, anxiety, obsessive thinking, and feelings of hopelessness from your client’s body and mind!
As your clients feel empowered by these changes, you can more successfully help them to heal from the pain of the past.
Watch and learn:
- Co-regulation strategies to resource client’s nervous system
- Vagus nerve stimulation techniques to immediately regulate client’s nervous system
- Mind-body strategies to safely prepare for deeper trauma recovery work
- Bilateral stimulation techniques to connect the brain and body
- Personalized embodiment and yoga-based practices to build resilience
- Client’s internal systems to identify and overcome treatment barriers
- And so much more!
When you complete this training, you’ll be immediately eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP)*....
Giving you the opportunity to stand out from the crowd and let clients and colleagues know that you’ve invested the time and effort needed to provide treatment at the highest level.
AND your first year of certification is FREE (a $99.99 value)!
Don’t miss this chance to intensify and expand your trauma treatment to help your client release trauma from their body and create an increased sense of freedom and possibility for the future!
CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
- No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
- Simply complete this training and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.
Program Information
Objectives
- Understand the relationship between stress, trauma, and your health.
- Apply polyvagal theory within therapy.
- Assess Neuroception of safety and threat.
- Discuss the tiered response to threat and hybrid nervous system states.
- Demonstrate grounding and orientating techniques that increase client’s resources.
- Recognize the benefits of co-regulation and the social engagement system.
- Learn about Heart Rate Variability (HRV) as related to stress management.
- Demonstrate how to enhance health through natural vagus nerve stimulation.
- Explain “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions.
- Apply tools to help clients expand their window of tolerance.
- Apply principles of somatic psychology into trauma recovery.
- Provide therapeutic yoga practices for your clients.
Outline
The Neuroscience of Trauma:
How trauma is held in the body and mind
- When acute trauma turns into PTSD and the difference with complex PTSD
- Early attachment wounds and the patterning of the nervous system
- How transgenerational trauma, collective trauma, and epigenetics shapes the autonomic nervous system
Assessment and Differential Diagnosis:
Address co-morbidities in trauma treatment
- How trauma might underlie other presenting diagnosis
- Differentiation between bipolar, ADHD, major depressive disorder, personality disorders and trauma
- How the autonomic nervous system shapes the health of our immune system
Applied Polyvagal Theory to Trauma Treatment:
Resource the client’s nervous system
- Psychoeducation on how the nervous system is wired to keep us safe
- Key assessment tools for the applied polyvagal theory model
- Strategies for co-regulation as a biological imperative
- Strategies for proximity awareness and relational resourcing
10 Natural Vagus Nerve Stimulation Techniques
Promote regulation, relaxation, and calmness in the body
- Promote regulation, relaxation, and calmness in the body
- Enhance the tone of the vagus nerve to improve health outcomes
- How heart rate variability (HRV) is related to stress management
- Ways to measure health of the autonomic nervous system
- How fascia or the connective tissue matrix is essential for mind-body communications
- Conscious breathing for stress reduction
An Embodied Path for Trauma Recovery
Apply somatic and body psychotherapy principles
- Safely prepare clients for the deeper work of trauma recovery with mindbody resourcing strategies
- Bilateral stimulation techniques for brain-body integration
- Help a client safely work through traumatic material at a pace they can tolerate
- Research, risks, and treatment limitations
Consider Client’s Internal Systems to Overcome Treatment Barriers
- Navigate “resistant” parts of a client’s inner system
- Attend to competing biological needs for closeness and separateness
- Polyvagal perspectives on approachavoidance attachment dynamics
- Work mindfully with rupture and repair cycles
Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Apply the principles of polyvagal theory with mind-body awareness
- Intersection of neuroplasticity research applied to trauma treatment
- Facilitate trauma sensitive mindfulness practices
- Strategies for self-compassion and loving kindness
- The science of neuroplasticity as applied to mindful mobilization
- Trauma-informed meditation and yoga nidra practices
- Empower growth post-trauma and help clients build resilience
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
11/13/2023
Racial Trauma and the Polyvagal Response: Mind-Body Healing for African American Clients
Not only were African Americans disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 due to rampant socioeconomic disparities, but other brutal reminders of systemic racism continue to erupt across the country and in the news. Daily microtraumas and a feeling of not being physically safe or valued in our society lead to a state of stress, anger, hypervigilance, mistrust, shame, and fear. This recording explores how neuroceptions and the Polyvagal pathways shape the adaptive reactions of African Americas to race-based stress and trauma—and what clinicians can do to address them and the related emotional burdens we all carry. Discover how to:
- Create a safe, healing space for African American clients
- Identify triggers and symptoms of racial trauma, as well as how it’s processed in the brain
- Use mind-body techniques to deregulate the stress response and promote feelings of empowerment and safety
- Explore how therapy is affected by the emotional reactivity of both Black and non-Black clinicians when treating Black clients
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the role the Polyvagal pathway plays in the African American client’s reaction to violence, police brutality, acts of racism, and discrimination.
- Investigate how microtrauma impacts the psychosocial development of African Americans from a historical perspective.
- Demonstrate how to identify and treat reactive symptoms and behaviors associated with the microtrauma of racisms, such as defensiveness and excessive worrying about safety and death.
- Assess how the therapeutic process can be affected by the emotional reactivity of both African American and non-African American clinicians when treating African American clients.
- Employ mind-body techniques in conjunction with Internal Family System theory to effectively deregulate the stress response and promote feelings of empowerment and safety.
- Analyze activated trauma memories involving violence and acts of racism.
Outline
Implement tools that address the impact of micro and macro-trauma on the psychosocial development of African American clients
- Introduction and application of self-soothing grounding, and deep breathing techniques as tools to de-escalate traumas.
- Application of the DBT describing skills to increase awareness of the present moment
- Review of how mindfulness can be used to increase awareness of symptoms and microtrauma reactions
Introduce Microtrauma as a fear-based conditional response to situations that elicit terror and powerlessness.
- Review literature on trauma and the brain response
Examine the role the sympathetic nervous system plays in their reactions to microtraumas.
- Review nervous system
- Discuss parasympathetic response (ventral vagal)
- Parasympathetic stress response immobilization
- Sympathetic Stress Response: Mobilization Flight/Fight Response
Provide clinical treatment interventions that determine levels of reactivity and offer treatment modalities.
- Reprocessing of memories
- Deep breathing techniques
- Grounding and tapping
- CBT thought stopping and disputing techniques
- Introduction of SUDS and Body scanning techniques
Incorporate trauma and shame reducing techniques in sessions to help African American clients access memories that keep them stuck in the narrative of victimization
- Recreating the shame
- Self-affirmations
- Creating a practice of self-compassion and non-judgmental stance
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/17/2021
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery
Trauma recovery is as much about healing the body as it is the mind. Yet, so often, the focus of healing involves retelling the story of the past without addressing the physiological imbalances that trauma leaves in its wake. While you might recognize the value of bringing the body into trauma treatment, you might not know how to do this effectively.
Join Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, international leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma as she bridges the path of healing between the psyche and the body. Grounded within the principles of Polyvagal Theory, affective neuroscience, and trauma-informed care, Dr. Schwartz will guide you through research-based somatic tools and yoga-based breath, movement, and awareness practices to reduce the burdens of trauma, anxiety, obsessive thinking, and feelings of hopelessness from your client’s body and mind!
Program Information
Objectives
- Apply polyvagal theory within therapeutic yoga with researched practices for mind-body health.
- Evaluate you client’s nervous system states as related to autonomic cues of stress and signs of safety.
- Demonstrate grounding and orientating techniques that increase clients resources.
Outline
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga for Trauma
- Evidence showing how working with the body can maximize healing
- Naturally stimulate the vagus nerve to enhance physical and emotional health
- Skills to help clients come out of chronic stress
- Yogic based breath, movement, and awareness practices
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
10/13/2023