2-Day Trauma Certificate Course: Somatic Psychotherapy Skills to Bring the Body into Trauma Treatment

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT Related seminars and products: 3

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Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, is a licensed somatic psychotherapist, international teacher and speaker, author and meditation teacher. She co-directs and teaches at the Hakomi Institute of California and is the developer of “From Trauma to Dharma”, a somatic trauma training for professionals. Manuela is the author of Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox (PESI, 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness (W.W. Norton, 2015) and was a contributor to Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy.

Manuela brings together 25 years of in-depth clinical practice and teaching in somatic trauma therapies, Hakomi psychotherapy, attachment and infant mental health work, Buddhist meditation practices and movement therapies. Her approach to working with trauma is an inside out approach that utilizes the depth of the body’s knowledge. Her unique teaching gift is inspiring how we live our lives from the reverence and awareness of interconnection.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Manuela Mischke-Reeds is a co-director and teacher with Hakomi Institute of California. She maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.
Non-financial: Manuela Mischke-Reeds is a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

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Objectives

1. Examine trauma and stress symptoms from a somatic psychotherapy perspective to better inform clinical treatment.
2. Evaluate traumatic stress from a psychobiological, social and mindfulness-based understanding to improve clinical treatment outcomes
3. Determine Somatic Psychotherapy readiness in the client to effectively and safely treat trauma and stress.
4. Develop targeted somatic clinical skills in the initial trauma treatment phases of stabilization and safety.
5. Incorporate clinical somatic skills for self-regulation and stress management in clinical treatment.
6. Summarize the clinical research that supports the imperative factors influencing the efficacy of trauma treatment to better inform clinical work.
7. Utilize clinical somatic skills that promote the stabilization of stress symptoms and anxiety management during trauma treatment.
8. Articulate how somatic techniques can impact the nervous system associated with stress and trauma responses and its treatment implications.
9. Evaluate how the role of conscious body movements help with symptoms of anxiety when processing trauma.
10. Assess how feelings of embodiment can impact the biological stress responses as it relates to case conceptualization.
11. Discover how innate healing states can be accessed through somatic body awareness as it relates to clinical treatment.
12. Consider the impact of somatic tools on managing the client’s emotions, thoughts and behaviors.

Outline

• Differentiate acute stress, PSTD and complex PTSD
• DSM-5® - PSTD overview
• Stress-trauma continuum
• Symptoms and cues of stress and trauma
• Assess for dissociation

• What is soma?
• Polyvagal theory application
• Arousal theory and emotional dysregualation

• Safety guidelines
• Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
• Therapeutic attitude when working with the body
• Techniques for reading distress in the body
• Tools to track the body and trauma cues

• Somatic experiencing
• Sensorimotor psychotherapy
• EMDR
• Journal writing with the body in mind

• Mindfulness and Body Techniques
  • Self-regulate by suspending the moment
  • Open the body to deep relaxation
  • Build trust with simple earth mindfulness

• Read the Body and Teach Body Awareness
  • Body awareness inventory
  • Identify body themes
  • Filters of perception and biases

• Presence, Perception and Sensations
  • Dual awareness for moments of chaos
  • Sensing space for emotional and physical pain

• Movement, Posture and Gesture Interventions
  • Movement, play and beliefs to explore body boundaries
  • Grounding through the spine
  • Somatic strength posture

• Boundary Setting Skills
  • Extending physical boundaries
  • Wrap yourself into your own space
  • Boundary violation – redrawing the territory

• Breath Awareness and Techniques
  • The truth about deep breathing
  • Round-wave breath
  • Deflate anxiety
  • Lunar breath – diffuse tension

• Working with Sound, Voice and Safe Touch
  • Sounding into the body
  • Corridor of sound
  • When to use safe touch

• Grounding during difficult session
• Working with trauma activation states
• Burnout and vicarious trauma help
• Somatic techniques to stay grounded
• Common therapists’ triggers
• Self-kindness

Target Audience

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

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