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

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Chinwe Williams, PhD Related seminars and products

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Objectives

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

Stabilise 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

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