Havening Techniques® for Treating Trauma, PTSD and Anxiety: NEW Strategies for Overcoming Fear and Building Resilience

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Kate Truitt, PhD, MBA Related seminars and products

Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates

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Dr. Kate Truitt, a clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, and international bestselling author, is an expert in trauma, stress, and resilience. She is the founder of the educational platform Truitt Institute and leads her award-winning clinical team at Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates. As a member of the Goldie Hawn Foundation’s MindUP Scientific Advisory Committee and a co-developer of the Havening Techniques®, as well as an expert contributor to the Kevin Love Fund and Girl Scouts of America, Dr. Truitt passionately advocates for mental health literacy and personal empowerment globally. Her voice in the mental health arena extends to her role as a speaker and media consultant, including being featured in BBC and Today, and speaking at prestigious platforms like the United Nations and the United States Department of Defense. Dr. Truitt founded and is the chairman of the board for the Amy Research Foundation, a 501c3 organization focused on advancing research into the innovative treatment realm of neuroscience-based mental health and wellness interventions. As the author of her memoir, #1 top new release Keep Breathing: A Psychologist’s Intimate Journey Through Loss, Trauma, and Rediscovering Life and the international bestseller Healing in Your Hands: Self-Havening Exercises to Harness Neuroplasticity, Heal Traumatic Stress, and Build Resilience, she is dedicated to advancing the treatment of traumatic stress while making significant strides in destigmatizing mental health and fostering resilience worldwide.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Kate Truitt is the President and Founder of Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates; Chief Executive Officer of the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles; Executive Director and Founder of the Amy Research Foundation; and Executive Director of the Truitt Institute. Dr. Truitt receives royalties as a published author and compensation as a presenter. She serves as a scientific advisor and board member for Anti-AgingGames.com and the Goldie Hawn Foundation. She also receives speaking honoraria and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. All relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations have been mitigated.
Non-financial: Dr. Kate Truitt is a member of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, the American Cognitive Training Association, and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Objectives

1. Demonstrate how clients can utilize self-havening to enhance brain health and emotional wellness.
2. Assess clients to determine appropriateness of integrating Havening into clinical treatment sessions.
3. Analyze the impact of trauma encodings on information processing and its treatment implications.
4. Practice safely transitioning from traditional psychotherapy approaches into Havening protocols in-session.
5. Build client self-efficacy skills through Self-Havening protocols both in the therapy session and outside of session.
6. Integrate neuroscience-based Havening treatment techniques into your clinical practice and explain how they work.
7. Appraise the risks and limitations of Havening research and applications.

Outline

The Havening Techniques: userfriendly and accessible tools for trauma reprocessing

• Why integrate the Havening Techniques into your clinical practice?
• How trauma paralyses the treatment process
• The role of the Amygdala in Trauma, PTSD and Anxiety
• How touch calms and manages traumatic events and memories
• Treating the traumatized brain with neuroplasticity and touch

Ethical Considerations: Boundaries, Risks and Limitation, Scope of Practice

• Clinical implications for bringing the Self-Havening Touch into clinical practice
• Clinical indications for when to use, or not
• Review of the science, research, and limitations of the Havening Techniques

Applications of the Havening Techniques in Clinical Practice

• Assessing clients for integrating Havening into treatment plans
• Introducing the client to the Havening Techniques
• Teaching Self-Havening for ANS regulation and at home use
  • Building a client-centred Havening Tool kit
  • De-activating the amygdala in the moment
  • Building positive feeling states with neuroplasticity
• Targeting traumatically encoded experiences from the past
  • Structuring the session for trauma reprocessing
  • Identifying the Target: Events, Feelings, Cognitions, or Somatic Encodings
  • The four-step model of targeted Havening
  • Closing the session with resource development
• Building resilience and personal agency

Supporting other treatment modalities with the Havening Techniques:

• Enhancing your existing clinical practice with the Havening Techniques
• Special considerations for use with EMDR, CBT, IFS, and EFT
  • Strengthening emotional stabilization and autonomic regulation
  • Targeting sticky maladaptive/negative cognitions
  • Strengthening the Self connection
  • Releasing the patterns of the past to build healthy connection now

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Physicians
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Other Mental Health Professionals