Linda Thai’s Advanced Somatic Trauma Treatment Method: Practical Tools for Clinicians

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Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200, CLYL Related seminars and products

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Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.

 

Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be American United States-ian....she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Thai maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a presenter, and she receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Linda Thai is the co-founder of Yoga & Twelve-Step Recovery (Y12SR). She is a board member for Asian mental health Collective. She serves as a board member for Asian Mental Health Collective.

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Objectives

1. Identify the six main trauma survival strategies. 

2. Explain how traumatic memories become encoded and remembered. 

3. Provide a holistic conceptualization of traumatic stress. 

4. Utilize a non-pathologizing lens in conceptualizing adaptive, proactive responses to potential stress. 

5. Understand the relationship between traumatic stress and health outcomes and potential DSM diagnoses. 

6. Distinguish between fawning, appeasement, fight, flight, freeze, and dorsal shutdown as survival strategies. 

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8. Identify the impacts of trauma upon pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems and the nervous system. 

9. Utilize the Window of Tolerance / Window of Capacity to a psychoeducation tool to empower clients to befriend and shift their autonomic states. 

10. Identify the 5 main sensory systems and the 3 hidden sensory systems. 

11. Identify 3 interventions for sensory avoidance and sensory seeking behaviors for each of the 5 main sensory systems and for 2 of the 3 hidden sensory systems. 

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13. Identify the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system 

14. Identify and distinguish between blended autonomic nervous system states. 

15. Identify common autonomic nervous system loops. 

16. Recognize and interpret client perception, cognition and affect through the lens of the autonomic nervous system 

17. Utilize Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts Work, trauma responses and the nervous system in order to provide effective clinical interventions 
     

18. Discover novel techniques for establishing an increase in felt sense interrelational and environment safety in the therapeutic space 

19. Practice 5 techniques to self-holding, self-swaddling and self-soothing 

20. Identify 5 techniques for nervous system upregulation 

21. Practice 5 techniques for nervous system down regulation 

22. Identify 5 techniques for completing the stress response cycle. 

Outline

Session 1: Getting to the Heart of Trauma Treatment: The Latest Advancements in How People Get Trapped by Trauma and New Approaches to Treatment 
 

• A non-pathologizing view of treating trauma survivors 

• How trauma gets stuck in the body and in the psyche 

• What traumatic stress really does in a human’s body and mind 

• How traumatic memories become encoded and remembered 

• Critical keys to understand about “neuroception” in trauma treatment 

• Trauma Adaptation #1: Reactive vs proactive responses 

• Trauma Adaptation #2: Fawning and appeasement responses 

• The important links between traumatic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and DSM diagnoses 

• A roadmap to holistic approaches to treating traumatic stress 

 
Session 2: Phase-Oriented Complex Developmental Trauma Treatment: The Nervous System & Sensory Processing  

• Brain- and body-based techniques for grounding, resourcing and regulating the nervous system 

• The 5 main sensory systems and the 3 hidden sensory systems. 

• The impact of trauma upon pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems and the nervous system. 

• Working with the Window of Tolerance & Window of Capacity 

• Sensory processing differences: what is it and how does it present? 

• Sensory processing differences: strategies for grounding and resourcing. 
   

Session 3: Structural Dissociation Theory & Parts Work: Traumatic Fragmentation & Re-Integration 
 

• The three main branches of the autonomic nervous system 

• Blended autonomic nervous system states 

• Common autonomic nervous system loops 

• How autonomic state drives perception, cognition and affective responses 

• Combining Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts Work, trauma responses and the nervous system fragmentation that require targeted interventions to support integration and healing. 

Session 4: Phase-oriented complex developmental trauma treatment: Techniques for stabilization through coregulation, upregulation, downregulation, and sensory grounding. 
 

• Techniques for nervous system upregulation and downregulation and coregulation. 

• A whole bunch of interventions for establishing safety and for working with a dysregulated nervous system that do not require going into the body or the use of breathing techniques.