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120 - Opening the Heart: How to Deepen the Experience of Therapy


Average Rating:
   374
Faculty:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
Full Day
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC095903
Brochure Code:
PLW56553A
Media Type:
Live Webcast

Dates


Description

We often use terms like hard-hearted to describe those who can’t seem to feel empathy or connect to their own emotions, forgetting that the roots of open-heartedness grow out of safe and loving relationships early in life. Emotionally disconnected clients often flee from the deepening we try to facilitate in therapy because their bodies simply don’t know how to doempathy. In this workshop, we’ll explore simple, body-oriented ways of helping clients have more open, connected, heartfelt experiences. You’ll discover:

  • Specific and simple movement interventions that physically open the heart and allow clients more access to emotion
  • Ways to transform fear of emotional vulnerability through the body, including engaging the spine and core
  • Which somatic experiences contribute to an open heart by experimenting with movement and tension, and which don’t
  • How to use the heart as a resource in treatment by changing heart-rate variability
  • Methods to support the heart physically and relax the extremities to relieve stress

Credit


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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the on-line post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). 

Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this live interactive webcast. This webcast is a broadcast of a live event. You will be able to type questions to the speaker. The speaker will see the questions and address them during the presentation as time allows. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether web based activities are an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact cepesi@pesi.com or 800-844-8260 before the event.

Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession.  As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.

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CE Information is based on 100% attendance.

 


Texas Counselors

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Counselors

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South Carolina Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists and Psycho-Educational Specialists

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Social Workers

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Colorado Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Colorado Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers. Provider #1413. This course has been approved for 5.5 continuing education hours. 

COLORADO PARTICIPANTS ONLY: If you did not answer YES to be reported to the Colorado Chapter of the NASW on the evaluation, please contact cepesi@pesi.com and provide the full title of the webcast, speaker name, date of live broadcast, your name and your license number in the email.


Florida Social Workers, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Mental Health Counselors

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling. Provider Number #50-399. This course qualifies for 5.5 continuing education credits.


Illinois Social Workers

PESI, Inc is an approved provider with the State of Illinois, Department of Professional Regulation. License #: 159-000154. Full attendance at this course qualifies for 5.5 contact hours.


Kansas Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Kansas Behavioral Sciences Regulatory Board. Provider #14-006. This course has been approved for 5.5 continuing education hours.


New York Social Workers

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0008. This activity will qualify for 6.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance. 


Psychologists

This course is for informational purposes only. No continuing education credit is available. 


Marriage & Family Therapists

This activity consists of 330 minutes of continuing education instruction. Credit requirements and approvals vary per state board regulations. Please save the activity advertisement, the certificate of completion you receive from the activity and contact your state board or organization to determine specific filing requirements. 


Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. has been approved as a continuing education sponsor through the Texas State Board of Examiners of Marriage and Family Therapists. Provider # 503. This course qualifies for 5.5 continuing education credits.


New York Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's (NYSED) State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. #MFT-0024. This activity will qualify for 6.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance


Addiction Counselors - NAADAC

NAADAC

This course has been approved by PESI, Inc., as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 5.5 CE in the skill group. NAADAC Provider #77553. PESI, Inc. is responsible for all aspects of their programming. Full attendance is required; no partial credit will be awarded for partial attendance. 


Connecticut Addiction Counselors

Provider #120924. This course has been approved as a CCB approved training and has been awarded 5.5 hours by the Connecticut Certification Board.


California Alcoholism & Drug Abuse Counselors (CCAPP-EI)

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider by the CCAPP-EI, Provider #: 0S-03-036-1023. This activity meets the qualifications for 5.5 CEHs (continuing education hours).


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California Nurses

PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 17118 for 5.5 contact hours. Full attendance is required. No partial contact hours will be issued for partial attendance. 


Florida Nurses

PESI, Inc. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Nursing, Provider # FBN2858. This course qualifies for 5.5 contact hours. 

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Physicians

PESI, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Ohio Social Workers, Counselors, and Marriage & Family Therapists

PESI is an approved provider with the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Worker and Marriage & Family Therapist Board. Provider approval #:RCST071001. Full attendance at this course meets the qualifications for 5.5 clock hours of continuing education credit.


Other Professions

This activity qualifies for 5.5 continuing education minutes as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements. 



Handouts

Faculty

Janina Fisher, PhD's Profile

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is the past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher has an employment relationship with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.


Additional Info

Access Period for Live Webcast

For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time. You will have access for 90 days after the program for review.


Webcast Schedule

Please note: There will be a lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Outline

  • Early attachment and the capacity for empathy
    • Somatic effects of anxious or traumatic attachment
    • How the body protects us from hurt: armoring, bracing, constricting
    • Consequences in later life: emotional distance, guarded, closed off
  • When clients cannot feel, working with the body feels safer than accessing emotion
    • Increase engagement in spine and core to promote internal sense of safety
    • Experiment with changes in posture, shoulders, opening the chest, relaxing the body
    • Experiment with increasing or decreasing heart rate and tension
  • Use the client’s history to diagnose why the body has closed off emotion
    • What necessitated distance from emotion?
    • How did guarding, constricting, or armoring help client survive?
    • What happens when the client thinks about being vulnerable?
  • Accessing the social engagement system also evokes emotional engagement
    • Make use of the facial muscles, larynx, movements of the head and neck
    • Increase playfulness, laughter, lightness
    • Avoid pressure on client to feel vulnerable emotions

Objectives

  • Discover specific and simple movement interventions that physically open the heart and allow clients more access to emotion
  • Discover ways to transform fear of emotional vulnerability through the body, including engaging the spine and core
  • Discover which somatic experiences contribute to an open heart by experimenting with movement and tension, and which don’t
  • Discover how to use the heart as a resource in treatment by changing heart-rate variability
  • Discover methods to support the heart physically and relax the extremities to relieve stress

Target Audience

Addiction Counselors, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Nurses, Physician, Psychologists, Social Workers, and other Mental Health Professionals

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Total Reviews: 374

Comments

Elizabeth D - Seattle, Washington

"Excellent handout!"

Betty D - PHOENIX, Arizona

"Excellent!!!!"

Suzanne C - San Antonio, Texas

"I learned so much and Ms. Fisher was interesting to hear the entire 5 hours"

Mindy M - BOCA RATON, Florida

"I was very happy with the course."

Rachel V - Gahanna, Ohio

"This made the entire course. Great information provided. "

Mary A - AUBURN, Washington

"I thoroughly enjoyed Janina Fisher's presentation!"

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