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416 - Creating Safety with High-Conflict Couples: A Nonverbal Approach


Average Rating:
   1531
Faculty:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
2 Hours
Format:
Audio and Video
Product Code:
LWC095927
Brochure Code:
PLW56553T
Media Type:
Live Webcast - Also available: Digital Seminar | DVD

Dates
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Description

High-conflict couples can stymie even the most experienced therapist, turning the office into a verbal boxing ring, and us into referees or speechless bystanders. When our usual ways of working don’t slow the battle, much less transform it, nonverbal approaches can help volatile couples move beyond their habitual escalations. This workshop provides simple interventions drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy that teach couples how to create safety and real intimacy in their relationships. You’ll discover how to:

  • Increase the ability of both partners to communicate using body language, gesture, and movement.
  • Inspire couples to practice new patterns of interacting that increase safety and intimacy, such as deliberately relaxing their bodies and pausing for ceasefires
  • Help highly reactive couples slow their pace and avoid confrontation by observing their physical and emotional responses to each other
  • Reframe clients’ reactivity as “triggering” rather than trying to assign blame for hurt and distressed feelings

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). 

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Colorado Social Workers

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Florida Psychologists

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Marriage & Family Therapists

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Texas Marriage & Family Therapists

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New York Marriage & Family Therapists

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Florida Nurses

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CE Broker


Physicians

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PESI, Inc. designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 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 2.0 clock hours of continuing education credit.


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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: Break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion.


Outline

  • What creates a ‘volatile’ couple?
    • Early attachment, trauma, and later relationships
    • Animal defense survival responses are activated by perceived threat
    • Inhibition of the prefrontal cortex deprives them of access to perspective
  • Reducing volatility by helping couples communicate without words
    • Tracking their bodily reactions to the other
    • Increasing awareness of the role of triggering
    • Regulating the nervous system and bodily tension
    • Using gesture and movement to practice new alternatives to conflict and reactivity

Objectives

  • Discover how to increase the ability of both partners to communicate using body language, gesture, and movement.
  • Discover how to inspire couples to practice new patterns of interacting that increase safety and intimacy, such as deliberately relaxing their bodies and pausing for ceasefires
  • Discover how to help highly reactive couples slow their pace and avoid confrontation by observing their physical and emotional responses to each other
  • Discover how to reframe clients’ reactivity as “triggering” rather than trying to assign blame for hurt and distressed feelings

Target Audience

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

Reviews

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Overall:      4.8

Total Reviews: 1531

Comments

Delia L - Hammond, Indiana

"Wonderful information "

Natalie G - San Diego, California

"Thank you!"

Craig M - Sparks, Nevada

"Janina is a very experienced and innovative theorist in the field."

Joy T - Mount Clemens, Michigan

"I really enjoyed this training. very informational and I have already used what I have learned. "

Suzanne C - San Antonio, Texas

"EXCELLENT CLASS"

Helena B - Sudbury, Suffolk

"I have learned a lot, not just from the psychoeducational aspects of the course and the material covered, but by seeing how these are applied by Janina in her therapeutic practice."

Suzy M - London, Greater London

"demonstrations of examples of how she works were particularly helpful"

Henrietta W - Middlesbrough, N. Yorkshire

"Excellent presentation"

Emily L - Florence, Mississippi

"As always, she provided excellent information. She has incredible knowledge and skills and holds my attention easily"

Ellen C - Wexford, Co. Wexford

"Thank you for an interesting and informative course."

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