Take Trauma Treatment to a New Level of Clinical Effectiveness

Six Dynamic Interviews with the Leading Innovators in Trauma Treatment

Learn about new approaches that go beyond traditional talk therapy to provide traumatized clients a deeper, more lasting experience of healing. They include:

• Techniques for bringing the brain "online" so it's more fully present in the therapy room
• Understanding the limitations of exposure therapy with its emphasis on desensitization to pain and exploring alternative methods that encourage a fuller mind/body integration
• How to make the most of your own healing presence through attention to breathing, posture, and mirroring your clients' words and expressions
• An overview of emerging tools and research that promise new possibilities for healing from complex trauma

Bessel van der Kolk is the medical director of The Trauma Center in Boston. His most recent book is The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.

Discover how to guide traumatized clients to embrace healing in ways that allow growth to emerge from adversity and suffering. Learn how to:

• Plant the seeds of new meaning, increased self-compassion, and connection with others after the experience of trauma
• Help clients tap into their deepest inner wisdom by reinforcing personal strengths and accessing remembered resources
• Integrate writing exercises, drawing, role-play, guided imagery, and the creative arts to enrich the therapy experience
• Guide clients through the key transition points in the process of post-traumatic growth

Lisa Ferentz is the founder of the Institute for Advanced Psychotherapy Training and Education and is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician's Guide.

Watch an extraordinary clinical video illustrating a step-by-step approach with a client affected by complex trauma. It shows how you can use Internal Family Systems strategies to help traumatized clients integrate their conflicted inner parts. You'll also learn how to:

• Connect clients with the calm, compassionate core Self that's the source of inner leadership
• Help clients communicate with disowned and disliked parts of themselves
• Avoid becoming the primary attachment figure and, instead, open the way for the client's own Self to emerge
• Use methods for transparently handling situations in which therapists commonly get emotionally triggered

Richard Schwartz is director of the Center for Self Leadership and the originator of the Internal Family Systems model.

Explore how to use your clients' natural instincts to heal and rebalance their physiology from the pioneer of Somatic Experiencing. Learn how to:

• Help clients access safety and positive resource states instead of repeatedly experiencing threats that no longer exist
• Master the SIBAM model for systematically observing clients' nonverbal responses
• Guide clients in "riding the waves" of their sensations as they exit from their immobility response and experience release from their original trauma
• Titrate your interventions to maximize your impact and avoid retraumatizing vulnerable clients

Peter Levine is the developer of Somatic Experiencing and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute. He's the recipient of the USABP Lifetime Achievement award for his contribution to trauma.

Examine alternatives to one-to-one treatment approaches, such as including family members of trauma clients in the therapy process. Learn:

• How to build a strong alliance through a 3-stage collaborative model of trauma treatment that emphasizes the importance of safety
• Techniques for using enactments to change negative feedback patterns in your clients' daily lives
• Approaches to teaching skills to clients and their families that increase the transfer of learning from the consultation room to everyday life
• Strategies for resolving conflicts and reinforcing positive experiences within couples and families

Mary Jo Barrett is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change and teaches at the University of Chicago. She recently published Treating Complex Trauma: A Relational Blueprint for Collaboration & Change and is coauthor of Systematic Treatment of Incest.

Explore the history of trauma treatment, including the field's shift from a focus on experiencing the pain of the past to drawing on a client's strengths, resilience, and resources to build a fuller life in the present. Learn about:

• The limitations of exposure therapy and alternative strategies for bolstering cognitive, emotional, physical, and behavioral resilience
• How to help clients develop a more empowering and coherent trauma narrative
• The contribution that brain science, somatic therapy, mindfulness, and the practice of "dual awareness" can make to trauma recovery
• Practical methods for heightening right-brain-to-right-brain communication in therapy

Janina Fisher is the assistant director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, instructor at the Trauma Center, and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors.

Plus a Six CE Hour Seminar with Techniques You Can Use Right Away

Increase your repertoire of assessment skills and therapeutic techniques for working with trauma survivors. Start applying what you learn in this in-depth “how-to” seminar in your clinical practice right away. You’ll learn to use:

• Current modalities for effectively reprocessing traumatic material
• Somatic techniques to reduce or eliminate your client's body memories, flashbacks and dissociation
• Meridian-based techniques to decrease your client's arousal levels and modulate affect
• Techniques for Self-Mastery including mindfulness, cognitive approaches & values based approaches

Jamie Marich is a certified EMDR Therapist, and an author of several books including Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment, and Working with Survivors.

How do you decide which trauma treatments will work best to meet a specific client's needs? In this premium bonus video, Barret and Schwartz offer a comprehensive overview of the evolution of trauma treatment as well as specific tools and strategies you can implement immediately.