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How to Help Your Client Reclaim a Sense of Aliveness After Trauma

Picture this: you’re working with a client who has a profoundly severe and distressing trauma history.
Through your many sessions together, they’ve made significant strides in their recovery . . .
. . . yet they still don’t feel fully alive or present in their life.
Maybe they’ve established a successful career, yet they feel like they’re on autopilot. Or perhaps they’ve started a loving, stable family, but they can’t seem to feel the warmth and joy that comes with it.
Or maybe, they only feel alive when they replay the trauma, pick fights, or engage in risky behavior.
While these behaviors might help some clients to feel something (even briefly), they’re also reactivating their trauma symptoms, and keeping their distress levels high.
So how can we as clinicians help patients shift out of being almost, but not quite alive in their lives, bodies, and relationships?
That’s the question we asked 11 leading experts in our field.
And in this short, focused course they dive into the strategies you can use to help your client move from mere survival to feeling alive again:
— New Short Course —
How to Help Patients Who Struggle to Feel Alive After Trauma
Here’s what you’ll get:
The Neurobiology of Trauma and How It Can Dampen a Client’s Sense of Vitality
Janina Fisher, PhD Judith Herman, MD
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD Kathy Steele, MN, CS Pat Ogden, PhD
- Why trauma survivors are often trapped in a chronic disconnected state
- Psychological and physical clues that a client struggles to feel truly alive
- “Pseudo-aliveness”: what it is and how to recognize it
An Often-Overlooked Step of Treating Trauma: Helping Clients Pursue Pleasurable Experiences
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Judith Herman, MD Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Why trauma often creates a fear of new experiences, even if they’re enjoyable
- Critical periods of brain development that can impact a client’s ability to experience joy in adulthood (and what that means for treatment)
- One important factor clients often need BEFORE pursuing new experiences
- A two-step strategy for helping clients move toward pleasure
How to Work with Clients Who Only Feel Alive When They Re-enact Their Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk, MD Janina Fisher, PhD
Pat Ogden, PhD Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD Eboni Webb, PsyD
- Deep Brain Reorienting: a model that’s shown promising effectiveness for clients who get stuck in trauma re-enactments
- Strategies to help clients who engage in risky behavior just to feel alive
- What the latest brain science tells us about clients who constantly revisit their trauma (and how that can help inform your treatment plan)
- Psychoeducation that can help clients understand why they may unconsciously trigger themselves
Practical Strategies to Help Your Client Regain a Sense of Vitality
Judith Herman, MD Kathy Steele, MN, CS Pat Ogden, PhD
- A critical fourth stage that Judith Herman added to her model of trauma recovery
- The power of humor in trauma work (and how to skillfully bring it into a session)
- Specific bodily movements that can help clients feel more grounded in the present moment
- How to ease feelings of shame that can block a client’s sense of aliveness
Critical Insights into Helping Clients Feel a Sense of Aliveness
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD
- How to identify and work with the unmet needs that drive your client’s trauma re-enactment
- How to skillfully acknowledge the injustice of a client’s trauma
- How “awe-inspiring images” can help introduce a sense of aliveness in session
Register Here for $197 $97
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 4 bonus videos to help you work with the loss of aliveness after trauma
Up to 3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
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We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.
For This Short Course, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Neuroscientist and Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. Author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
Janina Fisher, PhD
Licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor, Harvard Medical School; Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation
Judith Herman, MD
A leading expert on trauma on abuse; professor of clinical psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; director of training at the Victims of Violence Program at Cambridge Hospital; recipient of the 1996 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
Pat Ogden, PhD
Pioneer in Somatic Psychology; Founder and Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI); Co-founder of the Hakomi Institute; Author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.
Kathy Steele, MN, CS
Psychotherapist, consultant and trainer; expert on complex trauma, dissociation, attachment and therapeutic impasse; past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies; co-author of Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach.
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. Coauthor of The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic, and Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment.
Ellyn Bader, PhD
Co-creator of The Developmental Model of Couples Therapy; Co-director of The Couples Institute.
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD
Professor of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology at Boston College; Author of Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy; Co-author of Applying Multiculturalism: An Ecological Approach to the Multicultural Guidelines.
Eboni Webb, PsyD
Licensed psychologist; specializes in DBT for trauma-based disorders and co-occurring disorders; advisor to the DBT National Certification Accreditation Association.
Peter Levine, PhD
Founder of Somatic Experiencing; Author of Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory.
Frank Corrigan, MD
Developer of Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR); NHS Consultant Psychiatrist in Scotland; former EMDR Consultant and CRM trainer; author widely published on complex trauma and dissociation

Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
Licensed Psychologist
President, NICABM

Co-Course Director
Megan Schmidt, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist
Staff Psychologist, NICABM
Here's What You'll Get:
Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library
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Downloadable videos and audios to watch or listen to when it’s convenient for you |
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A Critical Insights session to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the module) |
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A Focus on Application session to give you concrete strategies to use with patients |
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Printable QuickStart Guide to make review and action simpler than ever |
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Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions |
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4 Downloadable bonus videos to help you work with the loss of aliveness after trauma |
Get 4 Bonuses That Gives Strategies for Helping Patients Who Struggle to Feel Alive After Trauma
Helping Your Patient Reconnect to Vitality After Trauma – A Case Study
Peter Levine, PhD
- A Step-by-Step Look at Peter’s Approach to Instill a Sense of Aliveness After Trauma
- The Importance of Keying In On “Somatic Resonance” (and How It Might Impact Your Work)
- Breaking Down the Pivotal Choice Points That Helped to Shape the Treatment
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) – What It Is, and How it Can Help Trauma Patients Reconnect to Feelings of Aliveness
Frank Corrigan, MD
- A Look at the Research Behind How and Why Deep Brain Reorienting Works
- Understanding Attachment Shock – What It Is and How to Address It
- Strategies to Help You Apply DBR with Moral Injury and Shame
Working with Developmental Trauma in the Context of Relationships
Ellyn Bader, PhD
- A Two-Step Method to Help Partners in a Couple Begin to Shift Deeply Engrained Relational Patterns
- Helping Couples Get to a Place of Vulnerability (and What That Might Look Like)
Fostering Skills of Differentiation with Patients Healing from Trauma – Why It’s Critical and How You Might Approach It
Ellyn Bader, PhD
- Why Differentiation Is Particularly Difficult for Clients Who’ve Experienced Trauma
- One Common Mistake That Therapists Make in Trauma-Informed Couples Work
- A 2-Step Process for Building Skills of Differentiation
Register Here for $197 $97
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 4 bonus videos to help you work with the loss of aliveness after trauma
Up to 3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
You Are Protected By
NICABM’s Money-Back Guarantee
We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.
Plus, You’ll Get Practical Tools to Help You Take Action Immediately and Effectively
Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately
In the Critical Insights sessions, Ruth Lanius, PhD and Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD join Ruth Buczynski, PhD to dig more deeply into the key ideas. Our job is to make yours easier by streamlining the information from each module and making sure each point is crystal clear. We’ll clarify critical concepts and break it all down so you can gain confidence in your understanding.

Discover Concrete Practices That Will Work in Your Life, and with Your Patients
In the Focus on Application sessions, Ron Siegel, PsyD, Eboni Webb, PsyD and Megan Schmidt, PsyD give you specific practices and exercises you can use with your clients right away. For each module, you’ll get solid techniques and practical interventions that will help you apply what you’ve just heard.

Uncover Core Ideas and Techniques at-a-Glance So You Have a “Cheat Sheet” When You Need It Most
The QuickStart Guide will help you stay fresh and confident as you turn these teachings into action. We’ve gathered all the essential tools and methods from the series into a concise, easy-to-use guide so you can quickly review and apply these ideas when you need them most. It’s an at-a-glance reference to the most powerful concepts and strategies for working with patients who have experienced trauma.

Quickly Recall Crucial Details So You Can Apply Them with Confidence
Our Professional Transcript will help you reinforce key ideas so you can integrate them into your life and work. We’ve designed your transcript with an easy-to-use table of contents, clear, organized formatting, and helpful highlight quotes so you’ll have the information and exercises you need at your fingertips.

Here's What Your Peers Have Experienced In NICABM Programs
. . . the content is clear, simple and the very latest insights from the most outstanding people in the field of trauma.
“These presentations are fascinating and easy to watch as the technical presentation is very good, and the content is clear, simple and the very latest insights from the most outstanding people in the field of trauma. You would need to read a lot of books to end up with as much good quality information as you get from watching this program.”
Liz Kirsopp, Psychotherapist
Northumberland, UK
This program exceeded all my expectations . . .
“I am always open to learning, and this program exceeded all my expectations. Even though I am very familiar with many of the presenters, to see them in action is inspirational. As a seasoned Art Therapist and supervisor, I am always looking for innovative ways of looking at the clients and treating their issues. I already used the knowledge I gained with clients, and especially in supervision. Having purchased the Gold Package, it is like always having a personal supervisor at my beck and call.”
Hannah Sherebrin, Art Therapist
London, Ontario, Canada
I am more confident in handling my challenging client . . .
“After this program I feel that I am more confident in handling my challenging clients. I have gained some new tools to add to my toolbox. I cannot recommend this program enough.”
Katie Stark, MA, LPC, NCC
Waterford, Michigan, USA
. . . evidenced based course to get a "helicopter" overview on trauma treatment . . .
“These NICABM 5 modules on trauma management is an excellent value for money evidenced based course to get a “helicopter” overview on trauma treatment from the professional experts.”
Su Keng Gan, Clinical Counsellor/Psychotherapist
Singapore, Singapore
Why the Transcript Is Essential:
- The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
- We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
- Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
- Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
- You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients

“I really liked being able to follow along with the transcripts as I listened…it was nice not to feel like I had to take notes. I really feel like I remember more when I both hear and see at the same time.”
Mary Ellen McNaughton, Masters in Counseling, Psychology Counselor
Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada
You Are Protected By
NICABM’s Money-Back Guarantee
We invite you to register for this training program without any risk. Unless you are completely satisfied, we will refund your money. Just let us know within 30 days from the date of registration. We are that confident that you will find this information to be more than you expected.
Register Here for $197 $97
You’ll get all the videos, audios, transcripts, learning tools, plus 4 bonus videos to help you work with the loss of aliveness after trauma
Up to 3 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures