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Posted: Friday, November 13, 2020

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Module 5: How to Work with Patients Whose Trauma Triggers Problems in Their Current Relationships

Posted: Friday, November 6, 2020
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The topics we covered in this session:

  • An Important Issue That Must Be Addressed BEFORE You Can Build Your Client’s Relationship Skills
  • How to Help Clients Speak For, Not From, Their Wounded Inner Part
  • An Expert Strategy to Help Clients Understand the Implicit Memories That Fuel Conflict in Their Relationships
  • Two Distinct Types of Relational Trauma (and Specific Approaches for Working with Each)
  • Why Clients Re-Enact Past Relationships (and How to Help Them Stop the Cycle)

To help you follow along, we've also prepared this study guide.

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Module 4: How to Ease the Pain of Trauma-Induced Shame

Posted: Friday, October 30, 2020
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The topics we covered in this session:

  • How to Recognize Shame Even When Clients Don’t Think It’s a Problem
  • Four Defenses Clients (and Sometimes Therapists) Use to Manage Shame
  • How Cognitive Approaches to Shame May Backfire and What to Try Instead
  • Two New Findings on the Neurobiology of Shame (and Their Clinical Impact)
  • How to Work with Moral Injury and Why Resolution Is Essential for Healing
  • Why Some Clients Get Triggered by Positive Emotions (and How to Help Them Safely Experience Positive Emotions Again)

To help you follow along, we've also prepared this study guide.

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Module 3: How to Work with Emerging Defense Responses to Trauma (Beyond the Fight/Flight/Freeze Model)

Posted: Friday, October 23, 2020
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The topics we covered in this session:

  • 3 Alternative Defense Responses to Fight-Flight-Freeze (and How to Identify Them)
  • The Profound Impact These Defense Responses Can Have on Your Client’s Relationships
  • The Least Understood Defense Response – and Why It May Produce the Opposite of What Your Client Wants
  • Why These Defensive Responses Can Leave Your Client Vulnerable to Further Trauma
  • A Polyvagal-Informed Approach to Working with Defense Responses

To help you follow along, we've also prepared this study guide.

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Module 2: How to Identify and Treat Dissociation (Even When It’s Subtle)

Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2020

The topics we covered in this session:

  • Key Signs and Symptoms That Let You Know Your Patient Has a Tendency to Dissociate
  • Structural Dissociation – What It Is and 3 Distinct Ways to Work with It
  • How Trauma Affects the Brain and Body – and Why That Can Lead to Dissociation
  • Common Mistakes That Stall Treatment with Clients Who Dissociate
  • Two Difficult Challenges of Working with Dissociation – and How to Overcome Them
  • When Dissociation Is Triggered in a Medical Environment: Key Considerations for Medical Professionals

To help you follow along, we've also prepared this study guide.

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Module 1: Strategies to Treat Patients Trapped in the Freeze Response

Posted: Wednesday, October 14, 2020
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The topics we covered in this session:

  • The First Thing to Do When You Recognize Your Patient Is in Freeze
  • Clear-Cut Interventions for Bringing a Client Out of Freeze During a Session
  • What NOT to Do When Your Patient Is Frozen
  • How to Work with the Freeze Response at the Level of the Nervous System
  • How to Help Patients Identify What Triggers Their Freeze Response
  • A Four-Step Process That Can Help Patients Regulate Their Freeze Response
  • A Simple Biofeedback Strategy That Can Help Patients Gain a Sense of Control Over Their Freeze Response

To help you follow along, we've also prepared this study guide.

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I'm excited to hear what you thought of this session – please be sure to leave a comment.