The Neurobiology of Trauma – What’s Going On In the Brain When Someone Experiences Trauma?
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with Bessel van der Kolk, MD;
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with Bessel van der Kolk, MD; Pat Ogden, PhD; Ruth Lanius, MD; PhD Dan Siegel, MD; and Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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This was a wonderful training! Follow up question for anyone on use of mindfulness with clients who have a trauma history. I have had several clients who are resistant to the use of mindfulness, many have resistance, because of previous therapists misuse. I usually explore their resistance with them and outline (if they did use it) what they would want to benefit from it. I am curious about the following:
How do you approach mindfulness with resistant clients?
When a client is resistant, do you approach mindfulness during a later phase of treatment?
What techniques are helpful to teaching mindfulness?
Any helpful resources you would recommend?
Thank you so much!
i feel you really went for the core of trauma tonight, thank you so much for these webinar sessions
enlarged amydala (mothers’ high cortisol levels while pregnant) – intriguing, i will research more online
Thank you Ruth! This was a wonderful way to start the series. It validates the tools I am teaching in my Breathwork and Gentle stretching techniques class for clients with sexual trauma here in Portland, Or. Many of our schools are replacing PTSD with PTSI- Post Traumatic Stress Injury. It does feel like a compassionate way that encourages healing.
Thank you! This updated information on neurobiology is exciting and so well explained! Ruth, your process of pausing to explain the points each expert has made is masterful.
Resourced with this material, we can explain to clients what happens to the brain during trauma and help them shed their personal shame about how trauma has affected them. Knowing that the integration of their traumatic experience is possible with mindfulness of the body and emotions is a powerful inspiration for healing.
As I start up a new practice having recently acquired an LCSW, I hope to integrate training as a massage therapist with clinical therapy. I am especially interested in sensorimotor psychotherapy as a way to integrate the learnings from this training session to inform my practice and process my own life experiences.
I learned about the vertical and left-right brain integration and the use of Mindfulness and body sensations as a way to help clients integrating the brain. Yet, I do not feel comfortable to say that I will start using the learnings. I feel that I need to get more confident in applying the brain integration interventions. I already use mindfulness and meditation with the majority of my clients.
Wonnderful opening for the series. Excellent summary of the brain functioning in the face of trauma. Looking forward to the more in depth discussion of mindfulness in trauma treatment. Thank you.
There is a confusion in the literature that I hope someone will take up and resolve for everyone who is looking for a definitive position on the Freeze response. Some refer to Freeze as the orienting moment that takes place at the beginning of the potential trauma. Others, like Ruth Lanius in the presentation, use Freeze to describe what the first group considers Tonic Catatonia and Tonic Collapse. While both ends of the trauma experience are similar in autonomic function and balance, they are also very different. Well-respected researchers are publishing on both sides. I would like someone to end the confusion by making a decision and sticking with it. Or, maybe that’s too much to hope for. Thoughts?
In the 20% that get PTSD and might some of them have temperaments consistent with the Highly Sensitive Persons (per Elaine Aron)?
Thanks for this wonderful consciousness-raising series. As Ron suggests, the contribution of neuroscience is a paradigm shift out of the 20C neurosis of self-blame and analysis – those stubborn discourses of guilt and talk therapy that go around in circles and waste time, years, whole lifetimes, keeping people trapped in mistaken and impotent meanings. I appreciate the hope that comes from understanding how mindfulness of body states, emotions and thoughts promotes integration – healing the fragmentation of dissociation. ‘Trauma’ is a wide word these days – a bit like ‘sustainability’: buzz words that point to themes that demand integration at the social level if humanity is to face current challenges. I quit my job as a boring counsellor applying organisationally-produced bandaids – in order to develop deeper healing work that is informed by this work and expressive arts therapy. Getting started and so the series is a very timely and accessible summary of this knowledge – and deeply supportive of therapeutic practice – and I will purchase the Gold Pass. The format works well, bringing faces and personalities to these Names – easy to remember. I appreciate your commitment to spreading this knowledge – fundamental to us all, how we understand ourselves, others and our societies. Thank you.
I heard a lot of information that is important in my work, and in my own life. Mindfulness Training is truely an important thing to learn. I have been to training and it affects me every day. It was particularly interesting to hear that it gives charge to your epigenetics and can in fact change your outcomes in life. I will be on next webinar for sure.
I’ve just watched again! Thank you for providing this opportunity! Yesterday after watching and commenting on the powerful experience, I realized how for years it was obvious to me that the people I was meeting in and out of therapy, in and out of recovery from adult children of alcoholics/addicts/dysfunctional families, as well as substance and process addiction recovery seemed to be more likely to have and possibly die from what I sensed were stress- and/or trauma-related illness such as cancer, diabetes, depression, heart disease, etc. Very powerful for me to see that my intuition/observations were on target; that the full extent of the impact of what I and so many of us were and are experiencing is truly expressed in our bodies, life experiences, diseases and health, as well as potential impacts on genes and future generations. It has felt like a long, short journey with so much further to go in the advances (many of us traveling the road to healing have seriously questioned if we have been helped by all the years of work we have invested, along with our lives and financial situation, in our healing), yet the current findings feel very promising to me! Thank you!
Thank you for bringing such great experts together to speak coherently about trauma and its possible effects on the brain! All of what was said reinforces my belief that EMDR Therapy, coupled with parts work and some somatic therapies, is uniquely positioned to change people’s lives!
I was very touched by Ruth’s reference to relatives of those suffering from trauma when she introduced this series. I know that experience first hand, being the partner of someone with Childhood PTSD, who had no real support from original caregivers.His father before him experienced the same… then obviously passed it on to him via beatings as a young child. Consequently we can’t have a fulfilled relationship. I’m a Life Coach seeking further understanding for myself and others, and have followed NICABM series before now. My partner, now over 70 has sought many groups and mindfullness techniques but not therapy. I personally feel it may be his only hope, and for our relationship also. Any advice for close relatives of those suffering from PTSD? I support him all I can, but am often met with denial, defence, and what feels like ‘stonewalling’. Almost impossible to live with, so I remove myself from our relatiuonship for much of the year.
I have empathy for your situation and as you ask for “advice,” I offer this. Self-compassion and more self-compassion, reaching out to others as you have done here, and providing your own self-soothing and self-care, even it means removing yourself from your relationship for much of the year. For self-soothing, I have made free video-tools of 3-6 minutes each, using brain-based, mind-body techniques that you can access here: http://www.layaseghi.com/video-tools
Since your partner has sought groups and mindfulness techniques but not therapy, shame may be involved.
Go to”www.pesi.com/brown-shame” and listen to Brene Brown’s wonderful presentation on how to recognize toxic shame and help oneself and others handle it in a healthy, healing way. The offer expires Oct 15. (Also offers one C.E.U.)
When Dan Seigel said that Presence will repair our telomeres, by optimizing telomaraze, he was surely also talking about Mindfullness that nurtures one’s Presence. Mindfullness and Presence are not exclusive, or separate ‘solutions’, in my view.
Research has been conducted on meditators that meditated on Loving Kindness and repaired their telomeres. This is a practice of Mindfullness. The results excite an inspire me with hope!
My perspective is also that we could try to ‘take in’ telomaraze as a medicine I think I’ver seen it in online marketplaces). Hiowever our body’s cells will not accept it if our cells’ receptors are addicted to other chemicals, for example being addicted to our body’s own cortisol over long periods of recalling stress events. I’d love to know others’ views on this. I look forward to the rest of these sessions. Many thanks for this informative series!
Apologies for my typos!
Helpful in explaining to clients how the body responds to trauma and how mindfulness, strategies, and tools can help with coping now, but also regarding coping in the future and genetics in the future. Loved the analogy re the tips of the shoelaces to protect the tellemeres (spelling?) and the brain and body’s vertical and horizontal integration system. Thank you!!!
Thanks for a fascinating introduction to What happens in the brain during trauma. I have a long held interest in neuroscience and have actually used mindfulness to alter menopausal symptoms by imagining myself in a bath of freezing cold water just as a hot flush occurred. I was able to completely stop these hot flushes within five weeks and have not had any more for eight years. Of course being a long time meditator and user of mindfulness for 20 years helped me to concentrate and change my physiology. I have taught these techniques to clients and the most useful aspect is having them understand the science behind the techniques.
Thank you so much for providing this for free! I have started a private practice in a new city and it’s been slower than expected to fill my schedule. Viewing these has kept me inspired and motivated to keep going!
Thank you for this webinar. So helpful in organising interventions and reflecting on specific ways of working as Dance Movement Psychotherapist in particular.
Exciting, information that helps integrate theory and practice. Thank you!
Hi, thanks for the great information! I’m a PhD student in anthropology (with a focus on neuroanthropology) investigating the sensory lifeworlds of people living with fibromyalgia, and how they navigate the world with sensory sensitivity. Most of my research participants have had some kind of trauma or significant stress, either early in life, or around the onset of their fibromyalgia symptoms, or both. I have the condition myself, and clinically I would fall into the complex PTSD category, so this information is personally relevant as well. This session is relevant in that it integrates with the kinds of sensory and visceral experiences reported by participants. I’ve been looking a lot at autonomic dysregulation, and also at the broader issue of how autonomic stress is often kind of culturally invisible, so people with the kinds of symptoms that emerge from this dysregulation have trouble making sense of it themselves, but also have difficulty getting it recognised medically. The idea about the mind not just being the brain but the whole body and relational world is central to the neuroanthropology approach I am taking, looking at the relationship between culture and the brain. I’ve been looking at epigenetics as well, so fantastic to know we can change our telomeres!
Thank you for the wonderful opportunity to hear from the worlds top experts. I am not in practice at the moment due to ill health but it is truly wonderful to be able to keep in touch . I find your commentary very helpful and it allows me to keep focused on all the insights . Thank you too for the opportunity to have a second chance to hear the sessions as just now finances don’t allow me to purchase the package.
Thank you Thank you
Finola Finn
When I have my degree I’ll use this to help victims of domestic violence. I’m a survivor of DV and someone whose experienced trauma from being unable to get away from the violence before I ended up experiencing disassociation and being diagnosed with CPTSD. I’ve experienced fight, flight and freeze. Its wonderful to be on the other side of all this. I probably wouldnt be except I had a secure, nuturing and and loving family when I was growing up! Learning some of the details regarding DNA is very exciting to me!
Very helpful to hear the latest information about telomeres, inflammation and presence. I am a Rosen Method bodywork practitioner working specifically with the after effects of trauma through the body, mind and emotions. It’s fantastic to be able to educate clients more specifically about symptoms they struggle with and the importance of getting the social engagement system ‘online’. I’m curious as to why oxytocin as a hormone is not talked about more, with regards to the positive effects it has on healing. I hope this will be found in later seminars.
He seguido la sesión con gran interés, muchísimas gracias por brindarme esta gran oportunidad de aprender de tan buenos maestros.
Lo mas importante para trasmitir a mis clientes en sesión es el mostrar los mecanismos de nuestro cuerpo para adaptarse a las distintas situaciones, eso me parece muy útil para normalizar estados que pueden llevar a los clientes a dramatizar y a ver el futuro con una gran desesperanza.
Thanks Ruth for a really useful webinar. I’m seeing a client with PTSD today for CBT/EMDR and have more information about integration to inform my practice.
Thank you. What does the conFound repsonse come from? is that when you are partially and not fully integrated? I assume flicking police with water when you are naked and having a shower comes under that heading, though sadly the poor guy ended up killed. I will be so glad when people stop talking about mental health and start talking about behaviour and society and violence and repsonses in the brain to threat as normal part of whole body health just as much as type 2 diabetes is normal for overweight obese people to get even when htey orignally had a normal pancreas but because it has got exhausted and overwhelmed. I like the analogy because diabetes can be helped by a healthy normal diet.
I long for that in society and collective consciousness also J Whybrow.
Valuable information made even more so by stressing the stimulus/response nature of the brain to traumatic events. I plan to use the information in my work with Soldiers many of whom already suffer from PTSD and would be happy to have some positive information. For many of them the outlook can be bleak and to be able to simplify the complexities and offer hope is exciting. I look forward to coming sessions. Thank you and regards, Greg Anderson MD
I already work with EMDR & EFT which both simultaneously affect body, emotions and cognition.
My moment-to-moment awareness of how this work is affecting the client’s brain will help me with case conceptualization and treatment planning. Thank you so much.
Thank you for this first session of the Trauma Series.
There were several areas throughout the discussion that were intriguing. It was helpful to understand the purpose of Trauma Therapy as a means to create brain integration. The example shared of the client who experienced moments of “blow up” and the techniques the therapist utilized to bring those emotions to the presence, therefore moving closer to integration was a great example to explain the therapeutic process. The techniques described in this example have motivated me to learn about ways to help the client cope with trauma.
This session made me hopeful that “you can change the way you live your life”.
Thanks for adding an additional session (9:00 p.m.). I look forward to the next session.
Be well.
This is incredible. I work with people who experience homelessness and severe mental illnesses and this session was so helpful in showing me how to validate our member’s experiences from a neurobiological perspective. Understanding why traumatic responses happen is also helpful in that, again, I can validate our member’s experiences by reassuring them that their brains are just doing brain things. So many people in this particular population are abused on a day-to-day basis by people of all socioeconomic classes and backgrounds, many who intend to help but are stuck in old ways of thinking about mental illness and poverty. I’m looking forward to the next sessions so I can piece even more things together! Learning how to help restore secure attachment is vital to my work, and I can’t wait to have more tools to help people achieve permanent wholeness, no matter how society tears them down.
The nerd in me is so excited to know about the names for different parts of the brain and how they function!
Also if you like my comments, you’re welcome to give me a full-ride scholarship to get my doctorate in clinical neuroscience (I want to specialize in trauma and consciousness!) 😀
Thank you. What does the conFound repsonse come from? is that when you are partially and not fully integrated? I assume flicking police with water when you are naked and having a shower comes under that heading, though sadly the poor guy ended up killed. I will be so glad when people stop talking about mental health and start talking about behaviour and society and violence and repsonses in the brain to threat as normal part of whole body health just as much as type 2 diabetes is normal for overweight obese people to get even when htey orignally had a normal pancreas but because it has got exhausted and overwhelmed. I like the analogy because diabetes can be helped by a healthy normal diet.
Understanding Brain science frees the patient from the irrational burden of shame and guilt that Chronic trauma, Stress and Freeze response including Dissociation/Fragmentation etc. Induce.
The Relief is so visible in their body and face that “it is not their fault “The Self Blame vanishes reducing the human suffering right then and there.
I wish that both Psychiatrists and Family Physicians were not so resistant to the Principle of ‘ACE’
Thank you
PS for these reasons , I find the group therapy of great benefit .
Thank you. This was a great enhancement of my knowledge as an SP level 1 trained therapist. Do you have a rate for nonprofit hospital organizations in Canada.
Hi… Great presentation-
Currently I work in an outpatient psych rehab program. I run for groups including stretching in Mindfulness and tobacco reduction. My current role as the program R N, but I’m also an LCSW and a certified yoga teacher.
Viewing this program helped increase my resolve to encourage my clients at every opportunity to start developing a program of mindfulness and self-regulation that works for them. The other piece that struck me is thinking about rigidity as after affects of trauma.
Hiya please can somebody help me with times for New Zealand for both the live sessions and replays? I seem to have missed all! 🙁
Hi Jane-
We have some rebroadcasts today that will hopefully work for you. If you’re in the same time zone as Auckland, here are the replay times: Friday at 3am, 5am, 8am, and 3pm.
In your time zone, the usual broadcasts over the next few weeks will be Thursdays at 8am, 10am, 11:30am, 2pm, and 4pm and Fridays at 3am, 5am, 8am, and 3pm.
Hope that helps,
Michelle
NICABM Staff
I signed up for the conference so that I could view it in my own time. I did not sign up for daily emails! Please delete all the correspondence.
Thank you,
Lauren Evans, MD
Hi Lauren, if you email us at respond@nicabm.com with the email address you would like us to delete from the system, we can absolutely do that.
Also, just to clarify, you cannot watch the broadcasts on your own time. There is a list of times you can choose from to watch, but you can’t access the broadcast whenever you would like unless you decided you wanted to purchase the Gold Subscription.
I hope this helps to clarify, and will be looking for your email.
Cutting edge information! Thanks!
I am the mother of an Australian Veteran. Thank you for explaining information in a way I could understand as a person who does not work in this field. I understand your primary audience are therapists, counsellors, psychologist, psychiatrists, academics. There are many carers like myself who would appreciate any information on practical things those of us living with someone with PTSD can put into practice on a day to day basis to help. Or if you can suggest affordable resources with good information that can help families. Thanks for the work you do. I have passed on this webinar information to my counsellor and to my son’s psychiatrist.
I have successfully treated my cat who had ptsd and am applying some of the principles. it had adreanlin fuelled ptsd to the extent i seriously thought it had a clinical neuro problem. anyway long story short when he started to get worse i would take him out and get him to chase a leaf on a stick and guess what i caught myself laughing too. If i am phsyically ok enough to do it I go for a swim or a walk as soon as I wake. Hot and then cold shower. When in flashback recognise it and keep yourself safe, never argue or force, and allow crying. it can be very healing and it can help reduce or contain rage. Ask orientating questions like how old are you or where are you. I say in my head this is now not then and sometimes it ocmes out as this is then not now and then i know and can tell where i am. you probably won’t understnad that but your son/daughter may. identity can be affected too. it helped me to be asked to identify values of improtance to me, i had to choose from cards which meant rejecting thigns that weren’t improtant and then the next week i had to choose jsut two to live my lfe holding those values to mind (snapshot on my phone). Also i took some singing lessons. The vets told me to practice gratitude and i do this as it focusses you into a constructive better place. i have foudn writing down a traumatic scenario adn then rewrtiting with chaging the endign to somethign different also helped. brain remembers last thing. additionally i foudn relaxation horrible but guided visualisation really helpful. I also started to grow some seedlings and theat also helped. Most of all my cat helps me. But and sorry to say this you can’t help that is the first thign to recognise, all you can do is to try not to add to the burden. My motehr got angry that i was numb and told the truth. jsut accept the numbing . be grateful for samll things ike if you can feel the sunshine as opposed to knoiwng it is there. get activity that used to be pleaurable back in if possible and do somehtign safe but scary, like singing…this is good becuase it gets the breathing in but you do it to challenge yourself. paly a brass instrument is the best of all. If you findn you are getting truamatiswed then walk away. you need ot keep yourself safe. communcaite clearly when you are needing to walk away that you are not rejecting them but you are doing what you need ot do and just tell them how glad you are they have survived. Your son is a different person form who he was before and accept that that is ok. try to deal with any rejection you may feel as that coudl be his biggest problem. its a good question as you can’t help neither can the psychiatrist. its an injury jsut like breaking a leg is. you can fix things back in palce but you can’t hela a fracture . the patients body has to do that. Hope this helps you.
Here are some very practical tools for those living with someone who has PTSD:
http://www.layaseghi.com/video-tools
These are short (3-5 minutes) demonstrations on techniques from EMDR, EFT, BodyTalk brain balancing, Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET) and more.
All the best to you!
Thanks for your complimentary session! Most of the theories shared were quite excellent. I was ready to sign up for the gold membership but was sorely disappointed as I listened closely. in particular, I already know without a shred of doubt that we were created human as God’s crowning accomplishment of our beautiful universe. I have been honored to help many people for a dozen years of counseling them through their traumas and turn them to their Creator for mindful prayer. I cannot provide what they need ever minute of each day but of course, He can help them navigate life in the way He intended. To hear your most educated and honorable Canadian physician declare us as having evolved from a reptile was very disconcerting. Don’t assume many people that claim Christianity are walking out their daily calling. I’ve followed Dr. Henry Cloud and John Townsend for decades. I will seek their counsel on CEUs and programs that I can share with others and maintain some dignity. Thank you for your efforts to help hurting people.
Reptiles are actually lovely, and what is meant by reptilian brain is the more immediate (stimulus /response) parts of the brain as opposed to the more intellectual aspects. The brain is just an organ like the kidney and reptiles have brains too. ‘God’ heals of course but lack of understandng of etiology can cause further and very real trauma. Only this week for example I heard someone on the radio over here describing brain damage (ECT) as a cure for depression. Cutting off your leg certainly cures a wart on a big toe, but how much better to treat the wart with understanding. Some counsellors do a lot of harm because of lack of understanding so i hope you will carry on and listen to the other episodes and just accept that whilst you feel evolution didn’t happen some people feel it did, as I think it would be a shame to miss out on what might help you in your practice and your clients woudl miss out too. God must have put the video in your way for a reason after all .
Thank you so much once again, it is always so nourishing to learn so much from each conference. All this information helped me personally in my own life and also with my patients. I will never forget once, on one of your webinars, listening to Dr. Bessel Van del Kolk in one of his explanations which enlightened me to understand for the first time that I was not guilty for certain b ehaviours and reacxtions, and to starting to understand how our nerv ious system works. I could then pass on this understanding to my patients and so many people benefited from it. Thank you Ruth B. for giving us this opportunity in our life., I will be forever grateful for it.
Excellent information. Thank you
I am a seasoned clinician and have heard very interesting experiences with dissociative phenomenon. As well, a few years ago I took one of your trauma courses for credit.
I am curious about many things, but as well, particularly, if there is awareness or research about essential and ‘spiritual’ concrete phenomena that are integrated and parallel dissociative experiences.
If so, this would be an area to discuss on many levels, one of those being, integration. Thank you again, Judy
Currently, I am in a trauma collaborative for trauma focus cbt, so I am being trained on the basic functionality of the brain’s response to trauma (prefrontal cortex and the amygdala). This first video provided so much more information, that I am getting a clearer picture of the impact on the total brain. One piece that struck me the most was the information Dr. Dan Siegel provided on changing the constructs of the mind can change the body and relationships. I am now looking at the cognitive triangle in a totally different way. Not only are we challenging unhelpful and helpful thoughts, we are literally changing how the client will engage in their relationships and heal their bodies.
As part of my continued training in “ARC”, I will use the information presented to further educate my client’s parents (I work with children and adolescents) on the processes of treating trauma. I will integrate the information in my sessions to help client learn the reasoning behind their bodily responses and to increase their abilities to use techniques, such as Mindfulness. Thank you for presenting this important information.
I will use these ideas in my undergraduate students in my Philosophy classes not so much in what I am teaching them but in how I am teaching them to mindful when their mind is full (De La Vega) with respect to the content and context of the course material. This also applies to how they use and integrate digital multimedia and technology in their learning as well as their daily activities… Thank you so much! This is so helpful. Looking forward to the series… In the meantime, Be Blessed, not stressed… Invest in and hope for the best and leave the rest to God…Take care!
Couldn’t watch cause browser didn’t support it.
Could you look into greater accessiblity in future?
I was very impressed with how the webinar was broken down and I especially am interested in helping my clients learn about integration! I think they are stuck in their dissociation or some form of fight, flight or freeze and they never make it past that spot. This would give them hope that we can look at their brain differently and help them look at not just emotions and thoughts but the body too!
I recently retired as a school teacher, and having read many books on trauma and watched some of these videos, I wish I had chosen to be a counselor/therapist instead of a high school teacher. Fascinating and ever more relevant and necessary . . too late and too old now..
never say never! I’m retired and now can use my education and life experiences in volunteer work. I’ve discovered some of those hurting the most haven’t had the resources to pay for counseling.
Questions: I’m in an on-line support group for sexual abuse survivors. So many survivors in this group go thru, sometimes dozens of therapists, bf finding one that understands them. I’m a retired psychotherapist having worked in this field for 35 years. If there’s so much more information on trauma, how is this happening to so many survivors. How are schools training trauma therapists now? How can clients know when they first walk in the door hoping that the therapist can help, but don’t. I can certainly explain what I’ve learned about the functioning of the brain, what’s the best way to treat trauma, etc. How can I help members of this group know what to ask to ascertain if the therapist is knowledgeable and can help them?
Thank you.
These are great questions you’re asking! I agree that way too few therapists are knowledgeable enough about trauma to be genuinely helpful. Too many actually cause further harm by retraumatizing vulnerable patients.
Questions that a trauma survivor could ask might be:
Do you have training in treating PTSD? If so, how much experience do you have working with trauma survivors?
Are you familiar with the neurobiology of trauma?
Do you have a holistic mind-body approach to trauma?
Do you have training in EMDR? NET? Somatic Experiencing?
etc. etc. etc. I imagine you can add more along these lines!
Todays lecture tied together many ideas I had about trauma. I learned about adding the body to my already present focus on thoughts and emotions. I learned that psychotherapy does change the brain, something I have been telling my patients. What was new was the discussion about disassociation which occurs during trauma, and continues to affect the brain long after. The idea of insecure attachment will help me address patients who are unable to have healthy attachments in the present. I especially was motivated to do more mindfulness myself, though I teach it to my patients. I look forward to future discussions. Thank you so much for making this learning possible.
Thank you so much for making this available. I watched the first session as a free session but was convinced I needed the gold subscription so I could watch it again. I think our understanding of what is happening neurbiologically is critical for all of us who serve individuals who have experienced trauma.
Thank you again.
In my practice, I do a lot of CBT body calm techniques for both anxiety and trauma work. I had heard Dr. Siegel talk about telomeres before but I had honestly forgotten! Having a more complete “why” behind those techniques is like gold to me. Thank you so much.
Also the explanation of the freeze response as the competition between PSNS and SNS flooding simultaneously was very enlightening.
I have been studying MBraining lately, (the idea that the cerebellum, heart and stomach each function as a differently-oriented brain providing crucial but different data.) The relationship between SNS overdrive and the enteric brain is particularly interesting to me.
I’m working toward a group for trauma survivors who struggle with physical fitness. I am convinced that one of the physiological reasons trauma survivors sometimes can’t lose weight no matter their diet and exercise is that the enteric brain has frozen the trauma response in place as a way to make sure the other two brains don’t forget to come back to the trauma experience and see it completely healed. It’s place-marking. The section on the way the body and brain freeze our trauma was very affirming along those lines.
Can you please provide a reference so I can learn more about “MBraining”. Googling only led me to a tech company.
Thanks in advance!
I enjoy the depth of knowledge each presenter offers–exceptional!
I enjoyed the reminder that the brain heals and integrates as
we offer a combination of cognitive information regarding thoughts and core beliefs,
emotional experiences, and somatic awareness. This aligns with the work I do.
I also liked the reminder that not all disassociation is pathological –some of it is just what we do!!
Thank you very much.
Fantastic information! Thank you for allowing me to your Gold Membership
as there is so much info I really need to go back over the session .This will help me to pass
onto my clients great information .Mindfulness within hypnotherapy is a powerful tool .Since I have start these courses with you all ,it has given me more awareness of body posture ,eye contact and simple techniques to pass onto my clients .Plus insight to look beyond the symptoms but only if client allows .
Very interesting to learning neurobiology of trauma and ways we can help to heal.
So interesting how our brains can work so simplistically but are actual very complicated systems within systems ……YOU ALL ARE AMAZING doing research experiments and passing onto others….All to help others! THANK YOU ALL ONCE AGAIN
I was intrigued by the information shared about the impact of trauma on the systems of the body (ie. inflammation) and encouraged by the success Dr. Siegel described in treating clients with dissociative symptoms. These pieces of information will help me in more thoroughly and holistically assessing symptoms of individuals who have experienced trauma and to more confidently offer hope for improvement in quality of life.
Yes! The connection with inflammation was an amazing point! That makes so many things make more sense.
So sorry but I cannot access either the video or audio version. Darn cyber gremlins are at it again! Real disappointment :((
Hi Carol, thanks for reaching out to us! We’d be happy to help if you gave us a bit more information.
If you could email us at respond@nicabm.com with the device you are using, the browser you are in, and the time you were trying to access the broadcast and what time zone that was in, that’d be helpful.
I hope to hear back from you soon! Let me know if you have any questions!
Hello to you all from a small town in the Cape Winelands of South Africa 🙂
As a student of psychiatry, and a long-term patient now in recovery I was heartened to see particular parts of the material here presented as it implies a new wave of enlightenment is sweeping through the field of mental health. It is so important that this knowledge become well known to all practitioners worldwide.
I spent ten years in and out of inpatient care, and could not be stabilised despite endless rounds of therapy and shifts in medication. After completing a course of Dialectical Behavioural therapy where I learned meditation (and in forming a close bond with my therapist who later guided me through my trauma work) I was able to begin to heal at last. Without this combination of trauma-informed therapy and own pursuit of mindfulness practice, I doubt I would ever have been able to recover.
I have since weaned myself from all my psychiatric medications and I am for the first time in my life in a mutually rewarding and safe relationship after a lifetime of abuse and victimhood.
After this broadcast, I am renewed with hope that over time my health will continue to improve with prolonged mindfulness meditation and that there is truly hope for survivors to recapture their lost lives.
I will part with one request to all who read here:
That trauma causes illnesses related to inflammation is something I wish was more widely understood as I am currently struggling to find care for issues related to systemwide inflammation. I have at times been dismissed by those who would imagine that due to my psychiatric history my pain was somehow a less urgent or important complaint that in other patients. This has led to discrimination in the treatment of my physical disorders.
This physical illness, which we now understand I was predisposed to due to trauma continues, more than any other aspect of my struggle, to disable me long after I am consider psychiatrically stable. I appeal to you all to keep this in mind when sharing yoru knowledge with your peers and patients.
I look forward to a day when no patient in pain has to fight being turned away from receiving medical care on the basis of having previously been in psychiatric care.
Perhaps you could incorporate advice for living with the health impacts of trauma in a later broadcast, and a segment on supporting patients with health issues that are chronic or cause chronic pain?
This to me feels like a part of the journey still neglected. I certainly found that pain and inflammation impacted on my mental health in ways I have never seen discussed in a comprehensive way outside of peer support communities, but addressing those issues improved my general mental health.
I’m grateful to every practitioner here who pursues this knowledge and shares it with other survivors like myself. The more you as practitioners know, the less we as patients will suffer. Thank you to NICAMB for offering this material for free online.
Best wishes to you all!
Hi Chris ,I feel you have come along way ,just keep healing yourself .I would love more research done on :- long term family trauma and the effects on family units and its individuals.I ponder if it is generational and if the cycle can be broken forever within families. As my family has been fractured and in-repairable .My Mother ,deceased sister and I were told by psychiatrists to never have contact with the other half of our family ever again .My sister and I have broken the cycle traumatic past of our family …..just pray it is not generational .Mindfulness, meditation, learning and helping others are a powerful way to heal yourself and others .Yes my body still holds inflammation and pain…We must keep working on ourselves as well as helping others ….. Thank you NICAMB
I believe this webinar points clearly to the possibility of ending the generational cycle, i.e. passing trauma on from one generation to the next. The idea that “Your Mind Can Change Your Molecules” suggests that epigenetic controls that DJSiegel spoke about would be able to turn on or off the genes. Genes do not create our destiny. We do, by how we use our minds, emotions, and bodies.
I signed up for the free webinar today, but neither of your emails had instructions for how to gain access, nor was I alerted by cell. I not great at technology, but I’m not terrible either. I signed up for the 6:30 time. Is there anything I can do to still see it?
Hi Sheila, if you got the email with the broadcast schedule in it, the the links to watch or listen to the broadcast are right above the section for the times.
I’m sorry for the confusion. I would keep an eye on your emails for any rebroadcasts we might do!
Please let me know if you have any questions. You can also email us at respond@nicabm.com and get help there.
Thank you, this was amazing and so very helpful. It fosters my desire to integrate mindfulness with my clients. I work Crisis Intervention and this was/is so amazing. Thank you, thank you.
Attachment issues and how trauma may cause disruption in relationship to self or others was very informative.
Im understanding the scientific to the physical side to heal my trauma. The effects of trauma, I have come to believe is what I see in people everyday. Truly I am amazed only 20% end up in the trauma memory muck. (lucky me). A few years ago I a flash that in my childhood I was exposed to a few emotional events I was too young to deal with …then some nasty PTSD 6 years ago is connected to my adult struggles… and since that realization I have a) cut myself some slack and b) been paddling around to understand it as well as evolve & course correct. :). The explanation of the “Freeze” made 100% sense as I immediately saw one of my freezes in my minds eye. so to answer the question… it definately sheds light on the whole picture. thank you !
Absolutely incredible, accessible, helpful, professional!!! Whew! I can’t give you enough encouragement!
For me, exploring ‘body language’ (defeated postures, rigidities, etc.) is a doorway to explore what is going on inside of a client … to have them sense it, express it, and maybe even begin to make sense of it (integrate).
This has been invaluable. I work with the generational trauma of indigenous people all over the world. There have been tremendous discoveries and advancement in our understanding and treatment of trauma during my 30-year career. I feel like a hungry ghost, wanting more on behalf of the population I serve.
As a practice and in principle, I have not charged money, for two reasons: one stems from a personal, ethical principle; the other respects that indigenous people generally don’t charge or pay money for sacred healing work like this. In order to maintain a pure relationship with myself and them, I haven’t wanted to make it an issue. It’s a different approach, I know.
I’m now living on a monthly subsistence income and the small funds I have left before my check comes next week precludes the possibility of becoming a Gold Member. Otherwise I would love to join you in your work. I do wish that requirements of money as an exchange could be eliminated in general. It adds to the feeling of trauma when one “has” while the other “has not”. I’m very grateful for the opportunity to partake in what you have shared in these free sessions, though. Thank you 🙏🏽
Hello, This is great info that I will let others know about. It’s very practical and easy to understand. I will use today’s ideas to work with people who grew up with a parent with a mental illness. I will more easily connect the ideas to my research entitled “Lives Unseen: Unacknowledged Trauma of Non-Disordered, Competent Adult Children of Parents with a Severe Mental Illness” available at The University of Melbourne, Australia. Today’s session will also inspire me to contribute further to a free e-publication that updates clinicians covering diverse trauma issues, such as as parentification, grief, guilt, shame, etc., which I put on medium.com so thank you so very much! (p.s., I took out the links to my research and articles as the last one I sent did not seem to go through). Again, thanks to all of you for such a terrific resource which I will be sure to spread the news to others.
I thoroughly enjoyed this first video! I am not a clinician, but work to support educators to better understand the needs of all students and provide a trauma informed classroom experience. I am co-author of a new series created to help educators understand the importance of relationships to the teaching and learning experience. The series is published by Nelson Education in Canada and is called The Third Path.
Lastly, my primary reason for registering for these sessions is to help me better understand the long term implications of my own extensive trauma history, dissociation and fragmented sense of self, and how to best recover. I have read books by Dan Seigel, Pat Ogden, Stephen Porges, Bessel Van der Kolk, Peter Levine and others in an effort to better understand my own dissociation and inability to remember experiences or access my emotions in relation to traumatic events. This session was a wonderful addition to these resources and while I do not work in the clinical field, this series helps me to better understand our students and how we can best support their development, in addition to providing me with an enhanced understanding of my self. Thank you!
Terrific. I became a Gold Star subscriber. Perfect for DBT therapists!
Congratulations to you all, because you’ve made a great job in this webinair: profoundly science-based, delightfully thought-provoking and superbly communicated! What struck me the most was Dan Siegel’s definition of therapy purpose as creating more brain integration. I will use that ideia in deepening the work with some of my clients, following the sensorimotor integration work proposed by Pat Ogden. As a matter of fact, we have already noted the body sensations and reactions, but probably didn’t work that as much as we should. I’m excited to test it! Thanks and cheers
Its very enlightening to understand that integration occurs vertically and horizontally in the brain and that the triune brain model is still valid functionally even though its structure is under review. i use EFT tapping to reduce amygdala arousal and my thoughts are that this can effect hippocampus function as well. This may improve vertical integration. I also use EMDR for horizontal Left – Right Brain integration. Todays talk was very helpful in understanding how this works. I also use SUDS levels to connect this with the body. The benefits of mindfulness in this process are now very clear to me. TRhank you for your fantastic presentation. Very helpful and practical.
Having experiences on “both sides of the couch”, i am very much pleased with this introduction. everything explained here aligns very well with the work I am doing, working with the unconscious mind and the body to release the “stuck” or paralysis of trauma. I particularly like the story of the soldier, how using mind-fullness you were able to walk him though his whole experience and keep all parts of the brain active. I have been doing this with clients, but not using the 3 method together all at once. I am going to add the physical component with then next session to amplify the effect of integration. Thank you
The information shared about the freeze response affected me deeply and emotionally, so much so that I felt a deep sense of self-compassion that brought tears to my eyes and an experience of self-acceptance. I felt released from a burden of shame that I don’t think I was aware of carrying about my traumatic experiences, a false sense of responsibility for the experiences and behaviors of others involved. I feel a new sense of freedom. Priceless experience – thank you to all of you from my heart.
Thank you for this extremely informative session today.
I will use the information to underpin my work within Organisational Systems where there is dysfunction such as workplace bullying and other inappropriate behaviours.
Looking forward to the next session 😊
I appreciate this first session. I clear knowledge I already had. Can you please suggest book titles on the subject you gave us today, thanks.
I will use the ideas that you shared trying to focus body, thoughts and emotions through mindfulness, adding body motion. I think that trauma in a person, shuts down movement. Completion of certain movements and emotions will release the energy trapped in the body-
I’m going to help my clients discern a threat from something that is not a threat, so they can consciously name when they are safe and can recognize that brain body experience.
Thank you so much, it is great to hear from experts in the field, I would have love to sign up for Gold membership but I am retired and all the work I do in the community is free and volunteer so no income. However, I always take very seriously to keep learning and update. Thank you again
Beautiful job weaving together the neurobiological concepts of attachment, trauma, dissociation, and fragmentation on one hand, and mindfulness, safety, somatics, social engagement and integration on the other. Thank you to these exceptional presenters!
I will further research how disassociation and detachment hinders clients from making progress towards treatment goals
As a momma of three amazing kids from very hard places, this information is so helpful in guiding me as I parent them and help them heal. Thank you so much for providing this free! What a gift!
I am a medically licensed Massage Therapist and very much appreciate the opportunity to understand this topic better. Thank you for making it available for the public!
Biggest ‘takeaway’ is the idea that understanding our neuro-biology, through psycho-education, helps those who have suffered from early developmental traumas to soften the ‘blame’, shame, self-criticism, and to become ACTIVELY involved in the collaboration of healing, through the social engagement system.
REALLY appreciate free access. Having recently qualified, I am still building up my practice. Unfortunately my WiFi dropped in and out but what I was able to glean …
I was encouraged by the positive link with building a strong therapeutic alliance, something I will focus on. Ruth’s brief description of brain integration in this context was helpful. I will look to developing skills especially in left to right integration.
Attachment: the impact of disorganised attachment highlights my need to be aware of attachment patterns in clients.
Pathological dissociation: link to attachment and impaired integration resulting in fragmentation of sense of self … better understanding of the process was helpful.
A clearer understanding of the role of mindful practices – will develop mindfulness skills.
Hearing the mind described as ‘your whole body and your relational world’ (WiFi unfortunately cut out the preceding section), was helpful. It incorporates more than just the rational brain and makes more sense of the emotional impact of trauma, necessitating the need for multiple skills and modalities.
In general, do you know if an experience like prescription drug withdrawal, can be remedied more quickly thru brain integration work?
After learning all of this information, it seems this would be more helpful than a treatment program which uses more drugs to get a person off the drugs and gradually stop the withdrawal symptoms such as shaking, short term memory problems, and balance issues.
All of the information was very interesting; however, I particularly liked the information about the positive changes that can occur in the body with respect to the inflammatory disease, with the use of mindfulness. I also find it encouraging t hear that dissociation is a curable condition.
I am not actually working right now so I cannot apply this information with a client. I am interested in keeping up with the latest research about effective strategies to use with survivors of trauma.
Wow the brain is amazing, I didn’t completely understand all the science I’d need to read and study more. Unable to sign up for Gold but look forward to hearing and learning from comments. Thank you
Amazing information. thank you for the training!
I appreciated this lesson a lot because it partially gave me a clue of why my work with borderline patients in a Therapeutic Community (TC), with its aggregation of actions, confrontation and sharing, experience of safely living together, containment and emotional awareness is so effective in making people change. I will pay more care to assemble therapies that will promote even further the experience of a secure attachment to the TC and consequent experience of subjective integration for its members.
Among others, a stimulating information is the healing power of mindfulness which makes me consider to allot more time to this discipline in the therapeutic week which I now wish to introduce as daily therapeutic practice.
Thank you very much.
Very nice breakdown on how the brain and hormones function as they relate to trauma. Look forward to the next trainings!
I find the way this session explained the links between disturbed attachment can predispose the person to experiencing dissociation if subjected to overwhelming experiences, and how a disintegrated brain can be supported to become more integrated through Mindfulness within the session really useful. ie., being present and aware of what is happening if or when a client may describe their traumatic experiences to the therapist. The thought that I might be able to sustain the client’s capacity to regulate her experience in the sharing of it with me, so long as she is safe in the relationship with me and that I try to tune into her in a specifically meaningful way to see body posture, her feelings, and thoughts very helpful.
In this way I better understand how the social engagement between us in the room is effectively useing a part of the brain that supports regulation, as opposed to disregulation can help the brain to become better integrated.
I am a student in counseling, I am not working in the field yet. But, as the panelist spoke describing the patient’s feelings of trauma of PTSD, It came to mind the feelings my husband described (he is not a vet or been in any branch), at the time I did not put 2 and 2 together, I wish I had known about mindfulness then, perhaps I could have been able to help him be more aware of the rush of feelings prior exploiting with anger. Not having the knowledge or experience in the subject, I had the common sense or insight of asking him to describe the feelings in an attempt to calm him down and avoid being the recipient of his anger. I love the information provided.
Thank you for this great up-date on the treatment of trauma symptoms and consequences. It became much clearer to me why the feeling of safety, trust and focus is so important for the person who comes for treatment, while in-session. I particularly gained deeper understanding of the hypo-and hyper-arousal post- traumatic reactions, where the patients is being treated for the hormonal insufficiency or over- activity (such as thyroid function) and the skilled psychotherapy perhaps should aid the healing and re-integrating those dys-regulated functions of the body and. I’m glad that the the understanding of the consequences of trauma has grown from the belief that it effects the bran alone and is “in the mind” to the knowledge that the whole body and its functional systems are effected, down to the molecular level. And that the mindfulness practice can change that! Great session, thank you for your generosity.
Thank you all so much for this great work!
As a parent trainer helping parents of kids from “hard places,” I will use this to assist parents in learning more about their own brain integration and how being present as well as applying mindfulness strategies can help them process early childhood experiences and have a more integrated brain and maintain overall health. Then they will be more emotionally present for their own children who have experienced trauma, grief, and loss. Hopefully, they will learn to recognize states of hyper or hypo arousal in both themselves and their children, rather than just seeing behavior as an intentional or willful response that needs a behavioral modification model. Those have repeatedly been proven ineffective with severely harmed children.
Dan, I feel like I know you as I worked closely with Dr. Karyn Purvis during the time you participated in their video trainings. Our son, adopted from Romania, was part of the Institute’s early research. Your part of the TCU Institute’s message is so vital to healing families, and I’m so grateful for this life-changing work. Our family will be forever grateful for all we’ve learned about our brains through this healing work and professionals such as yourselves.
Keep up the great work, and I want to also express that all of you are getting better and better at explaining this in less “Science-Heavy” terminology that the general population can understand, even a Special Ed teacher such as myself with no science background. Excellent training today that I feel counselors, educators, and parents can all benefit from!
Look forward to the next sessions.
Thankfully,
Debra
I will use this in conjunction with EMDR in treatment of PTSD. The psychoeducation and integration pieces, plus the
piece about dissociation and its cure (a word not often used in out profession) were very helpful. Thank you for
providing this. I will definitely consider a gold membership in the near future.
I have been working with Dr. Patch Adams and his Gesundheit! Institute to provide a Humanitarian Clowning Experience for Veterans with PTSD, Anxiety, depression, and moral injury, resistant to usual treatment modalities. We found, anecdotally, that people who went on one of these trips had an amazing, immediate change of countenance, and awareness, with a renewed ability to love and appreciate their life as a survivor. (I was one of them after my 2012 trip to Russia with Patch.) We have now taken two cohorts of Veterans, men and women, all Services, from the USA and Canada, on a Clowning trip to Guatemala and are following them longitudinally on returning from the 8 day experience. I am listening to your presentations again, convinced all you are presenting about neurotransmitters, relationships, and neuroplasticity are at play bringing these Veterans (and Civilians) recovery and relief. COL (Ret-Army) George Patrin, MD, MHA, FAAP, FACHE
As a traditional Indigenous American Healer I see many similarities in healing. And, I greatly appreciate the technical aspects of biological reintegration. We have always believed that which comes through the mother is absorbed by the child. And, that which has been passed on from our ancestors in within us ( Mind, body, Spirit, Emotions, Actions). These videos assist with our insight toward assistive integration for trauma patients, offer practical exercises for betterment of self and patient, and set medical precedence for ancient wisdom.
Our mindset is the literal basis for change and self healing.
Know thyself in order to heal thyself and have a strong respectful presence.
Fascinating, inspirational stuff! Amazing findings on neurobiology clearly presented. Looking forward to learning more about the effect of attachment style, and practical integration involving thoughts, emotions and the body. Thank you!
Thank you for this valuable information. I will be using this information to help reassure myself in my work, the neurobiology is important for client self understanding and hopefully will help normalise my clients response to trauma and give another perspective other than shame that will resonate with them.
Dear All
Well my background is in Psychodrama and I am Narrative Exposure Therapy trained where the work with survivors of trauma is concerned.
So I WILL tell my clients..even if it isn’t NET I am doing with them, that when we talk about their difficult experiences I will be asking them to report to me their physical sensations, feelings and thoughts, from then from now, and that this is part of the treatment, because of how the brain works. Get them onside with this style of talking to each other, possibly being physical as well in a slow and controlled way, so they have a map of what it is I am doing and why. I will explain a little more about integration being the healing factor and that the brain, mind and body need to come together in our processing of their traumatic responses.
I work for torture survivors, who are often in the traumatic frozen waiting room of asylum seeking, being kept destitute, not allowed to work or become social beings. The approaches in the two places that I work, focus on the whole person, and psychosocial work, as well as more ‘traditional’ psychotherapy.
So bless these lectures I hope to enjoy all of them Thank you so much for making this accessible.
I am a pediatric nurse of over 35 yrs….not psych. My oldest child was diagnosed at age 6yrs with GAD….She has had constant support with psychiatrist and therapy since that time. she has had “in home” services, outpatient, or partial hospitalization as a pre teen, and then in patient as a young teen. Always the focus was anxiety, and even on meds with lots of therapy no better. Main presentation is “avoidance, esp school”
She is a twice exceptional child, very bright but anxiety is her disability. She had complete neuro psych eval at 8 yrs. A few months abo I had her re tested as she is almost 17…..the psychologist asked alot about the pregnancy, C section and childhood……The overarching results pointed to “sensory processing”, although she is NOT autistic, and anxiety as a symptom.
As a newly single parent, I would love to purchase this series, but cannot at this time… I will when I am able. The docs keep focus on treating anxiety……I realize now why that has not worked and she is struggling with same issue 10 yrs later.
This program is fantastic, and my Tess does indeed exhibit PTSD….father was abusive, as well as Aspergers, so not “safe” I have been a stay at home parent since she was born…but.
I am so grateful to have come across this, and as soon as I can I will get a Gold Membership. At almost 17, this has the potential to get her the help that will make a difference and change the course of her life, or even “give” her a real live.
Many Thanks!!
Amy Rubacky, RN BSN
This presentation was full of useful information that I can utilize in my Yoga practice. This understanding of re-association versus disassociation is useful particularly when a client is having an emotional response during practice. In yoga our focus should be on integration for the entire human being, not just the body. Awareness of the mind – body connection is so important and my knowledge has improved as a by-product of taking this session. I look forward to future sessions and will consider becoming a Gold subscriber. Thank you for the amazing work.
Thank you so much for making this available for free. I found the epigenitics section particularly interesting. The similarity in percentages for disorganized attachment and PTSD is very thought provoking, and important to examine with patients experiencing PTSD. It’s encouraging to see how those who dissociate can improve so much. Thanks again.
Really great webinar – so valuable to be able to hear straight from those that are at the cutting edge of developments in this field. Unfortunately, many psychiatrists are still stuck on the ‘chemical imbalance’ theory, but things have truly moved so far beyond that. The neuroscience of trauma is the key to unlocking understanding and intervention. Many thanks – looking forward to the next one!
Thank you! Learning about the connection between disorganized attachment and dissociation and the profound effect of mindfulness on integrating the brain was very helpful.
Excellent. Thank you for this resource. As I listened, I couldn’t help but hope that there might be some discussion about IFS in this series. With regard to working with my clients, I appreciated what Dr. Ron Siegel said about helping to take away the self-blame by introducing the concepts of neurobiology. I often talk about re-wiring the brain through therapy, but have not used this specificity. What a great way to help clients differentiate from their symptoms. Thank you!
In my work as a crisis counselor, the most useful thing I learned in this video is how to attempt to normalize the stress reactions for clients through psychoeducation about the stress response so that they start to see their PTSD and other trauma symptoms as what their brain does in response to trauma, rather than seeing them as something that is wrong with them or something that they did to hurt themselves or others. Because self-blame and shame are so prominent and pervasive, I believe this is an important first step in working with clients so that they can begin to break down that shame and achieve real healing. Thanks a lot for this wonderful video. I look forward to next week!
This was awesome!I love all of the panelists and their contributions. Thank you!
I’ve specialized in bodywork focused on trauma for decades. Pat Ogden talked about how for vertical integration we need to address the beliefs/thoughts, emotions and body. This is what my work does.
It’s unfortunate that there are not CEU’s for my license.
Elynn, could you post a little more about what work you are doing? Sounds interesting. Also, type of license do you have? Thank you.
I would like to integrate doing attachment questionnaires in the earliest stage of treatment so I can be better informed about how attachment styles impact and influence my clients.
Outstanding presenters and great explanation of how the brain is impacted by trauma. Greatest reminder for me is how to integrate the body in therapy as a way to create more brain integration. Fabulous job everyone!
The ideas from today’s session will help me explain more to my clients for normalisation, validation and give them an understanding that they are simply being human.
Would you be so kind to give some concrete examples from therapy and some new techniques.
You have created such a great resource for us to learn.
Thank you so much!
I liked the organization of the program. I intend to increase psychoeduction on the brain, hormones, etc. as well as the use of mindfulness to help innoculate for trauma.
Thanks so much for some excellent information. I will say I was struck by Ruth’s comment during the talk back regarding DID and would love to hear Bessel’s view of what she stated. I see DID very differently with my clients. Thanks, jane
I’m just a mom of an adopted child.. now age 12, trying to figure out how to deal with her attachment trauma which is destroying our lives. We have been to MANY counselors… all of whom say they “specialize in trauma”. Her trauma was pre-verbal, plus both of our current traumas that go on every single day with all of the opposition, arguing, stealing, lying, peeing, manipulation, etc. I still do not know how to deal with this and have not ever found a solution after looking for over 10 years now. She was adopted at age 2 from a Vietnamese orphanage.
I have a lot of homework to do, especially on mindfulness, body-mind integration, and epigenetics. How I will apply it remains to be seen, simply because I think I need to dive in a lot deeper first.
The information is fascinating and helpful. However, I need more than theories and understanding. My clients aren’t going to listen to me tell them why they are suffering due to neuroscience. They want to know how to fix it and change it. Actual tools and techniques is something I would pay for. My hesitancy in the expenditure is that I need more than theory and understanding. There is the odd suggestion now and again, but is it possible to have a program that has definitive methodology to utilize?
This is also what I am looking for…. as a mom.
I plan on taking trainings to learn how to employ specific methodologies once I graduate from my MA program. For example, Somatic Experiencing trainings are necessary in learning how to actually do SE, and I have heard great things about the trainings. You can check on the Sensorimotor Psychotherrapy Institute’s website for more information about training for Pat Ogden’s type of therapy, or other websites for trainings on any technique you’re wanting to employ.
Excellent. Using brain knowledge to help with writing on clergy sexual abuse survival. Thanks.
Psychoeduction on the brain, hormones, etc. as well as the use of mindfulness to help innoculate for trauma.
Continue to teach mindfulness and meditation to clients who come with trauma and it’s ensuing effects…
I train advocates to work with children who are in foster care. I will definitely use this information to continue building on the body of knowledge that I share with them on trauma and the brain.
Which parts of the brain contribute to depression and anxiety? Thans
Fabulously done! Thank you 🙂
I learned a lot tonight. Thank you for offering it for free.
I am a therapist that has become too overwhelmed with traumas all my life, and now off of work. I need a good therapist in this realm to be healthy again and that includes being productive. =Can you recommend someone who I can speak with in therapy online by video?
Wonderful! I was familiar with dissociation, integration, and a few other terms, but the information about “telomeres” and “telomerase” was new and so profound for my understanding of trauma. Thank you so much for putting this together!
Really well put together seminar. thank you
Liz
perinatal psychotherapist UK