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Module 1: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 2: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 3: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 4: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 5: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 6: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 7: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 8: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 9: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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Module 10: 2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
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2-Day Embodied Practices for Trauma Recovery: 30+ Healing Practices to Empower Lasting Change
Traditional trauma therapies often rely heavily on your expertise as a therapist, which can unintentionally take away your client’s control over their own healing process. These methods also tend to overlook a crucial element in recovery—your client’s own body.
Watch renowned trauma expert Catherine Cook-Cottone, PhD, C-IAYT, as she introduces a unified protocol, including over 30 healing practices that:
- Integrate trauma assessment, treatment modalities, yoga therapy, and movement-based therapies
- Empower clients to actively guide their healing journey with effective tools and continuous, informed support
- Prioritize safety, nervous system self-regulation, and embodied mastery
- Build a deep connection between clients and their bodies, facilitating meaningful trauma processing and fostering post-traumatic growth
Transform your practice and your client’s lives with this innovative training, designed to shift how you approach trauma, healing, and embodiment.
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify the developmental implications of trauma.
- Determine the impact of trauma on the nervous system.
- Utilize two trauma assessments for trauma symptoms and events.
- Relate the embodiment theory to conceptualization of the trauma recovery process.
- Choose mindful self-care recommendations.
- Utilize embodied approaches in trauma work.
- Use the self-awareness scale with states of activation for self-regulation.
- Use somatic experiencing techniques to access trauma memories stored in the body.
- Integrate body mapping to manage feelings and thoughts associated with trauma.
- Choose sensorimotor psychotherapy techniques for working with boundaries and relationships.
- Utilize the trauma processing protocol throughout the phases of treatment (safety, stabilization, processing, and re-integration).
- Use creativity to cultivate posttraumatic growth.
Outline
The Embodiment of Trauma
- Principles of trauma-informed care
- DSM-5-TR® and PTSD
- Causes and effects of trauma
- Complex trauma
- Symptoms of trauma and comorbidities
- Developmental implications of trauma
- The impact on the nervous system
- Standard treatment protocols
- Apply embodied approaches to trauma work
- Practice:
- Grounded breath and centering
- Mindfulness of breath
Trauma Assessments
- Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM-5 (CAPS-5)
- PTSD checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5)
- Structured clinical interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5)
- Brief Trauma Questionnaire (BTQ)
- Life events checklist for DSM-5 (LEC-5)
- Trauma Screening Questionnaire (TSQ)
- Posttraumatic Maladaptive Beliefs Scales (PMBS)
- Body-Oriented Scales from the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium (TSRC)
- Support client self-assessment
- Practice: Infinity breath
- Case Study: Mathilde, college student, injured in car accident, sister died of injuries, parents substance users, no support
Embodiment and the Polyvagal Theory
- Competing drives of connection and protection
- Explaining the nervous system and body states to clients
- The stress response system
- Assess allostatic overload with clients
- Window of tolerance and the growth zone
- Apply the Self-Awareness Scale
- Operationalize the zones
- Sustainability - great effort, great rest
- Practice:
- Apply PAUSE (Pause, Assess, and USE your resources)
- Subtle breathing
- The second arrow
- Case study: Operationalizing connection and protections states, Mathilde
Techniques for Befriending the Trauma Body
- The hungry ghost, the disembodied, and embodiment
- Create the foundations for embodiment work
- Work with what I can control
- Develop a resource repository
- Understand interoception, exteroception and neuroception
- Grounding, breathing, and orienting
- Sensate focus for distress
- Practice:
- 4, 7, 8 Breathing Method
- A commitment letter to the body
- Positive Embodiment Body Scan
Mindful Self-Care and Resource Development for Stabilization
- Unpack self-care therapeutically
- Consider your own mindful self-care practice
- Formal and informal self-care techniques
- Assessment of mindful self-care
- Mindful self-care and goal development
- Development of inner resources
- Practice:
- Somatic resources with Yoga nidra
- Meditation
Sensation Awareness and Basic Processing
- From sensation to reaction or response
- Interoception assessment
- Exteroception assessment
- Expand the safe and growth zones
- Practice:
- Letter of encouragement
- Awareness of state activations
- Pendulation
- Distress tolerance with paced breathing and muscle relaxation
- Somatic processing of sensations
- Sensation tracking
- Case study: Gianna, adult, dog died in traffic accident, intense grief
Emotion Awareness and Basic Processing
- Qualities and components of emotions
- Prompting event patterns
- Body maps of emotions
- Naming, body experiences, and activation patterns
- The interface between feeling and activation
- Break habitual reactions
- High and low emotionality thoughts
- Practice:
- Explore your feeling-based thoughts
- Track feeling sensations
- Being with action urges
Emotions and Therapeutic Embodiment
- Techniques for being with difficult emotions
- Match needs, practices, and directions
- Three accessible yoga practices
- Practice:
- Be with difficult emotions
- Self-sooth with inner resources
- Have an emotion over for tea
- Explore direction in movement
- Case study: Kim, 35-yr-old, brother heroine user, many overdoses
Re-Establishment of Boundaries
- Trauma and Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
- Assessment of HSP
- Embodiment and relationship
- Explore boundary types and boundary qualities
- Boundary setting
- Positively embodied relationship guidance
- Practice:
- Manage difficult people
- Physical and energetic boundaries meditation
- Boundary work journal
- Boundary setting actions
- Being with others’ actions
- Case Study: Soka, 25-yr-old, sexually abused, no protection from mom, working on boundaries with mom
Embodied Wisdom - More than Cognitions
- Embodying self-statements
- Morita action guide
- Embodiment as a human right
- Practice:
- Inner Compass- embodied decision making
- Finding glimmers
Therapeutic Embodiment Practice for Trauma Processing
- De-escalation protocol
- Review of TP-PAUSE
- Safety assessment
- Document resources
- List distressing and traumatic experiences
- Process trauma across the layers of embodiment
- The embodied healing process
- Practice the three session sequence
- Here and Now Script
- Self-holding
- Explore sensations and action urges
- Practice: Moving through and honoring your body
Posttraumatic Growth and Joy
- Develop play, creativity, and joy
- Play as potentially activating (window of tolerance)
- Play and creativity for continuous growth
- Embodying self-statements for growth
- The Hero(ine)’s Journey
- Practice: The next loving thing
- Case Study: Elizabeth, 52-yr-old, resolved trauma and engaged in posttraumatic growth
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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12/19/2024
Somatic Trauma Therapy Crash Course: Core Skills and Interventions to Treat Trauma through the Body
Whether you’re new to Somatic Therapy or an experienced practitioner looking for a refresher, this training is for you.
Join in-demand trainer Stacy Ruse, LPC as she guides you through the core principles and techniques of Somatic Therapy.
In this course, Stacy will explain the why behind somatic healing in clear, accessible terms and better still, offer practical tools you can immediately implement with your clients.
When you enroll, you’ll learn:
- Key strategies for effectively assessing and understanding your clients’ body awareness
- Techniques to help clients release stored tension and trauma through body-focused interventions
- How to work with emotional blocks and somatic defenses
- Practical approaches for creating safety and trust in the therapeutic relationship
- How to integrate somatic practices into your sessions for lasting transformation
Designed to be beginner-friendly, yet rich in actionable techniques and insights, this course will empower you to integrate somatic therapy into your practice with confidence.
Sign up today and start using somatic tools to transform you work with clients!
Program Information
Objectives
- Define how trauma disrupts natural adaptive processing.
- Utilize Polyvagal Theory concepts to create a sense of safety and connection in therapy.
- Examine foundational somatic techniques, including interoceptive awareness, titration, sequencing, and somatic repatterning.
- Choose somatic interventions clients can use when they are in acute distress.
- Develop emotional regulation in clients using body-based tools and mindfulness practices.
- Arrange a safe therapeutic environment to prevent re-traumatization of clients.
- Identify risks and potential limitations of somatic techniques in the treatment of trauma.
Outline
Foundations of Somatic Therapy and Trauma
- Introduction to Somatic Therapy:
- Overview, goals, and importance in trauma treatment
- Understanding Trauma Disruption:
- Pathology of maladaptive trauma storage
- Emotional, sensory, and belief manifestations
- Fragmentation and dissociation
- Neural network reinforcement in unprocessed trauma
- Natural vs. Incomplete Stress Responses:
- Key concepts of adaptive resolution vs. frozen trauma states
The Neuroscience of Trauma
- Polyvagal Theory Basics:
- Ventral vagal complex and its role in safety and connection
- Hyperarousal vs. hypoarousal in trauma
- Head, heart, and gut “brains”
- Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune system interrelation
- Neuroception: Recognize safety and danger
- Create safety in therapy
- Reduce hyperarousal and build trust
- Prevent re-traumatization
- Emotional Regulation and Resilience:
- Techniques to buffer stress and traumatic memories
- Empower clients to take an active role in their healing journey
- Interoceptive Awareness: Develop self-awareness through bodily sensations
The Somatic Practices and Techniques Toolbox
- Heart Coherence Understanding and Practice
- Core Somatic Practices:
- Two hand techniques
- Mind body awareness
- Breathing exercises, body scans, and paired muscle relaxation
- Gentle touch and heart-focused compassion practices
- The Science of Embodiment Practices:
- Interoception, exteroception, and proprioception
- Body awareness and empowerment through movement
- William Reich’s body armor and belts of tension
- Somatic Trauma Processing:
- Pendulation, titration, sequencing, and repatterning: Techniques for releasing stored trauma
- Somatic Questions
- Slow conscious movement and breathwork for release
- Lack of body awareness and other issues
Integration and Research
- Tailor techniques to individual client needs
- Integration in clinical practice and with other methodologies
- Potential risks and limitations
- Q&A and wrap-up: Recap and final questions
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Addiction Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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The Embodied Healing Workbook
The way out is in.
Trauma can change the way you feel about, and in, your body. During a traumatic experience, your body tries to keep you safe, courageously and imperfectly attempting to manage the unmanageable by working to separate you from danger and pain. Even if you understand why something happened, how it happened, and what to do if it happens again, it can still be difficult to move on because your body remembers – and it reminds you again and again through deeply physical symptoms.
Considering this, your body may be your most valuable resource in recovery.
In this workbook, renowned trauma therapist Catherine Cook-Cottone provides a step-by-step, sequential process for embodied healing that will teach you to work through your trauma, reconnect to your body, and begin thinking about what is next in your embodied path forward.
Filled with over 100 embodied practices, worksheets, and meditations, you’ll learn how to:
- Befriend your body and build your inner resources for healing
- Be with and work with your trauma memories and symptoms
- Work with difficult sensations, emotions, cognitions, and reactions in partnership with your body
- Reconnect to your body’s wisdom
- Listen to your body and heart with love and compassion
- Be in relationship with your trauma
True healing comes from reconnecting with your body. It is courageous work that requires commitment and practice over time to create a new way of being. By taking this journey, healing is possible.