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Digital Seminar

A Somatic Approach to Grief


Speaker:
Janina Fisher, PhD
Duration:
1 Hour 04 Minutes
Format:
Audio and Video
Copyright:
Apr 15, 2026
Product Code:
POS150660
Media Type:
Digital Seminar

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Description

Bereaved individuals find their grief overwhelmingly painful and difficult to modulate, risking either avoidance or preoccupation with the loss. The ability to befriend the emotional and physical impact of grief allows grieving to achieve its purpose of moving through the body until acceptance is achieved. Talking about a loss can be daunting. As clients talk about their loved one, it often results in increased emotional pain or re-living the loss over and over again. They can get stuck in bargaining or in depression rather than moving through the process of grieving.

A somatic approach combines mindfulness with attention to grief’s physical effects. Mindful attention to the waves of grief that suddenly come up helps to slow down the emotions so that clients can be in relationship to them. Following the somatic sensations connected to these waves allows clients to experience the grief coming up and then setting each time, bringing hope that there will be healing.

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.


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Objectives

  1. Identify client barriers to grieving (Gentsch & Kuehn, 2022).
  2. Utilize 2 mindfulness-based interventions (Price & Wang, 2021; Neff, 2022).
  3. Choose somatic interventions that bring relief or decrease emotional pain (Balban et al, 2023; Eisma & Stroebe, 2021).

Outline

  • Clinical barriers to grieving
  • Mindfulness-based interventions for grief
  • Somatic interventions for releasing emotional pain
  • Risks and limitations of the research

Target Audience

  • Counselors
  • Social Workers
  • Psychologists
  • Psychiatrists
  • Nurses
  • Marriage and Family Therapists
  • Other Mental Health Professionals

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