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1. Design effective ways to help clients understand and process what is happening in their body as a result of traumatic stress. 
2. Substantiate how trauma affects the developing mind and brain, and articulate the psychological impact and long-term effects of trauma on physical and mental health. 
3. Differentiate between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress. 
4. Determine how sensorimotor processing can alleviate the re-experiencing of trauma. 
5. Support why embodiment in psychotherapy matters and how to incorporate it successfully into treatment with traumatized clients. 
6. Perform specific movement, breathing, interoception, and mindfulness techniques that can help children and adults gain mastery over their lives. 
7. Characterize how yoga and other embodied strategies can reframe trauma experiences and connect to a mind-body awareness.  
8. Integrate yoga as a clinical intervention to help treat the symptoms of complex trauma, anxiety and depression, promote healing, and improve mental health. 
9. Distinguish how yoga quiets the brain and regulates our arousal system by balancing our parasympathetic and sympathetic nervous systems and widening the window of tolerance. 
10. Communicate therapy goals reflecting each of the five components of well-balanced yoga practice.  
11. Create yoga forms and techniques to help clients improve regulatory & distress tolerance skills and increase social skills. 
12. Execute and adapt various yoga forms and movements, in preparation to use them for a variety of settings, abilities & age levels. 

Application of Theory and Integrating Interventions

Neuroscience, Trauma, and the Body

• Single vs. repeated vs. extended trauma
• Developmental trauma vs. complex trauma
• Adverse childhood experiences
• Current research on the neurobiology of traumatic stress
  • How trauma affects the developing mind and brain
  • The psychological impact & long-term effects of trauma on physical & mental health
• Stress response patterns as survival strategies
  • Fight, Flight, Freeze, Faint, Fawn, Fool around & Fidget
  • Strategies to help clients understand and process what is happening in their body
• Hyper- and hypo-arousal and the window of tolerance
• The impact of trauma on somatic experiencing and the sensory system
  • How sensorimotor processing can alleviate the re-experiencing of trauma

The Neurobiology of Attachment

• Differentiating between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress
• Interpersonal neurobiology
  • Mirror neurons, empathy and connecting with others
  • Relationships can reshape our brains
• Attachment and attunement in the therapeutic relationship
  • Attachment style impacts your client’s relationships
• Neurological basis of attachment and co-regulation
• Current research on yoga and mental health ~ benefits, risks & limitations

The Triune Brain, Regulation and Polyvagal Theory

• Current research on yoga and mental health ~ benefits, risks & limitations
• The importance of understanding the triune brain and how yoga…
  • Calms the amygdala and quiets the brain
  • Regulates our arousal system
  • Widens the window of tolerance
• Top-down and bottom-up regulation
• Heart rate variability (HRV) and vagal nerve tone
• Yoga as a clinical intervention to treat symptoms of complex trauma, anxiety and depression
• Embodied strategies teach the brain and body to work in harmony
  • Reframe trauma experiences
  • Increase self-regulation
  • Connect clients to a mind-body awareness
  • Increase positive experiences
  • Promote healing & Improve mental health

Applications for Trauma Treatment

• Clinical applications for yoga
  • Foundation of traditional yoga informs the 5 themes
  • The 5 themes of trauma-informed yoga
  • Strengths and limitations of yoga as part of psychotherapy
  • Create and communicate therapy goals reflecting the themes
  • Integrating trauma-sensitive yoga in clinical work
• Practice and adapt yoga for a variety of settings, abilities & age levels to…
  • Restore the capacity to play through games & creative movements
  • Increase trust & build healthy attachments through family and partner yoga
  • Decrease dysregulation & improve distress tolerance skills
  • Reduce emotional numbing, depression, and dissociation
  • Help children and adults gain mastery over their lives with mindfulness techniques that can reduce intrusive images and “stuck” memories
  • Expand capacity for self-awareness with breathing exercises and interoceptive cues

Victoria Grinman, PhD, LICSW-R , is a psychotherapist, educator and speaker with over 15 years of experience supporting individuals of all ages and differences in life perspectives, and their families. She is the founder of Growing Kind Minds LLC, a private practice and community resource. She is a Certified Family Trauma Professional, a trained yoga and mindfulness instructor to children and adolescents through Little Flower Yoga, and a certified aromatherapist through New York Institute of Aromatherapy. Victoria was a proud faculty member of Columbia School of Social Work, Boston College School of Social Work and Adelphi University. Her areas of deep focus include Posttrauamatic Growth, trauma, parenting and autism.

Victoria has extensive experience providing individual, group and family therapeutic services utilizing an integrative approach that is informed by theory and grounded in a holistic and strengths-based perspective. She has been invited to be a speaker at universities, organizations and community groups on topics that span the areas of yoga and mindfulness, play therapy, neuropsychology education, emotional literacy, education, clinical practice, disabilities, trauma and autism; and provides consultation in program development, and social-emotional curriculum building and implementation to schools and corporations. Victoria participates annually in national and international conferences.

Victoria is the host of That Moment: Heart to Heart Talks with Dr. Victoria Grinman, a talk show and podcast that sheds light on the possible outcome of Posttraumatic Growth in the wake of an experience that overwhelms our ability to cope. The talk highlights influential and inspiring individuals in the world and their story of struggle to triumph. She enthusiastically looks for new ways to facilitate and promote resiliency, empathy and wellness. She is excited to be part of the process of sharing tools and meeting people in interdisciplinary realms with like goals to empower others.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Victoria Grinman is an adjunct professor for Adelphi University. She has an employment relationship with The Summit School and New York Therapy Placement Services. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Victoria Grinman has no relevant non-financial relationships to disclose.

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