The Body Can Change the Score: Exploring Somatic Interventions for Trauma
As humans, we store memories, experiences and emotions on a cellular level. Somatic approaches focus on body awareness and how to cultivate it in and around the body. Providing clients with interventions to address how trauma is stored and experienced in the body is essential. This training will present an overview of how trauma is experienced in the body. Specific somatic interventions such as resourcing, grounding, dual awareness, and sequencing will be presented. Learners will view application of somatic interventions by analyzing case studies and video demonstrations. Discover methods to h...Read moreelp your clients release trauma and negative emotions from the body through a trauma-informed care lens. Less...
Learning Objectives
- Identify 3-4 specific ways that trauma is experienced somatically in the body.
- Discover at least five somatic interventions for trauma and formulate interventions for clients.
- Describe two methods of fostering dual awareness in clients experiencing trauma-induced dissociation.
Learning Levels
- Intermediate
Friday, February 02, 2024
11:00 AM EST - 02:15 PM EST
Register for this WebinarAgenda
11:00am - 11:30am What is Somatic Therapy?
- Safe Trauma Recovery (Babette Rothschild)
- Benefits of Somatic Experiencing (SE)
- SE Models (Peter Levine)
- Monitoring the ANS chart
- Introducing 10 Key Somatic Interventions
11:30am - 12:30pm Exploring 10 Key SE Interventions: (Developing Somatic Awareness, Resourcing, Grounding, Using Descriptive Language, Movement, Regulation, Titration, Pendulation, Act of Triumph, Sequencing, Boundary Setting)
12:30pm - 12:45pm Break
12:45pm - 1:15pm Dual Awareness (video demonstration)
- Case Study
1:15pm - 2:15pm Trauma Releasing Exercises (video demonstration)
- Self-Holding
- Video Case Study: Ray, a Veteran with PTSD
CE Information - Earn 3 CE Credit Hours
CE Approvals
American Psychological Association
Association of Social Work Boards
National Board for Certified Counselors
New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work
New York Education Department Board of Creative Arts Therapy
New York Education Department for Licensed Mental Health Counselors
New York Education Department Board for Licensed Psychoanalysts
New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology
New York State Education Department's State Board for Marriage and Family Therapy
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