Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

Boston, MA

Level I: Training for the Treatment of Trauma

OCTOBER 30, 2009 Start Date

Traditional psychotherapy addresses the cognitive and emotional elements of trauma, but lacks techniques that work directly with the physiological elements, despite the fact that trauma profoundly affects the body and many symptoms of traumatized individuals are somatically driven.

The Level One Training presents simple body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming, and safely exploring trauma-related somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self. Students will learn effective, accessible interventions for identifying and working with disruptive somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals. Techniques are taught within a phase-oriented treatment approach, focusing first on stabilization and symptom reduction. The length of this training is between 80 and 90 hours

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Training Dates:

October 30-31, 2009
December 18-19, 2009
January 15-16, 2010
February 5-6, 2010
April 23-24, 2010
July 30-31, 2010
November 5-6, 2010

Times: Fri.: 1:00 - 6:30; Sat.: 9:00 - 5:30

Location: 17 Spring Street, Watertown, MA. Map

Financial Aid: Contact SPI for limited workstudy opportunities.

Trainers: Janina Fisher, PhD, Anne Westcott, Lana Epstein, M., Ed., LICSW

Tuition: 2,750 USD. A non-refundable registration fee of $25. A deposit of $500 is due to hold your place in the training. Refund Policy

Prerequisites:

To qualify, applicants must be graduate students, clinical interns or licensed in their field and state.

Contact: SPI, 303-447-3290, office@sensorimotor.org.