This workshop is designed for psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and allied professionals who want to learn about somatic approaches to trauma treatment.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy integrates cognitive and somatic interventions in the treatment of trauma, emphasizing body awareness,practicing new actions and building somatic resources.

Key components of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy will be illustrated using videotaped excerpts of sessions with traumatized individuals and brief experiential exercises: uncoupling trauma-based emotions from body sensations; promoting collaboration between client and therapist; teaching mindfulness; building somatic resources; and developing a somatic sense of self. Since clients with complex trauma can be easily triggered by interventions that access the body too quickly, attention will be given to pacing, boundaries, and safe, gradual re-connection with the body.

The videotapes show how to help clients discover and describe how past traumatic experiences are affecting their current bodily experience--which in turn contributes to difficult emotions and beliefs--and also show how to integrate cognitive and somatic interventions to change the meaning of traumatic event(s) and regulate both emotions and arousal.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is conducted within a phase-oriented treatment approach and this presentation will address interventions for all three phases: stabilization and symptom reduction, work with traumatic memory, and re-integration.

This workshop serves as an introduction to the Level One: Training for the Treatment of Trauma, coming to Vancouver, BC on January 14th, 2011

15% Discount for groups of 3 or more To obtain this discount, your group must register individually. Click 'Register Now' below, and check the box marked 'Groups of 3 or more (15% Discount)'. Contact accounting@sensorimotor.org to register your group.

$100 off a Level One Training for attendance of this event.

NOTE: In addition to the $100 off tuition for a level one training, additional discounts can be applied for up to a maximum of 15% off of this workshop.

Continuing Education Credit: 6 Credit hours available, via the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association. Forms will be provided on site.

-Members of CCPA will receive transcripts at no cost listing all attended events assessed as Continuing Education Units. Non-members must attach a cheque for $25.00 payable to CCPA to have CEUs recorded and to have a transcript issued. Persons who are not members of CCPA and have previously received a CCPA transcript must attach a cheque for $35.00. Transcripts are normally issued in February. Members may request one additional transcript per year. Additional transcripts are available at the cost of $5.00 for each transcript.