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.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED!

This workshop serves as an introduction to the Level One: Training for the Treatment of Trauma, coming to Washington DC in December, 2010.

CEU Information: 6 Credit hours available, credit is co-sponsored by The Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and The Institute for Continuing Education. For Workshop Events, credit is awarded on a daily basis, with full attendance required. Application forms and complete information about how to receive continuing education credit are available at each event. If you have questions regarding continuing education for a specific offering, please contact The Institute at: 251-990-5030

15% Discount for groups of 3 or more To obtain this 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.

PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF THIS WORKSHOP HAS CHANGED TO NOVEMBER 7TH

PLEASE NOTE: BRIGITTA KARELIS IS THE NEW SCHEDULED PRESENTER FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Click here for a bio on Brigitta, as well as all of the SPI faculty

Please contact the office if you have any questions.