Shame: 3 Tips for Breaking the Cycle
Your shame-prone clients are stuck in a vicious cycle...
Around and around they go. Beliefs about themselves trigger the physical response, which reinforces the cognitive schema, which then evokes the physical response...and so on.
So how do we help our clients escape this cycle?
In this short video, Dr. Janina Fisher shares with you 3 interventions drawn from neurobiologically-oriented therapies. (She'll also show you when it's ok to break the 11th commandment.)
If you work with cases involving trauma, you've likely experienced the frustration of having a powerful session with your client one week... only to have them come back the next week with no memory of the previous session鈥檚 breakthrough work.
This happens not because of anything you did wrong, but because of the way trauma impacts the way our brains function.
So what can you do?
Get the traumatized brain working correctly again with the help of my !
These take-home handouts give your clients a structured tool that leverages the latest neuroscience insight to help your clients finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement.
Plus these worksheets address overwhelming emotions like anxiety and shame.
Around and around they go. Beliefs about themselves trigger the physical response, which reinforces the cognitive schema, which then evokes the physical response...and so on.
So how do we help our clients escape this cycle?
In this short video, Dr. Janina Fisher shares with you 3 interventions drawn from neurobiologically-oriented therapies. (She'll also show you when it's ok to break the 11th commandment.)
If you work with cases involving trauma, you've likely experienced the frustration of having a powerful session with your client one week... only to have them come back the next week with no memory of the previous session鈥檚 breakthrough work.
This happens not because of anything you did wrong, but because of the way trauma impacts the way our brains function.
So what can you do?
Get the traumatized brain working correctly again with the help of my !
These take-home handouts give your clients a structured tool that leverages the latest neuroscience insight to help your clients finally experience lasting therapeutic improvement.
Plus these worksheets address overwhelming emotions like anxiety and shame.
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Meet the Expert:
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
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She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Learn more about their educational products, including upcoming live seminars, by clicking here.
Topic: Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry
Tags: Shame | Trauma | Trauma Treatment | Somatic Interventions
