Outline

The Latest Research on Trauma

• The impact of trauma on mental illness
• The impact of trauma on physical illness
• Outcomes of unresolved trauma

How and Where Trauma is Stored

• How to navigate the three memory systems
  • Semantic (narrative) memory
  • Event (autonomic) memory
  • Procedural (behavioral) memory
• Strategies for matching specific interventions to memory systems

The Autonomic Nervous System

• 5 discrete autonomic nervous system states used to respond to trauma
• Mild stress to full dissociation
• Bottom-up processing

4 Essential Phases of Trauma Therapy

1. Resourcing
2. (Re)establishment of boundaries, trust and attachment
3. Containment through the autonomic nervous system
4. Integration

Trauma Therapy and Other Mental Health Disorders

• Addiction recovery
  • ​How trauma can complicate recovery
  • Integrating recovery and trauma therapy
• ​Differential Diagosis
  • Bipolar disorder
  • Depressive disorders
  • Anxiety-based disorders

Strategies for Traumatic Transference

• Working with transference is essential for processing trauma
• When and how to move away from and toward transference
• The 4 transferential “roles”: victim, perpetrator, bystander and savior

Experiential Lab I – Somatic Containment of Stress and Trauma

• Transform the theory into practice
• Traumatic change heals by sequencing through the body
• Mindfulness to track somatic process
• Viscerally feeling the 5 different nervous system states
• Empathy for where you’re leading clients
• An entirely new understanding of how to heal PTSD

Experiential Lab II- The Foundation of Resourcing

• Resourcing as the first phase of most trauma, exposure therapies
• The skill of autonomic regulation
• Self-soothing techniques to develop new habitual coping responses
• Trauma management vs. over-resolution
• Guide clients out of trauma and stress into their own refuge