The Body Remembers: Integrating Body and Mind for Trauma Recovery

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Babette Rothschild Related seminars and products: 7

MSW, LCSW, Owner

Somatic Trauma Therapy

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Babette Rothschild, MSW, LCSW has been a practicing psychotherapist and body-psychotherapist since 1976 and a California Licensed Clinical Social Worker since 1978. She is a member of the International and European Societies for Traumatic Stress Studies, the Association of Traumatic Stress. Babette has trained extensively in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Psychodrama, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing and Somatic Experiencing, and is a certified Bodynamic Analyst and certified Radix Teacher. She has written extensively on trauma. Her works include 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery; HELP for the HELPER: The Psychophysiology of Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma (with Marjorie Rand); THE BODY REMEMBERS: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment; THE BODY REMEMBERS CASEBOOK: Unifying Methods and Models in the Treatment of Trauma and PTSD; Trauma Essentials: The Go-to Guide.

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Objectives

1. Identify the central goals of trauma therapy
2. Demonstrate how to become skilled in applying and adapting the phase-oriented structure, no matter which method you practice
3. Explain how to prevent decompensation during trauma therapy
4. Distinguish clients who will benefit from processing trauma memories from those who will not
5. Maximize skills and options for helping clients who do not want to, or do not benefit from, remembering their past trauma/s
6. Utilize tools to maintain your clients’ (and your!) clear thinking at all times
7. Demonstrate how to teach clients to reduce and stop flashbacks
8. Guide clients to manage nightmares
9. Distinguish triggers from flashbacks
10. Recognize and maximize the importance of attachment, support, and relationship for stabilizing and healing trauma
11. Summarize how to become adept at helping all types of clients to achieve and maintain stability
12. Identify hidden resources in your clients’ lives
13. Recognize culture differences when working with your clients
14. Describe how to improve your ability to identify and regulate hyperarousal in your client and yourself
15. Explain the value of modulating pacing and reducing the size of steps to guarantee and build on success
16. Integrate your tool box with mind and body oriented interventions for increasing stability and integrating traumatic memory

Outline

IMPERATIVE GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Major goals for trauma therapy
• Quality of life
• Professional obsolescence
• Importance of contact and support

IMPROVEMENT VS. DECOMPENSATION

• Why clients get worse
• Identifying what works vs. “the evidence base”
• Client and therapist curiosity

THE TERMINOLOGY OF TRAUMA

• DSM-5 ® update
• Stress, Trauma, Posttraumatic stress,
• Posttraumatic stress disorder

PACING

• Three phases
• Stabilization & safety
• Reviewing trauma memories
• Integration
• Small, successful steps

CONTROL

• Loss of control in trauma
• Loss of control in the wake of trauma
• Regaining control

DIAGNOSIS

• Trauma types
• Role of attachment
• Who does not benefit from memory processing and why
• When story matters

FOCUS HEALING ON THE PRESENT

• Mindfulness
• Body awareness
• Recovery vs. resolution

CULTURAL AWARENESS

• Cultural differences
• Traditions
• Rituals
• Advantages

THE TRAUMA COMPROMISED CORTEX

• Amygdala
• Hippocampus
• Prioritize clear thinking

THE SENSORY NERVOUS SYSTEM AND DUAL AWARENESS

• Exteroceptors
• Interoceptors
• Reconciling external and internal cues
• Flashbacks
• Nightmares
• Triggers

SWEET SURVIVAL AND PERSONAL RESOURCES

• Contact and support
• Faith and nature
• Purposeful activity

OBSERVING AND REGULATING HYPERAROUSAL

• Structure of the autonomic nervous system
• From heightened alertness to flight, fight, and freeze
• Applying the brakes
• Relaxed vs. calm

AVOID THE WRONG ROAD

• Medical concerns vs. PTSD
• Current issues vs. past issues
• Importance of the client’s agenda
• Prevent “false memories”

BODY FOCUSED EXERCISES AND PRACTICES

• Body awareness
• Feet and grounding
• Exteroceptive resources
• Proprioception
• Autonomic NS awareness
• Distance and boundary
• Center of gravity and balance
• Balance & strength training

THERAPIST SELF-CARE

• Preventing vicarious trauma & compassion fatigue
• Sit back!
• Empathy and mirror neurons
• Facial feedback
• Respiration synchrony
• Image control

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