Trauma Therapy: A Cutting-Edge Approach for Resolving Trauma & Healing PTSD

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Saj Razvi, MA, LPC Related seminars and products

Executive Director

Trauma Recovery Institute

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Saj Razvi, MA, LPC, is a co-founder of Trauma Dynamics in Denver, CO, he is also a sub-investigator for the MAPS sponsored FDA trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treatment resistant PTSD, and faculty at the University of Denver's Center for Professional Development. He is a trauma expert and researcher who also leads Trauma Dynamics trainings at the University of Denver and nationally for graduate students, professional therapists and medical professionals. Saj is the co-author of Trauma Dynamics: A Therapist's Guide to the Art & Science of Healing PTSD Through the Body.

 

Speaker Disclosure:
Financial: Saj Razvi is the Founder and Lead Instructor for the Love and Trauma Center. He receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Saj Razvi has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.
 

Objectives

1. Analyze the various memory systems and know which interventions are appropriate to each memory system.
2. Describe how the nervous system can be used in trauma resolution.
3. Recognize and track clients for the 5 major autonomic nervous system stress and trauma states.
4. List the 4 key phases of working with traumatized clients and how to clinically work within each phase.
5. Summarize the dangers, value and need of working traumatic transference that is part of complex, relational PTSD.
6. Identify the initial conditions required for trauma resolution to occur.
7. Explain the functional difference between sympathetic activation and parasympathetic responses to threats.

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

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