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Overcoming the Most Common Barriers in Trauma Treatment
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As children, many of our adult clients experienced abuses they were helpless to escape or prevent. Perhaps it wasn’t safe for them to cry, look frightened, or voice emotional needs for fear of punishment. Because they had no choice other than to appear “fine,” their brains and bodies instinctively developed habits that prevented them from showing emotion. Although these strategies are adaptive in an unsafe environment, when clients come to therapy years later, their phobia of emotion and vulnerability poses obstacles in their lives—and can also pose significant challenges for us as therapists. Fortunately, modern trauma treatment affords us many ways to help survivors, including those who can’t “go there.” In this workshop, you’ll explore how to:
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Help clients resolve trauma without reliving it
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Better manage your own need as a therapist for clients to be vulnerable
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Use body- and parts-centered approaches to validate avoidance as trauma-related fear
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Develop a strong therapeutic alliance with intellectualized and avoidant clients
Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD, 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 the 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).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and Сòòò½ÊÓƵ. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.