Advanced Integrative Trauma Therapy: A Comprehensive 5-Month Training to Deepen Your Clinical Maps, Tools, and Meta-Skills

Robert Schwarz, PsyD, DCEP, ACAP-EFT has been a licensed psychologist for over 40 years. He was executive director of the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology from 2008-2024. Bob has organized over 30 conferences on Ericksonian hypnosis, trauma treatment, and energy psychology, ACEP’s Science of energy healing online programs and ACEP’s EFT training program.

He has authored 3 books including: Tools for Transforming Trauma and We’re No Fun Anymore: Guiding Couples to a Joy Filled Marriage, as well as numerous articles and papers. He recently released a new online program Transforming Trauma and limiting Beliefs with EFT

Bob presents workshops and keynotes internationally on EFT and energy psychology and trauma treatment. He is known for his ability to provide specific clinical skills within an integrative model. Bob believes that it is crucial to prioritize joy and creativity in one’s life. He does this personally through music and songwriting and improv.

Learn more at https://www.doctor-bob.com/

This course presents Resource-Based Integrative Therapy (RBIT) as an ecosystemic, phase-oriented approach to trauma treatment. RBIT provides maps for understanding the architecture of the mind and the process of therapeutic remodeling—how experience is constructed through interacting states of consciousness, memories, meanings, physiological processes, relationships, resources, and patterns of action.

From a constructivist perspective, trauma is understood not simply as something that happened in the past, but as an organization of experience that continues to shape present functioning. The course expands trauma treatment beyond symptom reduction and memory processing to an ecosystemic model of trauma and healing. Treatment emphasizes building and reconnecting internal and external resources; strengthening physiological, emotional, and relational regulation; updating traumatic memory and meaning through reconsolidation; and increasing integration, flexibility, and connection.

Within a phase-oriented framework, participants learn a Tools Framework for selecting and adapting interventions according to the client, state, goal, and moment. Tools include breathing and regulation strategies, visual submodalities, Trauma Reassociative Conditioning, Yes, And, future-oriented and identity-based interventions, and EFT approaches including Tearless Trauma and Tell the Story.

The course also expands the endpoint of trauma therapy beyond recovery toward agency, directionality, and flourishing—helping clients increasingly organize their lives around what matters to them.

Throughout the course, seven Meta-Skills are woven into the teaching and application of the tools. If RBIT provides the maps of the architecture and remodeling process, the Seven Meta-Skills are the master clinical capacities required to navigate that architecture and carry out the remodeling process with precision, flexibility, collaboration, and effectiveness.

Advanced Integrative Trauma Therapy: A Comprehensive 5-Month Training to Deepen Your Clinical Maps, Tools, and Meta-Skills - Agenda

Module 1 (pre-recorded) – Reducing Dysregulation: Physiology and Affect - 1 hr 30 mins

This module introduces the Resource-Based Integrative Therapy framework and the major maps used throughout the course. Participants learn phase-oriented trauma treatment, the States of Consciousness model, the ecosystemic model of trauma and healing, and the idea that therapy remodels the architecture of present-moment experience. The module emphasizes resource-building, regulation, and the distinction between trauma-organized and resourceful states. Practical Phase 1 interventions include Tiger to Kitten Breathing and visual submodality shifts for reducing intensity.

Session Agenda:

• Introductory Models (13 min)

• Meta-skills and the States of Consciousness Model (27 min)

• Tools Model (13 min)

• Tiger to Kittens Breathing (16 min)

• Sub-modalities for Reducing Dysregulation (21 min)

Module 2 (pre-recorded) – Reducing Dysregulation: Boundaries - 1 hr 18 min

Module 2 begins with practical work on boundaries and grounding and then introduces the Meta-Skill Model as the master clinical capacities that guide therapeutic remodeling. The module includes Meta-Skill 1: Theory-to-Practice Integration; Meta-Skill 2: Collaborative, Non-Pathologizing Mindset; Meta-Skill 5: Precision Attending; Meta-Skill 6: Precision in Crafting Interventions; and Meta-Skill 7: Facilitating Transformational Experience. These capacities are taught as ways of translating maps into precise, flexible clinical action.

Session Agenda:

• Tool: Boundaries Problem Solving Checklist (12 min)

• Tool: 54321 Grounding Technique (7 min)

• Tool: Scheduling Containment (6 min)

• Tool: Zip Up (7 min)

• Meta Skill 2: Collaborative, Non-Pathologizing Mindset (18 min)

• Meta Skills 5 & 6: Precision Attending; Crafting Precision Interventions (18 min)

• Meta Skill 7: Facilitating Transformative Experience (10 min)

Module 3 (pre-recorded) – Phase 2 of Trauma Treatment - 3 hr 7 min

Module 3 turns toward Phase 2 trauma work and focuses on the therapist capacities needed to remain open, grounded, and emotionally present while traumatic material is activated. This is where Meta-Skill 3: Curious Non-Attachment and Meta-Skill 4: Empathic Presence in the Face of Suffering are developed. These meta-skills then become the relational and regulatory foundation for memory reconsolidation, Trauma Reassociative Conditioning, and the Yes, And intervention.

• Phase 2 of Trauma Treatment (19 min)

• A Different View of Dissociation (9 min)

• Tool: Trauma Reassociative Conditioning (TRC) (29 min)

• Demo: Trauma Reassociative Conditioning TRC (37 min)

• Beth Demo (1 hr 1 min)

• Full Ecosystemic Model: First Look (17 min)

• Tool: Yes, And (The Rolodex of Resources) (15 min)

Module 4 (pre-recorded) – Phase 3 of Trauma Treatment - 1 hr 22 min

Module 4 reconceptualizes Phase 3 as a process that begins much earlier than the end of memory work. Desired futures, identity, agency, and life direction are understood as organizing influences in the present. Participants explore the Holistic Self, future orientation, agency, and techniques that help spread therapeutic gains into relationships, behavior, identity, and everyday life.

• Phase 3 Reconceptualized (23 min)

• The Holistic Self (18 min)

• Phase 3 General Treatment Protocol (20 min)

• Self Image Thinking (14 min)

• Get A Life Therapy (7 min)

Module 5 (pre-recorded) – Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - 2 hr 27 min

Module 5 applies the RBIT maps, phase framework, and Meta-Skills to Emotional Freedom Techniques. EFT is presented within advanced integrative trauma therapy rather than as an isolated tapping protocol. Participants distinguish EFT for self-regulation from reparative/root-cause work, learn the basic procedure, identify and treat specific aspects, and use Tearless Trauma and Tell the Story as titrated approaches to traumatic memory. The module concludes by connecting EFT to reconsolidation, belief change, identity, and Phase 3 integration.

• Introduction (3 min)

• Basic Formula (12 min)

• EFT Demo (34 min)

• Exercise: Experiential EFT Practice (10 min)

• Tell the Story Technique (18 min)

• Tell the Story Technique Demo (23 min)

• Personal Peace Procedures as Treatment Plans (5 min)

• EFT in Phase 3 of Trauma Treatment (19 min)

• Conclusion to Module 5 (6 min)

• Course Wrap-Up (17 min)

Advanced Integrative Trauma Therapy: A Comprehensive 5-Month Training to Deepen Your Clinical Maps, Tools, and Meta-Skills - Learning Objectives

 Module 1

• Identify at least four characteristics of Resource-Based Integrative Trauma Treatment that distinguish its resource-based, experiential, integrative, and non-pathologizing orientation.

• Identify at least five components of a state of consciousness that can organize a person’s moment-to-moment experience, including perception, emotion, memory, meaning, physiological arousal, and behavior.

• Identify at least three differences between trauma-organized states and more resourceful states of consciousness, including differences in regulation, appraisal of danger or safety, access to resources, flexibility, and agency.

Module 2

• Delineate at least three characteristics of a collaborative, non-pathologizing therapeutic stance.

• Describe at least 3 aspects of the Meta-Skill 5: Precision Attending.

• Analyze and discuss at least 3 reasons that Erickson’s Utilization principle is a key aspect of Meta Skill 5 Precision attending and Meta Skill 6 Precision Interventions.

Module 3

• Identify at least four ways access to resourceful states can change the way traumatic memories are experienced and processed.

• Describe at least three principles of titration and specificity used to keep trauma work within a therapeutically useful level of activation.

• Identify at least five major steps in Trauma Reassociative Conditioning, from preparation and calibration of the trauma state through resource activation, trauma-memory work, and integration.

Module 4

• Describe at least three ways agency is influenced by a person’s internal states, available resources, and relational or environmental context.

• Delineate the five major dimensions of the Holistic Self model, including access to resources, boundaries, valuing previously disowned aspects of self, placing experience in a larger context, and acknowledging “that what is.”

• Identify at least four ways therapists can help clients generalize changes made in therapy into identity, relationships, behavior, and everyday life.

Module 5

• Describe the two major modes of EFT use presented in the course and identify at least three differences between EFT used for self-regulation and EFT used for reparative or root-cause work.

• Identify at least five basic components involved in conducting an EFT intervention, including selecting a target, assessing intensity, constructing the setup statement, tapping, and reassessing the response.

• Identify at least four categories of specific aspects that can be targeted during EFT trauma work, including sensory details, emotions, bodily sensations, and meanings or cognitions.

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To receive continuing education credit, applicants must complete all CE materials, submit a course evaluation form, and score 80% or higher on the post-test. Attendees are responsible for determining whether the CE credit offered by Academy of Therapy Wisdom meets their state licensing/certification board's regulations.

Cost
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Psychology:
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