Inside and Outside Threat Mind-Body Approaches to Fear and Threat
Janina fisher
Approved for 7.5 CEs
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
Effective July 27th, 2021, our CE co-sponsor Commonwealth Educational Seminars has lost its APA co-sponsorship.
- If you downloaded your certificate prior to July 27th, 2021, your certificate is still a viable indication of CEs for the course.
- If you downloaded your certificate on or after July 27th, 2021, your certificate is null and void.
- If you have not downloaded your certificate for the course, you will no longer be able to obtain a certificate for CEs.
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July 1st – 30th, 2020
For Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced
Mental Health Professionals
Please note that CEs are an additional cost of $37 and can be purchased at the beginning or end of the program.
It is the participant’s responsibility to check if their state is approved for CEs through the link below. No refunds will be given on CE purchases for failure to check state approval.
Course Details
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is the Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015), author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (in press). She is best known for her work on integrating newer body-centered interventions into traditional psychotherapy approaches.
The mind and body are organized to prioritize safety above all other human needs, but they respond differently to inside versus outside threats. Understanding how the body perceives and adapts to danger is critical for helping clients manage the sense of danger they experience in the era of COVID. In a world that is threatening, fear must become adaptive rather than disabling.
When individuals feel threatened by internal dangers, such as cancer, heart disease, or COVID-19, they often become alienated from their bodies, fearing the body or losing confidence in it. As therapists, we can help clients transform their relationship to threat by helping them befriend the body and speak its language. This will also help the client feel safer.
Our biology intended that fear be a resource, a line of defense against danger. But often clients interpret their somatic responses to threat as a warning to ‘watch out.’ Even when not in actual danger, they can become so focused on anticipating environmental threats that the fear becomes overwhelming. Fear does not feel empowering to most human beings-but helping clients make conscious choices about the risks they face increases their sense of mastery.
In these stressful times, many clients feel the sense of impending COVID and/or societal threat shared by all human beings. In addition, they also experience heightened emotional distress: anxiety, isolation, loneliness, grief, hopelessness. Unable to feel relaxed or find pleasure and often tormented by their early trauma and neglect, many clients are not equipped with ways to feel better in a more stressful world. Helping clients change their relationship to both early and current stress and distress takes the ‘help’ of both the mind and the body.
It is easy at this time in history for any individual to feel trapped, confined, and at the mercy of institutions and governments. Whether in response to COVID restrictions or in response to the racial and socioeconomic inequities that create danger for communities of color, more of our clients will feel helpless, hopeless, or angry. These feelings rob them of a sense of agency and increase their vulnerability to depression and fight/flight responses. To restore the sense of agency in these troubled times, clients need us to help them increase their resilience and support their immune systems so they are better protected from the inside and the outside.
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Identify how the brain and body respond to threat
- Explain how to differentiate between ‘inside’ and ‘outside’ threats
- Describe how you can help clients to regulate fear rather than just tolerate it
- List mindfulness-based and somatic interventions for managing anxiety
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe the effects of an ‘inside’ danger
- Demonstrate how to re-frame disease and disability as ‘inside’ threats
- List how to increase curiosity and interest in fear as a body state
- Utilize ways to help clients become aware of their body’s resources
- Describe how to change the client’s relationship to the body
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Explain ways to help clients understand fear as a resource
- List ways to facilitate curiosity and interest in fear responses
- Demonstrate how to increase client self-awareness of anticipatory fears
- Utilize interventions that help clients experience fear as empowering rather than disabling
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Describe ways to help clients differentiate their responses to current losses of safety from feeling memories of earlier threats
- Asses how to change their relationship to distress and pain rather than enduring it
- Utilize somatic interventions that decrease the intensity of distress
- Demonstrate how to increase the client’s ability to feel positive emotions without fear
At the end of this module, you will be able to:
- Explain how to help clients understand their defensive responses as bodily instincts
- Identify ways to differentiate symptoms and instinctive impulses
- Utilize interventions that increase the somatic sense of competence and mastery
- List interventions that support a robust immune system
This course is $197.
If you for some reason are not satisfied with the course you have 14 days to request a cancellation and a refund. Please refer to the policy section for details on how to cancel.
Additional Policies
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There is a 14-day refund policy. Please contact support@therapywisdom.com if you wish to cancel your purchase.
At this time, we can provide a refund for the CE amount only to those who purchased CEs for their course and were unable to download their certificate before July 27th, 2021.
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Please note that it is the responsibility of the licensee to check with their individual state board to verify CE requirements for their state.
Commonwealth Educational Seminars is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers#SW-0444.
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