Befriending the Nervous System: Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds
Linda Thai · LMSW
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Course Details
Linda Thai LMSW(she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting-edge brain and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize, and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.
Untangling the nervous system is key to understanding your client’s stress responses. Instead of looking at it like a tangled ball of yarn, you can approach it as a source of incredible information and clues. In Befriending the Nervous System: Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds, you’ll learn to observe behavioral responses, track the nervous system, and interpret sensory systems to create a holistic picture of your client’s trauma landscape. Then you can develop an integrated approach using somatics, parts work, neurobiology, and attachment theory to facilitate unique trauma healing.
Module 1:After this session, participants will develop a solid understanding of the impact of traumatic stress on the nervous system and the adaptations that then arise in order to prevent further re-traumatization. By understanding the neurobiological mechanisms associated with acute and chronic states of perceived overwhelming distress, we can depathologize and destigmatize the symptoms and experiences of our clients, as well as reframe the ways in which nervous system dysregulation may be expressing as mental health symptoms. Module 2:
After this session, participants will develop a solid understanding of the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system, in such a way that normalizes and contextualizes the nervous systems of our clients. By developing an understanding the intersection of trauma responses, parts work and Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory, clinicians will be more effective in offering bottom-up resourcing for traumatized clients. Module 3:
After this session, participants will develop a working knowledge of sensory differences in such a way that normalizes the experiences and sensory preferences of our clients. By developing an understanding the intersection of trauma responses, sensory processing differences and preferences, and innate differences in neuro-processing, clinicians will be more effective in offering bottom-up resourcing for traumatized clients. Module 4:
After this session, participants will develop a working knowledge of the interrelational dynamics that emerge in the therapeutic relationship as a result of how each person’s unique history and experiences has shaped their nervous systems and their relational strategies. By developing this understanding at the nervous system level, therapists will be able to be more effective in noticing, naming, and navigating transference and countertransference. Module 5:
After this session, participants will develop a knowledge base around the conditions that give rise to family-of-origin dysfunction and how children within those family systems adapt, in such a way that practitioners can develop skills around ambiguous grief and the missing experiences of development.
Befriending the Nervous System:
Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds
Pre-recorded Content
Agenda
5.5 Hours – 5.5 CEs
Pre-recorded Session 1 – Traumatic Stress and the Nervous System: Techniques for Stabilization -1h 23mOverview – This session will cover the impact of acute and chronic perceptions of life threat upon the nervous system, and how the psyche adapts to create future-oriented survival strategies that live in the present and can this autonomic nervous system dysregulation can present in various DSM diagnoses.
Session Content
- Neuroception of Danger and Life Threat: Physiological Survival Responses (13m)
- Distinguish between Fawn, Appease, Freeze and Dorsal Shutdown (15m)
- Case examples of chronic appeasement (9m)
- A more holistic approach to conceptualizing chronic stress (8m)
- The alerting response: finding (17m)
- Traumatic stress and trauma triggers, and autonomic nervous system dysregulation and DSM diagnoses (21m)
Overview – This session will cover the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system.
Session Content
- Three main branches of the autonomic nervous system (7m)
- Beyond Window of Tolerance (12m)
- Blended autonomic nervous system states (5m)
- Common autonomic nervous system loops (10m)
- State creates story – Combining Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts work and Trauma responses (14m)
Overview – This session will cover the five common sensory systems and the three hidden sensory systems; Sensory Processing Disorder, differences and preferences; and the confluence between sensory system differences, ADHD, Autism, and complex developmental trauma.
Session Content
- What is Sensory Processing Disorder? (6m)
- The five common sensory systems: Tactile, auditory, and visual (29m)
- The five common sensory systems: Gustatory and olfactory (5m)
- The three hidden sensory systems: Vestibular, proprioceptive and interoceptive (10m)
- The overlap of Sensory Processing Disorder, ADHD, Autism and complex developmental trauma (27m)
Overview – This session will cover the richness of the interrelational dynamics that emerge in the therapeutic relationship as a result how each person’s unique history and experiences has shaped their nervous systems and their relational strategies.
Session Content
- autonomic nervous system transference and countertransference (25m)
- the four satisfactions of the ego and the drama triangle (12m)
- shapes and countershapes and relational re-enactments (19m)
- window of capacity: from compassion satisfaction to compassion fatigue to burnout (4m)
Overview – This session will cover the common experiences, patterns, and characteristics of under-resourced / dysfunctional families and those raised within these family systems. Somatic practices
Session Content
- the patterns and characteristics of under-resourced / dysfunctional families and those raised in these family systems (35 m)
- the missing experiences of development (7 m)
- the developmental actions of attachment (4 m)
- befriend the stress response cycle and self-compassion (4 m
- self-holding practice (10 m)
- a decolonized approach to secure attachment (8 m)
Befriending the Nervous System:
Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds
Learning Objectives
Session 1 Learning Objectives
• Identify eight physiological responses to perceived overwhelming distress
• Integrate one effective client-friendly metaphor to illustrate how trauma triggers become encoded into the brain
• Identify at least eight DSM diagnoses that correlate with various expressions of autonomic nervous system dysregulation Session 2 Learning Objectives
• Identify the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system
• Learn six techniques to complete the stress response cycle
• Identify the three blended autonomic nervous system states
• Identify the four common autonomic nervous system loops Session 3 Learning Objectives
• Identify the five main sensory systems and the three hidden sensory systems
• Identify at least three expressions of sensory seeking and of sensory avoidance for each of the sensory systems
• Identify at least three strategies for sensory seekers and for sensory avoiders for each of the sensory systems Session 4 Learning Objectives
• Name and identify five possible scenarios of autonomic nervous system countertransference
• Identify four sympathetic nervous system-oriented “satisfactions of the ego”
• Identify the four positions of the Drama Triangle as a function of their respective relationships to the unhealed wounds of the inner child
• Identify the four common relational dynamics of transference/countertransference when working survivors of complex developmental trauma Session 5 Learning Objectives
• Identify five common adaptive strategies of children raised in under-resourced families
• Identify four common interactive dynamics of alcoholic families
• Identify the seven invisibilized wounds of racialized identity trauma and to examine this within the context of the expressions of complex developmental trauma so that clinicians do not risk mis-diagnosing BIPOC clients
• Identify five techniques for self-holding / containment for bringing the nervous system back into regulation
Intermediate mental health care practitioners.
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