Breaking The Cycle Of Trauma: New Learning & Plasticity In Implicit Memory

Breaking The Cycle Of Trauma: New Learning & Plasticity In Implicit Memory

In this Trauma Wisdom Circle, you will learn that healing trauma is not about thinking differently about what happens but about creating new opportunities for learning where traumatic memories are primarily encoded. We will examine which branches of implicit memory remain cognitive and perceptual and which can be accessed through interoception, or conscious awareness of bodily sensation. Interoception occurs in the insular cortex and can directly interpret and shift the salience of trauma-based memories and ongoing signals of thwarted survival physiology. Students will learn not to directly work with motor procedural, emotional priming, and associative emotional and motor memory in therapy. New implicit learning occurs through interoceptive appraisal. Attendees will have an up-to-date understanding of the science behind practices they can use to help their clients recover from trauma and increase resilience. We will also talk about how this actually looks in clinical practice and what kinds of questions you can ask to access new learning in implicit memory.

Breaking The Cycle Of Trauma: New Learning & Plasticity in Implicit Memory with Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D.

Course Agenda

• The Science of Interoception (15 minutes)
• Using Interoception in Clinical Practice (15 minutes)
• Questions that access Interoception (10 minutes)
• Video example of Implicit Memory questions (10 minutes)
• Implicit memory and the nervous system and embodied emotional memory (30 minutes)
• Questions and Answers (20 minutes)

Live Online Zoom Session 2: Breaking the Cycle of Trauma: New Learning & Plasticity in Implicit Memory – Implicit Psychotherapy Regulation Tools – Friday, April 12th, 2024 – 8-9:30am PDT/11am-12:30pm EDT – 1.5 hours – 1.5 CEs

Session Content:

• Dysregulation in the ANS: Symptoms – Physiological, Emotional, and Behavioral (20 minutes)
• The Insular Cortex and its role in the biology of recovery (20 minutes)
• Implicit Psychotherapy Regulation Tools (30 minutes)Orienting
  • Grounding
  • Containing
  • Support
  • Mobilization
  • Expansion
  • Sound/Vibration
• Q and A (20 minutes)

Breaking the Cycle of Trauma: New Learning & Plasticity in Implicit Memory with Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, Ph.D.

Learning Objectives

Live Session 1:

1. List five questions that assist in accessing interception.
2. Identify autonomic nervous system states in relationship to a client’s behaviors, emotions, and cognition.
3. Name two awareness-based exercises that counteract high sympathetic arousal such as anxiety, insomnia, and hyper-vigilance.
4. Distinguish between exposure and narrative-based therapies vs. therapies that create new learning in implicit memory to renegotiate trauma.

Live Session 2:

1. Implement three tools to increase your client’s ability to safely experience a wide range of emotion following a trauma.
2. Identify three ways that clinicians can access implicit memories during a session.
3. Apply three awareness-based techniques that counteract fear, immobilization, and helplessness.

For intermediate mental health professionals including Psychologists, Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFTs.

Continuing Education

This program offers limited Live CEs/Contact Hours.

Continuing education credit/Contact hours are awarded on a per-session basis, with full attendance required for the entire 90-minute duration.  There is no additional charge for the CEs.  Application forms and other required CE materials will be available to participants by the Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

NOTE:  To receive continuing education credit, applicants must complete all CE materials, comply with attendance regulations, and submit an evaluation form for the session attended.  It is the responsibility of the attendee to determine if CE credit/contact hours offered by Academy of Therapy Wisdom meet the regulations of their state licensing/certification board.  

Psychology:  This course does NOT provide CEs for Psychologists.

Counseling:

Academy of Therapy Wisdom has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7370. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Academy of Therapy Wisdom is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.  This program is approved for 1.5 CE Credit Hours for each live session for a possible total of 3 CE Credit Hours.

NY State Mental Health Counselors: Academy of Therapy Wisdom is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0285.

Marriage/Family Therapy: See below for CAMFT information.

This course is $97 per month or $997/year. You can purchase it here.