Resilience Informed Therapy: An Integrative, Somatic Approach to Trauma Therapy
Arielle Schwartz · Ph.D.
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Course Details
Arielle Schwartz, PhD is a clinical psychologist and author of six books: The Complex PTSD Workbook, The Practical Guide to Complex PTSD, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook, The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery.
Dr. Schwartz is an accomplished teacher who guides therapists in the application of EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of trauma and complex PTSD. She has a depth of understanding, passion, kindness, compassion, joy, and a succinct way of speaking about very complex topics.
She is the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy in Boulder, Colorado where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. Arielle is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor and teaches at the Polyvagal Institute where she offers a course on Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga along with Dr. Stephen Porges. With over twenty years as a therapeutic yoga teacher, Dr. Schwartz believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
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Resilience Informed Therapy: An Integrative, Somatic Approach to Trauma Therapy
with Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.
- Applied Polyvagal Theory in yoga helps you to fine-tune the nervous system moment-by-moment to help clients come out of chronic stress
Learn how to safely work with the client’s emotions, sensations, and psychophysiological arousal associated with dissociative states. - The integration of Parts Work and EMDR therapies helps clients safely reprocess complex trauma rooted in developmental or sociocultural events.
- Discover how to naturally stimulate your vagus nerve to enhance your physical and emotional health.
Resilience Informed Therapy: An Integrative, Somatic Approach to Trauma Therapy
with Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.
Course Agenda
12 CEs
Pre-recorded Module 1 – From Burnout to Self-Renewal: A Resilience-Informed Approach to Care – TOTAL TIME: 1h 39m
Overview – Many therapists today are struggling with stress and burnout in a world where stress and trauma are a predominant reality for many clients and therapists alike. Module one discusses the importance of a resilience informed approach to care which introduces participants to key definitions of resilience and post-traumatic growth. Moreover, clinicians are given tools to implement into their practice to alleviate vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. We begin by discussing the toll that trauma treatment can have on us as mental health providers-especially looking at vicarious trauma and burnout. We are humans first, we come into this field with our histories, and we–like our clients are navigating this complex world we share (pandemic, climate change, political conflicts, war, and acts of terrorism.) We then explore what a resilience informed therapy looks like and how this can help you to leave your office each day feeling inspired and effective rather than drained.
Module 1 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (10 minutes)
- Recognize therapist’s stress and burnout within self and understand the risk factors (15 mins)
- Detailing a resilience-informed approach to Care including research-based factors of resilience (22 mins)
- Introduces participants to a resilience questionnaire and guides a practice to enhance these factors in their lives, as a model to guide clients to do the same (9 mins)
- Provides the basis of Resilience Informed Therapy which relies upon the following principles: Strength Orientation, Phase Based, Mindful and Embodied, Connection and Co-Regulation, Cultural Humility, Sensitivity, and Inclusiveness, Person-Centered and Compassionate Care (16 minutes)
- Provides tools for clinicians to implement into their practice to alleviate vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout (27 minutes)
Overview – We look more closely at the toll that trauma can take on our client’s mental, emotional, and physical health and we span the range of single incident to complex traumatization, discussing, attachment, developmental, as well as transgenerational, and collective traumatization as well as tools to start creating stabilization in clients. Rooted in the tri-phasic model of trauma recovery and the trauma-informed guidelines from the CDC.gov, this module guides clinicians to focus on stabilization in the initial phases of treatment. Participants are guided on how to complete a case conceptualization and history-taking while attending to the safety of the client.
Module 2 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (13 minutes)
- Provides key definitions of trauma including acute traumatic stress, PTSD, complex trauma, and the dissociative subtype of PTSD (22 minutes)
- Details additional Factors of Trauma Etiology (31 minutes)
- Discussion of Differential Diagnosis (36 minutes)
- Defining Trauma-Informed Care from the in alignment with the CDC and SAMHSA (26 minutes)
- Guides clinicians to complete a Case Conceptualization with History Taking Questions (13 minutes)
- Invites participants to explore a Therapist Self-Awareness practice (6 minutes)
Overview – This module teaches applied polyvagal theory within psychotherapy, helping participants gain a deep understanding of what is going on in the client’s nervous system. Through the lens of nervous system regulation, we explore the connections between stress, trauma, and symptoms of illness. We look at the impact of Adverse Childhood Events (ACEs) and Culturally informed ACEs as related to mental and physical health. Participants will come away with natural vagus nerve stimulation tools that create a mutual field of regulation in the therapy room.
Module 3 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (10 minutes)
- Explores the connection between Stress, Trauma, and Health including the ACE factors and culturally informed ACES (15 minutes)
- Details The Polyvagal Theory (28 minutes)
- Describes Neuroception as a key component of the polyvagal theory and a Foundation for Change (18 minutes)
- Applies Interventions for Psychobiological Regulation (29 minutes)
- Discusses Vagal Tone & Vagal Efficiency (22 minutes)
- Guides participants through Neuromodulation and natural Vagus Nerve Stimulation exercises (41 minutes)
Overview – Module 4 covers resources for trauma recovery drawn from somatic psychology, self-compassion research, and the science of positive neuroplasticity. Through the science of positive neuroplasticity, clinicians learn about the negativity bias and how to hardwire resilience into the nervous system. Participants learn to prepare clients for the deeper work of traumatic memory reprocessing. There is a guided practice for experiential learning of somatic interventions to enhance embodiment (your own and your clients).
Module 4 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (5 minutes)
- Details The Science of Positive Neuroplasticity (17 minutes)
- Recognize the negativity bias and learn how to Hardwire Happiness (13 minutes)
- Explores the power of Visualization and Imaginal Resources (10 minutes)
- Applies tools of Self-compassion for trauma recovery (15 minutes)
- Teaches Somatic Resources to Enhance Embodiment in trauma treatment (55 minutes)
Overview – Module 5 provides multiple approaches to traumatic memory reprocessing through an integrative mind-body approach that incorporates somatic psychology, parts work therapies, and elements of EMDR Therapy. Participants will have an opportunity to observe a demonstration session which helps to make the theory more tangible. The emphasis is to seamlessly integrate positive resource states while attending to the distress of traumatic memories.
Module 5 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (17 minutes)
- Understand Predictive Processing & Somatic Reappraisal (18 minutes)
- Details the value of Embodiment in Trauma Treatment (33 minutes, guide focusing as a practice)
- Explores EMDR as related to traumatic event Reprocessing, Exposure, and desensitization (27 minutes)
- Observe a demonstration session (55 minutes)
Overview – Module 6 discusses the common barriers that arise throughout treatment and guides participants to help clients transcend those barriers. Clinicians will learn how to conduct the integration and re-evaluation phases of treatment which supports clients in cultivating cognitive coherence and optimal wellness in the people they serve.
Module 6 Content:
- Introduce participants to the objectives of the module and guide an Arriving Practice (10 minutes)
- Details of how to conduct the Integration and Re-evaluation phase of treatment (10 minutes)
- Explores how to help clients navigate treatment barriers (19 minutes)
- Define what it means to help clients cultivate coherence as a key component of trauma recovery (14 minutes)
- Guide participants through a closing and integration practice identifying golden nuggets from the training) (7 minutes)
RESILIENCE INFORMED THERAPY: AN INTEGRATIVE, SOMATIC APPROACH TO TRAUMA THERAPY
WITH ARIELLE SCHWARTZ, PH.D.
Learning Objectives
1. Determine two risk factors for therapist vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout.2. Distinguish key contributing factors to the development of PTSD as it relates to client case conceptualization.
3. Apply culturally relevant information to treatment plans and build working alliances with clients before trauma processing.
4. Assess three examples of critical traumatic content during trauma processing.
5. Analyze one instance of the impact of trauma on each of the cognitive, emotional, and physical health of
the client.
6. Determine how to assess clients for PTSD symptoms within other diagnoses, including personality disorders, mood disorders, anxiety disorders, and dissociative disorders.
7. Employ one method to assess clients for racial trauma and/or stress from discrimination.
8. Incorporate into clinical treatment practical two mind-body therapy tools to help
clients feel resourced and prepared for trauma processing.
9. Employ an evidence-based Three Phase Model in trauma treatment that begins
with establishing safety.
10. Evaluate your client’s nervous system states as related to autonomic cues of
stress and signs of safety
11. Differentiate between hyper-arousal and hypo-arousal signals in clients.
12. Employ breathing and somatic interventions clients can use when they are in acute distress.
13. Demonstrate two grounding and orientating techniques that increase the client’s resources.
14. Describe two Mindfulness-based self-compassion interventions for resource development with clients
15. Breakdown how mutual regulation within the therapeutic relationship teaches clients self-regulation strategies that help them develop new interpersonal strengths that help with the treatment process.
16. Analyze one aspect of parts work from Structural Dissociation, Internal Family Systems, and Gestalt perspectives.
17. Recognize emotional and physiological dysregulation as “parts” of self.
18. Evaluate the basic principles of a unified approach to somatic psychology.
19. Implement four mindfulness-based techniques into trauma treatment.
20. Integrate one intervention for the treatment of PTSD drawn from each modality: CBT, DBT, EMDR
Therapy, Parts Work Therapy, Somatic Psychology, and mind-body therapies.
21. Determine how the neuroscience of interpersonal neurobiology provides insight into the psychobiological changes possible within trauma treatment.
22. Analyze how working within the “Window of Tolerance” can help reduce the likelihood of re-traumatization.
23. Assess two factors related to how “top-down” and “bottom-up” interventions can speed up or slow
down the pacing of trauma treatment.
24. Demonstrate two effective strategies for working with clients’ preverbal memories.
25. Discuss two treatment barriers and how to assist clients to successfully navigate blocks in therapy.
For intermediate mental health professionals including Social Workers, LPCs, and LMFTs.
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