Overview:
What do you do when the most fundamental prerequisite to a patient’s success in therapy—wanting to be helped in the first place—is lacking due to treatment-resistant depression? How can you build a successful treatment plan with a client who has no desire, energy, or focus to commit to the first step?
In this course, you will learn how to meet your clients where they are, using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions to help them view their depressive symptoms mindfully, ingraining the understanding that these are the somatic effects of trauma.Â
You will be equipped with carefully informed interventions, including posture, breath, and energy work, that are proven to deliver transformative results for clients with treatment-resistant depression.
Objectives:
Describe at least two (2) physiological aspects of treatment-resistant depression.
Identify three (3) cognitive schemas that perpetuate depressive thoughts and behaviors.
Identify three (3) somatic interventions that promote increased energy and attention in depressed clients.
Describe the role of social engagement in promoting an internal sense of safety.
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Scope and Limitations Disclosure:
This course may present techniques and interventions that extend beyond your specific training or professional expertise. As a licensed professional, it is your responsibility to ensure that your practice remains within the legal and ethical boundaries defined by your profession’s standards and applicable laws.
While the speaker will make every effort to present information relevant to the typical scope of practice for most therapists, only you can determine which practices are appropriate, ethical, and safe for your individual clients.
Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
The speaker has no relevant financial or non-financial relationships to disclose. There are no conflicts of interest associated with this presentation.
Course materials are only available to enrolled students.
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Dr. Janina Fisher
Dr. Janina Fisher is a distinguished clinical psychologist renowned for her expertise in trauma treatment. She is a former instructor at Harvard Medical School and an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation founded by Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk. Dr. Fisher's impactful contributions to the field extend beyond her clinical practice. She has served as the President of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, contributed as an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, and held the position of Assistant Educational Director at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Her exceptional ability to bridge neurobiological research with innovative trauma treatment methods has led her to lecture and teach nationally and internationally, enriching the understanding of trauma therapy. Dr. Janina is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.
National Approvals
eCare BHI, as the accredited and approved sponsor, maintains responsibility for all the programs and must abide by each board’s continuing education guidelines.

Professional Counselors — The National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute has been approved by NBCC as an approved Continuing Education Provider. ACEP No. 6703. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC are clearly identified. E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Addiction Professionals — NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is officially on file with NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals (NAADAC) as an Approved Education Provider. They are formally known as NAADAC Provider #139138. Please note that E care Behavioral Health Institute is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.

Social Workers — Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute, #1706, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. E Care Behavioral Health Institute maintains responsibility for this course.  ACE provider approval period: 06-03-2020 – 06-03-2026.Â

Psychologists — American Psychological Association (APA)
E Care Behavioral Health Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. E Care Behavioral Health Institute maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

CE Broker
CE Broker is a continuing education tracking system in which licensees track their compliance and report their completed CE hours credit (CE Broker Tracking #50-33336)
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