Friday, March 15, 2024
12:00 PM EST – 3:15 PM EST
Overview:
Over the past two decades, neuroscience has transformed our understanding of traumatic memory, shifting the focus from the events themselves to the nonverbal physical and emotional imprints that keep trauma alive long after the experience has passed. As Gabor Maté states, “Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you as a result of what happens to you.”
This workshop integrates principles from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) to explore how trauma fragments the self through dissociation and leaves parts of the personality in a state of vigilance and distress. Rather than focusing on recounting traumatic events, we will examine how implicit memory, autonomic arousal, and body-based responses sustain trauma symptoms.
Through a somatic and parts-work lens, this session will demonstrate practical interventions for unblending from overwhelmed parts, fostering self-compassion, and using mindful movement to regulate arousal. Attendees will learn relentless reframing techniques, grounding exercises, and breath-based interventions to help clients integrate fragmented experiences safely. By shifting the emphasis from what happened to how trauma is carried and experienced, clinicians can support clients in moving toward healing and wholeness.
Objectives:
- Describe the relationship between trauma and fragmentation
- Identify and differentiate the behavioral, emotional, and somatic indicators that reveal the presence of dissociated parts linked to trauma.
- Identify manifestations of implicit memory
- Explain a specific sensorimotor-based intervention—such as a guided deep breathing and grounding exercise—that is designed to regulate autonomic arousal and detail how this intervention helps to activate the body’s safety signals.
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.

CE Broker
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