Healing Childhood Trauma with Peter Levine, PhD and Dafna Lender, LCSW: An Integrative Approach for Mental Health Clinicians – Dafna Lender and Peter Levine

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Join international trauma experts Peter Levine, creator of Somatic Experiencing®, and Dafna Lender, Theraplay® and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy trainer, in this recording as they share their insights, expertise, and clinical experience treating childhood trauma.

Through dynamic discussion and demonstrations of their respective approaches, Peter Levine and Dafna Lender offer practical “bottom-up” tools for restoring resilience and equilibrium in children who have experienced trauma, including:

• Simple containment strategies for engaging clients in trauma wound work
• Embodied attachment-based techniques derived from Theraplay®
• Somatic Experiencing® interventions that create positive experiences in the body
• Attunement tools for caregivers and families
• And more!

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1. Appraise the rationale for and efficacy of “bottom-up” interventions for the treatment of trauma in children.
2. Implement Somatic Experiencing® interventions to help children increase tolerance for negative bodily sensations and suppressed emotions.
3. Utilize Theraplay® techniques to repair attachment wounds among children and caregivers.

Foundations of Somatic Experiencing® and Theraplay®

• Evolutionary underpinnings of trauma, the Polyvagal theory
• Flight, flight, freeze, and collapse
• The somatic effects of stress in children
• Trauma through the lens of attachment
• Why “bottom-up” techniques are imperative to the treatment process

Integrative Strategies to Restore Resilience, Attunement, and Safety

• How to assess which behavior(s) require interventions
• Simple containment tools for children
• Therapeutic games for overcoming feelings of helplessness
• Touch-based interventions to release somatically “stuck” responses to stress
• Trust and attunement practices for caregiver and child
• Pendulation-informed techniques to develop a sense of “flow”
• Guided attunement activities for caregivers and families And more!