Peter Levine, Ph.D.’s Trauma and Memory Course: Somatic Experiencing® Skills to Help Clients Get Unstuck and Restore Their Lives – Peter Levine, Ph.D.’s

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Nothing is worse than failing to help the clients who need you the most… clients terrorized by traumatic memories and stuck in their feelings of paralyzing anxiety, fear and helplessness that leaves them in debilitating physical pain. 

Trauma is intrinsic to the body as the mind and your clients need more than traditional talk therapy from you. 

Help your clients get unstuck today. Achieve a deeper yet concise understanding of how trauma impacts both the body and mind. Learn from Peter Levine, Ph.D. – legendary clinician, researcher and author in the field of trauma and memory – and master the principals of his Somatic Experiencing® to quickly reduce symptomology in your clients and treat the traumatic memories that haunt them. 

Join thousands of therapists who have embraced Dr. Levine’s somatic practices for treating PTSD, attachment injuries, sexual abuse, chronic pain and other forms of complex trauma. With 50 years of research and clinical work, Dr. Levine’s body-oriented techniques are extensively honed into seminal books, research and psychotherapeutic advancements. 

During this intensive yet affordable self-directed course, Dr. Levine will give you step-by-step instructions to release traumatic stress, access and release suppressed emotions, move through developmental plateaus… and more powerful interventions for treating trauma, building resilience and empowering your clients. 

BONUS: plus – yours with this offer – even more trauma-treating, body-awareness Somatic Experiencing® tools you can integrate immediately… “The Body as Healer: Working from the Bottom Up” is yours, FREE and to keep forever.

Trauma & Memory Workshop: Clinical Strategies to Resolve Traumatic Memories and Help Clients Reclaim Their Lives with Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.

Peter Levine, Ph.D. will give you step-by-step instructions for addressing traumatic memories and its neurological and physiological impact. You will understand the brain circuitry involved in maintaining traumatic memories that influence how your clients feel, think and interact.

You will gain decades of Dr. Levine’s proven, tested and groundbreaking clinical strategies in only 10 hours. 

Outline

Trauma and the Body

• Developmental trauma from infancy and beyond
• Dopamine System, Socialization, Shame, Disgust
• Basic Matrix of brainstem & cerebellum
• Evolution and Polyvagal foundation
• How the body stores trauma

Deeper Understanding of Memory and Clinical Implications

• Explicit – More Conscious Memory: Declarative vs. Episodic
• Implicit – Less Conscious Memory: Emotional vs Procedural/Body Memory
• Practical tools for therapeutics for Emotions
• Therapeutics somatic/procedural memories that are non-verbal and non-conscious
• Clinical application for memory systems

Traumatic Memories

• Long-term memory vs short-term memory
• How the brain and body store memory
• Memory engrams with somatic markers
• Fight, flight, freeze response
• Endorphins, vagal tone to bimodal sympathetic/parasympathetic cycling
• Uppgivenhetssyndrom (Resignation Syndrome)

How Clients Get “Stuck”

• Tonic immobility – The fallback to freeze
• Freeze couples with Fear
• Dissociation
• Bracing and terror
• Euphoric dissociation
• Collapse

Somatic and Emotional Reactions to Trauma

• Symptoms and complexities of each in therapy
• Emotional – anxiety, depression
• Somatic – chronic pain, fibromyalgia
• Autonomic – migraines, irritable bowel
• Resolving Traumatic Reactions

The Basic Stages of Trauma Treatment

• Containment of strong sensation and emotion
• Pendulation – The dual opposites of sensation
• Address persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidance
• Completion
• Renegotiation of active for passive responses
• Allow things to settle: Self-Paced termination

Therapeutic Approaches to Treat Traumatic Memories

• The importance of “Bottom-Up” processing:
  • The Paul MacLean’s Triune Brain
  • Unspoken Voice
• Somatic Experiencing®:
  • Renegotiation vs. Reliving
  • Restoration of self-regulation
  • Somatic experience of trauma
  • Developing internal awareness
• Address persistent inaction, impulsivity or avoidance
• The mind-body connection in trauma work
• Help reinforce trust and acceptance in clients
• Incorporating client’s spirituality in trauma work