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Course Description
In this 6-hour workshop, we will approach chronic physical symptoms in traumatized patients as a manifestation of unprocessed traumatic memories held in the body. Inspired by the work of Robert Scaer, this approach draws on interventions from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and clinical hypnosis to help clients locate the origins of their pain in the events of their past. You will learn how to help clients “hear” the communication conveyed by their bodies, connect with the bodily manifestations of memory, and begin to resolve the trauma-related fear and pain driving the chronic physical issues.
NOTE: This course does not offer CE credits.
About Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD, is assistant education director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an EMDR International Association (EMDRIA) consultant, and a former instructor at the Trauma Center, a clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. She is the author of “Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self- Alienation.” Known for her expertise as a clinician, author, and presenter, she is also past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and coauthor (with Pat Ogden) of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.