Nobody can “treat” abuse, rape, molestation, or any other horrendous event. What has happened cannot be undone.
But what can be dealt with are the imprints of the trauma on body, mind, and soul.
Watch Bessel van der Kolk, MD, along with Licia Sky, BFA, LMT, in a transformational clinical trauma training. Watch and learn from one of the most renowned trauma experts – one who has spent decades working both as a researcher and clinician. – and NY Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps The Score.
As clinicians, the challenge is to help clients reestablish ownership of their bodies and minds — to feel without becoming overwhelmed, enraged, ashamed, or collapsed.
It takes specific methods, like neurofeedback, EMDR, meditation, yoga, mindfulness, and sensory integration. Dr. van der Kolk has used every one of these methods extensively to successfully treat his own clients, and has also experienced them himself.
This training will serve as both a guide and an invitation – an invitation to dedicate yourself to the pursuit of helping trauma clients with the best treatment approaches proven to alleviate suffering.
Let Dr. van der Kolk and Licia Sky show you how to apply these proven methods and approaches to your clinical practice — so you can experience the satisfaction of helping even your toughest client heal from deep-rooted trauma.
Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Psychiatrists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Art Therapists
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze and communicate how traumatized people process information.
- Determine how sensorimotor processing can alleviate traumatic re-experiencing.
- Articulate the range of adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle.
- Substantiate how trauma affects the developing mind and brain.
- Analyze the recent advances in neurobiology of trauma.
- Differentiate between disrupted attachment and traumatic stress.
- Demonstrate how adverse childhood experiences affect brain development, emotion regulation and cognition.
- Choose techniques of physical mastery, affect regulation and memory processing.
- Assess how traumatic imprints can be integrated using techniques drawn from yoga, theater, neurofeedback, and somatic therapies.
- Appraise the current DSM-5® position on DTD.
- Integrate various trauma treatment approaches in your practice.
- Defend treatment strategy alternatives to drugs and talk therapy through an understanding of current research.
Course Modules / Outline
Neuroscience & Brain Development
- Neuroscience and brain development
- How children learn to regulate their arousal systems
- How the brain regulates itself
- Developmental psychopathology: The derailment of developmental processes & brain development due to trauma, abuse and neglect
- How the brain responds to treatment
Early Life Trauma
- Interpersonal neurobiology
- Adaptations to trauma early in the life cycle
- Loss of affect regulation
- Chronic destructive relationships towards self and others
- Dissociation and amnesia
- Somatization
- Self-blame, guilt and shame
- Chronic distrust and identification with the aggressor
Attachment, Trauma, and Psychopathology
- The breakdown of information processing in trauma
- Mirror neuron systems and brain development
- How to overcome the destabilization and disintegration
- The compulsion to repeat – origins and solutions
- Difference between disorganized attachment and traumatic stress
Neuroscience, Trauma, Memory and the Body
- The neurobiology of traumatic stress
- Learned helplessness and learned agency
- Restoring active mastery and the ability to attend to current experiences
- Somatic re-experiencing of trauma-related sensations and affects that serve as engines for continuing maladaptive behaviors
- How mind and brain mature in the context of caregiving systems
The Diagnosis of Treatment of Trauma-Related Disorders
- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
- Affect and impulse dysregulation
- Disturbances of attention, cognition and consciousness
- Distortions in self-perception and systems of meaning
- Interpersonal difficulties
- Somatization and biological dysregulation
- The development of DTD in the DSM-5® as a diagnosis and its implications for assessment, diagnosis and treatment
The Latest Research on Trauma-specific Treatment Interventions
- Experiential body-oriented therapy exercises with Licia Sky
- The role of body-oriented and neurologically-based therapies to resolve the traumatic past
- Alternatives to drugs and talk therapy
- EMDR
- Self-regulation, including yoga
- Mindfulness
- Play and theatre
- Dance, movement and sensory integration
- Neurofeedback
Why Take This Course?
If you work with trauma survivors, you already know that talk therapy alone often isn’t enough. Trauma lives in the body as much as in the mind — and true healing must address both. In this powerful 2-day intensive with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of how trauma disrupts brain development, emotion regulation, memory, and the nervous system.
This course equips you with:
Evidence-based, drug-free techniques like EMDR, neurofeedback, yoga, mindfulness, and movement
Practical tools to help clients regulate emotions, build trust, and reclaim their lives
Insight into Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) and the limits of DSM-5®
A roadmap for integrating somatic and neuroscience-informed practices into your clinical work
Whether you’re a seasoned clinician or new to trauma care, this course will give you the confidence, clarity, and advanced strategies you need to help your clients heal at the deepest level.
Meet the Course Experts:
Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD, is a clinician, researcher and teacher in the area of post-traumatic stress. His work integrates developmental, neurobiological, psychodynamic and interpersonal aspects of the impact of trauma and its treatment.
Dr. van der Kolk and his various collaborators have published extensively on the impact of trauma on development, such as dissociative problems, borderline personality and self-mutilation, cognitive development, memory, and the psychobiology of trauma. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles on such diverse topics as neuroimaging, self-injury, memory, neurofeedback, Developmental Trauma, yoga, theater, and EMDR.
He is founder of the Trauma Center in Brookline, Massachusetts and President of the Trauma Research Foundation, which promotes clinical, scientific, and educational projects.
His 2014 #1 New York Times best seller, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Treatment of Trauma, transforms our understanding of traumatic stress, revealing how it literally rearranges the brain’s wiring – specifically areas dedicated to pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. He shows how these areas can be reactivated through innovative treatments including neurofeedback, somatically based therapies, EMDR, psychodrama, play, yoga, and other therapies.
Dr. van der Kolk is the past president of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies, and professor of psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. He regularly teaches at conferences, universities, and hospitals around the world.
Licia Sky is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing, and connection. She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Kripalu, and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world. Licia is the co-founder of the Trauma Research Foundation.
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