How to Help Clients Revisit Trauma Without Reliving It
When working with traumatic memory, we need to help clients revisit trauma without reliving it.
Otherwise, we risk destabilizing our clients when they are most fragile.
But working with traumatic memory is complicated – we’ve got to know how to work with the different types of memory in order to effectively target our interventions.
That’s why we’re bringing you this short, focused course . . .
How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory
Peter Levine, PhD
- How to Help Clients Revisit Traumatic Memories Without Becoming Stuck in Them
- How Trauma Impacts Community
- How to Help Your Clients Build Resilience Against Traumatic Experiences
- How Different Types of Memory Can Contribute to the Traumatic Experience
- Why Searching for Memories Can be Counter-Productive (and What’s More Effective in the Treatment of Trauma)
- How to Help Clients Disrupt the Memory-Distress Cycle
- Why It’s Crucial to Understand Different Types of Memory (and Which One to Focus on First in the Treatment of Trauma)
- The One Type of Trauma Memory That Must Change Before All Others
- Why It’s Crucial to Change the Body’s Experience of Trauma
- A Useful Strategy That Can Help Your Clients Work Through Trauma with More Stability and Presence
- How Trauma Gets “Passed Down” from One Generation to the Next
- One Bias That Can Block the Shortest Path to Healing
Here's What You'll Get:
Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library
Downloadable video and audio so you can watch or listen whenever it’s convenient | |
TalkBack Segment to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the session) | |
Next Week in Your Practice video to give you concrete strategies to use with patients | |
Printable QuickStart Guide to make review and action simpler than ever | |
Professionally-formatted transcript of the session |
Starting Today, This Program Can Change the Way You Practice
Some of the most valuable work being done today . . .
“I thoroughly enjoyed Peter Levine’s presentation . . . learn more of this valuable theory and you will be rewarded with the sense of how extraordinary (and valid) these ideas are. . . . I think it is some of the most valuable work being done today.”
Donna Arking, LCSW
New York
(I find) Peter Levine’s work . . . clear and deep.
“I’ve worked with Peter Levine’s work for many years and find it clear and deep. But, experiencing this while involved in shock and displacement has been a real gift. I appreciate his humility as well as his courage in forging this work for all of us.”
Paula Michal-Johnson, PhD
Pennsylvania
. . . I very much appreciated the talk back at the end of this segment . . .
“. . . I very much appreciated the talk back at the end of this segment, as the review emphasized the harm that can be done when trying to solicit memory when one is not in a “safe” space, or the “clinician” is not caring, or is not qualified to treat or assist another . . . in this capacity.”
Isabella Mancuso
Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in this area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past, was recently released to rave reviews. Levine’s original contribution to the field of body psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Levine was also honored as the recipient of the 2020 Psychotherapy Networker Lifetime Achievement Award.
You'll Get Practical Tools to Help You Quickly Integrate Bessel's Teaching into Your Work
Synthesize Key Concepts So You Can Use Them Immediately
In the TalkBack Session, Ron Siegel, PsyD and Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD join me to dig more deeply into the key ideas. Our job is to make yours easier by streamlining the information and making sure each point is crystal clear. We’ll clarify critical concepts and break it all down so you can gain confidence in your understanding.
Discover Concrete Practices That Will Work in Your Life (and with Your Patients)
Then, with “next week” in mind, we’ll turn smart ideas into easy-to-use solutions. In Next Week in Your Practice, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT and Rick Hanson, PhD join me to give you specific strategies for helping people who have experienced developmental trauma self regulate. We’ll show you how to translate Peter’s teaching into practices and exercises that you (or your clients) can use right away.
Uncover Core Ideas and Techniques at-a-Glance So You Have a “Cheat Sheet” When You Need It Most
The QuickStart Guide will help you stay fresh and confident as you turn Peter’s insights into action. It’s an at-a-glance reference to the most powerful concepts and strategies for working with patients who have experienced trauma. We’ve gathered all the essential tools and methods into a concise, easy-to-use guide so you can quickly review and apply these ideas when you need them most.
Quickly Recall Crucial Details So You Can Apply Them with Confidence
Our Professional Transcript will help you reinforce key ideas so you can integrate them into your life and work. We’ve designed your transcript with an easy-to-use table of contents, clear, organized formatting, and helpful highlight quotes so you’ll have the information and exercises you need at your fingertips.
Why the Transcript Is Essential:
- The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
- We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
- Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
- Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
- You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients
“I really liked being able to follow along with the transcripts as I listened…it was nice not to feel like I had to take notes. I really feel like I remember more when I both hear and see at the same time.”
Mary Ellen McNaughton, Masters in Counseling, Psychology Counselor
Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada
25 reviews for Peter Levine – How to Help Clients Break the Cycle of Traumatic Memory