[Download Now] Traumatic Attachment and Affect Dysregulation with Janina Fisher, Ph.D. – Janina Fisher

• Interventions from the latest neuroscience & attachment research
• Learn from a master of Trauma, Attachment and Affect Dysregulation
• Trauma treatment from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Become a “neurobiological regulator” for your clients

Attachment failure is inescapable and inescapable in trauma clients, leaving behind a lasting imprint on all future relationships, including the therapeutic one. Janina Fisher will teach you how to make therapy and the relationship a haven of safety.

You will learn how to first address your client’s disorganized attachment, traumatic transference, and disturbances in the capacity to self-regulate preventing therapy from becoming stagnant or unstable. Explore the effects of traumatic attachment from a psychobiological perspective and learn to work with attachment interventions drawn from neuroscience and attachment research as well as Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-centered talking therapy for the treatment of trauma.

Dr. Fisher will give you an understanding of the impact of trauma on attachment through a combination of lecture, video, and exercises. Understanding the latest interventions for trauma-related patterns and how to use ourselves as neurobiological regulators of the client’s emotional and autonomic states will help you improve treatment outcomes.

• Identify and discuss trauma-related attachment patterns.
• Describe disorganized attachment behavior and its effects on affect regulation.
• Explain the theory and practice of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.
• Utilize Sensorimotor Psychotherapy techniques to address attachment and trauma-related issues in psychotherapy.
• Describe somatic interventions to address preoccupied, avoidant, and disorganized/unresolved attachment styles.
• Employ interactive neurobiological regulation to address affect dysregulation.

The mechanisms of attachment formation.

• An evolutionary view of attachment patterns
• Early attachment as a somatic experience
• Attachment styles and brain development
• Autonomic arousal and affect regulation
• Effects of traumatic threat on the body and nervous system

Attachment and trauma are disorganized.

• When the source of safety is the source of threat
• “Frightened” and “frightening” caregiving
• Disorganized-unresolved attachment as survival defense
• Statistical predictor of Borderline Personality Disorder
• Long-term impact on affect regulation/dysregulation

Disorganized-Unresolved Attachment has effects on transference.

• Phobia of therapy and the therapist
• Traumatic transference and disorganized attachment
• Affect dysregulating effects of psychotherapy
• Safety and dysregulation
• Induction of the therapist as affect regulator

Stabilizing traumatic attachment responses.

• Mindfulness-based treatment models
• Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
• Increasing regulatory ability in therapy
  • Nonjudgmental self-observation and awareness
  • Non-attachment to thoughts, feelings, and memories
  • Ability to shift focus
• Developing somatic resources in the relationship
• Right brain-to-right brain communication

The Therapist is a Neuroscience Regulator.

• Dysregulated states and psychotherapy
• What does it mean to be a ‘neurobiological regulator’?
• Lessons from attachment research
• Minimizing negative affect
• Maximizing positive affect
• Playfulness, acceptance, curiosity, and empathy
• Successful experiences of feeling regulated while in relationship

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