Peter Levine – Trauma and Memory Course

Description of Trauma and Memory Course

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.

Trauma and Memory Course 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.

Trauma and Memory Course change your clinical work and change your life

By mastering Dr. Levine’s essential methods to traumatic memories and its impact on the body… you will elevate your treatment of complex, deeply-entrenched trauma, overcome roadblocks frustrating you and your clients, and get your clients lasting relief.

Discover exactly how to:

• Break down and understand the significance of memory systems in the resolution of trauma
• Quickly reduce symptomology in your clients and treat their traumatic memories
• Apply body awareness and specific physiological techniques to renegotiate and treat trauma
• Immediately use Somatic Experiencing® tools to treat and address symptoms ranging from anxiety, depression, PTSD, and harmful behaviors to unexplained physical pain, fatigue, or illness

What you will learn in Trauma and Memory Course

Outlinen of Trauma and Memory Course

• 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

Frequently Asked Questions about this Course

1, What is Somatic Experiencing®?

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to healing trauma and other stress disorders. Dr. Levine developed Somatic Experiencing® through his unique multidisciplinary approach of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, combined with over 50 years of successful clinical application.

2, How does Somatic Experiencing® treat traumatic memories?

The treatment application of Somatic Experiencing® releases traumatic shock, which is key to transforming PTSD and the wounds of emotional and early developmental attachment trauma.

3, How do I know if this Trauma and Memory course will work for me?

• Somatic Experiencing® has empirically developed over fifty years — with strong results for a number of clinical diagnoses and behavioral health challenges.
• Reviewing the intensive, self-guided online courses will provide you with an entirely new set of tools and skills that will both ease your mind and prepare you to more fully engage with clients.
• Dr. Levine has mentored thousands of therapists and healers worldwide. He has combined highly practical, evidence-based interventions, powerful assessment tools, case conceptualization techniques, and proven clinical strategies — and as a result, his courses consistently receive high praise.

About Peter Levine

Dr. Peter Levine holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE), a naturalistic body-awareness approach to healing trauma, which he teaches all over the globe. Dr. Levine is also the founder of the Foundation for Human Enrichment and was a stress consultant for NASA during the development of the space shuttle.

An accomplished author, Dr. Levine penned Healing Trauma, Sexual Healing and the bestselling book, Waking the Tiger. He also co-authored with Maggie Kline Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His latest book, In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, is a testament to his lifelong investigation into the connection between evolutionary biology, neuroscience, animal behavior, and more than 40 years of clinical experience in the healing of trauma.

Dr. Levine was honored in 2010 with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP) and is a Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Dr. Peter Levine receives royalties as a published author. He receives a speaking honorarium, book royalties, and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Levine has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Peter Levine is the founder and senior advisor to Somatic Experiencing International, the founder, and president of the Ergos Institute, and is the senior clinical fellow and advisor to the Meadows Addiction Center. Dr. Levine is a member of the American Psychological Association.

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