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Neuropsychotherapy and Trauma InterventionsOriginally trained as a neuroscientist, Dr. Jennifer Sweeton is a Stanford-educated clinical and forensic psychologist specializing in trauma treatment and the neuroscience of mental health. -
PTSD Relief TherapyInternationally-renowned PTSD researcher and clinician, founder of the Boston Trauma Centre and professor of Psychiatry at Boston University Medical School. -
CBT for DepressionDr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years’ experience as a CBT therapist and teacher and is the author of CBT Made Simple. -
Embodied DBTEmbodied DBT Specialist Dr Eboni Webb integrates DBT and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy strategies to address traumatised clients -
Emotional Freedom TechniquesDr Peta Stapleton is a clinical psychologist and leading researcher renowned for her evidence-based work on Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). -
Complex Borderline Personality DisorderDr Daniel Fox is a renowned psychologist who specialises in treatment of personality disorders -
Depression and Bipolar DisorderDr Chris Aiken is a renowned psychiatrist, professor and author who specialises in the treatment of Mood Disorders -
Psychopathy TherapyForensic psychologist Dr Tarra Bates-Duford provides a comprehensive study of psychopathy -
CBT TrainingDr. Nina Josefowitz has over thirty years’ experience as a CBT therapist and teacher and is the author of CBT Made Simple.
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DBT TrainingDBT Specialist Dr Eboni Webb offers DBT Tools and strategies to address complex clients -
Narcissist TherapyDaniel J. Fox, Ph.D., is a licensed psychologist in Texas, international speaker, and multiple-award winning author. He has been specializing in the treatment and assessment of individuals with personality disorders for over 20 years. -
EMDR TrainingClinical psychologist, international speaker & best-selling author introduces EMDR therapy skills for working with PTSD and trauma. -
Sibling Issues in TherapyProfessor Avidan Milevsky incorporates the latest research and clinical work in family dynamics to examine multiple angles of integrating sibling issues in therapy -
NLP TrainingInternationally acclaimed mind coach, hypnotherapist and bestselling author whose work centres on the principles of neuro linguistic programming (NLP) -
EMDR Training 2Clinical psychologist, international speaker & best-selling author introduces EMDR therapy skills for working with PTSD and trauma. -
Anxiety and Worry TherapyDr Jennifer Abel provides proven therapeutic techniques to help your clients work through the spiral of anxiety and successfully face their fears -
Divided Brain ClinicPsychiatrist Iain McGilchrist describes the real differences between the left and right halves of the human brain. It's not simply "emotion on the right, reason on the left," but something far more complex and interesting. -
Sensorimotor PsychotherapyInternationally-renowned psychotherapist, 40 years’ experience integrating the mind and body, offers relief and a new way of living in our body. -
Hypnosis For Pain Relief TrainingWorld-renowned clinical psychologist and professor with over 30 years' experience using hypnosis for pain control offers a step-by-step guide to using hypnosis to enhance your clinical practice. -
Advanced Trauma Therapy TrainingWorld-renowned trauma clinical psychologist and clinician with over 30 years’ experience helping survivors to accept and love their wounded selves. -
Childhood Sexual AbuseForensic Psychologist Dr Tarra Bates-Duford offers expert therapy approaches for treating survivors of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) -
Anxiety Relief TreatmentClinical psychologist, researcher and expert in behavioural treatment for phobias, provides dynamic treatment and relief from anxiety. -
ACT Therapy TrainingLearn the advantages and benefits of implementing Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) into your clinical practice with Dr John Boorman, UK clinical psychologist and ACT Therapy Specialist. -
Divorcing: Parents & KidsInternationally-acclaimed clinical psychologist, professor at Harvard University, McLean Hospital and clinician with over 30 years’ experience working with high-conflict couples. -
Brain SkoolBrain Skool is a collection of sessions from internationally-renowned specialists investigating the function and processing of their favourite brain regions. -
Depression Relief TherapyDoctor of counselling psychology offers understanding and relief from depression with a variety of skills and a wealth of treatment experience. -
Conflict in RelationshipsInternationally-acclaimed clinical psychologist, professor at Harvard University, McLean Hospital and clinician with over 30 years’ experience working with high-conflict couples.
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Emotional RegulationClinical psychologist with over 20 years’ experience helping people manage out of control emotions, irrationality, feelings of hopelessness and distress.
In this compelling session, Dr Janina Fisher examines the impact of childhood neglect, abuse, and domestic violence on attachment and the development of healthy bonds with caregivers. She explores the hallmarks of traumatic attachment, child proximity-seeking behaviours, and the long-term effects on relationships. Dr Fisher delves into the inner conflict many survivors experience—the desire to connect and be loved versus the fear of harm or betrayal. Using clinical insight, she illuminates how trauma survivors can remain alert and sensitive to intimacy, providing understanding and pathways for fostering trust, emotional safety, and meaningful human connection.
ALL SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE: Advanced Trauma Therapy
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Recognising Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher explores the origins of intense emotions—shame, anger, fear, and hopelessness—and how trauma shapes our responses. This session examines flashbacks, distorted perceptions of normalcy, and the mind’s alerting mechanisms, offering insight into recognising when “something is wrong” and developing awareness to navigate emotional turbulence.
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Relationship with Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma reshapes the nervous system, driving hyper-alertness, shutdown, or dulled responses. This session examines survival adaptations, environmental triggers, and patterns of re-traumatisation, offering strategies to change our relationship with traumatic responses and build resilience for healthier coping in everyday life.
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The Legacy of Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma within family, school, work, and community contexts triggers real and intense responses. This session examines common reactions—anxiety, depression, hypervigilance, and self-harm—and the links between trauma triggers and mental health challenges, offering insight into understanding and managing these responses effectively.
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An Intervention
Dr Janina Fisher explores how curiosity and practical skills can help us manage suffering, anxiety, and distress. This session shows how to change our relationship to difficult feelings, build tolerance, and develop resources that support recovery, resilience, and greater ease in daily life, even outside traumatic experiences.
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Cultivating Resources
Dr Janina Fisher introduces practical tools to navigate difficult patterns and emotions, showing how to reshape brain and body responses. This session offers strategies to relieve anxiety, depression, and hopelessness, regulate energy, and help the traumatised nervous system learn to live in the present with calm and balance.
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The Past & Present
Dr Janina Fisher explores how PTSD causes past trauma to intrude into the present, triggering intense emotional and physical responses. This session offers clinical insight and practical skills to recognise these triggers, separate past from present, and reclaim control, supporting healing, resilience, and emotional wellbeing.
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Thoughts Can Be Your Enemies
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma shapes self-defeating thoughts and self-blame, affecting emotions and the body. This session examines the origins of negative self-talk and offers practical exercises and skills to identify, understand, and transform harmful narratives, supporting emotional regulation, resilience, and healthier thinking patterns.
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Trauma & the Body
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma dysregulates the nervous system, causing impulsivity, overwhelm, or shutdown. This session examines the body’s energy and emotions, offering practical skills to regulate responses, tolerate difficult feelings, and redirect energy toward growth, resilience, and effective self-management during challenging moments.
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Your Body, Your Friend
Dr Janina Fisher explores reconnecting with the body after trauma, highlighting how bodily awareness can reveal learned patterns like irritability or withdrawal. This session guides participants in noticing which patterns serve them, which need change, and how to safely transform behaviours to restore balance, presence, and self-understanding.
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Telling the Trauma Story
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma can be resolved and peace restored. This session highlights pathways to inner calm, showing how self-compassion and self-acceptance can soothe, nurture, and create a lasting sense of safety, wellbeing, and emotional balance within ourselves.
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Traumatic Attachment 1 « you are here
Dr Janina Fisher explores childhood neglect, abuse, and traumatic attachment, highlighting how survivors navigate the tension between longing for connection and fearing intimacy. This session examines bonding, proximity-seeking, and the heightened sensitivity to relationships, offering insight into the challenges of trust, safety, and emotional closeness after trauma.
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Traumatic Attachment 2
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma impacts attachment, heightening sensitivity to disappointment and conflict. This session examines the traumatised nervous system, common relationship triggers, and defensive responses, offering practical insights for recognising patterns, communicating needs effectively, and reducing anxiety in relationships.
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Dissociation & Fragmentation
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma-related dissociation and fragmentation, revealing how the brain adapts to danger and threat. This session examines how feelings can disconnect and actions become instinctual, offering compassionate insight into survival defence responses and their impact on everyday life.
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Self Alienation & Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma reshapes our sense of self, belonging, and value. This session examines why we disown parts of ourselves that overreact or have been treated unfairly, and how dissociation and isolation develop, offering insights into reconnecting with and integrating these disowned parts.
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Trauma & Alcoholism
Dr Janina Fisher explores the link between trauma and alcohol addiction, showing how alcohol temporarily relieves anxiety, numbness, or overwhelming emotions. This session explains why addictive substances initially help coping but ultimately create harm, offering clinical insight into managing impulses and fostering healthier emotional regulation.
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Suicidality & Unsafe Behaviour
Dr Janina Fisher explores the strong link between trauma, suicide, and unsafe behaviour. This session examines overwhelming emotional pain, feelings of emptiness, and the thoughts behind self-destructive urges, offering compassionate clinical insight and practical therapeutic pathways toward understanding, safety, and healing.
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Recovery from Suicidality and Unsafe Behaviour
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma-related shame as a survival response that lingers long after danger has passed. This session reveals how shame is embodied, easily triggered, and self-reinforcing, while offering compassionate, practical skills to change our relationship with shame and restore self-acceptance and hope.
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Trauma & Eating Disorders
Dr Janina Fisher explores how trauma underlies eating disorders, which often serve to regulate overwhelming emotions and numbness. This session examines triggers, patterns, and the mechanisms of anorexia, bulimia, and overeating, offering clinical insights and practical skills to understand, address, and transform these behaviours with compassion.
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Recovery From Eating Disorders
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma-related eating disorders, revealing how thoughts, predictions, and compulsions maintain harmful patterns. This session examines therapy approaches, mindful self-awareness, and strategies for noticing triggers, tolerating difficult feelings, and reshaping behaviours, providing compassionate insight into recovery and fostering sustainable change.
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Trauma & Addictions
Dr Janina Fisher explores the deep connection between trauma, the nervous system, and addiction. This session examines why addictive behaviours persist, including gambling and sex, and how they regulate emotions and vulnerability, offering critical insights for understanding the trauma underpinning addiction and supporting successful recovery.
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Recovery from Addictions
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma-related addiction and the challenges of recovery, highlighting how change can feel as frightening as the addictive behaviour itself. This session examines triggers, emotional sensitivity, and relapse, offering practical skills and insights that address underlying trauma and support sustainable, compassionate recovery.
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Trauma & Self Harm
In this audio-only session, Dr Janina Fisher explores self-harm as a trauma adaptation. She explains why behaviours such as cutting, hitting, or burning can bring temporary relief, highlighting the neurochemical responses involved and offering compassionate therapeutic insights for understanding and healing.
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Trauma & Shame
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma-induced shame as a survival response that lingers long after the event. This session reveals how shame is triggered, embodied, and reinforced, and offers compassionate insights and practical skills to transform our relationship with shame and support healing and recovery.
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Understanding Ourselves
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma survival through the many parts of the self shaped by threat and protection. This session examines key trauma theories, the role of the internal critic, and how reconnecting with all parts of ourselves supports healing, self-understanding, and lasting inner peace.
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Befriending our Parts – Part 1
Dr Janina Fisher explores trauma survival through the many parts of the self that anticipate, protect, and respond to danger. This session examines key trauma theories, body-based re-experiencing, and shame, offering compassionate insights to help survivors reconnect, integrate, and reclaim all parts of themselves.
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Befriending our Parts – Part 2
Dr Janina Fisher explores fragmenting and personality splitting as survival responses to trauma. This session reframes distressing thoughts, emotions, and body reactions as communications from different parts of the self, offering compassionate strategies to reconcile these parts, reduce self-hatred, and support healing and recovery.
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Resolving the Trauma
Dr Janina Fisher explores pathways to trauma resolution, introducing her own integrative approach. This session highlights healing our wounded parts through missing experiences, acknowledgment, and apology, helping clients feel safe in the present. Practical skills and clinical examples bring hope, relief, and validation to trauma recovery.
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Emotional Intelligence
Dr Janina Fisher explores emotional intelligence through the lens of left and right brain processing. This session reveals how trauma and early attachment shape emotional awareness, why feelings can be hard to verbalise, and how learning to feel first creates pathways for healthier emotional expression in both children and adults.
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Retrain the Brain
Dr Janina Fisher explains how the brain’s survival circuitry shapes daily life, keeping us alert to threat. This session reveals why trauma triggers hypersensitivity, how the brain shifts into hyper-alert mode, and how new neural pathways can be built to retrain and calm the traumatised brain with compassion and hope.
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