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Advanced Trauma Therapy
This module provides insights and learning on the following topics; Recognising Trauma, The Legacy of Trauma, Relationship With Trauma, An Intervention, Cultivating Resources, The Past & Present and Thoughts Can Be Your Enemies.
Test your knowledge – complete the short quiz at the end of each session for professional development (CPD/CME/CE). By successfully completing all quizzes in this module you will be eligible for a Certificate of Achievement.
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SESSIONS IN THIS MODULE
01
Recognising Trauma
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher will investigate the possible origins of feelings of being distressed, shame, anger, fear, desperation, and hopelessness - those times when our feelings are just bouncing around, up and down.
02
Trauma & the Body
In this session Janina looks at how after trauma the nervous system becomes dysregulated, meaning that we lose control. She explains how we can become impulsive, overwhelmed or go into the no energy zone and just simply get lost. Janina reviews the feelings surrounding the energy of the body and its purpose and she offers...
03
Trauma & Alcoholism
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates the relationship between trauma and the overuse or addiction to alcohol. She provides a clinical example of alcohol being used as a very effective means of relieving the anxiety and/or numbness. Dr Fisher explains the nature of addiction and why addictive substances become so and how alcohol initially...
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The Legacy of Trauma
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews the influence of being abused, frightened or traumatised in context of the family, the neighbourhood, school, work and the community. She investigates the environments that can trigger the response and how when you are triggered it feels real.
05
Your Body, Your Friend
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates learning the language of our bodies. Psychological trauma often separates us from our bodies. Learning to listen and be aware of our bodies can often be an easier and more effective communication. Dr Fisher looks at learnt patterns such as feeling irritated in situations or wanting to isolate...
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Trauma & Eating Disorders
In this session, Dr Fisher investigates the relationship between trauma and eating disorders and how they work to help relieve the painful distressing emotions and the numb disconnected dead feeling inside. She provides insight and clinical examples of how eating disorders can provide a specific and unique way of regulating painful emotions and physical activation.
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Trauma & Shame
In this session Dr Janina Fisher considers how trauma-induced shame can continue to be triggered well after the event and how many victims feel that they have been damaged beyond repair, never to recover. Dr Fisher investigates shame as a survival strategy and gives examples of triggers that can take us back into this state.
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Relationship with Trauma
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher explores adaptation and how we learn to live with trauma. She looks at the function of our nervous system and how our nervous system adapts as a survival strategy and how trauma trains our nervous systems to be alert or to shut down, to stop the tears, to get...
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Telling the Trauma Story
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher asks how trauma gets resolved and how we find peace with ourselves. She investigates what it is that helps us find peace and what helps us feel alright inside - the sense that everything is OK. Dr Fisher illustrates pathways and gives examples for accessing this inner place and...
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Recovery From Eating Disorders
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews recovery from a trauma-related eating disorder and evaluates various therapy modalities. Dr Fisher investigates the patterns that surround eating disorders and the automatic beliefs and impulses that maintain them. She shows how eating disorders are driven by thoughts which trigger alarms, resulting in the eating disorder. She explains...
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Understanding Ourselves
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates understanding ourselves as trauma survivors and considers the various sides of ourselves that it took to anticipate, protect and be prepared for threat and/or danger. Dr Fisher considers two trauma theories and offers awareness and insight on both. She then considers how trauma can alienate us from ourselves...
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An Intervention
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews times when we are suffering, depressed or anxious, in pain and we just want something to take it away. She looks at using curiosity to challenge memories and beliefs, and she offers simple skills to practice, helping you to recover from distress.
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Traumatic Attachment 1
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates childhood neglect and abuse, domestic violence, and the bonding of babies and children to their parents or caregivers. She considers child proximity seeking, the outcomes in abusive relationships and the hallmarks of traumatic attachment.
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Trauma & Addictions
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews the relationship between addictions and trauma and the role of the nervous system. Dr Fisher investigates the basis of addiction and considers the reasons for continuing with addictions. She looks at several addictions including the abuse of gambling and sex.
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Befriending our Parts – Part 1
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates understanding ourselves as trauma survivors and considers the various sides of ourselves that it took to anticipate, protect and be prepared for threat and/or danger. Dr Fisher considers two trauma theories and offers awareness and insight on both. She then considers how trauma can alienate us from ourselves...
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Cultivating Resources
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher will introduce you to some simple tools that you can use to help you through difficult times and patterns that are problematic to you. She investigates changing the past by changing the patterns in our brains and bodies.
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Traumatic Attachment 2
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates how attachment systems have been affected by trauma and how sensitivity to even small disappointment and conflict can be very intense. Dr Fisher offers an example for recognising conflict and separation anxiety that may be just a natural and normal part of human behaviour.
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Recovery from Addictions
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews recovering from a trauma-related addiction and considers how recovery can be as frightening as the addictive behaviour. She considers the use of being curious about our behaviours (see session 4) and investigates how commitment to change can be easily eroded leading to heightened sensitivity, strong emotional reactions, and...
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Befriending our Parts – Part 2
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates fragmenting and personality splitting as part of surviving. She considers the many parts of a person that are required to cope with adverse and dangerous situations. Dr Fisher discusses how we reconcile the different parts of ourselves after the event and how to avoid the self-hatred. Every distressing...
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The Past & Present
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher offer insights into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and how the past can keep invading the present. When we get triggered our bodies feel like we are in the past and we experience those feelings. The danger may have gone but the emotional trauma still affects us in our everyday...
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Dissociation & Fragmentation
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates trauma-related disassociation and fragmentation. She considers the segments of the brain and how they are organised to view the world around us and how differently they respond once exposed to trauma.
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Trauma & Self Harm
This session is an audio-only session, not a video. In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews self-harm and self-injury. Whether it’s cutting, hitting or burning, self-harm is often associated with a history of trauma. Dr Fisher investigates the origins of this self-harm, the adaptation and of how when you hurt your body it produces relief.
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Resolving the Trauma
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reviews the different processes for the resolutions of trauma and offers her own pathway to trauma resolution. Dr Fisher looks at helping the parts of ourselves resolve the trauma by providing the missing experiences and by helping us to feel “it is different now, I have made it and...
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Thoughts Can Be Your Enemies
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher looks at the impact of trauma and how thoughts can affect our feelings and our bodies. She investigates the origins of self-defeating stories, the consequences of self-blame and our attention to our own thoughts.
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Self Alienation & Trauma
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher looks at how trauma changes our relationship to ourselves and its powerful effect on our sense of who we are, our sense of belonging and our sense of value. She investigates how and why our relationships to ourselves becomes compromised and why we often tend to isolate.
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Suicidality & Unsafe Behaviour
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates suicide and unsafe behaviour and how it is well established that suicide and trauma go hand-in-hand. She considers the overwhelming feelings and the sense of just feeling dead inside. Janina offers clinical examples and looks at the challenges surrounding therapy.
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Emotional Intelligence
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher investigates the meaning of emotional intelligence and considers both the left and right hemisphere of our brain. She compares the interpretation of events from each hemisphere and limitations of the right brain. Dr Fisher looks at processing in relation to trauma, the difficulty in expressing our feelings and needing...
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Recovery from Suicidality and Unsafe Behaviour
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher reports that understanding the patterns of suicide attempts, suicide ideation, and self-destructive behaviour is a very important part of suicide recovery. Dr Fisher looks at the impact on the body and considers the input from both left and right hemispheres of the brain in the decision-making process.
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Retrain the Brain
In this session, Dr Janina Fisher introduces us to how the brain operates in our daily lives and as a survival mechanism our neural circuitry is organised to be alert and sensitive to traumatic experiences. Dr Fisher explores why the neural circuitry is more active to trauma triggers and why we are often hypersensitive to...