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Embodied DBT Training
This Embodied DBT module provide strategies to address traumatised clients. We will learn what Embodied DBT, develop a trauma and attachment lens, learn the impact of trauma on the brain and the body, and define and learn about structural dissociation and its impact on trauma.
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
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Introduction: Embodied DBT
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb introduces herself and her work as a DBT therapist and Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. Dr Webb introduces the Embodied DBT series, outlining what will be covered in the upcoming sessions. This series integrates DBT and sensorimotor psychotherapy providing skills and strategies to address traumatised clients.
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Identify the Key Trauma Intersections that Impact Healing
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb, investigates identifying key trauma intersections that impact healing in embodied DBT. Dr Webb. Discusses how trauma intersects with multiple aspects of a person's identity, including culture, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, sexuality, age, and family dynamics. These intersections influence how individuals experience trauma, access healing resources, and organize their recovery...
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Define the Steps to Reclaim an Embodied Mind
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb explores the embodied mind and how it integrates the fragmented parts of a person’s mind affected by trauma. She explains how trauma can lead to structural dissociation, which fragments a person's sense of self and memories. Clients may experience their minds as divided into two main states: the survivor...
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Learn 3 Strategies to Restoring the Sense of Connection and Belonging after Trauma
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb focuses on the interpersonal effectiveness aspect of embodied DBT, highlighting the critical need for trauma survivors to rebuild a sense of worthiness, love, and belonging in society. She discusses how isolation and societal rejection, as seen historically with Vietnam War veterans, have lasting impacts on trauma recovery. Dr Webb...
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What Is Embodied DBT?
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates what embodied DBT is. She explains what DBT is and what a top down process is. Dr Webb then outlines what sensorimotor psychotherapy is and what are bottom up process is. She explores the different brain areas that are impacted by these processes and the benefits of integrating...
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Developing a Trauma and Attachment Lens
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates the importance of developing a trauma-focused lens as a clinician, particularly when working with clients who have experienced trauma. Dr Webb emphasizes the need to shift from seeing clients as broken or difficult to viewing their behaviors as survival mechanisms developed due to trauma. Early relational wounds, such...
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Define and Learn the Biphasic Arousal Model from the Therapeutic Lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Neurobiology
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates the biphasic arousal model from the therapeutic lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and neurobiology. Dr. Webb explains that biphasic arousal involves oscillating between hyperarousal (high stimulation and excitability) and hypoarousal (diminished response and disengagement). This response is different from bipolar disorder, as it is reactive to trauma cues rather...
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Identify how to Unpair Emotions from Key Survival Defences through Somatic Self-Care Skills
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates how to unpair emotions from key survival defences through somatic self-care skills. Trauma often causes emotions to leave the window of tolerance, leading to heightened emotional responses that can manifest as survival defences. Dr Webb discusses how we can help clients regain emotional literacy, understand their bodily sensations,...
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Learn how to Integrate Embodied DBT into Treatment Planning and Strategies
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates treatment planning within embodied Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), guided by an authoritative therapy framework that mirrors the principles of authoritative parenting: high structure, clear boundaries, high expectations, and strong nurturance. In therapy, this means creating a structured and safe environment where clients feel both supported and challenged to...
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Identify the Key Features of Somatic Mindfulness
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates somatic mindfulness as a key component of Embodied DBT. Traditional mindfulness techniques can sometimes overwhelm clients who have experienced trauma, triggering responses like hyperarousal or the "freeze defense." Dr. Webb introduces somatic mindfulness, which integrates movement, breath, and body awareness to gently reintroduce clients to their bodies after...
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Understand how to Establish a Safe Therapeutic DBT Environment that Reestablishes Healthy Boundaries, Connected Communication and Validates a Client’s Survival Journey
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates the importance of creating a safe therapeutic environment, specifically for trauma healing, emphasizing the concept of "felt safety." Felt safety goes beyond mere intellectual understanding; it involves engaging the body’s sensory system to help clients feel secure. Dr Webb discusses several factors that contribute to felt safety, both...
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Apply Regulating Embodied DBT Skills into an Active Safety Plan
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb investigates the importance of regulating safety plans in working with clients exhibiting life-threatening behaviors, high suicidality, or histories of self-harm. She emphasises that while safety plans don't guarantee complete protection, they set a foundation of commitment to avoid harm, both for oneself and others. In embodied DBT, safety planning...
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Learn the Impact of Trauma on the Brain and the Body
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates the impact of trauma on the brain and body, particularly focusing on the neurobiological effects of trauma. It explains how the brain, body, and social environment are interconnected and how trauma can affect these systems. Dr Webb discusses the role of cortisol in dysregulating the brain, especially during...
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Learn How to Think Dialectically About Time
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb investigates how to think dialectically about time. She explores the concept of the trauma of time, which focuses on how trauma influences an individual's perception of time. Dr Webb discusses how trauma can trap clients in the past, where their experiences of trauma continue to shape their present and...
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Define and Learn Daily Routines to Heal the Body from Trauma
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investitures daily routines to heal the body from trauma. She focuses on practical tools for daily trauma healing, emphasizing the importance of caring for the body as part of the recovery process. Dr Webb highlights the role of resourcing, which refers to building internal and external resources to heal...
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Identify how to Embody Authoritative Therapeutic Practices to Develop felt Safety between you and your Client
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb discusses authoritative therapy within the framework of embodied Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), exploring how therapists can aid in healing attachment wounds and trauma. She explains how healthy boundaries have three components: containment, screening, and protection. These elements ensure that clients can experience safety in the therapeutic space and model...
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Learn how to Harness your Observing Mind to Build Present Moment Awareness
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates how to harness your observing mind to build present moment awareness. She outlines the concept of the observing mind, which allows individuals to process traumatic experiences without reliving them. Dr. Webb credits Janina Fisher's work on dissociative identity disorder for the inspiration behind the observing mind concept, which...
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Define Neuroception to Understanding the Body’s Ability to Detect Threat
In this session, Dr. Eboni Webb explores neuroception, the body’s ability to sense safety, danger, and life threats. She emphasizes that trauma can severely disrupt neuroception, leaving individuals unable to accurately sense danger, thus increasing vulnerability to re-traumatisation. Dr Webb covers real-life examples to illustrate how trauma can impair neuroceptive abilities. She discusses practical activities...
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Define and Learn about Structural Dissociation and It’s Impact on Trauma
In this session, Dr Eboni Webb investigates structural dissociation and its impact on trauma. Dr Webb explains how structural dissociation occurs when trauma fragments a person's experiences and personality into distinct parts and how structural dissociation often develops as a defence mechanism in individuals who experienced trauma, especially in childhood. Dr Webb describes three different...