Return to All Videos- Explore what a trauma-sensitive approach is, and why it is crucial for helping clients navigate the times we are living in
- Understand the “window of tolerance,” and how to support clients in experientially opening to a broader range of challenging experience through specific practices
- Learn how meditation can be harmful to clients working with trauma if not introduced in a supportive way
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Very clear descriptions and embodiment of body based interventions that are prevalent in body/mind psychotherapy such as, dance/movement therapy. As a DMT (Dance/Movement Therapist), it is interesting that a CBT based therapist is integrating a somatic approach to address trauma and, finds it helpful and not “hokey”. My hope is that these summits in the future also invite creative and somatic therapists (ie DMT, Music, Art) to discuss their interventions rather than solely have traditional based therapists, who are integrating somatic methods into their practice.
This was amazing and so informative! The dialogue between the two also incredibly helpful as the information went both deep and wide. Thanks!
thank you for your invaluable time!!
looking to hear more about the tools the clinician can use.
In gratitude, David- as fabulous as ever! Compassionate wisdom meets openness to learn & willingness to consider, wonder & co-create. Such a GIFT! Thank you!
This was such a informative and beautifully presented teaching from both presenters. Thank you so much.
Beatiful dialogue. Really like Davids approach. Thank you 😉
awesome~ Thank you!
I have learnt a lot about trauma counselling
This is amazing work with David , I took his classes and he really shows clinicians, healers, and health care workers the way to integrate mindfulness practice. Such a powerful exchange of learning and working with my clients . Lori English, Grateful !
Thank you for this. However, I would love it if we could distinguish between PTSD and Developmental Trauma (Complex-PTSD). I understand the notion of someone with PTSD being “triggered” and catapulted back to another time. But folks with C-PTSD live in that trauma constantly, as a way of being. Their nervous systems have never known “calm/grounded” so I don’t know how to guide them back to a state they’ve never actually experienced – a state that their nervous systems interpret as life-threatening vulnerability. This is a HUGE topic and it frustrates me that “trauma” has become a blanket term for very, very different experiences and circumstances.
Indeed… And I have heard David, whose work I have found very interesting and helpful, nevertheless define trauma in terms of risk to life and limb.
In some ways, because developmental trauma is a constant backdrop to lived experience, it is more intransigent and probably more resistent to positive transformation.
Summer,
I agree with you. It is important to differentiate between PTSD and C-PTSD and with patients with C-PTSD to be very careful not to fall into a process of re-traumatization and negative therapeutic reactions to the therapy process.
I’m curious about the notion of actually expressing emotions in a therapeutic environment, like rage, for example. In my experience, therapists tend to discourage “negative” emotions and, instead, encourage a “calm” affect.
I enjoyed this conversation, not just for the content, but also for how the two of you resonated with each other, with complete openness and curiosity to words each other’s opinions. Thank you so much!
Thank you Drs. David and Ravi. This is such a rich talk on various practices and integration of it, plus honoring the clients lived experiences.
This is such a valuable presentation! Thank you.
Thank you for the beautiful conversation. It was very respectful and well-explained on all levels.
Very helpful dialogue, thank you
It’s interesting to see how a client can be grounded in the midst of dissociating or hyperaroused by looking at a plant outside the window, placing your hearts over the heart, over the neck, or even on the lap taking some breaths.
Thank you for this talk
I am a Reiki Master. The postures you shared are integral parts of Reiki. I love seeing these being blended into psychotherapy! Thank you for this wonderful session. I really enjoyed it and learned so much.
A really wonderful integration of so many of the presentations in this summit. The awareness and the work keeps growing. Thank you. Namaste
How does this type of therapy factor in when the person has a substance abuse problem e m?
I think that often the client is using substances to try to self-regulate, so that learning other ways to do that could be very helpful as long as there is awareness without judgment.
That exercise to expand the window of tolerance was great, such an easy
way to help clients feel safe breathing! Thank you!!
I am Dr. Musleh Al Majali, Associate Professor of Psychological and Educational Counseling at Dhofar University, Sultanate of Oman. I would like to thank you for this wonderful work.
thank you for the very feasible and helpful exercise!
Are the somatic sensations causing the traumatic thoughts, or are the thoughts causing the somatic sensations?