From Trauma to Transformation: Applying Compassion-Focused Therapy in Clinical Settings
Understand how trauma affects brain states and learn to identify these states to guide therapeutic goals and interventions more effectively. Discover the importance of integrating both cognitive and physiological approaches in trauma therapy, ensuring a holistic path to healing. Learn practical techniques to help clients transform traumatic memories into compassionate, cohesive narratives that foster integration […]
Healing Through Presence: A Neurobiological Approach to Trauma
Discover key insights from the neuroscience of trauma and learn how to tailor them to your clients’ unique temperaments and tendencies. Gain an understanding of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) and explore how its concepts can be applied to trauma work through integration and differentiation. Learn how to create a therapeutic environment that fosters healing through presence, […]
The Essential Role of Compassion in Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Discover strategies for working with the key parts in the IFS Model—Managers, Firefighters, Exiles, and Self—and how trauma shapes their development and behavior. Explore how unburdening trauma responses through IFS allows both you and your clients to reconnect with core qualities like compassion and curiosity. Learn to identify and overcome common challenges in trauma-focused IFS […]
Cultivating Compassion: Science-Based Practices and Insights
Discover the essential elements for cultivating compassion, recognizing it as a dynamic emotional response that involves attuning to suffering without needing to fix it. Identify and understand barriers to compassion, such as empathic distress and pseudo-inefficacy. Learn practical techniques to enhance both your and your clients’ biological capacity for compassion, fostering greater emotional readiness and […]
The Body as an Ally for Healing
Explore the essential role of the body in healing trauma. Understand the three phases of trauma work: resourcing, processing, and re-engaging with daily life. Discover specific somatic techniques like orienting and pendulating to help clients self-resource.
Shame and Trauma: The Transformative Power of Self-Compassion in Healing
Discover the inverse relationship between shame and self-compassion, supported by theory and empirical evidence. Identify mechanisms through which self-compassion alleviates trauma and shame. Practice simple, safe skills to alleviate trauma associated with shame.
Intergenerational Healing and Soul Wounds: Expanding Beyond Conventional Western Views
Understand the concepts of “soul guilt” and “soul wound” and their significance in trauma work. Learn how to bring awareness and healing to intergenerational trauma through the use of the genogram. Explore the limitations in Western medical approaches to diagnosing and treating trauma.
Bringing Self-Compassion into Therapy: Trauma Sensitive Strategies
Explore inclusive, compassionate, and self-compassionate therapy when working with survivors of trauma and oneself as a therapist. Learn trauma-sensitive self-compassion techniques with a focus on applying culturally-aware methods to support survivors. Integrate effective trauma-sensitive practices by combining trauma-sensitive approaches with mindful self-compassion in therapy.
An Evolutionary Understanding of Compassion in Therapy
Learn about the scientific underpinnings of compassion-focused therapy, and how CFT addresses trauma and integrates personal practices for effective intervention. Examine the evolutionary basis of emotional and motivational systems, including caregiving, competition, and sexuality, and their impact on mental health. Learn techniques for applying CFT, such as using imagery, empathy, and compassion to address trauma, […]
Embracing the Possibility of Post-Traumatic Resilience
Explore post-traumatic growth and how to nurture it without encouraging toxic positivity, helping the client focus on becoming the person they want to be during challenging times. Discover the role of co-regulation in therapy through the turbulence metaphor, and learn how staying calm and creating a safe environment can enhance emotional support for clients. Explore […]