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2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference - Seminar

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2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference

2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference
Where:
ANAHEIM, CA
When:
Thursday, October 3, 2024 - Sunday, October 6, 2024
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700 W CONVENTION WAY
ANAHEIM, CA 92802
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101: The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox Certification Course: Over 60 Interventions to Promote Healing & Hope Among Grieving Children, Adolescents & Adults

  1. Analyze the differences in the clinical presentation of depression as compared to bereavement.
  2. Evaluate developmentally appropriate grief symptomology across the lifespan and assess for clinical concerns.
  3. Develop individualized therapeutic interventions for bereaved children, adolescents, adults, and families using various modalities.
  4. Determine continuing bonds after death and their relevance to clinical practice with bereaved clients.
  5. Develop therapeutic activities for a support group for bereaved children, adolescents, and/or adults.
  6. Utilize therapeutic techniques to address client grief associated with other forms of loss including divorce, chronic illness, military deployment, and termination of parental rights.
102: Nutrition and Integrative Methods for Trauma: Enhance Mood, Sleep, and Well-Being

  1. Identify 4 integrative and nutritional strategies that enhance mood and sleep in PTSD.
  2. Utilize stage-based methods to assist in the treatment of trauma.
  3. Determine 3 clinical strategies to introduce and incorporate integrative and nutritional methods.
  4. Evaluate the scientific literature on psychotropic medicine for PTSD and complex trauma.
  5. Determine stage-specific anaerobic and aerobic exercise and self-care methods to decrease dissociative symptoms in clients.
103: Boundary Setting in Clinical Practice: The Best Ethical Practices

  1. Determine how the NASW, APA, and ACT Code of Ethics applies to boundary setting in private practice/clinical practice.
  2. Analyze ethical dilemmas clinicians face surrounding boundary setting with respect to utilizing technology with clients in clinical practice.
  3. Articulate the ethical dilemmas that are caused when dealing with financial operations within clinical practice.
  4. Utilize ethical practices to ensure client safety, maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when utilizing telemental health services.
  5. Determine the impact of practitioner impairment on the therapeutic relationship.
104: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach to Treat "Autistic Trauma": How to Heal from the Shame and Rejection of Not Fitting the Norm

  1. Evaluate autism-specific traits and risk factors for trauma.
  2. Analyze trauma through an autism framework.
  3. Evaluate the wider range of causes for trauma in autism.
  4. Utilize neurodiversity-affirming principles for trauma treatment with autistic clients.
  5. Modify trauma interventions, including TF-CBT and IFS, for autistic clients.
105: Attachment-Focused EMDR: Resourcing and Developmental Repair

  1. Name the five basic principles of Attachment-Focused EMDR.
  2. Utilize bilateral stimulation to "tap in" or "install" resources.
  3. Name the four foundational resources.
  4. Articulate the process of combining attachment-focused imagery activation and bilateral stimulation.
  5. Utilize attachment-focused imagery exercises with bilateral stimulation.
Welcome & Keynote: All Care Must Be Trauma-Informed Care

  1. Summarize the prevalence of ACEs.
  2. Determine what characterizes the toxic stress response and how ACEs can lead to toxic stress.
  3. Identify factors that are associated with reduced risk of medical, mental, and behavioral health outcomes.
201: The Current State of Trauma Treatment: ACES and The Evolution of Healing Developmental Trauma

  1. Determine how ACEs are linked to adult health problems.
  2. Evaluate how the understanding of ACEs and their use in clinical practice has changed over time.
  3. Choose four ways clinicians can use ACEs in the treatment of developmental trauma.
202: Treating Betrayal Trauma: Help Clients Who Experience Narcissistic Abuse & Antagonistic Relational Stress

  1. Utilize the tenets of betrayal trauma theory with clients experiencing narcissistic relationships and antagonistic relational stress.
  2. Integrate the model of "betrayal blindness" to understand dynamics such as trauma bonding, selective recall, and client difficulties in creating coherent narratives about antagonistic relationships.
  3. Differentiate betrayal trauma from other forms of trauma to validate and stabilize clients who have experienced multiple breaches of trust in various relationships.
203: EFIT in Trauma Recovery: Enhancing Connection, Resilience & Healing Through Attachment Science

  1. Describe the key components and goals of the EFIT model.
  2. Identify emotional handles for the purpose of planning interventions.
  3. apply attachment science to the psychotherapy setting.
204: Using Internal Family Systems Therapy for Trauma Treatment: An Attachment-Based Model for Trauma Treatment

  1. Evaluate one theoretical premise of IFS therapy.
  2. Analyze characteristics of Self in a client.
  3. Identify qualities of the three types of parts in an individual’s system.
205: Trauma, The Body & Implicit Memory Demystified: Step-by-Step Somatic Interventions

  1. Compare the difference between implicit and explicit memory.
  2. Utilize awareness-based exercises that counteract high sympathetic arousal, including anxiety, insomnia, and hyper-vigilance.
  3. Determine new learning in implicit memory to aid in improving trauma related symptoms.
Lunch Address: The Modern Abolitionist

  1. Evaluate the stress signs and symptoms of racialized trauma.
  2. Integrate the basics of the HIPP model (historical, inter-generational, persistent institutional, personal) of racialized trauma into your clinical practice.
  3. Choose one resourcing technique to use with trauma clients
301: Somatic Abolitionism: Race, Culture, and Movements Towards More Liberatory Futures

  1. Determine how constriction and resource function in a white body supremacist structural philosophy.
  2. Evaluate the five "toys" (rather than "tools") of Somatic Abolitionism as it relates to racialized trauma.
  3. Identify the basics of racialized trauma and how it impacts caregivers.
302: The Trauma of Endings: Helping Clients Navigate Breakups and Divorce

  1. Identify how to help clients set boundaries and advocate for their relational needs with new romantic partners.
  2. Determine with clients the importance of Relational Self-Awareness in creating a successful romantic relationship.
  3. Identify common therapeutic pitfalls when working with clients who are ending a relationship or beginning a new one.
303: The Biology of Trauma: How the Body Experiences, Holds & Repairs Trauma

  1. Describe the neurobiology of the trauma response and the degree of trauma burden a body is holding.
  2. Analyze the success and pace of your client to move through the stages of the trauma healing journey.
  3. Develop practical strategies for working with the body to facilitate the natural progression through the trauma healing journey.
304: The Embodied Mind: Neuromodulation, Psychedelics & Sensory Integration

  1. Identify the embodied mind paradigm, including how the body stores and processes experiences, trauma, and emotions.
  2. Evaluate the latest advancements in neuromodulation techniques, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and sensory integration approaches.
  3. Analyze the potential efficacy of psychedelic assisted treatment with PTSD patients.
305: The Wow Factor: Using Awe to Counter Depression, Stress & Trauma

  1. Determine the effect of awe on stress, mood, loneliness, and PTSD.
  2. Identify the impact of awe and wonder on psychological well-being, life satisfaction, and a sense of meaning.
  3. Examine benefits of awe for physical well-being, including its effect on the inflammatory response.
  4. Utilize specific strategies and approaches to foster feelings of awe and wonder in clients.
Keynote Address: The Myth of Normal: Pathways to Healing in a Toxic Culture

  1. Identify two separations imposed by Western Medicine on the health and well-being of the population.
  2. Name three chronic conditions that are correlated with stressful social environments.
  3. Determine one shift in focus that would support a healthier population.
401: Transform Grief to Peace: Support Post-Traumatic Growth for Your Grieving Clients

  1. Differentiate between normal grieving and more complex forms of mourning.
  2. Develop tools for helping clients address trauma, grief, and the traumatic moment.
  3. Utilize techniques on how to release grief that has become stuck in the body.
402: Whole Again: Reconnecting Brain and Body After Trauma

  1. Evaluate clinical signs of the brain body disconnect after trauma.
  2. Determine practical skills that are helpful to overcome the brain body disconnect after trauma.
  3. Utilize an integrative treatment approach drawing on several modalities, including CBT, EMDR, DBT, DBR, IFS, SMART, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, to help overcome the brain body disconnect after trauma.
403: Emotional Freedom Techniques & Tapping: Beyond Talk Therapy to Restore Emotional Regulation in Traumatized Clients

  1. Choose an EFT and tapping intervention to calm the overwhelmed body’s somatic reaction.
  2. Evaluate how EFT and tapping can be useful in traumatic memory reconsolidation.
  3. Integrate EFT and tapping to aid in releasing difficult thoughts, emotions or the simultaneous physical discomforts.
404: Trauma-Informed Culturally Competent Care: Ethical Considerations for Treatment

  1. Utilize practical strategies for cultivating cross-cultural empathy without sharing traumatic experiences with clients.
  2. Evaluate common concerns clients have when risking being vulnerable with therapists from different cultural backgrounds.
  3. Identify the potential role of varying cultural beliefs in diagnosing and assessments.
405: From Shutdown to Safety: Applying Polyvagal Theory in Complex Trauma Recovery

  1. Utilize PVT based strategies to lift clients out of a freeze state.
  2. Determine how to evoke and complete active defensive-orienting responses that may arise when treating unresolved trauma.
  3. Identify how to track the effects of trauma resolution, moving from a dorsal vagal freeze response toward social engagement.
Lunch Address: If It’s Not Me, Then Who Is It?

  1. Develop a clear conceptualization of narcissism/antagonism and why this is crucial in working with clients presenting with a range of relational difficulties.
  2. Identify the cycle of self-blame that gets cemented for people who are in relationships with people who have narcissistic/antagonistic personalities.
  3. Utilize radical acceptance strategies to assist clients in grieving the aspects of their narcissistic/antagonist relationship that are unlikely to change.
501: Straight to the Heart: Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) in Action

  1. Identify the map offered to who we are by attachment science and how to apply it in session.
  2. Determine the key interventions of EFIT, both experiential micro skills and the EFIT Tango.
  3. Summarize how EFIT engages and moves clients struggling with the echoes of trauma.
502: On Being a Healer in a Traumatized World: Beyond Techniques Toward Deeper Truths

  1. Evaluate the current state of trauma and addictions treatment in the field of psychotherapy and medical fields.
  2. Assess the value of the "self of the therapist" in the treatment of trauma and addictions.
  3. Develop three ways in which clinicians can more effectively approach the treatment of trauma and addictions by utilizing their own abilities to be present.
503: Introduction to the Flash Technique: Resolving Traumatic Memories Painlessly

  1. Analyze common problems in trauma processing that Flash Technique was designed to address.
  2. Examine recent studies supporting the potential effectiveness of the flash technique.
  3. Identify the five essential features of the Flash Technique.
504: Healing from Sexual Trauma: An Integrative Relationship Therapy Approach

  1. Identify sexual trauma and how it can affect identity and relationships.
  2. Determine two common sexual problems experienced by survivors of sexual trauma.
  3. List three phases of relationship therapy for couples with trauma.
505: Undoing Shame: The Key to Trauma Healing

  1. Summarize the role of shame and self-loathing as symptoms of trauma.
  2. Identify the neurobiological effects of shame.
  3. Discriminate the physiological and cognitive contributors to chronic shame.
  4. Describe the survival advantages of shame.
Keynote: How Behavioral Science Has Failed Us: A Roadmap Towards a Practical Science of Psychotherapy

  1. Identify the limitations of a latent disease model and the current understanding of evidence-based therapy.
  2. Develop a functional analysis based on network theory.
  3. Appraise the development of process-based therapies.
601: Creating the Flexible Client: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) as a Processes of Change

  1. Differentiate between a process-based therapy approach and a system based on protocols and syndromes.
  2. Identify the psychological processes that need to be targeted in ACT work.
  3. Choose strategies for speaking with clients in a way that effectively engages them to work on the psychological flexibility process of values.
602: Healing Trauma from Narcissistic Abuse Using a DBT Approach: Building Boundaries, Rebuilding Lives

  1. Integrate DBT principles into therapy sessions for clients to rebuild their lives post-narcissistic abuse.
  2. Choose mindfulness-based interventions to enhance clients’ self-awareness and self-compassion as part of their recovery from narcissistic abuse.
  3. Utilize DBT skills for distress tolerance to help clients navigate challenging situations and triggers associated with narcissistic abuse.
603: Avoidance and Intellectualization in the Treatment of Trauma: Unlocking Inner Resources for Healing, Resilience, and Self-Compassion

  1. Identify the role of avoidance in surviving childhood trauma.
  2. Differentiate intentional avoidance versus autonomic disconnection from affect.
  3. Choose 3 interventions for increasing client ability to tolerate vulnerability.
604: Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma: Clinical Strategies for Healing Attachment Wounds

  1. Examine how symptoms of intergenerational trauma from parents or ancestors to their children may appear during a session.
  2. Identify symptoms of negative merging and how to help clients unburden from generational boundary ruptures.
  3. Determine how to set the stage for client’s safety and enable them to engage with their parents’ unmet needs and core wounding with compassion.
605: Finding a New Rhythm: A Polyvagal Guided Approach to Life After Loss

  1. Utilize principles of Polyvagal Theory to understand a client’s response to loss.
  2. Develop a chronology of changes to autonomic patterns after a loss.
  3. Choose skills to enhance access to ventral regulation following a loss.

MULTIPLE PRESENTERS

Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of All Days, Full Attendance
[+] [-] 2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference


Continuing Education Credits Awarded for Completion of All Days, Full Attendance
[+] [-] 2024 Innovations in Psychotherapy: The Premier Trauma Therapy Conference


Breakdown for Continuing Education Credits by Event
[+] [-] 101: The Ultimate Grief Treatment Toolbox Certification Course
[+] [-] 102: Nutrition and Integrative Methods for Trauma
[+] [-] 103: Boundary Setting in Clinicial Practice
[+] [-] 104: A Neurodiversity-Affirming Approach to Treat "Autistic Trauma"
[+] [-] 105: Attachment-Focused EMDR
[+] [-] Keynote: All Care must Be Trauma-Informed Care
[+] [-] 201: The Current State of Trauma Treatment
[+] [-] 202: Treating Betrayal Trauma
[+] [-] 203: Transforming Trauma with Hypnosis
[+] [-] 204: Internal Family Systems Therapy for Trauma Treatment
[+] [-] 205: Trauma, The Body & Implicit Memory Demystified
[+] [-] Lunch Address: The Modern Abolitionist
[+] [-] 301: Somatic Abolitionism
[+] [-] 302: The Trauma of Endings
[+] [-] 303: The Biology of Trauma
[+] [-] 304: The Emodied Mind
[+] [-] 305: The Wow Factor
[+] [-] Keynote Address: The Myth of Normal
[+] [-] 401: Transform Grief to Peace
[+] [-] 402: Whole Again
[+] [-] 403: Emotional Freedom Techniques & Tapping
[+] [-] 404: Trauma-Informed Culturally Competent Care
[+] [-] 405: From Shutdown to Safety
[+] [-] Lunch Address: If It's Not You, Then Who Is It?
[+] [-] 501: Straight to the Heart
[+] [-] 502: On Being a Healer in a Traumatized World: Beyond Techniques toward Deeper Truths
[+] [-] 503: Introduction to the Flash Technique
[+] [-] 504: Healing from Sexual Trauma
[+] [-] 505: Undoing Shame
[+] [-] Keynote: How Behavioral Science Has Failed Us
[+] [-] 601: Creating the Flexible Client
[+] [-] 602: Healing Trauma from Narcissistic Abuse Using a DBT Approach
[+] [-] 603: Avoidance and Intellectualization in the Treatment of Trauma
[+] [-] 604: Break the Cycle of Intergenerational Trauma
[+] [-] 605: Finding a New Rhythm
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