Treatment of Sexual Trauma - Will be offered at a future date.
This workshop will contain significant experiential components. This is a camera-on, interactive workshop. There will be no recording.
Why somatic intervention? The body contains the roots of past adverse experiences that continue to have a negative emotional impact in present time. Somatic interventions provide a window into hard-to-reach emotional and psychological material. Often talk therapy alone has limitations in accessing dissociated and compartmentalized memories and emotions that are the underpinnings of troubling symptoms. The body holds so much emotional experience that is “beneath words.”
Somatic comes from the Greek word soma, meaning body. Somatic interventions are techniques that use body awareness to interrupt habitual ways of thinking and behaving that are contributing to distress (depression, anxiety, stress) and enable the therapeutic process to move forward.
In this workshop, you’ll learn to track posture, gaze, facial expression, muscle tension, breath, movement. You’ll learn to intervene with body-based strategies that help clients stay in, or return to, a state of nervous system regulation, and release trauma that the body is holding, facilitating the process of memory reconsolidation.
I am an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, a Certified Imago Relationship Therapist and among numerous trainings in somatic intervention, I have trained extensively in Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing model for the treatment of trauma.
Treatment of sexual trauma – December 1 and 2, 2023, 10:00-4:30 each day.
In addition, this program meets the requirements of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT) and is approved for 10 CE credits. These CE credits may be applied toward AASECT certification and renewal of certification.
This workshop will include:
Nervous system response of victims of sexual abuse
Somatic interventions unique to treatment of sexual trauma – strategies to use and NOT to use
Reclaiming the body lost in betrayal – how to create sensory experience that allows them to stay within their window of tolerance
Experiential practice
How to register – two-step process:
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Make a payment as soon as you have filled out the above form one of the following three ways:
Preferred: send me a check – 4600 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 224, Washington, DC 20008
Preferred: via Zelle – deborahfoxdc@gmail.com
Via paypal - www.paypal.me/DeborahFox230
For a full refund:
Cancel by Oct 27.
For one-half refund:
Cancel by Nov 3. After this date, there will be no refunds.