Janina Fisher
WELCOME
For the last 30 years, I’ve been on a mission to help survivors of trauma and those who are trusted to help them.
The treatment model I’ve developed over the years is a trauma-informed parts approach that takes the intensity out of trauma treatment and replaces it with a method that is gentle and accessible, decreasing avoidance and resistance. Clients who haven’t been able to progress using other methods often recognize themselves in TIST and feel helped by it.
Treatment-resistant conditions – such as suicidal, self-harming, eating disordered, and addiction behaviors – can be stabilized much more easily than with traditional methods for self-destructive behavior.
When clients get stuck, and their therapists don’t have other modalities to help them, everyone is left feeling helpless and ineffective.
TIST changes all that.
With TIST, we focus on helping clients feel more connected, accepting, and self-compassionate.
My method focuses on treating the effects of traumatic events, as opposed to treating the event itself, and on managing unsafe and addictive impulses as trauma-driven behaviors rather than manipulative and attention-seeking ones.
We show clients how to use mindful observation to develop a relationship with their feelings, their impulses, and their traumatized parts.
TIST makes therapy much less threatening to the client.
And much more doable for the therapist.
TIST is informed by concepts and techniques from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and clinical hypnotherapy. The process is more gentle and requires less of clients, and the response is most often extremely positive.
In this training, you will learn exactly how traumatic triggers stimulate re-experiencing of overwhelming experiences and drive trauma-related parts defending against what feels like imminent danger, whether it’s fleeing, fighting, submitting or crying for help.
TIST provides an easier and more effective way of working with any clients who still suffer from the effects of trauma. Best of all, TIST also prevents burnout by decreasing the stress on YOU to “save the day.”
I am truly inspired by how hard therapists work and how much they put themselves on the line to help their clients. If you want to learn how to treat the clients at the highest risk, the clients most demanding to take on, or those you may have felt ill-equipped to handle, join me in learning this unique and effective method.
6 Video Teaching Modules (10+ Hours)
6 Video Training Sessions with Janina (12 Hours)
You can watch recorded calls plus get access to the LIVE calls coming in 2025! See FAQ for dates.
Downloads of Video, Audio, and Transcript in the membership site
Here’s Everything Included with Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
1. Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in your body: Therapeutic Yoga with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT
De will lead you through a series of 30-minute yoga classes designed to help bring you back into your body and counter the effects from sitting and being in the thinking mind. There is one class per course module.
An Internal Dialogue Approach to Working with Fragmented Parts: Video with Janina Fisher
Janina will guide you through the steps for using the internal dialogue technique to help clients learn to regulate, soothe, and even heal their traumatized parts.
The Optimal Future Self: Interview with Nancy Napier
Nancy Napier, MFT, is a longtime expert in the trauma field known for integrating hypnosis, spirituality, and Somatic Experiencing into psychotherapy.
Engaging Empathy and Compassion to Connect to Our-"selves": Interview with Frank Anderson
Frank’s emphasis on the importance of helping clients build empathy and compassion for their wounded younger selves is not to be missed!
Dissociative Experience Log
A helpful handout to use with your DID clients, this worksheet focuses on increasing their ability to identify shifts or switches from part to part.
PLUS These Bonuses…
Trauma and Self-Alienation
Surviving trauma, especially when young, requires that we disown the abused, humiliated child and try to be a child who is too ‘good’ to be abused. The effects of disowning and rejecting ourselves to survive have lifelong consequences, resulting in personality or dissociative disorders, unsafe behavior, and tumultuous relationships, including the therapeutic one. In this module, we will look at a trauma model that addresses this important issue and how to help clients understand themselves with compassion rather than shame and self-judgment.
In this module, we will explore:
- A neurobiologically-informed understanding of trauma
- The relationship between trauma and structural dissociation
- How to notice the signs of parts
- Decoding crises and problems as internal struggles between parts
Foundational Skills for Trauma-Informed Stabilization
Overcoming internal fragmentation and self-alienation require the ability to focus mindfully rather than ‘going with’ the flood of emotions and impulses survivors experience daily. Step-by-step instructions will help the therapist guide clients from impulsive actions and reactions to mindful awareness and increase their ability to be “with” themselves. Learning to relate to their intense distress as a communication from young traumatized parts changes their relationship to the strong emotions and tendencies to act out.
In this module, we will discuss:
- The Language of Parts
- Various methods for increasing a client’s mindfulness of parts
- Blending and Unblending
Suicidality, Self-Harm, Addictions, and Eating Disorders
Research demonstrates the strong relationship between a history of trauma and the development of unsafe behavior, addictions, and eating disorders. This module focuses on how to help clients learn to relate to unsafe impulses as trauma responses driven by protector parts. Trauma-related cues in daily life stimulate fear and shame, driving fight and flight parts to desperate measures that bring short-term relief but recreate the unsafe environment of childhood. Understanding their intentions as protective often calms the system and allows clients to build the resources and skills they need to manage emotional overwhelm.
In this module, we will discuss:
- How to increase empathy and build trust through positive re-framing
- Re-framing self-destructive behavior as a parts issue
- Strengthening the ‘normal’ part
- Building the skills to address traumatic reactions
The Challenge of Traumatic Attachment
Physical, emotional, and/or sexual trauma in childhood has a profound effect on attachment development, causing what researchers call ‘disorganized attachment.’ The child (and later adult) respond to the threatening environment with a heightened yearning for closeness and fear of abandonment alternating with fears of closeness and heightened mistrust. Separation anxiety alternates with pushing others away or fleeing from them. The intensity of these opposing drives is confusing and frightening for the client and often strains the therapeutic relationship. In this module, we will address how to deal with traumatic attachment as it complicates the treatment.
In this module, we will discuss:
- Challenges of traumatic attachment
- Disorganized attachment and the traumatic transference
- Using the social engagement system
Developing Internal Communication and Collaboration
The next challenge in the treatment is the development of internal collaboration between parts driven by conflicting survival responses. Self-destructive behavior is usually addressed behaviorally, but high relapse rates confirm the need to also treat the trauma and traumatized parts. Learning how to help clients change their relationship to unsafe thoughts and impulsive actions is a first step. Next, treatment requires an ability for internal dialogue and negotiation that results in increasing empathy for the parts and a willingness to deal with them creatively and compassionately. Safety becomes common ground where all parts can be welcomed.
In this module, we will discuss:
- Developing the capacity for internal dialogue
- Teaching internal communication skills
- The power of internal compassion and soothing
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
In this last module, we will focus on helping clients ‘repair’ rather than remember the past in order to resolve the legacy of trauma borne by each part. As bonds of kindness and compassion are built internally, the parts’ intense reactivity diminishes, allowing clients to welcome home disowned parts and offer them a safe, loving internal environment. Rather than emphasizing ‘integration,’ this model focuses on internal collaboration and closeness and on the establishment of internal acceptance, forgiveness, and safety. The client’s ability to attach to each rejected, disowned part with warmth and loving-kindness becomes the healing antidote to the trauma.
In this module, we will discuss:
- Complications in treatment
- Shifting from internal conflict to internal team-building
- A healing end to the story
Here’s Everything You’ll Learn Inside Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Meet your presenter
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is the Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, a former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and an international expert on the treatment of trauma and dissociation. She is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017) and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021). Best known for her work on integrating newer neurobiologically-informed interventions into traditional psychotherapy approaches, she is the co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015).
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