Building Internal Safety and Connection
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) Level 2 Training
With Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Next Live Cohort Starts September 2026!
Welcome!
Thank you for having completed TIST 1! I'm so glad you've come back to continue this learning journey.
There are so many clients out there who feel stigmatized, misunderstood, or like they can't be helped. They've been to therapy before, but it just hasn't worked.
The reason these clients haven't seen progress is because they haven't encountered the TIST model.
And that's why we want to get as many folks as possible trained in this model because it can and will help survivors of trauma.
Many of you came to the TIST method wanting guidance on working with your very difficult clients. Now that you've learned the concepts and foundational skills, you are ready to enter the next level.
In TIST Level 2, we transition from the theory and techiques covered in TIST Level 1 into becoming more fluent and practiced at working with TIST, particularly with complex trauma.
As TIST 2 progresses, you will develop the ability to be on the same wavelength as your client's parts, allowing you to help clients more deeply understand and communicate with them. Your work with both client and parts will become more nuanced, and you will have more skill in navigating interventions with even the most difficult or resistant clients.
In TIST Level 2 you will gain proficiency in:
- The Building Blocks of a Skilled TIST Therapist
- The Art of Working with Protector Parts
- The Do's and Don'ts of TIST
- Challenges of Implementing the TIST Model with DID Clients
- Extreme Cases: Ritual Abuse, Trafficking, Sadistic and Malevolent Abuse
- Resolution of Traumatic Memory
By the end of Level 2, you will have a greater ability to use the TIST model not just intellectually, but more energetically so that your clients can feel it.
Never feel like you are totally paralyzed or being jerked around by extreme cases again. Develop fluency in the language of TIST so that you don’t have to think out what you are doing and can be more present with your clients. Learn to model what it is like to be compasionately connected to traumatized young parts.
See the incredible shifts in your own clients as the process unfolds.
We look forward to joining you on this next step of your journey.
Warmly,
Janina Fisher and
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
Why take Level 2?
The live calls and training videos with Dr. Fisher will strengthen the skills you learned in Level 1, become more proficient in the techniques, and deepen your ability to use the model with clients. You will get more comfortable working with highly complex and dissociative clients. Level 2 is the next step to becoming a certified TIST therapist. TIST Level 2 graduates will be included in Janina's forthcoming international therapist map, hosted on her personal website.
Key Clinical Skills Addressed
in TIST Level 2:
Hearing the parts in someone's narrative
Naming what we hear
Helping the client notice the feelings they're having as a part
Dialoguing with the growth part
Repairing the wounds of the child part
Becoming a parts whisperer
Helping the client dis-identify with Parts
Here's Everything Included with
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Level 2 Training
Six-hour Library of TIST Level 2 Teaching Videos with Janina Fisher
This pre-recorded content will help you refine the skills you learned in Level 1 and takes you deeper inside the mindset of a TIST therapist. You can listen, study and learn at your own pace.
Six TIST Level 2 LIVE Training Calls with Janina Fisher
Join us live to have direct access to Dr. Fisher, and get your questions answered in real-time.
Calls are currently scheduled for the following dates at 9-11am PST/PDT:
October 7, October 21, November 4, November 18, December 2, December 16
TIST Level 2 Takehomes
Downloadable videos and transcripts that you can save to your library of resources.
Academy of Therapy Wisdom Exclusive Membership Portal
Conveniently access all your course material in one place and easily join the live calls. If you've ever taken a course with us before, you will find ALL your courses in one place.
Certificate of Completion
A personalized, downloadable PDF signed by Academy of Therapy Wisdom and Dr. Janina Fisher.
PLUS These Bonuses…
Interview with Dr. Frank Anderson - Building Trust with Internal Parts
Frank Anderson is a psychiatrist, IFS practitioner and trainer, and author of the forthcoming book, "Transcending Trauma: Healing Complex PTSD with Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy." We'll talk about empathy as an essential ingredient in healing trauma and how to understand the difference between compassion and empathy. Frank's emphasis on the importance of helping clients build empathy and compassion for their wounded younger selves is not to be missed!
Breathing the Ten Diaphragms with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT
As with TIST Level 1, we have invited trauma-informed therapeutic yoga instructor De West to provide TIST students with complementary yoga sessions.
During six live therapeutic yoga and somatic movement exploration sessions, you will work on balancing and breathing your body's ten diaphragms as a gateway to optimizing homeostasis and overall health through focused movements and exercises in each area.
Crisis Analysis Tool: Decoding Crisis
Excerpts from Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma by Janina Fisher Interview with Dr. Frank Anderson - Building Trust with Internal Parts
Read chapter 8, "Dealing with Fragmentation and Fragmented Parts," and chapter 9, "Healing and Resolution," from Dr. Fisher's workbook for trauma survivors and their therapists.
Protocol for Working with Chronic Pain
This worksheet gives you step-by-step instructions on how to work with pain symptoms as parts holding unresolved memories.
Parts Skills Worksheets
This includes six worksheets from Janina's newest book, Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma, including The Structural Dissociation Model, Identifying the Traumatized Parts, Signs of Structural Dissociation, Speaking the Language of Parts, Welcoming Your Younger Selves, and Parts Recognition. You can use these during a session or have your clients fill them out on their own.
Here's Everything Included with
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Level 2 Training
Module One
Live Session: September 25th, 9-11am PDT
The Building Blocks of a Skilled TIST Therapist
The 'building blocks' of TIST help to get clients interested in this new approach, yet the skills alone can seem like a very intellectual way of working at first. It can be stabilizing for the client to 'get' the model, but it doesn't touch the underlying wounds of the child parts. How do we get from theoretical ideas to a way of working that helps the client connect emotionally to the part? In this module, we will teach you how to help clients truly listen to their parts and give them a voice by becoming 'parts whisperers' ourselves.
We will discuss:
- Stimulating the client's attunement
- Role model compassionate understanding
- Becoming vocal advocates for the parts
Module Two
Live Session: October 9th, 2026 9-11am PDT
The Art of Working with Protector Parts
In this module, you’ll develop the skills to help your clients validate the protectors, earn their respect and trust, and negotiate new understandings. Without a way of working with protector parts, clients and therapists will be blocked at every turn. In TIST, we assume that all resistance, stuckness, dissociating or spacing out, and difficulties in collaboration reflect the protectors’ inherent distrust of the therapist and therapy. Rather than working around these parts, learn the ‘art’ of working with them to respect their roles in survival and their protective intentions, no matter how destructive their behavior.
We will discuss:
- How to access wounded parts without de-stabilizing the client
- The different protector parts
- How to communicate and negotiate with protectors
Module Three
Live Session: October 23rd, 2026 9-11am PDT
The Do's and Don'ts of TIST
Learning any new model requires repetition and simplification and then more repetition-the opposite of what we often do with complex clients. To support your learning in Level 2, this module covers the simple "Do's and Don'ts" of working with TIST-from what we should 'always' do to what we should 'never' do. You'll learn what you no longer have to worry about and what you should always be concerned about. It will help you to focus your efforts so that the work is more effective and to cultivate patience for the slow process of moving from a chaotic, overwhelmed sense of a defective self to an organized sense of a resilient system and the parts that comprise it.
We will discuss:
- Challenges of strengthening the normal life part
- The importance of inner communication
- The 10 rules of TIST
Module Four
Live Session: November 6th, 2026 9-11am PDT
Challenges of Implementing the TIST Model with DID Clients
Clients with DID or Dissociative Identity Disorder pose a special set of challenges for the therapist as well as the client. The independence of the different parts, the losses of consciousness and time, the impulsive behavior of parts acting 'behind the back' of the Normal Life self, and the self-destructive urges overwhelm the client and sometimes the therapist, too. In the therapy, parts 'come out' to make a relational connection to the therapist followed by other parts that push the therapist away or sabotage the therapy. Learning how to navigate these additional complexities with TIST helps to lower the temperature and empower the client.
We will discuss:
- Differences in treating DID clients
- Navigating the chaos
- "Behind the back" communication
Module Five
Live Session: November 20th, 2026 9-11am PDT
Extreme Cases: Ritual Abuse, Trafficking, Sadistic and Malevolent Abuse
Many complex fragmented or dissociative clients come to therapy to deal with the effects of extreme sadistic or malevolent traumatic experiences, such as ritual abuse, satanic cult abuse, human trafficking, mind control practices, or other organized group traumas. These clients are generally highly symptomatic, more fragmented, and more easily highjacked by extreme parts adapted to extreme circumstances. In these types of trauma, hypnosis, post-hypnotic suggestion, and staged experiences stimulate anticipatory fears on top of here-and-now terror, instill a sense of being complicit and 'bad,' and condition negative beliefs meant to keep the client quiet and compliant for years to come. The result is an extremely dysregulated nervous system, shattered self-esteem, and the potential for self-destructive behavior. Being able to help these clients requires the therapist understanding of the nature of these extreme experiences.
We will discuss:
- Special challenges of treating extreme event trauma
- Memory for extreme events
- Resolving extreme events
Module Six
Live Session: December 4th, 2026 9-11am PDT
Resolution of Traumatic Memory
Advances in our understanding of trauma have directed us toward the goal of resolving implicit and explicit components of memory that continue to intrude on the client's present experience. From that viewpoint, not all of the many events must be processed unless necessary to resolve the implicit memories that are still activated, and treating implicit memory is seen as more important to the resolution of trauma than treating explicit memory. To further complicate the issue of memory, fragmentation of the personality results in fragmentation of implicit and explicit memory, in parts that block disclosure and parts that are desperate to tell someone, and in a sense of clear and present danger now. Each part anxiously anticipates a repetition of the past without any sense that 'it' is over. How do we help clients resolve the past when the past is still present for the parts?
We will discuss:
- Addressing traumatic memory
- Trauma processing for fragmented selves
- Repairing the traumatic past
Here's Everything Included with
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Level 2 Training
- 6 Teaching Videos with Janina Fisher
- 6 LIVE Training Calls with Janina Fisher
- Academy of Therapy Wisdom Exclusive Membership Portal
- TIST Level 2 Takehomes
- Certificate of Completion
PLUS These Bonuses:
- Interview Frank Anderson - Building Trust with Internal Parts
- Breathing the Ten Diaphragms with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT
- Crisis Analysis Tool: Decoding Crisis
- Excerpts from Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma by Janina Fisher
- Protocol for Working with Chronic Pain
- Parts Skills Worksheets
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If you are a helping professional of color, please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here (single payment) or clicking here (three payments)
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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).
Here's what students are saying about the TIST model…
Praise for Janina's Book, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
"It will take you to new places and enable you to reach for your clients and find them when they cannot find themselves. Enjoy!"
- Sue Johnson, PhD, professor, researcher, and
author of Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
"This course has given me a clear and tangible approach to working with trauma and doing parts work in a practical and direct way."
- Crystal H.
"It has changed the language I use with clients and created so much space in me. I feel much less anxious as a therapist."
-Jennifer R.
"The course provides me with a very specific frame to keep the focus on what client is experiencing rather than being in their head. It also takes me as the therapist out of the middle many times. I believe it has been helpful in my increased growth and ability to fine-tune my voice and style as a therapist."
-Diane G.
"I am in love with Janina's model. It is body-based, collaborative, and anti-oppressive. It has helped me develop more compassion for my clients' parts, my own parts, and family members' parts too."
-Natasha M.
"Clients have immediate benefits and I am less stressed about issues I didn't know how to help them towards resolution. Clients commented on how helpful a session was after explaining the TIST model to them."
-Martha L.
"It has also given me a road map to navigate with clients who have deeper issues. I feel more comfortable using the road maps shared to better help my clients evolve, release and grow. When I have explained what is going on for my clients using the tools/handouts shared, a light goes off inside them and they totally agree with the information. They feel a sense of gratitude (as do I) that someone has been able to depict so clearly what is happening inside them. They also feel that I understand them more than anyone else has in the past."
-MAH
"This is the best course I have taken in my life. Janina integrates my favorite models in one. This has enriched my practice immensely and my own life."
-Maria C.
"Janina brought forward exactly what was missing for me and I am so very grateful to be able to help in an area I was not sure how to truly be helpful. The good results have been immediate."
-Lizzie A.
"My clients are able to make better sense of their symptoms and the Structural Dissociation model seems easier for them to grasp than the IFS model."
-Shannon W.
"The progress clients have made since I have begun using TIST has been incredible! The model helps clients reduce shame, increase their ability for self-care, and improve abilities to set boundaries. Clients who struggle with codependent relationships are becoming able to soothe cling responses and interpersonal anxiety. The impact on clients has been incredible! I have even seen a client with DID more safely be able to interact with parts in and outside of sessions. It has also caused me to start conceptualizing clients differently and has helped me have direction for working with clients that previously would have been difficult for me to progress with."
-Jennifer W.
"It has given me a trauma model that feels like it is stabilizing and not further wounding my clients."
-Kelly P.
"I also really benefited from seeing videos of Janina working with clients; it allowed me to understand what TIST looks like applied moment-to-moment in sessions, which was the next step I needed after having re-read "Healing the Fragmented Selves'' over five times in the last 3 years."
-Jonathan L.
"I also really benefited from seeing videos of Janina working with clients; it allowed me to understand what TIST looks like applied moment-to-moment in sessions, which was the next step I needed after having re-read "Healing the Fragmented Selves'' over five times in the last 3 years."
-Jonathan L.
Start seeing more and MORE improvements even with your most 'difficult' clients when you register for TIST Level 2 now.
Click below to enroll now.
Here's Everything Included with
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Level 2 Training
- 6 Teaching Videos with Janina Fisher
- 6 LIVE Training Calls with Janina Fisher
- Academy of Therapy Wisdom Exclusive Membership Portal
- TIST Level 2 Takehomes
- Certificate of Completion
PLUS These Bonuses:
- Interview Frank Anderson - Building Trust with Internal Parts
- Breathing the Ten Diaphragms with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT
- Crisis Analysis Tool: Decoding Crisis
- Excerpts from Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma by Janina Fisher
- Protocol for Working with Chronic Pain
- Parts Skills Worksheets
Enroll Now
Single Payment of
$1497
Join Janina Fisher for this special 6-Session Online Training
Enroll Now
3 Monthly Payments of
$527
Join Janina Fisher for this special 6-Session Online Training
If you are a helping professional of color, please accept our discounted enrollment price for this course by clicking here (single payment) or clicking here (three payments)
We are glad to have you with us!