Dr. Janina Fisher’s Trauma-informed Stabilization Treatment, also knows as TIST trauma therapy, and taught in the online therapist course Helping Trauma Survivors Get Unstuck: A Fragmented Selves Approach in Therapy, reframes the trauma our therapy clients has suffered and gives clinicians a new way of understanding the impact and ways in which trauma survivors relive traumatic events through “fragmented selves”.
While psychotherapy has mostly focused on the psychological effects of traumatic events and their memory, Fisher´s TIST technique teaches us how these memories affect our client´s physiology and spirit, or soul. This holistic approach has many benefits for the patient and the therapist.
Key Aspects and Benefits of Trauma-informed Stabilization Treatment for Trauma Survivors
- TIST therapy concentrates on training the client in the emotional description and also on understanding their trauma memories. It does not focus on the traumatic event itself thus making emotions less frightening and more tolerable.
- TIST trauma work empowers the client to intellectually understand trauma and its effects on our minds and bodies from a scientific perspective.
- Trauma survivors are invited into mindful examination of difficult thoughts and behaviors in a way that helps them understand how they are connected to the previously traumatized parts of themselves.
- The TIST process is more gentle and requires less of clients, as it is informed by sensory motor psychotherapy, IFS, and clinical hypnotherapy.
- Trauma-informed Stabilization Technique helps clients feel more connected, accepting, and self-compassionate by helping them to view their physiological reactions as adaptive; these behaviors were previously beneficial as mechanisms of safety within the range of flight, fight, freeze, or faun.
- TIST therapists help empower their clients’ relationships with their emotions, strengthened by better boundaries and reduced self-identification with their feelings, impulses, and behaviors.
- TIST therapeutic methods relieve stress for the therapist because the burden of healing or saving the client is taken off the clinician’s shoulders.
Clients report very positive outcomes in their lives due to being treated and supported within the TIST therapy model. Its focus on deepening understanding and personal empowerment can increase a client’s acceptance and integration of the techniques as compared to some other popular therapy methods. Trauma-informed Stabilization Technique has proven especially effective for trauma survivors suffering from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD) and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID).
We invite you to read more about Janina Fisher’s online courses. You may wish to start with her Level 1 training Helping Trauma Survivors Get Unstuck: A Fragmented Selves Approach in Therapy or start your own certification path with Dr. Fisher´s Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) Certification Training.
Join Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment Webinar by Dr. Janina Fisher
Helping Trauma Survivors Get Unstuck: A Fragmented Selves Approach in Therapy
In This NEW Janina Fisher Webinar you will learn:
How to understand perplexing clients using the TIST perspective so you can see the fragmented selves at work.
How to organize a treatment plan using the TIST model so you have an effective approach to care.
How TIST helps shift even the most stuck clients so they can finally make progress.
How to relieve your frustration and prevent burnout with more effective trauma treatment.
on April 4, 9-10am PDT / noon-1pm EDT / 5-6pm BST
“Janina Fisher’s unique blending of IFS ‘parts’ with sensorimotor and mindfulness-based therapy is a terrific enhancement to psychodynamic work. Although grounded in structural dissociation theory and trauma treatment, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors offers insights that will enrich the knowledge-base of therapists treating higher-functioning as well as deeply traumatized individuals. I recommend this remarkable book to all psychotherapists, especially psychodynamic ones, who will discover an extraordinary opportunity to expand their clinical horizons.”
— Kenneth A. Frank, PhD, Psychotherapy Integration Training Program, National Institute for Psychotherapies
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is the founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) and an Advisory Board member of the Trauma Research Foundation. Dr. Fisher is the author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation (2017), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and The Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). She is best known for her work on integrating mindfulness-based and somatic interventions into trauma treatment.
