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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST)
Level 1

With Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

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Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

Live session dates & times:

All live calls are 2 hours long 

Session 1: Thursday, Apr 18, 2024, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

Session 2: Wednesday, May 1, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

Session 3: Thursday, May 16, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

Session 4: Thursday, May 30, 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST

Session 5: Thursday, June 13, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

session 6 Thursday, June 20, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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.

My approach takes the intensity out of trauma treatment and replaces it with a method that is gentle and accessible, decreasing avoidance and resistance.

The TIST (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment) method has helped many clients, but the world has become even more traumatic. More treatment-resistant conditions — such as suicidal, self-harming, eating disordered, and addiction behaviors — are showing up in every therapist's office.

When clients get stuck trying to protect themselves from more pain, 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 sensory-motor psychotherapy, IFS, and clinical hypnotherapy. The process is more gentle and requires less of clients, and the response has been extremely positive.

In this training, you will learn exactly how trauma drives survival responses that re-create the felt sense that they are still in it, leading to impulsive attempts to fight or flee.

TIST provides an easier and more effective way of working with any clients who still suffer from these and other 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.

Warmly,
Janina Fisher and
Academy of Therapy Wisdom

P.S. If you are interested in becoming fully certified in the TIST model, this Level 1 course is the first step. Certified TIST practitioners are some of the best equipped in the field to help people that others have given up on or have given up on themselves. This is your chance to become one of them.

P.P.S. Registration into Levels 2 and 3 for certification will be opened following your registration into Level 1.

"You can do justice to the traumatic past while stabilizing the trauma survivor's ability to live a normal life here and now."

— Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

How TIST Level 1 Helps You Treat the Effects of Traumatic Events

Offers Hope

Offers Hope

Have more ways to work with your clients who have experienced trauma, and are resistant to typical therapeutic sessions

Helps Clients Finally Understand Themselves

Helps clients finally understand themselves

Bring relief to both you and your client — a feeling of getting unstuck

Accepts and Embraces All Parts

Accepts and embraces all parts

Help your clients develop deeply self-compassionate relationship to self and their parts

Offers Clients Relief without Further Pain

Offers clients relief without further pain

Discover ease in treating clients who have experience trauma

Clients Feel Less Stigmatized and Pathologized

Clients feel less stigmatized and pathologized

No longer refer out difficult clients; instead find satisfaction in working with them

DSM-V Diagnoses for Which TIST is Appropriate:

Complex PTSD

Complex PTSD

Substance Abuse Disorders

Substance abuse disorders

Treatment-resistant Depression

Treatment-resistant Depression

Sexual addiction

Sexual Addiction

Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Borderline Personality Disorder

Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID

Dissociative Identity Disorder or DID

Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified or DDNOS

Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified or DDNOS

Bipolar Disorder

Bipolar disorder

Gambling Addiction

Gambling addiction

Anorexia

Anorexia

Bulimia

Bulimia

Binge-eating Disorders

Binge-eating Disorders

TIST can also be used for any trauma-related issue

Here’s Everything Included with
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

6 Video Teaching Modules (10+ Hours)

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6 Live Training
Sessions with Janina
(12 Hours)

Six Live Calls with Dr. Janina Fisher for Each Level (18 Total)
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Downloads of Video, Audio, and Transcript in the membership site

PLUS These Bonuses…

5 exclusive offerings to deepen your learning and prepare you to take the model into your clinical practice!

1. Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in your body: Therapeutic Yoga with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT

After each live call, De will lead you through a 30-minute yoga class designed to help bring you back into your body and counter the effects from sitting and being in the thinking mind.

De also provides a video with 3 short practice yoga therapy session options (5-, 10-, and 15-minutes) that you can do in the comfort of your office to recover and refresh between your client sessions.

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An Internal Dialogue Approach to Working with Fragmented Parts - Video with Janina Fisher

2. 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.

3. 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. So often, trauma deprives individuals of any sense of identity or hope for the future, and Nancy addresses that challenge by speaking to the inherent healing potential in all of us that she calls “the Optimal Future Self.” We will talk about ways to help clients tap into their healed self rather than becoming focused on the suffering of their wounded selves.

The Optimal Future Self - Interview with Nancy Napier
Engaging Empathy and Compassion to Connect to Our-"selves": Interview with Frank Anderson

4. Engaging Empathy and Compassion to Connect to Our-"selves": Interview with Frank Anderson

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!

5. 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.

Dissociative Experience Log
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“From one of the preeminent experts in the field of trauma and dissociation, Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors imparts a vision of hope and validation to those suffering from complex trauma and the therapists who treat them. Janina Fisher’s exceptional ability to synthesize the best of cutting edge trauma psychotherapies has resulted in a brilliant and unique roadmap for resolving chronic traumatization.”

Pat Ogden, PhD, founder,
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

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Our courses are At the Intersection of Psychotherapy, spirituality, and social change

WE BELIEVE LEARNING SHOULD CHALLENGE YOU AND CHANGE YOU.

Here’s Everything You’ll Learn Inside Healing the Fragmented Selves
of Trauma Survivors…

Module One

Trauma and Self-Alienation

Live Session 1: Thursday, Apr 18, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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

Module One: Trauma and Self-Alienation
Module Two: Foundational Skills for Trauma-Informed Stabilization

Module Two

Foundational Skills for Trauma-Informed Stabilization

Live Session 2: Wednesday, May 1, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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

Module Three

Suicidality, Self-Harm, Addictions, and Eating Disorders

Live Session 3: Thursday, May 16, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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

Module Three: Suicidality, Self-Harm, Addictions, and Eating Disorders
Module Four: The Challenge of Traumatic Attachment

Module Four

The Challenge of Traumatic Attachment

Live Session 4: Thursday, May 30, 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST

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

Module Five

Developing Internal Communication and Collaboration

Live Session 5: Thursday, June 13, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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

Module Five: Developing Internal Communication and Collaboration
Module Six: Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Module Six

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

Live Session 6 Thursday, June 20, 9am PDT / Noon EDT / 5pm BST

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

What Clinicians are Saying About the TIST Method...

"It's clarified and organized much of what I've known, giving me greater confidence in my work."

— Anonymous



"Wow, where to even begin! This course has helped on all levels — navigating my own reactions (from my own parts) to client presentations and interactions; understanding the complex layers of fragmented and traumatized clients' internal landscapes; learning about more complex presentations involving clients' parts; more clearly understanding how to apply TIST in sessions (especially how to facilitate un-blending and internal parts work toward repair of ruptures and healing legacies of traumatic environments)."

— Jonathan L.



"Personally it made sense to me and clarified reasons for our own behaviour, how I behave with clients sometimes as well. 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."

— M.A.H.



Here’s Everything You Receive with Healing the Fragmented Selves
of Trauma Survivors…

Here’s Everything You Receive with Healing the Fragmented Selve of Trauma Survivors

1) 6 Pre-recorded Teaching Modules (10+ Hours)

2) 6 LIVE Training Sessions with Janina (12 Hours)

3) Downloads of Video, Audio, and Transcript in the membership site

Plus these special bonuses:

1) Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in your body: Yoga with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT

2) An Internal Dialogue Approach to Working with Fragmented Parts: Video with Janina Fisher

3) The Optimal Future Self: Interview with Nancy Napier

4) Engaging Empathy and Compassion to Connect to Our-"selves": Interview with Frank Anderson

5) Dissociative Experience Log Handout

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We are confident you will really enjoy and benefit from this online training. However, if within 7 days of the first live call or 7 days within purchase, whichever is later, you are not 100% satisfied with your purchase, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.com and we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.

What Participants Say:

"I love the de-pathologizing of trauma symptoms through Janina's IFS-influenced approach. Being very spiritually myself, I have found myself at odds with the diagnostic/ medically influenced view of human behavior as pathological, bad or wrong. IFS and Janina's approach is such a breath of fresh air. In my younger days I was terrified of working with certain diagnosis, ie, BPD. Using this approach is so affirming and gentle, true and real that I now find working with this population easier and so much more effective."

— Cyndi W

 

"I am so happy. I will be a better therapist from having sat at Janina's feet."

— Susan Ann Stauffer

 

"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."

— Natashia M.

 

"I thought that the course was excellent. Janina was so kind and compassionate and just lovely in her beingness and her presentations. She is clear and so loving in the way she approaches her clients and her students. I learned so much about how to use words and presence to connect more deeply with clients and how to be welcoming and non judgemental, yet effective and connected....slowly but surely working with the legacy of trauma in us all."

— Danielle Long

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).

Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

Frequently Asked Questions:

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

"The role of cumulative trauma in the fragmentation of self-experience, the strategies for identifying, together with the client, the non-integrated parts of the personality during the clinical exchanges, and the integrating power of the psychotherapy dialogue have rarely been dealt with in such a convincing and original way as in the pages of this fascinating book."

Giovanni Liotti, MD,
APC School of Psychotherapy, Rome, Italy

"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

Here’s Everything You Receive with Healing the Fragmented Selves
of Trauma Survivors…

Here’s Everything You Receive with Healing the Fragmented Selve of Trauma Survivors

1) 6 All-New Teaching Modules (12+ Hours)

2) 6 LIVE Training Sessions with Janina (12 Hours)

3) Downloads of Video, Audio, and Transcript in the membership site

Plus these special bonuses:

:1) Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in your body: Yoga with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT

2) An Internal Dialogue Approach to Working with Fragmented Parts: Video with Janina Fisher

3) The Optimal Future Self: Interview with Nancy Napier

4) Engaging Empathy and Compassion to Connect to Our-"selves": Interview with Frank Anderson

5) Dissociative Experience Log Handout

ENROLL NOW

Single Payment of

$997

Join Janina Fisher for this special 6-Session Online Training

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ENROLL NOW

3 Monthly Payments of

$347

Join Janina Fisher for this special 6-Session Online Training

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If you are a BIPOC helping professional, 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!

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