Addiction, Trauma & the Brain
Trauma Expert Janina Fisher, PhD in a 5-session On-Demand Course that Reveals the Link Between Trauma and Addiction (and How to End the Cycle)
Over the 5 modules, you'll discover:
- How trauma shapes brain development and lays the groundwork for addiction.
- Skillful ways to help clients connect trauma triggers with addictive urges.
- Motivational strategies to increase client curiosity in changing patterns.
- Practical techniques to support safety, sobriety, and stabilization.
- Clinical approaches to prepare for abstinence challenges.
- Methods to cultivate self-compassion and forgiveness.
Dear Therapist,
Do you struggle to help clients caught in the vicious cycle of trauma and addiction?
Do you feel like you're lacking the proper training to adequately address these co-occurring issues?
If so, you're not alone.
While most graduate programs teach therapists to treat trauma or addiction separately, research shows that over half of those struggling with addictions have underlying trauma.
When we only focus on one issue, clients continue to suffer.
There is a better way.
Imagine, finally understanding the true relationship between trauma and addiction so that your clients get real results…
Imagine, giving your clients the ability to see the addictive behavior as an attempt to cope and self-regulate and being able to give them the tools to manage it…Now, Imagine being able to work collaboratively as an ally with your client to promote healing for both the trauma and the addiction…
Leading trauma expert Janina Fisher can show you how.
Janina has dedicated her career to treating the impacts of trauma. She's worked closely with pioneers like Bessel van der Kolk, and developed her own Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment approach.
Janina knows firsthand the struggles therapists face regarding addictive disorders in trauma clients. And through decades of experience, she's discovered practical solutions.
That's why after years of practice and research Janina created this online course - to fill the gap in trauma education and provide therapists like you with the skills to confidently treat both trauma and addiction.
By Completing the Course, You'll Have the Ability to:
- Understand the trauma-addiction link and explain it to clients so that you can help them achieve real results.
- Work collaboratively with clients to uncover addiction causes so they can begin to work through them with you.
- Help clients manage overwhelming emotions without substances so they can develop healthy coping strategies.
- Guide clients through the ups and downs of sobriety with empathy.
- Address destructive behaviors compassionately but directly so that clients have the highest likelihood of success.
Don't let another client suffer needlessly.
Register now for this one-of-a-kind training on trauma and addiction with Janina Fisher.
Warmly,
Janina Fisher, PhD &
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
P.S. Janina's warm, engaging teaching style makes complex topics understandable and applicable. When learning with Janina, you'll gain confidence to treat trauma and addiction issues with competence and care.
From Pain to Dependence: Exploring Trauma-Driven Addictions
Trauma disrupts healthy emotional development in childhood, causing feelings to become overwhelming and scary. Children desperately need ways to cope and regulate their emotions.
Without proper support, they discover their own methods - avoiding emotions through dissociation, changing headspaces with substances, or stimulating adrenaline through self-harm.
Addictive disorders arise when surviving the day outweighs all else.
As adults, these survival strategies become ingrained habits and compulsions that provide short-term relief but cause long-term dysfunction.
Safely feeling emotions takes a back seat to quick fixes for unbearable pain.
But you have the power to guide clients out of these cycles toward true healing.
With the skills and compassion you'll gain from this course, you can help clients break free from the trauma-addiction trap.
You'll become the therapist your clients need to finally overcome destructive patterns.
Don't wait another day. Enroll now and start making a difference in the lives of those suffering.
Your Instructor,
Trusted Trauma Expert,
Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor at Harvard Medical School.
An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is 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.
With over 40 years of experience, Janina Fisher is uniquely qualified to guide you in working effectively with trauma and addiction.
Janina understands firsthand the struggles therapists encounter and has developed practical solutions from her own clinical work, training, consultation and supervision.
Known for her warmth, insight and engaging teaching style, Janina distills complex concepts into understandable kernels of knowledge.
Janina's goal is to help you become the best possible therapist to evoke healing and hope.
Enroll now in this potentially life-changing course on trauma and addiction.
Read What Janina's Students
Have to Say:
"Janina's way of dialoguing with parts has proved to be invaluable."
"Sometimes the simplicity of just being with a part that has experienced rejection, rather than additionally inviting the part to "unburden" has been really useful."
- Paul Khosla
"My confidence and therapeutic skills have increased dramatically."
"It's totally changed the way of me understanding myself and others - I don't have as much shame."
"I feel Janina's presence when I work with my clients."
"I am moved by Janina's ability to present complex material in a clear and practical way. I appreciate her depth of knowledge, experience, and skills, as well as her warmth, generosity and presence. I love how she models how to work with clients with non-judgment and deep compassion."
- Maureen Drage
Unlock Your Practice's Potential
With The Skills You'll Gain
This course delivers a neurobiologically-informed understanding of trauma and addiction so you can make an even greater difference with struggling clients.
Deepen Your Clinical Skills
Treat co-occurring trauma and addiction with competence and care.
Better understand the trauma-addiction link.
Gain tools to cultivate client safety, coping, and curiosity.
Experience Breakthroughs With Challenging Clients
Guide clients to connect trauma with addictive behaviors.
Develop motivational strategies for change.
Strengthen emotion regulation without substances.
Build Unshakable Compassion
See past behaviors to the underlying pain.
Help clients have self-compassion.
Facilitate forgiveness and integration.
Work With Addictive Behaviors Without Getting Into a Struggle Over Safety
This 5-module course gives you practical strategies you can use in your practice to help your clients overcome the influence of traumatic experiences and avoid succumbing to addictive behaviors.
You'll receive instant access to pre-recorded modules to help you expand your understanding, including presentations, demonstrations, skills practice, and more.
With each skill you integrate, you'll become the highly skilled trauma-informed therapist you've aspired to be. Your confidence and abilities will grow by leaps and bounds.
Here's What You'll Receive When You
Register Your Spot Today…
5 IN-DEPTH Training MODULES
Each module includes presentations of therapeutic techniques, along with step-by-step explanations, client tapes, and demonstrations, so you can immediately understand and apply these powerful tools in your practice. Gain hands-on experience through exercises and practices led by Janina. You'll gain confidence and competency to start using these techniques with clients right away.
Downloadable Course Materials
Audio recordings, transcripts, handouts, and more allow you to revisit the material when and how you like. Our dedicated support team is here to help with any questions.
Private Member Dashboard
Get all your course content organized in one easily accessible place to reinforce consistent learning.
Register Today and You'll Also Receive…
Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in Your Body
5 guided yoga practices with De West, C-IAYT, RYT, RPYT. De will lead you through yoga sessions designed to help bring you back into your body and counter the effects of sitting and being in the thinking mind. Each yoga session is 30 minutes long.
An In-Depth Conversation with Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Ruth is a leading neuroscientist and researcher on PTSD. She is a Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She established the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, services that specialize in the treatment and research of PTSD and related comorbid disorders. She is also coauthor of the books The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic and Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment.
An In-Depth Conversation with Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Ruth is a leading neuroscientist and researcher on PTSD. She is a Professor of Psychiatry and the director of the Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) research unit at the University of Western Ontario. She established the Traumatic Stress Service and the Traumatic Stress Service Workplace Program, services that specialize in the treatment and research of PTSD and related comorbid disorders. She is also coauthor of the books The Impact of Early Life Trauma on Health and Disease: The Hidden Epidemic and Healing the Traumatized Self: Consciousness, Neuroscience, Treatment.
Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to Treat Trauma and Addiction: An Exclusive Interview with Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT
Jan is a polyvagal and addictions specialist. She is an Educational Partner and Course Developer with the Polyvagal Institute where she teaches a certificate course based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Coordinator with the International Focusing Institute. Jan is Co-Director of the Borden Street Clinic where she supervises graduate students.
Register for Addiction,
Trauma & The Brain Today
For $197
"My approach to clients has shifted."
"I am much more confident in working with a wider range of presenting issues around complex trauma."
- Michael Sobocinski
"[This course] has helped me in exploring my parts and how they operate."
"Professionally, it's helped me better understand a little better how some of my clients' psyche operates. The compassion piece is so important and so much easier to manifest when there is also understanding."
- Ana
Here's What Is Covered in Each Module
Janina strategically designed each module to build your trauma-handling skills incrementally. You'll gain powerful new techniques and insights step-by-step to integrate into your work.
Neurobiological & Emotional Effects of Early Abuse
Learn how trauma shapes brain development and lays the groundwork for addictive disorders.
- Understand automatic survival responses to threat.
- See how trauma alters nervous system regulation.
- Identify out-of-balance trauma symptoms.
From Survival Strategy to Active Addiction
Discover how addictive behaviors move from survival strategies to dangerous compulsions over time.
- Grasp why tolerance causes addictions to escalate.
- Track the mutual reinforcement of trauma and addiction.
- Recognize signs that addiction is taking over.
Creating a Path to Sobriety & Abstinence
Master ways to connect clients' trauma and addictions to spark curiosity and desire for change.
- Make clear links between trauma and addiction.
- Evoke client curiosity about their patterns.
- Develop skills for trauma stabilization.
The Challenge of Sobriety
Gain strategies and skills to help clients through the ups and downs of achieving sobriety
- Prepare clients for sobriety challenges.
- Identify relapse warning signs early.
- Support clients through cycles of progress.
Healing from Addiction & Trauma
Foster self-compassion and forgiveness to help clients heal from trauma and addiction.
- Understand addictive parts as protectors.
- Use inner dialogue to build compassion.
- Guide clients to grieve losses with care.
100% Risk-Free Money-Back Guarantee
We are confident you will learn new skills in this online training. However, if within 7 days after purchase, you don't believe you will learn anything to apply with your clients, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.comand we will give you a full refund, no questions asked.
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"Best teacher and clinical supervisor ever!"
"She has a remarkable ability to translate among therapeutic theories and techniques over the last 35 years and is also up-to-date on the latest. Invaluable consultant, teacher, colleague, and friend! And most of all ... she cares profoundly about helping as much as possible. "
- Polly Bloomberg, Ed.D.