Congratulations to our friend, colleague, and esteemed Academy of Therapy Wisdom faculty, Janina Fisher, creator of the trauma informed stabilization treatment therapy modality and author of the international bestseller Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors, for her well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award. We were thrilled to be present as she accepted her award at this year´s Psychotherapy Networker Symposium in Washington, D.C.
Janina Fisher Accepts the Lifetime Achievement Award
Janina Fisher gave an inspiring acceptance speech as she recounted the challenge of going against the medical establishment paradigms of her early career and estabilishing trauma as a real and important condition to take seriously in psychology. Janina encouraged the next generation of therapists to be as passionate about trauma as she and her colleagues were. Watch on…
Answer the call! You can start studying with this incredible pioneer in trauma therapy right away. Join the FREE Trauma Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) Introductory Webinar led by Dr. Janina Fisher where she´ll give a fragmented selves approach” to challenging clients that exhibit stuckness and resistance, and much more. From there, you can join her upcoming TIST training and even get certified as a TIST practitioner in 2024 in Janina´s intensive training program exclusive to Academy of Therapy Wisdom.
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
Here´s a look at the Janina Fisher Lifetime Achievement Award acceptance speech (transcript):
You know, when Zach [Taylor] first told me I was getting this award, I thought, lifetime. That means you’re old. Which is true. And then I thought, but achievement? What achievement? Because none of us set out to achieve. I’ve been on a mission. A mission since the early 90s to really bring the message of what is trauma? How do we understand it? How do we treat it to as many therapists as we could reach in any corner of the world?
And so it never felt like achieving. It was like, can we reach people? And you know, for every one of you that has ever listened to me and the other leaders in this field, 10, 20, 100 clients have been helped. And so it’s such tremendous, it feels like a privilege, not an achievement.
I am so, so grateful for the people who are on this mission with me, like Bessel, like Pat, like Frank, like Lisa. Frank and I started on this mission together in 1995. So, you know, the time flies when you’re doing good things.
And I’m very excited about this new generation of therapists… because I’m not getting any younger. We need you guys. We need somebody to be as passionate as we were.
I mean, we were partly passionate because there were so many doubters, so many people who said, oh, sexual abuse of children, that just leads to neurosis. And so we felt impassioned by this incredible need for people to actually get that trauma is traumatic. I hope that you all will find the passion.
Maybe it’ll be the passion to treat trauma in spite of insurance companies, in spite of all of the sort of medicalization of what we do. Whatever it is, please, please be the next generation because we need you.
(APPLAUSE)
Congratulations again to Janina Fisher. Over the years,and you have inspired us to be better, to grow as humans and professionals. We could never thank you enough for your contributions to the cause of trauma therapy, for the incredibly clear and effective TIST modality, and for helping countless clients and therapists live more fulfilling lives. May your legacy grow, and may the passion and commitment you continue to share with us be of immeasurable benefit to the world.
