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 result.
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.
Here’s What You’ll Receive When You Register Your Spot Today
5 IN-DEPTH Training MODULES
Downloadable Course Materials
Private Member Dashboard
Freedom of Movement ~ Landing in Your Body
An In-Depth Conversation with Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD
Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model to Treat Trauma and Addiction: An Exclusive Interview with Jan Winhall, MSW, FOT
Here’s What You’ll Receive When You Register Today
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 To Path of 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.
Meet Your Presenter
Janina Fisher, Ph.D.
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is clinical psychologist, former instructor at Harvard Medical School, board member of the Trauma Research Institute, and a patron of the John Bowlby Centre, as well as 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), Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: a Workbook for Survivors and Therapists (2021), and the Living Legacy Instructional Flip Chart (2022). 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).
CE Information:
This course is approved for 10 CEs through the following organizations: CAMFT, NBCC, NASW MA Chapter.
For complete CE info, please click here.
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