Resilience-Informed Therapy: An Integrative Somatic Approach to Trauma Recovery
With Arielle Schwartz, PhD
12 CEs are available. Get full info here.
Hello,
What would you see If you watched yourself leaving work at the end of the day?
Is there a spring in your step? A smile of satisfaction across your face?
Is your head held high and shoulders back with the pleasure of doing a good job?
Or would you see someone burdened? Does your head hang heavy while your shoulders sag around a hollowed-out chest?
Do you shuffle home, unaware of your surroundings as you replay each disappointing interaction of the day?
Dr. Arielle Schwartz has helped hundreds of therapists find ease and joy in their work by integrating what they already do so well with mind-body therapy to create a holistic model of therapy that supports clients and therapists.
And now, Arielle brings her expertise to you with:
Resilience-Informed Therapy: An Integrative Somatic Approach to Trauma Recovery.
Learn over 40 practical, tangible skills that create a holistic approach to healing. You can immediately start applying them in your very next session to see faster results, all while supporting your and your client’s nervous systems.
Feel the confidence of integrating multiple modalities seamlessly and skillfully so you can help your clients not only resolve trauma but also come out of therapy feeling a greater connection to yourself and a greater capacity to create meaningful lives.
Join us now so the next time you leave your desk, you’ll see joy in your eyes for your renewed sense of hope and expanded possibilities.
Warmly,
Arielle Schwartz, PhD &
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
In this course, you’ll learn:
- Resilience-informed therapy: An integrative mind-body therapy model so you can incorporate relational psychotherapy, EMDR, somatics, parts work, and therapeutic yoga with your existing modalities.
- What motivates: Identify what motivates you in your work — and what motivates your clients to improve — to inspire your passion to show up each day.
- Nervous system support: Cues to help the nervous system access a felt sense of safety so your work can be even more effective.
- Fear-melting practices: Experiential practices that help confront phobias so you can address the fears you hold and help clients who are scared or stuck.
“We gain effective outcomes relatively quickly, but we sustain those outcomes and integrate them through the long-term work. This is not fast food.”
— Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Take this workshop to learn:
Module 1
From Burnout to Self-Renewal:
A Resilience Informed Approach to Care
The first module focuses on YOU. Arielle will discuss the toll trauma treatment can have on therapists, and provide you with tools for arriving and centering that will nurture your resilience and carry you throughout your day. Learn skills to resource yourself so you can be fully present for your clients. This is the first step to leaving your work at the end of the day feeling more revitalized than when you began!
You’ll learn:
- Arriving practices to increase your presence for these learning sessions and for your client sessions.
- How to recognize your own stress and burnout so you can stop them in their tracks.
- A resilience-informed approach to care so you can bolster and protect yourself as a therapist.
- Techniques to reflect on resilience so you can track your progress.
- Skills for resourcing yourself to keep the resilience going.
Module 2
Attending to Adversity from a Foundation of Relational Safety
You likely already know about the impact of trauma on one’s life. In this session, learn how to discover how trauma has impacted your client’s mental, emotional, and physical health so you can more effectively and quickly bring them relief.
You’ll learn:
- Different forms of trauma — such as single incident to complex, or transgenerational and collective trauma — so you understand the unique story you are working with.
- Additional factors of trauma etiology to capture the full picture of your clients’ experience.
- The core concepts of trauma-informed care so you can help your clients stabilize and promote a positive outlook toward their future.
- Case conceptualization and history-taking questions to increase your skills when working with clients.
- A self-awareness practice for therapists to continue developing your resilience.
Module 3
Applied Polyvagal Theory for Mind-Body Health: Connection & Co-Regulation
This module dives into applying the polyvagal theory in your practice. Arielle is known for providing a very understandable and grounded approach to applying the scientific model of applied polyvagal theory in psychotherapy. You’ll incorporate methods for working with the vagus nerve that will improve your client’s well-being and your capacity as a therapist as well. You’ll have an entire new model for regulation.
You’ll learn:
- The components of polyvagal theory so you have a deeper understanding of what's going on in your client's nervous system,
- Neuroception: how to use self-awareness as a foundation for change.
- Tools you can use in sessions for natural vagus nerve stimulation to create a mutual field of regulation in the therapy room.
- How to tone the vagal nerve so your clients can achieve more vagal efficiency.
- Neuromodulation and natural vagus nerve stimulation so you can help your clients regulate their vagal system.
Module 4
Resources for Trauma Recovery: The Science of Positive Neuroplasticity
In this module, you’ll learn how to create new ways for your client's brain to respond to life’s challenges and free them from a brain hardwired for stress. You’ll learn the neuroscience of how the brain can be “re-wired” from a trauma-response basis/condition/history to one that can respond more appropriately/effectively to the current situation. You’ll learn:
You’ll learn:
- The science of positive neuroplasticity so you can seamlessly integrate positive resource states with traumatic memory reprocessing.
- How to hardwire happiness to make critical changes in your client’s lives.
- Visualization and imaginal practices to provide you with an experiential learning of somatic practices and enhance embodiment for your clients.
- How to anchor self-compassion so you and your clients carry this key resilience strategy with you at all times.
Module 5
Traumatic Memory Reprocessing: Mind-Body Integrative Approach to Healing
Here, you’ll learn how to reprocess traumatic memories in a holistic way. You’ll develop the steps and skills to use this mind- and body-oriented approach to heal trauma, and leave behind the old days of frustration and lack of progress.
You’ll learn:
- A model of predictive processing and somatic reappraisal you can resource states while attending to the distress of traumatic memories.
- How to incorporate somatic psychology, parts work therapies, and elements of EMDR so your clients get healed in the mind and body.
- Skills to explore reprocessing, exposure, and desensitization so you can more effectively work with traumatic memories.
- Through observing, as Arielle shares a demonstration session so you can make all of this theory more tangible.
Module 6
Integration and Navigation of Treatment Barriers
You know that healing is not a straight line; there will be challenges along the way. In our final module, you’ll learn how to integrate all your new knowledge and skills into your existing practice. Plus, proactively recognize and navigate obstacles to recovery so you’ll no longer be caught unaware or stumped by these barriers.
You’ll learn:
- The process of integration and re-evaluation so you can incorporate what you’ve learned in this course most effectively.
- How to navigate treatment barriers so your clients can transcend them and attain optimal wellness.
- Skills for cultivating coherence in your practice so you experience ease and joy in your work for years to come.
Through each weekly training, you'll gain skills and confidence to integrate attachment-based approaches into your therapeutic practice. The transformation will be swift, tangible, and long-lasting.
A 13-hour training with
Dr. Arielle Schwartz
$347
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“Arielle masterfully bridges her well-developed model of therapeutic yoga with polyvagal theory. In doing so, she has creatively found paths to support the recovery of her readers as they share, through the powerful and insightful tools embedded in yoga, a journey of re-embodiment, co-regulation, healing, and discovery.”
— Stephen W. Porges, PhD, distinguished university scientist and founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University Bloomington
Meet Your Presenter
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and author of six books: The Complex PTSD Workbook, The Practical Guide to Complex PTSD, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook, The Complex PTSD Treatment Manual, and Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery.
Dr. Schwartz is an accomplished teacher who guides therapists in the application of EMDR, somatic psychology, parts work therapy, and mindfulness-based interventions for the treatment of trauma and complex PTSD. She has a depth of understanding, passion, kindness, compassion, joy, and a succinct way of speaking about very complex topics.
She is the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy in Boulder, Colorado where she maintains a private practice providing psychotherapy, supervision, and consultation. Arielle is a certified Kripalu yoga instructor and teaches with the Polyvagal Institute where she offers a course on Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga along with Dr. Stephen Porges. With over twenty years as a therapeutic yoga teacher, Dr. Schwartz believes that the journey of trauma recovery is an awakening of the spiritual heart.
Hear What Folks Who Have Learned From Arielle Have To Say…
"...the light required in the otherwise heavy and dark world of trauma."
“Dr. Arielle's work brings a refreshing emphasis on the human aspect over mere symptoms. By prioritizing resilience and empathy, we address root causes rather than surface-level issues. Her person-centered approach fosters a more compassionate and holistic perspective, leading to better outcomes for individuals.[...]The freshness of this mindset is much the light required in the otherwise heavy and dark world of trauma.”
— S.C. trauma therapist, Mumbai, India
"Learning from Arielle has supported me in becoming a confident, effective and resilient therapist."
“I cannot say enough about the impact of Arielle’s teaching and consultation on my work as a therapist. Arielle brings an incredible breadth of knowledge surrounding trauma healing, EMDR, the nervous system, parts work (and more) and applies it in a clear, embodied, and relational manner. Learning from Arielle has supported me in becoming a confident, effective and resilient therapist.”
— Alicia Hagge, LCSW, LAC
"...how to walk alongside my clients toward healing while caring for myself."
“Empowering Therapeutic Practices”
"Dr. Schwartz creates space in the truest sense of the word - room to breathe, room to grow, and room for curiosity and compassion. Spending the last two years in her EMDR consultation group has been life-changing for me personally and professionally. I am grateful to experience her leadership, immense knowledge of the impact of trauma, and most importantly, how to walk alongside my clients toward healing while caring for myself."
— Mark Strubler, MA, LPC EMDR Consultant-in-Training
"[She] puts us in touch with our inner capabilities."
“Dr. Schwartz guides us into a field of healing practices and possibilities founded in a resilient-informed approach. She offers portals into the untold and hidden stories of pain that live in the nervous system and the biology of people affected by chronic traumatization. She reminds us of the power and strength that lay in the core of human existence and put us in touch with our inner capabilities.”
— Ana M. Gomez, MC, LPC, Author of EMDR Therapy and Adjunct Approaches with Children: Complex Trauma, Attachment, and Dissociation
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