We have the honor of working with Janina Fisher Ph.D. and offering her exclusive online therapy courses Helping Trauma Survivors Get Unstuck: A Fragmented Selves Approach in Therapy and Trauma-informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) Certification Training. We are always inspired by her approach and delivery, and our students report a wealth of benefits for themselves and their psychotherapy clients from applying TIST trauma therapy teachings.
As a therapist, you are probably familiar with Dr. Fisher’s book Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation – an international bestseller and regarded as a pivotal offering in treating complex trauma in psychotherapy.
We want to take a moment to highlight two newer published works by Janina Fisher that support and empower psychotherapists and their work with trauma survivors.
In Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists, Janina Fisher shows us how traumatic experiences leave a “living legacy” of effects that often persist for years and decades after the events are over.
While historically we have encouraged our psychotherapy clients to tell and re-tell the story of what happened, believing that this would diminish the symptoms of trauma, what trauma survivors report offers us a different perspective.
We now know that sharing and re-sharing what happened can and often does reactivate the feelings and physical sensations of trauma. This can be overwhelming and slow down the healing process.
Dr. Fisher teaches us that the process of transforming the effects of trauma requires that our psychotherapy clients who have suffered trauma reframe how they regard their responses to what happened. By seeing their reactions and symptoms as normal and supportive in the face of challenging and hurtful events, trauma survivors can find new ways to move forward in their healing and reduce the trauma symptoms that make everyday life difficult.
Janina Fisher continues to innovate in her support of trauma therapists and clients with her new workbook and a psychoeducational flip chart for use during client sessions.
The Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma Workbook includes:
- Step by Step strategies that can be used on their own or in collaboration with a therapist
- Simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience.
- Worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief and ultimately rejuvenation
The Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart will help your clients make sense of their most puzzling and shameful trauma symptoms with the use of simple diagrams and explanations. The visual images found in the flip chart make it easier for your client to relate to the information you are providing to reeducate them about their trauma responses, and help them to feel understood and supported.
These two resources have become popular tools in the realm of trauma therapy training and complex therapy work. If you are a current student of Janina’s Trauma-informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) Certification for Therapists, or thinking of becoming one, this workbook and flip chart are a helpful addition to your continued education and a complement to your process of TIST certification training.
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
Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international expert on the treatment of trauma, she is the founder of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) and 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.
