The Trauma-Informed 12-Step Journey:
A New Way to Support Clients through the Classic Recovery Program
With Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Hello,
It's true, the 12 steps are outdated...
But it's also undeniable: 12-step recovery programs have worked for millions.
So instead of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, let’s look at where the classic recovery model needs an update.
Dr. Jamie Marich’s goal is to take what we've learned from new advancements in addiction treatment and trauma knowledge and use it to breathe new life into the traditional 12-step model.
We don't want to confuse or shame clients who have found success with the 12 steps. We want to learn ways to make them more resonant, especially for trauma survivors.
Listen, addiction affects 1 out of 10 people — either personally or via someone they love. And often the most available resource is based on the 12-step model.
Let's help make what's already out there work for the most people.
Learn how to help your clients modify and adapt existing 12-step recovery approaches so they have a better path into recovery.
Warmly,
Jamie Marich, Ph.D. &
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
“What’s second nature to me is that there's always a modification. Yet many professionals — whether they’re 12-step leaders or trauma therapists — believe that they have to follow the rules for a model to be effective. This goes against principles of what makes the relational power of healing so effective...and even magical.”
— Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
In this workshop, you will get:
- Practical solutions to modify the three most problematic slogans in recovery programs so they are more trauma-informed and trauma-responsive
- Skills to navigate the two trickiest steps to help your clients get better results
- Mindfulness practices to support clients get through challenging situations
- Ways to bridge tradition and innovation to trauma-inform any recovery program
PLUS:
- A free downloadable excerpt from Jamie's Trauma and the 12 Steps Workbook
Module 1: Understanding the Trauma-Addiction Interplay
From the first module, you’ll learn why we need trauma-informed recovery for people with substance use issues. Most addiction comes from a place of trauma and Jamie explains how addiction is a form of dissociation, an adaptation to trauma. You’ll review the common models of understanding addiction, specifically trauma-informed addiction models, so you can treat addiction with a wider lens than brain-based models.
Module 2: 12-Step Recovery Overview
In this module, you'll receive an overview of the 12-steps model. Jamie will explore where the 12 steps can (and often do) go wrong, and how some of the slogans and practices of a 12-step program are problematic. You’ll learn to assess challenges of the 12-step approach for your client and suggest modifications for improved success.
Module 3: Towards a Solution
In Module 3, you’ll develop skills to support your clients in 12-step treatment programs. You’ll explore trauma-informed language to help empower your clients to modify and adapt 12-step approaches in a way that is more relevant to them. You’ll learn clinical practices for stabilizing and doing recovery work in a more trauma-informed way. And you’ll understand how to help clients navigate what they are hearing at 12-step meetings without bristling or shame so they get the most benefit out of their recovery program.
Module 4: Other Action Steps
In your final module, Jamie will discuss a mindfulness approach to addiction recovery. You’ll practice a sample meditation and learn other skills to use with your clients. Jamie will share resources for accessing additional help so you can work with, not against, 12-step resources and other outlets in your community.
The Trauma-Informed 12-Step Journey
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Meet Your Presenter
Jamie Marich, Ph.D.
Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they), describes themselves as a facilitator of transformative experiences. A clinical trauma specialist, expressive artist, writer, performer, short filmmaker, Reiki master, TEDx speaker, and recovery advocate, she unites all of these elements in her mission to inspire healing in others. She is a woman in long-term recovery from an addictive disorder and is living loudly and proudly as a woman with a dissociative disorder with the goal of smashing stigma about dissociation in the mental health field and in society at large.
Jamie is the author of 11 books on EMDR, trauma, arts, and dissociation. Her latest books are Trauma and the 12 Steps: A Complete Guide for Recovery Enhancement, Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Life, and Healing Addiction with EMDR Therapy: A Trauma-Focused Guide with Dr. Stephen Dansiger. She is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness and the developer of the Dancing Mindfulness approach to expressive arts therapy and of Yoga for Clinicians.
Hear What Folks Who Have Learned
From Jamie Have To Say…
“Utilize the gifts of the steps.”
“With great respect for the twelve steps, [Jamie] challenges the greatest barrier that those struggling to attain recovery are confronted with—their trauma. By incorporating trauma-responsive exercises, meditation, and expressive arts into twelve-step work, [you] will be able to utilize the gifts of the steps.”
—Claudia Black, PhD, addiction specialist and author of It Will Never Happen to Me
“The twelve steps as seen through the lens of trauma.“
“[Marich] provides a fresh and compassionate guide through the twelve steps as seen through the lens of trauma. Gentle suggestions on how to approach the more challenging aspects of the steps—such as God or Higher Power—removes some obstacles that have led some to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This is a sincere and informed offering to help achieve the goals of the steps that seemed out of reach for those dealing with trauma to become happily and usefully whole.”
—Jay Dee Daugherty, New York State Certified Addiction Recovery Coach and drummer in the Patti Smith Group
“A bridge between what we know works in twelve-step recovery and what we need to incorporate from our current trauma-informed knowledge.”
“With gratitude and a deep breath, I highly endorse [this] as a bridge between what we know works in twelve-step recovery and what we need to incorporate from our current trauma-informed knowledge base. Jamie…has combined their decades-long personal experiences in recovery with their expertise as a trauma therapist to bring the steps alive in a comprehensive and holistic way, and I applaud them for it.”
—Ingrid Clayton, PhD, author of Believing Me
“She’s legendary on TikTok… She engages, attunes, enables, captivates.“
“With her audiences, of whatever kind whether live or recorded… Jamie dances, with her professional expertise, her joy with her work, her rich personal experience and her listeners. Time stands still when Jamie speaks, and when she’s done – always disappointingly, as one could listen forever – she leaves a glow of wisdom and enthusiasm to take her ideas into one’s own practice and life.”
— Mark Brayne, Sheringham, UK
“Invaluable for anyone on the path of recovery for whom trauma is co-occurring.”
“[Jamie] provides a unique trauma-focused approach to working the twelve steps that makes them more accessible and includes step-specific meditations and expressive arts exercises. This…will be invaluable for anyone on the path of recovery for whom trauma is co-occurring—whether they are new to twelve-step recovery or a veteran of the process.”
—Dan Mager, MSW, author of Some Assembly Required
“Adaptations adaptations!”
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