Working with Complex Trauma: Untangling Somatic Wounds
Includes 5 client demonstration-based training sessions with Peter Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
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Course Description
Watch and learn directly from Peter A. Levine, PhD as he demonstrates somatic tools and techniques that release complex trauma stored in the body.
Help your clients heal from the past and find their way towards fulfillment, hope, and connection.
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What’s included in the training?
Five On-Demand 90-Minute Demonstration-Based Session Recordings + Q&A, featuring client demo debriefs by Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
Each session includes core teaching, real client demos (with thorough explanations of techniques by Dr. Levine), practice exercises, corrective techniques and additional resources you can apply to your own therapeutic sessions.
- Session 1: Honoring Your Younger Self
- Session 2: Untangling the Panic (Threat) Sequence
- Session 3: Overcoming Long-Term Violence
- Session 4: Moving Towards the Authentic Self
- Session 5: Early Developmental Connection to Chronic Pain
Includes practical exercises that reinforce concepts and help you integrate somatic skills and techniques with other modalities more easily.
Client Demos that help new and experienced practitioners become more proficient at applying somatic skills and techniques into therapeutic sessions with clients.
Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Course Materials including video recordings, audio, transcripts, demos, and slide handouts and additional resources for each session.
BONUS #1: Two Video Client Demonstrations with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
In 3+ hours of video training, presents two additional client case examples, where she shares additional therapeutic tools and techniques you can use to address complex trauma.
BONUS #2: Expert Spotlight Training, ‘Working with Attachment Injury Embedded in Complex Trauma,’ featuring Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
In this 90-minute recording of an expert spotlight session with Dr. Levine, you’ll explore why attachment injury is inherent to all complex trauma and what happens to our bodies (and emotions) when the fight, flight, freeze or fawn threat response from the past persists into adulthood.
Dr. Levine highlights some key tools and body-based interventions you can use to help clients find relief and support healing. You’ll also get a quick lesson in how to recognize and identify insecure attachment patterning.
- You’ll also get the Threat Response Sequence Infographic, an easy-to-understand visual guide that shows you what happens to our brain and body when you experience trauma. It’s a great tool to use yourself—or share with clients to help them understand the symptoms and triggers of unresolved trauma.
- New to Somatic Experiencing®? Start with the Introduction to Somatic Experiencing® (by Peter A. Levine, PhD) that gives you a quick overview of the principles, approach and terms that will be covered by Dr. Levine in the course. And even if you’re an experienced practitioner, you may find this article to be a helpful refresher on the therapeutic process and techniques that Dr. Levine will demonstrate throughout the course.
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Why take this course?
When it comes to treating trauma, the path is almost never linear…
As a mental health professional, you likely have clients with unresolved attachment injury who present with perplexing and somewhat elusive symptoms and chronic conditions.
But rather than focusing on the symptoms or behaviors themselves, it’s important to uncover the underlying attachment injury and complex trauma that’s at the root cause of the dysregulation.
It’s vital to have tools and techniques to help our clients feel better so they can begin to heal both physically and psychologically.
But what if our clients can’t remember or identify the trauma––or are unwilling or afraid to talk about it?
As therapists, how do we proceed when we need crucial (missing) information our clients can’t provide?
Luckily, the body communicates to us. We only need to learn how to listen to it.
Our role is to learn how to safely and gently move beyond this impasse and support the flow of healing.
By learning how to integrate somatic tools and strategies with other modalities, you can tune-in to the physical signals that hide in plain sight, release stored trauma and provide relief from suffering so your clients can live fully in the present and be free of their past.
What you’ll learn?
In this self-paced, on-demand training, you’ll learn how to…
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Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Skills to Uncover Primary Attachment Wounds That Persist Into Adulthood
People who experience attachment trauma like neglect, abandonment, abuse or loss often struggle emotionally, socially and physically into adulthood.
Disruption of the attachment bond can lead to insecure attachment patterning, which can present in wide-ranging syndromes and maladaptive behaviors. Throughout this course, Dr. Heller and Dr. Levine examine why attachment injury is inherent to all complex trauma.
You’ll learn how to better recognize and identify insecure attachment adaptations (stress responses)—and how trauma stored in the body can be released using somatic tools and techniques to restore secure attachment and promote post-traumatic growth and resilience.
Session 2
Identify & Differentiate Symptoms Connected to Complex Trauma
Examine the nuances and relationship between attachment injury and shock trauma—and what happens when they combine or intertwine.
We’ll discuss why people who have developmental trauma are more susceptible to PTSR and present with a wide variety of (attributable and non-attributable) symptoms. Learn how to uncover and work with attachment injury that affects the autonomic nervous system.
By reviewing and debriefing client demonstration sessions, Dr. Levine shows you exactly what to watch for and track in the body, so you can detect shifts in the AMS as you apply safe and effective techniques that provide relief to alleviate emotional pain and suffering.
Session 3
How Down Regulation of the Stress Response Promotes Healing & Resilience
Explore how attachment injury embedded in complex trauma persists into adulthood as the perception of threat activates the sympathetic nervous system and triggers an acute stress response that prepares the body to fight, flee or freeze.
By listening to the signals of the body, it’s possible to calm the nervous system and strengthen a sense of safety that promotes healing and resilience.
Dr. Levine personally guides an exploration into the connection between complex trauma and body sensations, showing you how to help clients develop presence, awareness and “curiosity” around uncomfortable thoughts and feelings in order to release stored trauma and transform emotional wounds into healing and connection.
Session 4
Learn Strategies to Strengthen Attunement & Prevent Re-Traumatization
As therapists, it is essential to learn how to work with complex trauma without further activating the body’s innate stress response.
Through these in-depth client demonstrations, Dr. Levine will show you how to refine your perceptual skills and develop the confidence to help resolve decades-old wounds while embodying a sense of safety and connection.
He shares many of his somatic tools and techniques, including crucial methods like titration and pendulation that teach clients how to listen to their body and become less fearful as they begin to find relief from emotional pain and suffering to heal wounds from the past while remaining fully in the present.
Session 5
Integrate Clinical Tools and Techniques With Existing Modalities
We’ll go beyond theory and operationalize information, so you can easily apply practical processes and therapeutic interventions to clinical sessions easily and effectively.
Learn directly from Dr. Levine, as he illustrates how to get to the root of trauma and help clients find relief as they reconnect with their body’s innate sense of safety, resilience, vitality and health. Develop clinical skills that allow you to be more comfortable with clients’ range of emotions.
You’ll learn how to better recognize and identify insecure attachment adaptations (stress responses)—and how trauma stored in the body can be released using somatic tools and techniques to restore secure attachment and promote post-traumatic growth and resilience.
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Meet the Experts
Meet the Expert
Peter A. Levine, PhD
We have a lot going for us; we can conquer our fears. With the full use of our highly developed ability to think and perceive, we can, through the felt sense, consciously move out of the trauma response.
Peter A. Levine PhD is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years. He is the Founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute and the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education™, and his work has been taught to over 50,000 therapists in over 45 countries.
Dr. Levine served as a stress consultant for NASA and on the American Psychological Association task force for responding to large-scale disasters. He holds doctorates in Biophysics and Psychology and is the author of several bestselling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger and An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey.
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
Being comfortable in your own skin and having tools that help you relax is a really big deal, but learning how to feel safe with others is revolutionary.
Diane Poole Heller PhD is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in adult attachment theory and trauma resolution. She created the Dynamic Attachment Repatterning Experience™ (DARe), an approach that gives therapists and individuals practical skills for healing attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work helps adults with childhood attachment injuries develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
She has authored several books, including The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships and The Attachment Workbook.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Find answers to common questions about course access, the training format, continuing education, and purchasing. If you need more information before enrolling, our support team is always happy to help you choose the right training.
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
While most people who take this course are both new and experienced practitioners we do sometimes have non-therapists who join us.
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, however, we highly encourage non-therapists who choose to take this course to have therapeutic support in place should the material become activating. Note, the material in this course is not meant as a substitute for therapy.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all five 90-minute sessions, along with client demonstrations, audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Will taking this course qualify me as SE Trained?
This is a demonstration-based course suitable for both introductory students and those already trained in Somatic Experiencing® (SE).
Throughout the sessions, various common techniques are demonstrated and applied to different situations and cases. Please note that taking this program will not qualify you as ‘SE Trained,’ as it does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic Experiencing®.
However, it will ensure that you are ‘SE Informed.’
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
Is there a refund policy?
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Because this is a re-issue of a previous training and course materials are downloadable, all sales are final.
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