Pat Ogden & Bonnie Goldstein
Friday All Day • Psychotherapy is often called the talking cure, but for children and adolescents, words are often insufficient by themselves. A sensorimotor approach, using techniques that employ play, movement, and sensory feelings, as well as words, can be more effective

Mary Jo Barrett & Linda Stone Fish
Friday All Day • No two traumas are identical, nor does everyone respond identically in treatment---which accounts for the abundance of interventions and approaches that exist. But given the many strategies to choose from, how do you assess which therapeutic style

Diane Poole Heller • Friday All Day

As therapists, we know all too well that a traumatic or life-threatening experience can leave individuals with a hypersensitive fight/flight/freeze response---a physical imprint that can continue to live in the body long after the actual event has passed. This workshop will present a comprehensive overview of the Somatic Experiencing approach

Bill McMillan & Michael Maxwell
Friday All Day • Whether or not we regularly treat trauma victims or war veterans, understanding how to work with PTSD and knowing the most effective ways of treating returning veterans is increasingly important today. In this workshop, we’ll view the documentary

Vanessa Jackson • Friday Morning

For some clients, it’s tougher to open up about money problems than about sex. Yet, as therapists, we need to be aware that the financial traumas of the economic downturn---job loss, home foreclosure, wiped out retirement accounts, the creeping fear of downward mobility---are experienced as psychological traumas. How can we help clients

Deany Laliotis • Friday Afternoon

So you’ve launched treatment with a client, and all of a sudden, your client freezes, becomes rigid, or shuts down altogether. You sense that trauma plays a part in the client’s response. What next? In this workshop, you’ll learn how to identify a “traumatic” response, how to use the adaptive information processing-based techniques favored by clinicians worldwide,

Pat Ogden • Saturday All Day

Each of us possesses an implicit self, expressed and known to ourselves and others through nonverbal, sensory and motor means, including our stance, posture, gestures, and facial expressions. This workshop will explore the rich somatic component that drives human behavior and show you how to tap into this implicit self in your clinical practice.

Ronald Alexander • Saturday All Day

Trauma lives in our bodies, as well as in our minds---and so does healing. This workshop will explore the psychophysiological aspects of trauma and healing, providing specific tools to help shift clients away from the frozen, high-alert psychophysiological state characteristic of trauma and activate the healing-conducive

Janina Fisher • Saturday Afternoon

Many clients with harsh or traumatic childhood histories suffer physical pain that defies medical diagnosis and conventional treatments. Often our efforts to address the trauma-related emotional issues are frustrated by their current physical problems. What if the pain symptoms and treatment resistance are actually both expressions of their early trauma?

Christine Courtois • Sunday All Day

Treating clients suffering from the multilayered impact of complex trauma---often associated with prolonged, severe childhood abuse---can be the most challenging, baffling work we do, compounded by fact that the treatment options change constantly. In this workshop, we’ll discuss the latest findings about complex trauma and their clinical