Janina Fisher’s Lessons for Every Beginning Therapist
Janina Fisher • 10/1/2020
If you could go back in time and give advice to yourself as a beginning therapist, what would you say? Worry less? Train harder? Practice more self-care? Renowned trauma expert Janina Fisher shares the five things she wishes she’d known when she first began practicing.
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Trauma Expert Janina Fisher Breaks Down Her Key Interventions
Janina Fisher • 6/3/2020
What strategies do psychotherapy's most effective therapists use to treat depression? Trauma expert and bestselling author Janina Fisher breaks down nine Sensorimotor-based strategies she uses with depressed clients.
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What It Can Teach Us About Navigating Covid-Related Stress
Janina Fisher • 5/13/2020
Research shows us that trauma is stored in the body. But how does this happen, and why? Here, trauma expert Janina Fisher explains, and shares how this knowledge can help us better understand our stress reactions to the covid-19 pandemic.
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…During COVID-19 and All Challenging Times
Janina Fisher • 4/9/2020
By Janina Fisher - Given the way our lives have been turned upside down by the pandemic, a lot of our clients will exhibit signs of depression. Here are some simple Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions that can help those who are feeling depressed and alone—and that are easily worked into a video session.
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A Sensorimotor Approach to Dealing with Self-Hatred
Janina Fisher • 3/22/2019
By Janina Fisher - No matter how much we're loved and valued in our adult lives, judgmental parts within us are standing ready to condemn us as inadequate or undeserving. Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I help clients suffering from self-hatred befriend the parts they unconsciously disown.
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The Secret to Tapping Into Inner Resources
Janina Fisher • 1/7/2019
For many traumatized clients, even beginning to explore a traumatic event can be an act of bravery. According to therapist and trauma expert Janina Fisher, in order for clients to take this first step, they first need to be empowered. In the following video clip, she explains how to make this happen.
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Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to Speak with Shameful Inner Parts
Janina Fisher • 12/10/2015
As therapists, we often encounter clients who are so mired in self-hatred that our best efforts to support a sense of self-worth only seem to dig the hole of judgment and self-loathing deeper. Eventually, I began to wonder if the resulting clinical quagmire might be a reflection of a kind of "internal attachment disorder" mirroring the emotional injuries of early childhood. Was it possible that alienation from self and others had become an essential survival strategy early in life? Using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, I guide my clients in "befriending" the parts they unconsciously disown.
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What Neuroscience and Attachment Teach Us About Healing Stress in the Body
Janina Fisher • 10/15/2015
The more we learn about the brain, the more apparent it becomes that, if we're to guide people in the process of change, we need to pay at least as much attention to the body and nervous system---theirs and ours---as to words, emotions, and meaning-making---which, until recently, have been the major focus of therapy. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a body-centered talk-therapy approach, allows us to navigate tumultuous transferential relationships and therapeutic impasses in creative, satisfying, and often moving ways.
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Learning to Move Beyond Talk
Janina Fisher • 6/13/2014
Neuroscience was brought into the field of trauma by the outspoken (and sometimes controversial) psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk. Ever since his work with the Veterans Administration in the 1970s put him on the path to studying trauma, he’d begun to challenge the conventional psychiatric framework of trauma treatment.
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