Treating Self-Harm
Here's a Behavioral Contract That Clients Can Follow
By Lisa Ferentz - I used to think that repetitive self-injury could only be seen as pathological, and through contracts and other means tried to convince my clients that this behavior would only cause more problems. Now, I know that my job isn't to browbeat clients into change, but introduce them to healthier behaviors that bring the relief cutting often provides.
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VIDEO: The Self-Compassion Approach to Trauma Treatment
Creative Strategies That Dig Deeper
It’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. Here, trauma therapist Lisa Ferentz explains her creative approach for helping clients access these tough-to-reach inner parts.
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3/21/2019
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/21/2019
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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Stop Treating Eating Disorders Like Just Bad Habits
How to Empower Clients to Heal with Parts Work
By Lisa Ferentz - It's unproductive to deal with an eating disorder as though it were simply a bad habit. Therapy has the greatest impact when I step away from the temptation to get into a power struggle and empower clients to do a large part of the healing work themselves.
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Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
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3/23/2018
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/23/2018
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My Greatest Clinical Learning Experience
Finding the "Genuine Hero" in Even Your Most Troubled Clients
By Lisa Ferentz - In the early days of the trauma field, clients were seen as one-dimensional bundles of dysfunction and pain, who needed to relive their trauma before progress could be made. But an increased interest in post-traumatic growth has allowed many therapists to see that insight and healing can occur not only in the midst of devastating experiences, but even because of them.
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How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
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1/17/2018
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, M.D.
MARY LOU SCHACK
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1/17/2018
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LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, M.D.
MARY LOU SCHACK
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Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW- C, DAPA
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12/6/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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12/6/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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VIDEO: Lisa Ferentz on Planting the Seeds for Post-Traumatic Growth
Removing the Glass Ceiling for Trauma Survivors
It’s not always easy to tell trauma survivors in the midst of deep suffering that one day they’ll find meaning in what happened to them. But according to trauma specialist Lisa Ferentz, trauma survivors can emerge from their nightmarish experiences stronger than before, and there's a sensitive, measured way to go about planting the seeds for post-traumatic growth.
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Advanced approaches for deep healing and post-traumatic growth
Copyright:
7/30/2017
Authors:
JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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7/30/2017
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JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/21/2019
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/21/2019
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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Bringing Transformative Life Lessons into Therapy
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3/23/2018
Author:
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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NOS095934
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3/23/2018
Author:
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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How Infant Attachment Security Affects Adult Relationships
Copyright:
1/17/2018
Authors:
LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, M.D.
MARY LOU SCHACK
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1/17/2018
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LINDA CURRAN, BCPC, LPC, CACD, CCDPD
BESSEL A VAN DER KOLK, M.D.
TERRENCE REAL, LICSW
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
SUSAN JOHNSON, ED.D.
PETER A. LEVINE, PH.D.
GABOR MATÉ, MD
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
LOUIS COZOLINO, PH.D.
LANCE DODES, M.D.
MARY LOU SCHACK
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Leading Clients on a Journey of Resiliency and Healing with Lisa Ferentz, LCSW- C, DAPA
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12/6/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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POS053235
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12/6/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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POS053235
Advanced approaches for deep healing and post-traumatic growth
Copyright:
7/30/2017
Authors:
JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
Product:
NRS001203
Copyright:
7/30/2017
Authors:
JANINA FISHER, PH.D.
DIANE POOLE HELLER, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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Bringing Life Lessons of Empowerment and Healing into Therapy
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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4/14/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/24/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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From Devastation to Hope
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3/23/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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3/23/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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1/23/2017
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1/23/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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1/23/2017
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LISA FERENTZ, LCSW-C, DAPA
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Treating Self-Harm
Here's a Behavioral Contract That Clients Can Follow
By Lisa Ferentz - I used to think that repetitive self-injury could only be seen as pathological, and through contracts and other means tried to convince my clients that this behavior would only cause more problems. Now, I know that my job isn't to browbeat clients into change, but introduce them to healthier behaviors that bring the relief cutting often provides.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: The Self-Compassion Approach to Trauma Treatment
Creative Strategies That Dig Deeper
It’s important to honor all of your client’s inner parts in therapy. But accessing them to fully engage in healing work isn’t always easy. Here, trauma therapist Lisa Ferentz explains her creative approach for helping clients access these tough-to-reach inner parts.
Daily Blog
Stop Treating Eating Disorders Like Just Bad Habits
How to Empower Clients to Heal with Parts Work
By Lisa Ferentz - It's unproductive to deal with an eating disorder as though it were simply a bad habit. Therapy has the greatest impact when I step away from the temptation to get into a power struggle and empower clients to do a large part of the healing work themselves.
Daily Blog
My Greatest Clinical Learning Experience
Finding the "Genuine Hero" in Even Your Most Troubled Clients
By Lisa Ferentz - In the early days of the trauma field, clients were seen as one-dimensional bundles of dysfunction and pain, who needed to relive their trauma before progress could be made. But an increased interest in post-traumatic growth has allowed many therapists to see that insight and healing can occur not only in the midst of devastating experiences, but even because of them.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Lisa Ferentz on Planting the Seeds for Post-Traumatic Growth
Removing the Glass Ceiling for Trauma Survivors
It’s not always easy to tell trauma survivors in the midst of deep suffering that one day they’ll find meaning in what happened to them. But according to trauma specialist Lisa Ferentz, trauma survivors can emerge from their nightmarish experiences stronger than before, and there's a sensitive, measured way to go about planting the seeds for post-traumatic growth.
Daily Blog
Thinking Outside the Gift
A Story of Navigating a Tricky Ethical Issue Creatively
By Lisa Ferentz - Sometimes, clients give us the gifts they want for themselves but don’t feel worthy of receiving. And sometimes, by helping them see the attributes in themselves that they admire in us, we can help them reconnect with those qualities.
Daily Blog
VIDEO: Helping Trauma Survivors Find a New Normal
How to Help Clients Do More than Just Recover
There’s no question that helping clients return to a basic functional level should be the main goal with trauma survivors. But what if clients could not only eliminate traumatic stress, but also come away from treatment feeling more resilient and with a fuller sense of self? Lisa Ferentz explains her concept of Post-Traumatic Growth.
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When All Else Fails
Stories of Vulnerability and Possibility
The self-assurance of expert practitioners who publicly present their work can lead everyday therapists to believe that psychotherapy is a far more predictable craft than it actually is. The reality, of course, is much muddier. Therapists on the ground eventually learn that only one mantra applies to every case—it's more complicated than that.
- I’m Funny and I Faint by Lynn Lyons
- Thinking Outside the Gift by Lisa Ferentz
- The Final Shot by Kenneth Hardy
- First Make the Bed by Michele Weiner-Davis
- It’s Never Too Late by Daniel Siegel
Magazine Article
Transcending Trauma
Learning How to Guide Devastated Clients Toward Growth
In the early days of the trauma field, clients were seen as one-dimensional bundles of dysfunction and pain, who needed to relive their trauma before progress could be made. But an increased interest in post-traumatic growth has allowed many therapists to see that insight and healing can occur not only in the midst of devastating experiences, but even because of them.
Magazine Article
It's Not About The Food
The Truth About Eating Disorders
The key to working effectively with eating disorders is understanding that starving, bingeing, and purging aren't simply bad habits. For treatment to work, it must get beyond the focus on negative behavior to grasp the emotional cycle of disordered eating.
Magazine Article
Treating the Self-Harming Client
Therapists Must First Get Past Their Own Anxiety
My refusal to accept Robin's self-cutting as anything but dysfunctional kept me from hearing what she was trying to tell me. Worse, it was actually causing more destructive behavior.
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Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 35 years. She presents workshops and keynote addresses nationally and internationally, and is a clinical consultant to practitioners and mental health agencies in the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland.
She has been an adjunct faculty member at several Universities, and is the Founder of “The Ferentz Institute,” now in its 11th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,200 clinicians from her two certificate programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.
In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2014), Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing (Routledge, 2014), and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch (PESI, 2017). Lisa also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on self-harm and self-care, and teaches on many webinars.
She has been an adjunct faculty member at several Universities, and is the Founder of “The Ferentz Institute,” now in its 11th year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating over 1,200 clinicians from her two certificate programs in Advanced Trauma Treatment.
In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. Lisa is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, 2nd Edition (Routledge, 2014), Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing (Routledge, 2014), and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons From the Therapist’s Couch (PESI, 2017). Lisa also hosted a weekly radio talk show, writes blogs and articles for websites on self-harm and self-care, and teaches on many webinars.
