Recovery from experiences ranging from minor injuries to severe trauma—such as interpersonal conflict, sexual violence, war, or other acts of violence—follows similar psychological processes. The mind and body must "organize" these events and achieve a kind of "reset" to prevent them from draining mental and emotional resources. Trauma often operates like a device overloaded with apps, perpetually sapping energy and impairing essential functioning.
The presenter in his dissertation and extensive work with veterans, survivors of rape, and even criminal perpetrators, has integrated evidence-based tools from CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, gratitude, forgiveness, and other clinical frameworks. His approach equips clinicians with actionable strategies to address trauma efficiently—whether in a single 90-minute inpatient session or over the course of outpatient therapy. By rapidly addressing trauma symptoms, these methods pave the way for clients to focus on rebuilding their lives and overcoming entrenched patterns of depression and anxiety, leading to profound and lasting transformation.
https://nefesh.org/workshops/TraumaCPR/viewFREE WEBINAR
Trauma CPR
Tuesday, January 14, 2025, 6:00 PM EST
Presenter: Fernando Alessandri, PhD
Course Length: 3 Hours
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will know how to assess hesitation and promote readiness to address trauma recovery.
- Participants will increase in confidence to safely treat trauma by at least 20% if at 70%, and by at least 30% if at 50% or lower initially.
- Participants will know how to identify and resolve at least 1 key trauma-sustaining thought.
This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits
Recovery from experiences ranging from minor injuries to severe trauma—such as interpersonal conflict, sexual violence, war, or other acts of violence—follows similar psychological processes. The mind and body must "organize" these events and achieve a kind of "reset" to prevent them from draining mental and emotional resources. Trauma often operates like a device overloaded with apps, perpetually sapping energy and impairing essential functioning.
The presenter in his dissertation and extensive work with veterans, survivors of rape, and even criminal perpetrators, has integrated evidence-based tools from CBT, DBT, ACT, mindfulness, gratitude, forgiveness, and other clinical frameworks. His approach equips clinicians with actionable strategies to address trauma efficiently—whether in a single 90-minute inpatient session or over the course of outpatient therapy. By rapidly addressing trauma symptoms, these methods pave the way for clients to focus on rebuilding their lives and overcoming entrenched patterns of depression and anxiety, leading to profound and lasting transformation.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will know how to assess hesitation and promote readiness to address trauma recovery.
- Participants will increase in confidence to safely treat trauma by at least 20% if at 70%, and by at least 30% if at 50% or lower initially.
- Participants will know how to identify and resolve at least 1 key trauma-sustaining thought.
Agenda:
Understanding Trauma through Research Findings (20 min) - What we have learned from decades of clinical research on therapies for trauma. What works? What gets in the way of recovery? What is the role of a clinician and what resources does the client bring?
The Physical Aspects of Recovery (20 min)
- Validating Hesitation, Demonstrating Anxious Predicting. (7 min)
- Understanding fight/flight/freeze/fawn response & Grounding Techniques. (8 min)
- Desensitization concepts and exercise (5 min)
Validation of negative life experiences (10 min)
Emotion Work (10 min)
- Understanding habituation
- Naming is Taming
- Worksheet
BREAK (5 min)
Cognitive Work (50 min)
- Catching shoulda/coulda/wouldas (7 min)
- Addressing Anger, Blame, Shame, Guilt (10 min)
- Getting Unstuck and Moving from, “Why?” to something more productive. (8 min)
- Evaluating and Disciplining the Fairness of Negative Thoughts (20 min)
- Validating Isolation & Lack of Voice (5 min)
BREAK (5 min)
Acceptance and Adjustment (45 min)
- Anniversaries and Sensory Reminders (7 min)
- Visualizing Recovery (8 min)
- Emerging from the Experience (8 min)
- Recognizing Our Strength or Resilience (10 min)
- Putting it All Together (5 min)
- Disproving Anxious Predictions (7 min)
Final Steps and Recap (10 min)
This presentation is open to:
- Social Workers
- Professional Counselors
- Therapists
- Psychologists
- Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
- Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
- Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
- New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
- Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
- Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
- Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives
Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0774.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0129.
- Therapist Express is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0325.
- CE You! is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for continuing education credits for licensed social workers in Maryland.
CE You! maintains responsibility for this program.