Traumatic Attachment and Co-Regulation: The Neurobiology of Relationship

Presented by Janina Fisher, PhD on 06-26-2015 at 9 a.m. Pacific to 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern)

For people who have experienced trauma and fear, attachment failure can be an inevitability, and the experience of trauma leaves its mark on all subsequent relationships, including the therapeutic relationship. Rather than experiencing closeness as a haven of safety, the traumatized person will develop fears associated with relationship. Because one's capacity for tolerating affect without becoming overwhelmed depends upon secure attachment, challenges will surface in relationships as a result of a person's vulnerability to affect dysregulation.

In this web conference, we will address the impact of traumatic attachment experiences on affect regulation and learn to work with the relational and somatic legacies of attachment. Material will draw on neuroscience, attachment research, and sensorimotor psychotherapy, a body-centered talk therapy designed to treat trauma and affect dysregulation. We will look at implementing interventions that challenge trauma-related patterns in relationships and methods for helping regulate our clients' dysregulated autonomic and emotional states.

This intermediate instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

  1. Describe the effects of trauma-related attachment on affect regulation.
  2. Identify the effects of disorganized attachment.
  3. Utilize somatic interventions to address attachment and trauma-related issues in psychotherapy.
  4. Employ co-regulation and social engagement to modulate client dysregulation.

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Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

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Highlights

I appreciated the candor and openness, especially regarding mistakes, as they are among the best learning tools. The way she reframed other writers ideas and concepts put words to what I experience in my practice. - Deanna Miesch, LPC-S

​I hope to apply some new things in my work with clients as a result of this workshop. - Bruce Campbell, LMFT

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Meet the Presenter

Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD

Janina Fisher, PhD is a clinical psychologist, as well as an instructor at the Trauma Center, which serves as a research center and an outpatient clinic. She is also the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute's Assistant Director, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, former instructor at Harvard Medical School, and former president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation. Dr. Fisher is an international speaker on integrating attachment and neurobiological research with newer trauma treatment paradigms into more traditional modes of therapy. Dr. Fisher is co-author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). For more information about Dr. Fisher, please visit www,janinafisher.com.

Continuing Education Provider Approvals

  • aceGoodTherapy.org is Approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • Logo GoodTherapy.org has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6380. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. GoodTherapy.org is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
  • Logo This course has been approved by GoodTherapy.org, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #135463. GoodTherapy.org is responsible for all aspects of their programming.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC 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-0395.
  • GoodTherapy.org, LLC 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-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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