Feminist-Informed Trauma Treatment: Brain-Changing Techniques for Female Survivors of Trauma

Many women already face unique challenges in therapy due to ongoing societal oppression and subjugation, but when they are also survivors of trauma, effective treatment can become more complicated. The use of neuroscience-based methods such as Feminist-Informed Trauma Treatment helps women become more empowered by assisting them in recognizing their strengths and healing from traumatic experiences.

In this two-hour continuing education web conference, clinical psychologist and trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton will share the most recent neuroscience research discoveries and explain straightforward, evidence-informed techniques aimed at creating healthy brains while facilitating post-traumatic growth in women. This brain-changing treatment has also been shown to help female survivors of trauma:

• Reclaim their lives and bodies 
• Improve self-regulation
• Develop self-esteem and confidence
• Reduce trauma symptoms/criteria
• Bolster resilience/posttraumatic growth

To aid in achieving these positive outcomes, Dr. Sweeton will provide several evidence-informed, easy-to-implement trauma intervention techniques that clinicians can integrate into their practices right away. Attendees will develop a pragmatic understanding of the neuroscience of trauma, empowerment, self-esteem, and post-traumatic growth in women and will receive Feminist-Informed Trauma Treatment developed tools such as scripts and worksheets for ease in integration into existing counseling methods. These tools will also help clinicians take a deeper, neuroscience-based approach to treatment planning by understanding the specific brain changes that impact growth and healing most.

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

1. Discuss ways in which women disproportionately suffer from anxiety and post-trauma symptoms.
2. Explain physiological and social/political reasons why women tend to experience the “freeze response,” and how this makes them vulnerable to developing PTSD.
3. Summarize at least three brain changes feminist-informed trauma treatment aims to elicit in women with PTSD.
4. List the three main approaches used in Feminist-Informed Trauma Treatment. 
5. Apply easy-to-use body-based, action-based, and cognitive techniques that help women bolster post-traumatic growth.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Reference:

Ochsner, K. N., & Feldman Barrett, L. (2001). A multiprocess perspective on the neuroscience of emotion. Emotion: Current issues and future directions, 38-81.

Event Reviews from Members

I found Dr. Sweeton to be well-organized, incredibly informed, and direct in her presentation of the otherwise complicated subject matter. I appreciate, as well, her attention to intersectionality and various macro traumas in a presentation ostensibly about neuroanatomy. It was a gift. - Rhiannon Trozzi Andreini

I've had a lot of trauma training, and this was the best I've had so far. I especially appreciate Dr. Sweeton's clear approach to neuroscience for lay professionals. Her credentials are sterling, yet she was very down-to-earth and compassionate. She used simplified language for a difficult topic and demonstrated wisdom in calling on therapists to recognize women's strengths in healing from trauma. - Kathleen Kenna

Continuing Education (CE) Information

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

GoodTherapy.org is an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within Counseling Services. 

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

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Registration Information

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