(HS Fisher 150449 2025) New Approaches to Treat Traumatic Memories: When Clients are Unable to Talk About What Happened

Course overview

"I can't talk about that. It's too painful." If you're a therapist who works with trauma, this is likely a familiar refrain. "It wasn't so bad" is another. Remembering traumatic events can be extremely distressing and many clients can't tolerate it. Luckily for us as therapists, we don't have to feel stuck when our clients are unwilling or unable to talk about a painful past or can talk about it only without emotion. In this workshop, you'll learn how to refocus clients onto the effects of trauma rather than the events, using powerful, practical interventions adapted from neuroscience, EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based therapies. You'll discover how to help clients: Transform feelings of aloneness, terror, inadequacy, and shame into feelings of competence and agency Usher in new here-and-now experiences that allow clients to feel an internal sense of safety without revisiting the traumatic event Guide clients in creating new narratives about themselves and the world that helps them to heal, not just remember