Join us Friday, September 27th 12-2pm for 2 CEs Workshop
Brainspotting: Trauma Therapy that Works!
presented by Lisa Larson, LMFT
FREE REGISTRATION & ATTENDANCE
FREE CE Certificate to SWRC Chapter Members
$20 CE Certificate for Non-Members
*PAY AFTER WORKSHOP
"Brainspotting" is a powerful, brain-based trauma therapy that bridges the gap between the mind and the body. Brainspotting accesses the deepest regions of the brain where traumatized clients store their traumas and survival terror. It works by identifying, processing and releasing core neurophysiological sources of emotional and body pain, trauma, dissociation, anxiety, and other challenging symptoms. Symptoms of unprocessed trauma, which include chronic anxiety, insomnia, and numbing are notoriously difficult to eliminate through talk therapy.
Brainspotting is adaptable to almost all areas of specialization. It provides therapists with powerful tools which enable their clients to quickly and effectively focus and process through deep brain sources of many emotional, somatic, cognitive, relational and performance problems. Attention is given in this course to the utilization and integration of Brainspotting into ongoing treatment, including highly dissociative clients. Two peer reviewed studies demonstrated that Brainspotting was as effective as EMDR for reducing PTSD symptoms and Generalized Anxiety Disorder symptoms. "Brainspotting" was voted the most effective trauma treatment by the parents and survivors of the Sandy Hook massacre after a five-year study comparing over 25 therapeutic modalities.
Lisa Larson has been a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 25 years. After seven years in private practice doing Solution Focused or "talk therapy", Lisa experienced a traumatic event that transformed the course of her life as well as her therapeutic orientation. She was trained by the founder of EMDR and later trained with the creator of Brainspotting, Dr. David Grand. She immediately recognized the power and effectiveness of Brainspotting as she witnessed her severely traumatized clients heal quickly and permanently. She learned that her years as a talk therapist were missing the most crucial piece required to heal those with trauma, the deepest regions of the brain where trauma is stored. (The limbic system, Midbrain and the Brainstem.)
Learning Objectives
Differentiate between the 2 main models of Brainspotting (Activated & Resource) and understand how to apply it while healing the many afflictions of unprocessed trauma.
Identify and observe the 8 steps involved in a Brainspotting set-up through live demonstration.
Understand the 2 areas of the brain that allow Brainspotting to resolve long-standing trauma symptoms far more effectively than talk therapy alone.
Understand the cluster of symptoms associated with the autonomic nervous system: the overly sympathetic includes flight, fight, and fawn responses while the overly parasympathetic involves freeze and faint responses.
Learn the 2 principles needed to have the best relational attunement while healing trauma with Brainspotting.
This course meets the qualifications for two (2) hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, and LPCCs required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. This course satisfies the requirements for Law and Ethics CEs for psychologists, MFTs, counselors, and social workers. This course level is for beginners, intermediate, and advanced practitioners. This course is intended for people working in mental health care, public health, education, justice, or social services. Southwest Riverside County Chapter of CAMFT is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LEPs, and LPCCs. SWRC-CAMFT maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.
While SWRC-CAMFT strives to assure fair treatment for all participants, there will be occasional issues which come to the attention of the workshop staff which will require action on the part of the SWRC-Board. Please put all grievances in writing about a speaker, the content presented by the speaker, the style of presentation, workshop offering, its content, level of presentation, or the facilities in which the workshop was offered. SWRC-CAMFT will keep all grievances confidential and work to remedy the situation as quickly as possible.
SWRC-CAMFT will accommodate any special requests for our in-person workshops to a reasonable degree including those with wheelchair needs, hearing and sight impairments, and learning disabilities. We do not discriminate against any individual or group with respect to any service, program or activity based on gender, race, creed, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, or other prohibited basis. SWRC-CAMFT will meet all applicable local, state, and federal standards, including the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990.
