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Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
reversingchronicpain.com
Live Event
Baltimore, Maryland
ISSTD Conference
Ego State Therapy
Nov. 16-18 2013
Live Event
Baltimore, Maryland
Co-leading a case consultation session on dissociative disorders with Kathy Steele
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Greetings!
October is a month that is associated with the golden glow of autumn in the northern hemisphere and the emergence of spring in the southern hemisphere. It's also a month of celebrations including Halloween, Columbus Day (in the US), Thanksgiving (in Canada), Oktoberfest (in Germany), Independence Day (in several countries), and Apple Day. This month's news features my webinar with Dr. Larry Heller on Healing Developmental Trauma, scheduled live on Tuesday, October 22, from 9 am-10:30 am Pacific. Click here to read more and register.
My best wishes for an easy transition into fall/spring depending on your hemisphere,
Maggie
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 Our October 22nd webinar with Dr. Larry Heller is based on his new book, Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image and the Capacity for Relationship. During the webinar, we will focus on aspects of Larry's NARM (NeuroAffective Relational Model), a somatically based model that targets treatment for Developmental Trauma Disorder ( see article below) as well as complex PTSD in adults, which refers to conditions that result from unresolved attachment and early shock trauma.
You will learn:
- The 5 Adaptive Survival styles and their core difficulties;
- How to help clients develop skills for connection to self and others;
- Therapeutic strategies to help strengthen trust and autonomy;
- How attunement techniques can help traumatized clients connect with their own deepest needs as well as with the needs of others
- Exercises that will help to identify important developmental resources, explore early attachment dynamics, and help understand relationships to anger and aggression
- About NARM and neuroaffective touch
This is truly ground-breaking work that synthesizes bottom-up and top-down approaches in order to resolve distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment, as well as relational conflicts and somatic symptoms. Register now to claim your access to this dynamic event. Remember that your registration fee includes access to the live event, to 24/7 replay and permanent download, a study guide to organize your learning, opportunities to ask questions live and before the event, and the opportunity to purchase our Highlights edited transcript and CEU's for small additional fees. For more information and to register, click here.
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I n November, I will travel to Baltimore, Maryland for the annual conference of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. Go here now to learn about the huge variety of events and the outstanding faculty and learn how you can save money on registration and hotel between now and Friday, October 18. I will be presenting a Clinical Case Consultation on Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders (with Kathy Steele) and a workshop Advances in Ego-State Therapy (with Wendy Lemke). Please join me there!
UPDATE ON VIRTUAL TRAUMA CONFERENCE:
I continue to be excited about our upcoming online trauma conference, which is rapidly taking shape. Here are some presentations you can look forward to:
- Dr. Peter Levine
- How the Living, Sensing Body Resolves Trauma, Establishes Safety, & Restores Resilience: Clinical Implications
- Dr. Stephen Porges
- The Polyvagal Theory: Demystifying the Body's Response to Trauma Dr.
- Laurel Parnell
- Attachment Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma
- Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
- Developmental Trauma Disorder: The Nexus of Attachment, Trauma and Brain
- David Grand, Ph.D.
- Brainspotting: Accessing the Subcortical Brain through Your Visual Field to Resolve Trauma
- David Feinstein, Ph.D.
- Energy Psychology in Treating Trauma-Based Conditions
- Dawson Church, Ph.D.
- Energy Psychology Treatment for PTSD: Evidence, Clinical Application, and Cautions
- Frank M. Ochberg, M.D. - Keynote
- Using Ochberg's Counting Method as a Critical Element of Post-traumatic Therapy
- Kathy Steele, MN, CS
- An Integrative Approach to Stabilization with Dissociative Clients
- Maggie Phillips, Ph.D.
- Somatic Approaches to Ego-State Therapy: Using the Body's Organic Intelligence to Resolve Traumatic Conflicts of the Self
- Stephen A Frankel, Ph.D., J.D. - Conference Organizer
- Opening "Time Capsules": A Hypnotic Approach to the Treatment of DID
Because you are in my email community, I am able to give you a special "pre-registration" price. Between now and November 15, you can lock in the lowest possible registration fee for this dynamic conference. There's no better way to equip yourself with the latest information about treating trauma. The conference format is organized so that each presenter presents his/her best thinking about the particular treatment innovations they have created. Because this is followed by clinical demonstration videos to illustrate presenters' work, you can "go deep" while also experiencing some of the best respected experts in the trauma field.
Please go here now to read about the conference. To access my special offer, please enter the code PREREGMPPHD - in the promo code field of the registration form. If you'd like to access the registration form directly, please click here.
Remember, this offer is good only until November 15 so act now! Because I know the high quality of the presentations we are organizing, I am offering my money back guarantee. Even though the conference does not "air" until January, 2014, you will lock in the lowest possible price. You will also receive bonuses that will be added between now and the opening of the conference. Links and more information will be sent to you prior to the start of the conference.
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News You Can Use
Healing Developmental Trauma
 There is lots of controversy surrounding the new DSM-5, which includes a new diagnostic category for children & adolescents: Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD).... The creation of this category offers therapists and other caregivers a means to distinguish maladaptive behaviors from their underlying chronic causes in a child's life. Starting with the principle that maladaptive behavior stems from initial and ongoing responses to trauma, the basis for this new category is that unaddressed DTD develops into full-blown adult disorders and disabilities.
The thinking is that if underlying interpersonal traumas can be addressed early on, treatment can address those deeper stresses in the psyche and belief structure in the child. This could prevent countless ineffective hours of behavioral interventions used to address what are essentially symptoms of deeper traumas. For example, in school classrooms, oppositional or aggressive behaviors can be adjusted by treating the deeper issue of early trauma, and the child can progress in school -- rather than being prohibited from participating in the education process via expulsion.
In other instances, attentional and behavioral dysregulation due to developmental trauma are often confused for ADHD. If issues of chronic trauma are explored therapeutically, the child can be taught more effective approaches to what may be interpersonally stressful moments, and then succeed in school and with caregivers, without the social stigma of a "disability" diagnosis and the negative biological impacts of stimulant medications. And the caregivers, too, can be educated on their own patterns of interaction and shown how to identify and intervene in patterns of dysregulation, and how to help children develop different self-regulation methods.
 The new diagnostic category also helps distinguish between trauma-related chronic stress and maladaptation in both adults and children. Whereas PTSD usually relates to a single traumatic incident or a series of such incidents in the life of an adult, DTD refers to chronic interpersonal stressors in a child or adolescent. According to the APA Monitor, "Because children's brains are still developing, trauma has a much more pervasive and long-range influence on their self-concept, on their sense of the world and on their ability to regulate themselves." And of course, adults who have matured with untreated or undertreated DTD pose special challenges in therapy in terms of how to help them with deeply engrained maladaptive patterns.
It's emerging knowledge that young people trying to adapt to these situations experience an overdevelopment of brain regions involved in anxiety & fear responses, and an underdevelopment of brain regions concerned with complex thought and integrating new information. According to a recent talk by University of Michigan researchers: "The behavioral and emotional adaptations that maltreated children make in order to survive are brilliant, creative solutions, [but] are personally costly."
Along with the practical applications of this new diagnosis for young people, newly-articulated models for addressing developmental trauma in adults are gaining a significant following. One of these is the Neuro-Affective Relational Model (NARM) promoted by Laurence Heller, a senior Somatic Experiencing™ faculty member and highly experienced trauma therapist (see our webinar with Larry here). In contrast to a long tradition of encouraging a person to re-experience trauma from the past, this method "helps bring into awareness and organization the parts of self that are disorganized and dysfunctional without making the regressed, dysfunctional elements the primary theme of the therapy."
By integrating somatic mindfulness and exploring the interplay among identity formation, interpersonal connection, and self-regulation, this is one of several mind-body models enjoying considerable success. Through linking cognitive, emotional, relational, and sensory experience, patients are led to experience a sense of coherence between physiology and psychology, and an overall orientation to functionality rather than dysfunctionality.
 Trained somatic practitioners, too, can incorporate "Neuro-Affective Touch." Aline LaPierre, co-author with Larry Heller of the book, Healing Developmental Trauma, writes: "Because neuroaffective touch speaks to the sensory aspects of emotion, it can intervene at the physiological level in the unfolding and regulation of affective states and directly address neurological deficits, dissociation, dysregulation, and chronic bracing and collapse patterns."
Using NARM, a skilled practitioner is able to "help a patient engage in a sensory dialogue that...encourages new neurological connections, elicits dormant impulses, stabilizes hyperactivation, and releases dysfunctional patterns in order to [re]organize neural interconnectivity and employ the body's regulatory mechanisms in new ways."
The ethical and professional questions surrounding somatic psychotherapy are still evolving, and of course the use of touch in particular is controversial. As Dr. LaPierre writes, "The world of psychotherapy has disregarded half the equation--its clinical efforts have focused almost entirely on the mind and cognition while largely ignoring the body's urgent need for touch, an important neurological component that allows us to integrate what our bodies are feeling with what our minds are thinking.
Please consider signing up now for our webinar with Dr. Larry Heller live on Tuesday, October 22, 9 am-10:30 am Pacific time (remember that your registration provides immediate replay and permanent download plus other bonuses). We promise a dynamic presentation on the multiple elements of Developmental Trauma (including self concept, attachment, biology, affect regulation, behavior, and dissociation) and effective methods for treating problems in these areas.
Have a wonderful autumn month, Maggie
Maggie
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