Janina Fisher on Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior
The mental and emotional strain of these taxing times is pushing almost everyone to unhealthy and even self-destructive behaviors... many that could turn into a long-term addiction.
As a mental health professional, if you've ever felt like you don't belong in the world of addictions treatment, you need to know...
To help clients break free from the clutches of addiction, the worlds of mental health and addictions treatment must be intertwined.
That's why we're offering you this FREE CE video:
Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior with Janina Fisher, PhD
It will give you a conceptual “map” for understanding addiction as a survival strategy for regulating environmental stress and personal distress...
And help you develop a toolkit for helping clients with addictive behavior virtually, even during a pandemic.
So you can effectively treat the wide variety of addiction problems your clients may present—including drugs, alcohol, and digital pornography.
Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples, and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is an international expert and consultant on Trauma and Dissociation. She is a consultant for Khiron House Clinics and the Massachusetts Department of MH Restraint and Seclusion Initiative. Dr. Fisher receives royalties as a published author. She receives a speaking honorarium, recording royalties and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. Dr. Fisher has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Janina Fisher is on the advisory board for the Trauma Research Foundation. She is a patron of the Bowlby Center.
