Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat: EMDR, CBT and Somatic-Based Interventions to Move Clients from Surviving to Thriving
- Speaker:
- Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C
- Duration:
- 14 Hours 32 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
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May 21, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150064
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Don’t miss your chance to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional and train with a renowned expert, author and leading voice in the healing of PTSD and complex trauma—Dr. Arielle Schwartz!
Dr. Schwartz has shared her invaluable knowledge with thousands of clinicians, and now it's your turn to join her for her best-selling certification training.
Praised as 'outstanding,' 'profound,' and a ‘true gem,’ Dr. Schwartz will personally guide you through the training and provide you with the most effective trauma techniques.
After this training, you'll finish feeling like a more capable trauma therapist than ever before, ready to:
- Utilize proven integrative strategies in EMDR, CBT, somatic approaches, and narrative therapy.
- Diagnose trauma with precision and create a treatment roadmap that meets your clients' unique needs.
- Implement strategies for handling challenging clients, addressing boundary issues, managing crises, and dealing with high-risk behaviors.
- Apply stabilization techniques to kickstart therapy quickly… and so much more!
Best of all, upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional (CCTP) — a $99 value, absolutely FREE!*
Purchase today and take the first step toward enhancing your skills as a trauma therapist.
This course is not affiliated with EMDRIA and does not qualify toward EMDRIA credits or training.
CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
- No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
- Simply complete this training and the included post-event evaluation, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CCTP designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following completion.
*Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/CCTP for professional requirements.
Credit
Handouts/Brochure
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Intensive Trauma Treatment Certification Retreat (13.5 MB) | 130 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C Related seminars and products
Arielle Schwartz, PhD, CCTP-II, E-RYT, EMDR-C, is a licensed clinical psychologist, certified complex trauma professional, EMDR Consultant, and Kripalu yoga teacher. She is an internationally sought-out speaker, leading voice in the field of trauma recovery, and the author of eight books including The Complex PTSD Workbook, EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology, The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, and Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga.
As the founder of the Center for Resilience Informed Therapy, her work is rooted in the positive psychology movement, which is focused on enhancing resources and fostering growth. She offers an integrative, mind-body approach to therapy that includes relational therapy, somatic psychology, EMDR therapy, parts work therapy, and therapeutic yoga for trauma. Praised by Dr. Stephen Porges, Arielle specializes in applying his polyvagal theory, which focuses on addressing imbalances within the autonomic nervous system that underlie most mental and physical health conditions. Her work can be found at the Shift Network, Sounds True, Psychotherapy Networker, Embody Lab, Art of Living, Omega Institute, and more.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz maintains a private practice, has an employment relationship with Integrative Psychiatry Institute and receives compensation as a yoga instructor. She receives royalties as a published author and receives compensation as an international presenter and a yoga instructor. Dr. Schwartz is a paid consultant for Evergreen Certifications. She receives speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Arielle Schwartz is a member of the American Psychological Association and the Yoga Alliance.
Additional Info
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Objectives
- Identify the brain regions involved in trauma.
- Determine the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
- Determine how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
- Evaluate how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety.
- Evaluate methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
- Utilize polyvagal theory as coregulation in psychotherapy.
- Choose narrative therapy exercises to talk about hotspots.
- Determine how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma.
- Choose CBT techniques to “slow” emotions.
- Use EMDR-based techniques to resolve traumatic memories.
- Differentiate between EMDR, EFT, and neuromodulation approaches.
- Utilize parts work therapy techniques for working with anger in trauma treatment.
- Integrate EMDR interventions in the treatment of Complex PTSD.
- Develop resilience and personal growth through reintegration strategies.
- Identify the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.
Outline
Community Building Activity
Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools
- Simple vs. complex trauma
- Intergenerational trauma
- Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
- CAPS-5 and PCL-5
- Primary Care PTSD Screen
- Dual diagnosis
Mindfulness & Mindful Movement
The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change
- Key brain areas involved in trauma
- Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
- Clinical implications of the freeze response
- The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work
- Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
- Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
- Self-soothing techniques
- Grounding strategies
- Breathwork
- Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work
The Therapeutic Alliance as a Brain-Based Approach
- Explore the power of right brain psychotherapy
- Applied polyvagal theory as co-regulation in psychotherapy
- Embedded relational mindfulness as a foundation of presence
Dyad Work
- Explore proximity awareness between therapist and client
- Skillfully work with push-pull dynamics with clients
Mindfulness & Mindful Movement
EMDR vs EFT vs Neuromodulation Including Gratitude Practice
- Practices to enhance vagal tone
- Practice EFT tapping for Trauma Recovery
Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences with Small Group Integration
- Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
- Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
- Awareness and closure - create life stories
Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks
- How to handle the angry client
- Strategies for the resistant trauma client
- Boundary concerns
- Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use
- How parts, ego states and defenses create walls to change
- Compassionate strategies for “Resistant” clients
- Skill: Understand emotional dysregulation as a “part”
- Skill: Build allies for a part of self
- Skill: Connect to the adult self
- Skill: Facilitate repair scenarios
Session Demos, Video Demos
- Strategies to help clients manage emotional dysregulation in session
- Describe the co-regulation tools of pacing and orienting for resource development
Group discussion
- Deepen your knowledge of the application of this work as applied to your practice sessions
- Explore how to bring mind-body interventions into your clinical work
Somatic Movement to Integration
- Somatic repatterning movements for trauma recovery
- Discover the satisfaction cycle from body-mind psychotherapy
Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma
- Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
- Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
- Teach body awareness
- Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
- Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions
- Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
- Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
- Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
- Memory reconstruction techniques
- Develop emotion regulation strategies to build resilience
EMDR-Based Techniques: Resolve Traumatic Memories
- Adaptive Information Processing Theory
- EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
- Resourcing strategies
- Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
- Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma
Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth with Practice work & Small Group Discussion
- Better than normal – the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
- The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
- The power of forgiveness in moving forward
- Meaning making exercises
- Cultivating resilience and personal growth through reintegration strategies
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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