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254 Lincoln Road

Henderson

Waitakere City

West Auckland

New Zealand 

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psitm seminar: advanced training in trauma treatment

New PSI Seminar Cycle begins 18th May 2010. Meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Venue: Youthline, 13 Maidstone Street in Ponsonby, Auckland City

To Enrol, click here: Registration form                     Cost: $67.50 GST inclusive per meeting paid 2 months in advance

PsychoSomatic Integration (PSI TM ) approaches psychological trauma treatment by starting at the site of first impact: the body. Psychological trauma causes "bottom up hijacking," whereby any trigger to a remembered traumatic experience can be perceived as a threat to survival and invoke fight/flight impulses that cascade into a form of psychological shutdown. Before any psychotherapeutic intervention can be effective, this cascade must be addressed. PSI does this by integrating bodily mindfulness approaches with ego state work and feminist relational therapy. Ego state work addresses the fragmenting effects of long-term developmental trauma, for those clients with a more chronic trauma history. And because long-term developmental trauma occurs in the context of a relationship, awareness of the therapeutic relationship is seen as the foundation for all other interventions. Relational therapy balances the study of structures or patterns of self experience with the study of persons in interpersonal process.

The training blends lecture, experiential exercises, live and video demonstrations, case presentations, and role-play practice sessions to help clinicians integrate the theoretical material in a way that fits with their own common sense and years of education, clinical and personal experience. Particular attention is paid to the practitioner's countertransference while developing strategies for self-care. Skills learned include: somatic resourcing, embodiment, pacing, titration, self-soothing; and EMDR derivatives designed to build ego strength and process and integrate dissociated experiences and aspects of self. To learn more, check the links below:

1. Bodily mindfulness therapies (including Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and BFF (Best Foot Forward)
2. Attachment repair approaches such as Lifespan Integration and the DNMS (Developmental Needs Meeting Strategy)
3. Ego state therapy
4. All based on a feminist relational  foundation.

eating and body image issues

introduction  (12 hours)   advanced (12 hours)

Meets Saturdays  Cost: $345.00 per seminar

 Eating and body image issues are based on a fundamental split in which the body becomes objectified and forced to "submit" to the mind. Both seminars are based on the anti-diet, psychosomatic approach to working with compulsive overeaters, bulimics and anorexics.  The anti-diet, psychosomatic approach joins with the body, teaches mindfulness, intuitive eating, and self-compassion, and this ultimately not only changes eating problems, it changes lives. The seminars will include live, video and audio demonstrations, case supervision and role plays.

 

past presentations, specialised workshops and in-service agency training

Half day, whole day and weekend trainings can be developed and adapted to the unique needs of your particular group or agency. Contact the PSI Institute to make arrangements. Below are some examples of past presentations and workshops.

Sample of Past Conference Presentations, Workshops, and In-service Trainings

  • Keynote Address: Women Food and Beauty, 2007, for Auckland Women's Centre AGM

  • Somatic and Lifespan Integration with Dissociative Eating Disturbances, 2006, for the 23rd International ISSD Conference in Los Angeles, CA

  • Dissociative Processes in Eating Disturbances, 2005, for the 15th Annual Renfrew Center Foundation Conference in Philadelphia PA Feminist Perspectives on Eating Disorders: Enduring Wisdom, New Frontiers

  • EMDR and Dissociation Workshop, 2005, for the Northern California EMDRIA Conference

  • The Dissociative Continuum: An Introductory Workshop, 2001, for the East Bay Chapter of CAMFT (California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists)

  • Women, Food and Beauty: A Feminist Object Relations Approach, 1998-2000, workshops for the East Bay Collegial Learning Center

  • Working With a Couple System through in-depth Psychodynamic Work with one Partner, 1997, Case Presentation for the Berkeley  Psychotherapy Institute Case Conferences

  • Feeding the Feeders: Compulsive Eating in the Helping Professions, 1996, workshop for East Bay CAMFT Conference

  • Working with Dissociative Disorders: A Team Approach, 1995, workshop for EBCAMFT "We & Me" Conference

  • Understanding Eating Disorders: Seeing Beyond the Symptom, 1994,  agency training for Marin Assisted Independent Living Services

  • Compulsive Eating in MPD,  1994, for CAPSAC (California Professional Society On The Abuse of Children) Conference

  • The Elusive Phenomena of MPD, 1994, Respondent for the Psychotherapy Institute Case Conference

  • Addiction and Dissociation, 1992-93, In-Service Agency Workshop Series for East Bay Recovery Center

  1. Working With Dissociation: Diagnosis and Assessment (see above)

  2. Working With Dissociation: Treatment Goals and Approaches (see above)
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 These approaches to mind and body healing are integrated to address the whole person.

 

ongoing fortnightly supervision group for trauma therapists

Size limited to 6 participants  Time and Dates TBA
Cost: $67.50 GST inclusive per meeting paid 2 months in advance

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Working with trauma survivors day to day requires perspective, good self care, and clear boundaries. There is a high risk of developing secondary PTSD if the work is done in isolation. Working with folks who were traumatized so severely as to develop a dissociative disorder and/or Complex PTSD (also called DESNOS- Disorders of Extreme Stress) requires that we come out of isolation and support each other in this profoundly rewarding and sensitive work.  Paying particular attention to transference and counter transference and issues of parallel process in the consultation meeting, this size limited group meets fortnightly on an ongoing basis. Size is limited to 5 participants.
 

individual supervision

Individual supervision sessions for psychologists, psychotherapists, counsellors, and body therapists can be arranged as time permits. The fee for this service is $135 for a 50 minute session, GST inclusive.  We'll work with the therapeutic relationship as it presents itself in the supervision relationship. Your health and well being as a therapist are paramount to your ability to help your patients/clients, and so part of the work will be to help you develop resilience in your work. Supervision will also help you to adapt your individual approaches and techniques to meet the needs of your specific patients/clients.

 

To arrange a session, call the PSI Institute at (09) 835-1929 or email jlightstone@gmail.com For online training or supervision for those not in the Auckland area, please click here.

 

Whether using it in healing or learning, PSI integrates psyche and soma, mind and body, spirit and heart.

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254 Lincoln Road, Henderson, Waitakere City, West Auckland, New Zealand.       E-mail        Phone +64 (09) 835-1929 

[Home]   [Individual Psychotherapy] [Relationship Therapy]  [Contact Me] [List of Articles] [About Judy]

Local Training: [PSI Seminar] [Eating Problems Training]  [Supervision]

International Training: [Online Course Healing Intractable Eating Problems] [Online Consultation]