Making Virtual Psychotherapy a Relational Experience

Dr Janina Fisher

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About Dr Janina Fisher

Janina Fisher, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice; Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute; an EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Credit Provider; former president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation; and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School.

An international writer and lecturer on the treatment of trauma, she is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma.

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.

Janina has presented for Delphi in 2010 – 2014 – 2019 – 2021 – 2022 – 2023. Her 2021 – 2022 – 2023 webinars are available On-Demand. She will be presenting again in 2024.

Description

3 CPD hours

In a climate of fear and isolation that equally affects us all, therapists are now being asked to help clients deal with the practical challenges of self-isolation in a time of danger and heightened anxiety—and doing so in isolation. Worse yet, telehealth requires the sudden acquisition of new technical skills and facing any phobias we and the clients have about the use of technology.

Without the contact we and they value as the heart and soul of psychotherapy, virtual psychotherapy can feel distant and impersonal just when clients have an increased need for connection. But it does not have to be!

This webcast addresses how to overcome the limitations of telehealth technology to make remote psychotherapy a warm and relational experience.

Practical tips for making virtual psychotherapy feel personal and connected
Resources for helping clients tolerate fear and loneliness
Interactive neurobiological regulation: using our nervous systems to regulate the client’s nervous system

Learning objectives

Identify the challenges for clients and therapists of virtual psychotherapy
Articulate 3 ways of decreasing technophobia
Evaluate the impact of threat on the autonomic nervous system
Identify interventions for regulating autonomic dysregulation
Describe techniques that increase tolerance for fear and stress
Define the ‘social engagement system’
Describe uses of social engagement for telehealth

Schedule

Challenges to helping clients in a time of pandemic
- Fear of what will happen
- Isolation or forced proximity
- Moving from face-to-face to virtual psychotherapy

Addressing technical challenges and technophobia
- Transparency
- Collaboration: “we are in this together”
- Celebrating growth and mastery

Fear and the body
- “Inside threat” versus “outside threat”
- The impact of danger on the brain and body
- Somatic interventions for supporting immune system function
- Mindfulness-based interventions for calming the body

Increasing relational contact in virtual space
- Making use of the social engagement system
- Increasing feelings of “being fully present”
- Capitalizing on somatic techniques for increasing relationality