New Hope for Treatment Resistant Depression

New Hope for Treatment Resistant Depression

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Description

The very nature of major depression often defeats our very best therapeutic efforts:  how can clients work or grow when they have no hope or interest?    When they can’t concentrate and have no energy?   When they are immobilized?  When they torture themselves with accusations of worthlessness or inadequacy?

It is not surprising that treatment-resistant depression often defies the efforts of skilled therapists and effective medications, leaving clients defeated and discouraged or even more depressed.

This two-part training addresses the question:  can we help chronically depressed individuals more effectively?

Even though diagnoses of depression correlate highly with a history of trauma, we generally forget to treat depression as a trauma-related disorder.  In this workshop, you will learn to help depressed clients learn to relate to their depressive symptoms with curiosity and mindfulness, rather than interpreting the symptoms as proof of hopelessness.  This webinar series will offer techniques for transforming the physical and cognitive symptoms using somatic interventions and by reinterpreting the depression as a communication from trauma-related parts of the personality.

Learning objectives:

  • Educate clients about depression as a somatic state, not just a psychological state
  • Identify 3 cognitive schemas that reinforce depressive states
  • Identify three body-centred interventions that increase energy and focus in depressed clients
  • Experiment with Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions that transform depressive beliefs
  • Implement a parts model for healing depressive symptoms
  • Discuss the use of the social engagement system and its role in evoking an internal sense of safety

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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.

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