Fall Modules
Our Fall Modules are Still Available for On-demand Purchase
The Fall Modules for our online program Helping Complex Clients Master and Apply Their Healing Potentials will focus on how to achieve forward momentum with clients who struggle with complex emotional and physical pain issues.
What you will receive in the Fall Modules
Helping Complex Clients Master and
Apply Their Healing Potentials
Webinars • Video Replay & Audio Download • Written Transcripts of all Webinar and Video Trainings • Additional Learning Materials Related to Each Month’s Topics • Handouts • Articles • Video clips of Demonstrations and Brief Presentations • Continuing Education Credits • Upgrades to CD and DVDs that can be delivered to your door • Maggie’s Money Back Guarantee
Raja Selvam, PhD, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™), an advanced approach for integrating body, energy, and consciousness into psychological processes in all therapeutic modalities. ISP is a master training for experienced clinicians. ISP seeks to improve clinical outcomes through greater embodiment of all experiences and all levels of the psyche in the physical body of the individual.
Raja’s eclectic approach draws from bodywork systems of Postural Integration, Biodynamic Cranio-Sacral Therapy, Polarity Therapy, body psychotherapy systems of Reichian Therapy, Bioenergetics, Bodynamic Analysis, Jungian and Archetypal psychologies, psychoanalytic schools of Object Relations and Inter-Subjectivity, Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), Affective Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, Yoga, and Advaita Vedanta.
Dr. Maggie Phillips, is the founder of Best Practices in Psychotherapy and has provided quality on-line training for professionals for more than ten years. She is a pioneer in mind-body treatment for pain and trauma and is a licensed clinical psychologist with an active practice in the Oakland, CA. She is the author of four books and numerous papers, chapters, and articles on trauma, dissociation, pain, ego-state therapy, hypnosis, and mind-body healing, she specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress, dissociative, and pain disorders. To order Maggie’s books visit here: https://bestpracticesintherapy.com/books/
Module 6
September 25, 2018
On Tuesday September 25th, 2018 Raja Selvam and Maggie Phillips will presentEmotional Embodiment in Integral Somatic Psychology.
According to our understanding of the physiology of emotions, pleasant emotions are generated by shifting different body systems into states of regulation, while unpleasant emotions are generated through states of dysregulation and stress.
One of the main points Raja makes is the care required for successful tracking of emotional experiences through body states. He points out how overwhelming emotions can shut the body down altogether or create stress and dysregulation that can create a host of psychosomatic symptoms and difficulties including pain.
In this seminar, you will learn:
- How to expand the body to expand emotional experience or support emotional experience in one part of the body by expanding another;
- How to help clients tolerate unpleasant experiences by working through defenses against difficult emotions such as grief;
- How to help clients understand or make sense out of emotional experiences;
- How to activate appropriate action systems in relation to negative emotions;
- How the body can be used as a container for emotions and for building affect tolerance;
- How verbal expression of negative emotions can increase external support.
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Module 7
October 25, 2018
Our October module emphasizes three different, though overlapping pathways, on how to work with emotional and physical pain in complex clients. Dr. Janina Fisher, Kathy Steele, MN, CS, and Dr. Maggie Phillips combine forces to discuss their unique pathways to helping complex clients to create unified and empowered selves.
Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known for her expertise as both a therapist and consultant, she is also past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, a faculty member of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Fisher has been an invited speaker at the Cape Cod Institute, Harvard Medical School Conference Series, the EMDR International Association Annual Conference, University of Wisconsin, University of Westminster in London, the Psychotraumatology Institute of Europe, and the Esalen Institute. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of research and treatment and how to introduce these newer trauma treatment paradigms in traditional therapeutic approaches.
Kathy Steele has been offering consultation and training for the past 30 years in the areas of complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer and trainer. Kathy is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and served on the International Task Force that developed treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders. Currently she is on a Joint Task Force that is developing treatment guidelines for Complex PTSD.
Kathy has authored and co-authored numerous book chapters, journal articles, and has written three award winning books on trauma and dissociation with Dutch colleagues: The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology), and Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation Skills Training for Patients and Therapists. Her latest book on Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach focuses on the issues that clinicians often bring to supervision.
Dr. Maggie Phillips, is the founder of Best Practices in Psychotherapy and has provided quality on-line training for professionals for more than ten years. She is a pioneer in mind-body treatment for pain and trauma and is a licensed clinical psychologist with an active practice in the Oakland, CA. She is the author of four books and numerous papers, chapters, and articles on trauma, dissociation, pain, ego-state therapy, hypnosis, and mind-body healing, she specializes in the treatment of traumatic stress, dissociative, and pain disorders. To order Maggie’s books visit here: https://bestpracticesintherapy.com/books/
Dr. Phillips is a Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis and corecipient of its Crasilneck award for the best writing in the field of hypnosis. She is also a Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, and co-recipient of its Cornelia Wilbur award for contributions to the treatment and study of dissociation. She has taught at major conferences and presented invited workshops worldwide, and is the creator of several e-courses and several audio programs.
Peter Levine is a pioneer in the field of somatic approaches to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing many types of trauma, (learn more here) Levine’s original contribution to the field of Body Psychotherapy was honored in 2010 when he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP). Peter has taught with Maggie since 1988, and more recently on the following topics: Healing Trauma and Pain through Polyvagal Science, Freedom from Pain, In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, the Trauma-Pain connection and many others.
Stanley Rosenberg has been doing body work for more than 40 years. He was one of the world’s first cranial sacral therapists, and has also studied osteopathy, rolfing, tai chi, and the polyvagal theory of Stephen Porges. He was the first cranio-sacral therapist in the world to apply these body therapy skills to improve the function of the five cranial nerves whose proper function is necessary to bring the client to the desired state of social engagement. Based in Denmark, he brought Stephen Porges to Copenhagen and has co-taught in four seminars along with him in the USA and Denmark. His book, Accesing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism will be released later this year.