Based on decades of breakthrough research and clinical experience, this trauma competency training will guide you step-by-step through the essential elements you need to revolutionize your results with trauma survivors.

Through clinical demonstrations, in-session videos, and practical exercises, you’ll learn exactly what to say and do to help even your most challenging trauma cases.

Peter Levine on Healing from the Bottom Up: How to Help Clients Access Resource States

Join world-renowned trauma pioneer Peter Levine to learn how to help clients move beyond trauma by accessing safe and positive resource states instead of repeatedly experiencing threats. In this module, you’ll focus on specific tools for reading clients’ psychological and physical cues, using their natural instincts to heal and rebalance their physiology. You’ll explore:

John and Julie Gottman on The Gottman Method Approach to Treating Trauma

Whether caused by early abandonment, childhood abuse, military combat, or other traumatic experiences, the impact of trauma on committed relationships is commonly encountered in clinical practice. In this module, therapy pioneers John and Julie Gottman will help you explore how to interweave individual PTSD treatment with the interpersonal orientation of Gottman Method Couples Therapy. You’ll discover how to:

Deany Laliotis on Mastering the Craft of Treating Trauma: Four Core Skills

Join world-renowned trauma expert and EMDR instructor Deany Laliotis for a comprehensive understanding of the core skills that determine a clinician’s effectiveness with trauma. This module will identify and explore the clinical skills that transcend therapy approaches, bringing together all that we know about trauma treatment. You’ll discover:

Mary Jo Barrett on The Essentials of Effective Trauma Treatment: How to Go Beyond Technique

When it comes to working with trauma, what determines effectiveness are crucial dimensions of the therapeutic relationship that go beyond any technical intervention. In this module, leading trauma expert Mary Jo Barrett will teach you what trauma clients themselves say about the key elements in their own experience of healing. You’ll focus on:

Frank Anderson on Treating Trauma Clients at the Edge: How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions

Therapists often get shaken and lose confidence in their approach when a client’s trauma response edges into seemingly uncontrollable extremes of rage, panic, or suicidal desperation. This module provides an essential road map for treating difficult trauma cases through a detailed exploration of the neurobiological processes of hyperarousal and withdrawal underlying extreme symptoms. In this module, you’ll discover how to:

Meet the Course Experts:

Peter A. Levine, Ph.D., holds doctorates in both medical biophysics and psychology. The developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a body-awareness approach to healing trauma, and founder of the Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, which conducts trainings in this work throughout the world and in various indigenous cultures, with 26 faculty members and over five thousand students. Dr. Levine was a stress consultant for NASA on the development of the space shuttle project and was a member of the Institute of World Affairs Task Force of Psychologists for Social Responsibility in developing responses to large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare. Levine’s international best seller, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, has been translated into 22 languages. His recent interests include the prevention of trauma in children, and he has co-written two books, with Maggie Kline, in this area: Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids. His most recent book: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, was recently released to rave reviews. 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).

John Gottman, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Washington, where he established what the media called, “The Love Lab,” and conducted much of his award-winning research on couple interaction and treatment. Dr. Gottman has studied marriage, couples and parent relationships for nearly four decades. He has authored or co-authored 119 published articles as well as 44 books, including: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, The Relationship Cure, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, and How You Can Make Yours Last, Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting, And Baby Makes Three and The Marriage Clinic. World renowned for his work on marital stability and divorce prediction, Dr. Gottman’s research has earned him numerous national awards.

Julie Schwartz Gottman, Ph.D., is the co-founder and President of The Gottman Institute, and Clinical Supervisor for the Couples Together Against Violence study. A highly respected clinical psychologist, she is sought internationally by media and organizations as an expert advisor on marriage, sexual harassment and rape, domestic violence, gay and lesbian adoption, same-sex marriage, and parenting issues. Creator of the immensely popular The Art and Science of Love weekend workshops for couples, she also designed and leads the national certification program in Gottman Method Couples Therapy for clinicians. Her other achievements include: Washington State Psychologist of the Year; Author/co-author of five books.

Deany Laliotis, LICSW, is the originator of Relational EMDR—a comprehensive relational EMDR psychotherapy that focuses on the transformational healing of complex trauma and other challenging cases as well as the ongoing personal and professional growth of experienced therapists. Deany is Director of Training for EMDR Institute, a senior faculty member and co-author with Francine Shapiro of the Institute’s Training Curriculum. Deany offers private advanced trainings, master classes and in-depth professional development retreats in Relational EMDR around the country. Deany is in demand internationally as a presenter, master trainer, case consultant and keynote speaker.

Mary Jo Barrett, MSW, is the founder and director of the Center for Contextual Change, and teaches at the University of Chicago. She’s the coauthor of Systemic Treatment of Incest.

Anita Mandley, MS, LCPC, is an integrative psychotherapist practicing at The Center for Contextual Change. She’s the creator of the Integrative Trauma Recovery Group (ITR), a group therapy process designed specifically for adults with developmental and complex PTSD.

Frank Anderson, MD, completed his residency and was a clinical instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is both a psychiatrist and psychotherapist and specializes in the treatment of trauma and dissociation. He is passionate about teaching brain-based psychotherapy and integrating current neuroscience knowledge with the IFS model of therapy.

Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.

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