Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, Ed.M, Ph.D. is the founder and director of Lifespan Psychological Services in Los Angeles.  She leads a team dedicated helping clients navigate life’s complexities by addressing developmental issues, family systems, trauma, grief and loss counseling for children and adults, and transitions-to-adulthood.  Using a Sensorimotor Psychotherapy approach to working with children, adolescents, and families, she joins Dr. Pat Ogden and the curriculum team at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute in creating and adapting Sensorimotor Psychotherapy treatment modalities and interventions to treat child, adolescent, family and group populations. She is co-editor of Understanding, Diagnosing and Treating Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents; The Handbook of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, Volumes I & II; A Text for Children and Their Families; I Will Know What to Do: A Guide to Dealing with Trauma”

Pat Ogden, Ph.D. is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is trained in a wide variety of somatic and psychotherapeutic approaches, and has over 45 years of experience working with individuals and groups. She is co-founder of the Hakomi Institute, past faculty of Naropa University (1985-2005), a clinician, consultant, and sought after international lecturer. Dr. Ogden is the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015) both published in the Interpersonal Neurobiology Series of W. W. Norton. Her third book in this series, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Essays and Articles, will be published in 2020, and she is working on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Children, Adolescents and Families and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Groups with Dr. Bonnie Goldstein.  Her current interests include groups, couples, children, adolescents, and families; complex trauma; Embedded Relational Mindfulness; implicit bias, intersectionality and culture; the relational nature of shame; presence, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

This workshop explores the dynamics of hopelessness & helplessness in the therapeutic milieu, considering promising treatment directions through the lens of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.  Join us as we go beyond the current global pandemic and the overarching impact of the past few months of trauma, looking at the impact of feeling isolated, abandoned, unprotected and/or out of control, and as we stitch new patterns in the fabric of our clients’ struggles.  We will explore the destabilizing effects of trauma on our clients’ sympathetic nervous system, highlighting non-threatening somatic interventions introduced in therapy--and often co-created in the moment--while consistently tracking the impact of these interventions on our clients.

Dr. Goldstein will explore the particular challenges therapists face when working with our younger clients, adolescents and young adults, introducing ways that mental health professionals and clients can understand and use their use their own somatic intelligence in the therapeutic process as a guide for helping to heal the disconnection between mind and body. Illustrating the role of the body in changing patterned emotions, she will weave in applications of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions with a teen whose family legacy of suicide was the shadow under which her teenage hopelessness manifested, and address her difficulty taking in the support of anybody—including her therapist.

Dr. Ogden will offer a wider understanding of the issues of hopelessness, helplessness, and vulnerability with an adult population, with an emphasis on the body and its movement patterns, embedded relational mindfulness, and undercurrents of shame that contribute to despair. She will include awareness the influence of culture and context in the therapeutic encounter, and the import of a culturally sensitive therapeutic orientation.

Using an open, accepting and curious attitude in order to foster connection and create a sense of trust between therapist and client, this workshop will explore ways to introduce psychoeducation in service of incorporating Sensorimotor Psychotherapy into the therapeutic milieu, building on client’s strengths while forging new experiences between client and therapist. 

Following Q and A with workshop attendees, Drs. Goldstein and Ogden will illustrate applications of the five Basic Developmental Movements (Bainbridge Cohen, 1993) highlighted in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy delineating a treatment overview illustrating the course treatment with a series of clients vacillating between anger & despair and/or fear & anxiety.

This presentation also lends itself to considerations of long-distance therapy as necessary during the ongoing pandemic and acknowledges a foreseeable increase in hopelessness resulting from estimates that many more people will be pushed into extreme poverty, food insecurity, widespread desperation & despair.

20 minutes:  Examine the role of the body in trauma treatment and attachment-related development leading to hopelessness, helplessness and despair

20 minutes:  Illustrate the role of the body in changing patterned emotions, including attention to Breath and Posture

10 minutes:  Discuss the influence of culture and context in the therapeutic encounter, and the import of a culturally sensitive therapeutic orientation.

10 minutes:  Q & A with audience

20 minutes: Explore ways to introduce psychoeducation in service of incorporating Sensorimotor Psychotherapy into the therapeutic milieu

30 minutes:  illustrate applications of the five Bainbridge-Cohen movements highlighted in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

10 minutes: Q & A with audience

• Identify the role of the body in trauma treatment and attachment-related development leading to hopelessness, helplessness and despair
  
• Examine ways attention to Breath and to Posture can change patterned emotions.
  
• Explain how physical action can be used to help deepen understanding of the “somatic narrative”
  
• Identify client challenges when working with their body and ways to introduce interventions that facilitate a client’s progress and forge new experiences.
  
• Elucidate ways to recognize and work with the sympathetic nervous system’s responses to perceived and real threat.
  

Due to COVID-19, SPI is finding new ways to continue to support the mental health community. This webinar is one of several resources we have developed to support you in helping clients during this challenging time.  You can find additional resources (many are free) in our COVID-19 resource library.

The financial impacts of this pandemic are varied and widespread. That is why we are offering you the ability to choose what you pay for this live webcast.

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