December 7,8,9,12,13,14
Hours: 10am-3pm EST on Dec 7,8,12,13 and 10am-4pm EST on Dec 9th and 14th
*Please note these are not full days – to allow for scheduling clients, multiple time zones and breathing time.
26 CE credits available ($40)
The Lost Piece: Reclaiming the Body after Abuse (Part 3)
Teach your clients to gain a sense of their body as a safe place to live. Working gradually and incrementally, we will use Somatic Intervention to repair the body and the sense of self which were compromised by abuse. Enable your clients to contain their internal experience, build trust, tolerate intimacy and approach pleasure.
Location
The space of your choice 🙂

Target Audience
Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Creative Arts therapists, Sex Therapists.
Clinician level: Intermediate
Course Objectives
Identify those clients who shouldn’t be invited to “go inside” their body.
Create enough safety to make therapy possible for them.
Resource clients who are particularly difficult to resource.
Track the body in session, identifying dissociation when present.
Propose somatic “body building” exercises for each client.
Regulate physiological activation in client, and in self.
Interrupt habitual patterns, mindfully, to create new neural pathways.
Identify the missing piece in each trauma, and treat accordingly.
Address the wounds of incest and early childhood sexual abuse.
Role play boundary setting.
Describe at least two different types of perpetrators.
Explain the clinical ramifications of different types of abuse.
See below for more information on CE Hours.
Registration Deadline: December 1, 2021
Cancellation policy
up to one month before course begins, full refund minus $50
up to one week before course begins, 50% refund
after that there will be no refund
For any questions or concerns, email: rickibernstein@gmail.com
Agenda
Day 1
10am-12 Betrayed by the Body (lecture)
12-1pm lunch break
1-3pm practice in dyads
Day 2
10-11am Reparative Power of Choice
11-12 live demonstration
12-1pm lunch
1-3 pm practice in dyads
Day 3
10-12 sensing the self, body building exercises
12-1 lunch
1-3 practice in dyads
3-4 video demonstration
Day 4
10-11am Boundaries
11-12 video demonstration
12-1 lunch
1-3 practice in dyads
Day 5
10-11 Addressing the Attachment Wound
11-12 Touch and Sound to regulate
12-1 lunch
1-3 practice in dyads
Day 6
10-11 types of perpetrators
11-12 clinical pitfalls
12-1 lunch
1-3 practice in dyads
3-4 closing remarks
CE Information
Continuing Education Credit is granted through Nefesh International for the following professions: Psychologists, Social workers, Mental Health Counselors, and LMFTs. It is the participant’s responsibility to check with their individual state boards to verify CE requirements for their state.
NEFESH International, Inc. is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0116.
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0046
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for Mental Health Counselor #MHC-0082
NEFESH International is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0048.
Satisfactory Completion
Participants must have paid the tuition fee, logged in and out each day, attended the entire webinar, and completed an evaluation to receive a certificate (for pre-recorded program, a post-test with a passing grade of 80% is required.) Failure to log in or out will result in forfeiture of credit for the entire course. No exceptions will be made. Partial credit is not available. Certificates are available electronically after satisfactory course completion. A link will be provided for those who have completed the training.
Accessibility
Webinar workshop accommodations are by zoom and therefore are accessible. For further information, please contact: rickibernstein@gmail.
Accommodations for the disabled
Webinar workshops accommodate the disabled. For further information, please contact: rickibernstein@gmail.
Disability Access – If you require ADA accommodations, please contact our office 30 days or more before the event. We cannot ensure accommodations without adequate prior notification.
The Grievance Policy for trainings provided by NEFESH INTERNATIONAL is available here.
Please Note: Licensing Boards change regulations often, and while we attempt to stay abreast of their most recent changes, if you have questions or concerns about this course meeting your specific board’s approval, we recommend you contact your board directly to obtain a ruling
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There is no conflict of Interest or commercial support for this program.
Registration
- December 7, 2021
10:00 am - 3:00 pm - December 8, 2021
10:00 am - 3:00 pm - December 9, 2021
10:00 am - 4:00 pm - December 12, 2021
10:00 am - 3:00 pm - December 13, 2021
10:00 am - 3:00 pm - December 14, 2021
10:00 am - 4:00 pm