Enter the World of Somatic Outpatient Care | A USABP Speaker Event
Sean Baker MFT, SEP Susan Richter MFT, CEDS, SEP
Sean Baker MFT, SEP and Susan Richter MFT, CEDS, SEP
This course will not include CEs. Our upcoming recorded live events will be available here, free for members and non-members who register for them, as is the case here. Members and event registrants can use their discount code to watch this event free.
Description
Trauma work invites both growth and healing for the client but also the healer. Ignite or rekindle your passion as a clinician and assist your clients to better engage in therapy. Getting inside the therapist’s experience using somatic approaches in trauma treatment intertwines an understanding of nervous system regulation and the defense responses resulting from trauma and insecure attachment. By tracking defenses on an embodied level and developing neural connections to resources that allow traumatic material to be processed and resolved, we support the wisdom of the body, mind and spirit as it seeks to re-connect with self and others through emotionally and somatically corrective experiences.
Participants will learn:
Bibliography
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McConnell, S. (2021). Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch. Berkeley: North Atlantic.
McKay, M. et al. (2019). The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance. Oakland: New Harbinger.
Porges, S. (2021). Polyvagal safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-regulation. New York: Norton.
Solomon, M., and Siegel, D. (2017). How people change: Relationships and neuroplasticity in psychotherapy. New York: Norton.
Van der Kolk, B. (2015). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. New York: Viking Adult..
Your Instructor
Sean Baker MFT, SEP is co-owner and CEO at The New Beginnings Center in Camarillo, California. Certified in Somatic Experiencing and Gestalt therapy, Sean combines body-mind approaches to resolve clients’ distress related to trauma, self-harm behaviors, gender dysphoria, and co-occurring medical conditions.
Sean advocates for transgender health care, providing staff sensitivity trainings and presenting at national conferences on gender diversity issues in mental health care. With over 20 years of operating in a group practice setting, Sean is passionate about mutual support among clinicians and collaboration with treatment team providers.
Susan Richter MFT, CEDS, SEP is co-owner and Clinical Training Director at The New Beginnings Center in Camarillo, California. Trained in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, and Comprehensive Resource Model, Susan has over 30 years’ experience providing individual and group psychotherapy treatment to those with eating disorders, trauma, anxiety and depression. Susan is Certified Eating Disorder Specialist and IAEDP Approved Supervisor. She presents at national conferences on eating disorders, trauma, and attachment, and treats patients with those issues as part of the treatment team for The Center’s Outpatient programs.