Making Virtual Psychotherapy a Relational Experience

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Janina Fisher, Ph.D. Related seminars and products

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Janina Fisher, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in private practice; Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute; and EMDRIA Approved Consultant and Credit Provider; former president of the New England Society for the Treatment of of Trauma and Dissociation; and a former instructor, Harvard Medical School. An international writer and lecturer on the treatment of trauma, she is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma, and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Self-Alienation and Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities. For more information, go to www.janinafisher.com.

 

Speaker Disclosures:

Financial: Janina Fisher is in private practice. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc.

Non-financial: Janina Fisher has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Objectives

1. Determine the challenges for clients and therapists of virtual psychotherapy
2. Apply 3 ways of decreasing technophobia
3. Determine the impact of threat on the autonomic nervous system
4. Practice interventions for regulating autonomic dysregulation
5. Demonstrate techniques that increase tolerance for fear and stress
6. Sketch uses of the social engagement system in a telehealth clinical setting

Outline

Challenges to helping clients in a time of pandemic

• Fear of what will happen
• Isolation or forced proximity
• Moving from face-to-face to virtual psychotherapy

Addressing technical challenges and technophobia

• Transparency
• Collaboration: “we are in this together”
• Celebrating growth and mastery

Fear and the body

• “Inside threat” versus “outside threat”
• The impact of danger on the brain and body
• Somatic interventions for supporting immune system function
• Mindfulness-based interventions for calming the body

Increasing relational contact in virtual space

• Making use of the social engagement system
• Increasing feelings of “being fully present” 
• Capitalizing on somatic techniques for increasing relationality

Target Audience

• Psychologists
• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Other Behavioral Health Professionals

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