Somatic Therapy to Create Healthy Attachment: Strategies to Heal Development and Relational Trauma

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Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD Related seminars and products

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Dr. Abi Blakeslee world renowned trainer in trauma recovery and the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy. She is senior faculty at Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Blakeslee holds a PhD in clinical and somatic psychology and an MA in counseling and depth psychology. Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, primary and secondary trauma interventions, neuro-consulting, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma.
 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee maintains a private practice and is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy, co-founder of Relationship Repair and maintains a private practice. She has employment relationships with Somatic Experiencing International and Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Dr. Blakeslee receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a member of the American Association for Marriage Family Therapists, the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, the Women in Neuroscience, and the Society for Neuroscience.

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Objectives

1. Formulate developmental statements that can assist in repairing attachment styles. 
2. Practice somatic exercises that target developmental attachment trauma.
3. Identify strategies of how to use the relational field through social engagement and ventral vagal intervention. 
4. Formulate I-statements that help clients put words to bodily sensations, implicit memories, and other biological processes.
5. Analyze how image repair with implicit memory of self as infants or children can help with attachment repair and ANS regulation. 
6. Formulate strategies to increase the parasympathetic rest and digest response through relational support.
7. Identify ways to work with attachment and transgenerational patterns in the body and autonomous nervous system.

Outline

Strategies for Attachment and Relationship Repair

• Definition of Soma
• Focusing on Repair and not Pathology
• Learn about how to support the Emotional Motor System and Physiology to change the intra-personal experience and after the inter-personal dynamics
• Introduction to development and Interpersonal Neurobiology
• Attachment from a biological perspective
• Rupture and Repair Cycles and the formation of the Self and Relationships
• Using developmental repatterining through structure 
• Creating new implicit memories to change developmental trauma imprints

Learn a Developmental Exercise using body-based skills (string shape exercise)

• Part 1:  Doing a developmental pattern differently from the inside out
• Part 2:  I statements vs it statements 
• Part 3:  Developmental statements with relationship repair
• Part 4:  Differentiation from transgenerational trauma, working with survival physiology and emodied emotion

Enhancing your Client’s connection to Embodying Essential Qualities

• Formulate questions to help client’s embody a sense of purpose
• Explore Interocpetive experiences of essential self
• Identify somatic archetypes
• Explore how your client’s can use the hero’s journey to support healing in the body
• Learn an Embodied archetype exercise

Increase your Clients sense of Capacity through supporting experience of a wide range of embodied emotion

• Review of Research: “Facilitating adaptive emotion processing and somatic reprailisa via sustained interoception attention” (Price and Weng, 2021)
• Interception and emotion
• Learn how your clients will benefit by embodying emotion through organizing kindled survival physiology
• Learn how to allow new attachment adaptation through relationship repair
• Increase your clients ability to embody a wide range of emotion
• Work with near death experiences and existential terror

Ventral Strategies 

• Using imagery, interoception, and movement for repair with implicit non-verbal memories from infancy and early life
• Attachment repair exercises between therapist and client
• Exercises to work with developmental disorganization
• Using resonance in therapy?

Closing a session 

• The depth of transformation

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychiatrists
• Psychologists
• Case Managers
• Addiction Counselors
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Psych Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals