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Dr Chelsea's blog post about the nervous system and mind-body connection.
An excellent resource for clinicians about the polyvagal system and how top therapists are using it in their work.
This is a helpful tool for clinicians wanting to integrate more IFS into treatment.
This book goes into depth on how trauma shows up in our bodies, even years or generations later.
Learn about the magic of IFS therapy from it's createor Dr Rachard Schwartz.
This 5-minute meditation is great for use in sessions or use it for your own menatl health break.
Check out this 5 minute meditation utilizing affirmations.
Dr Richard Schwarts explains how he uses IFS to mange his own parts to be a better therapist.
This is a great manual for integrating IFS into couple's therapy with your clients.
This is a great book about understanding how therapy has been impacted by colonization and how to integrate culturally affirming, anti-oppressive, and healing-centered approaches that honor diverse identities and lived experiences.
Learn about emotionally focused therapy for individuals. This is an excellent modality to add to your trauma training.
Gabor Mate combines decades of research to discuss how Western medicine struggles to treat the whole person and ignores how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance.
Richard Schwartz, the creator of IFS, writes about accepting and connecting to all parts.
Emily Negoski discusses the stress cycle and how to utilize somatic work to complete it.
Irvin Yalom created this essential guidebook that illustrates how therapists and clients can grow in the therapeutic relationship.
This book describes many different theories to apply dreamwork to your trauma practice. You can choose what theories best fit.
This book has lots of practical tools and exercises to integrate into your EMDR practice. It describes highly effective methodologies for a wide variety of clinical presentations. It also describes how to integrate specific EMDR-related interventions with other psychotherapeutic treatments.
This is an amazing book about resourcing and includes over 65 examples of resources to develop and utilize in trauma work. These resources can be integrated into many different modalities.
Learn the five key principles for trauma-sensitive mindfulness. This book covers the role of attention, arousal, relationship, dissociation, and social context within trauma-informed practice, and provides modifications to support survivors’ safety and stability.
Pat Ogden's trauma therapy modality in text. This book is a practical guide to the language of the body, focusing first on developing personal resources, particularly somatic ones; second on utilizing a bottom-up, somatic approach to memory; and third on exploring the impact of attachment.
The go-to resource for mental health therapists who want to incorporate somatic techniques into their daily practice. Highly-effective for clients dealing with trauma and stress disorders, somatic psychotherapy is the future of healing the entire person-body and mind.
This book merges the elements of somatic therapy, such as movement, touch, and breathwork, with the established principles of Internal Family Systems.
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