Research reveals the powerful impact that early childhood adversity, attachment disruption, and chronic stress play in our clients' current lives. Early attachment experiences and the environment shape biology, brain development, somatic structures, perception, meaning making, and patterns of relating. This learning sits deep within, in our implicit and procedural memory. Difficulty managing relationships, depression, anxiety, somatic complaints, and addiction have roots in these early experiences and the resulting adaptations.

This training equips therapists with the skills, maps, and foundational principles needed to understand and address the challenging issues of developmental meaning, attachment patterns, emotional processing, and adaptive strategies to engage the wisdom of the body for healing and growth, and employ effective somatic interventions in a neurobiologically consistent manner.

This training provides the theoretical foundation to approach developmental injury from three avenues: working with adaptive strategies, child states of consciousness, and the therapeutic dyad.

Participants will learn skills for working somatically and relationally with limiting patterns and core injuries that their clients' present.

NOTE: This course includes elements that are live and interactive. To participate, you must have a computer with internet connection, a microphone, and a webcam. Portions of the training will be recorded. Meeting live-online requires a strong and reliable internet connection.

Continuing Education Credit

Psychologists (APA): Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this conference and its content. This activity offers 113.5 hours of CE credit.

Lifespan Learning Institute is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Lifespan Learning Institute maintains responsibility for this conference and its content. This activity offers 113.5 hours of CE credit.

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Trainers

Rebeca Farca, PhDc, LMFT, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (CA; LMFT115571), also licensed in Humanist Counseling and Gestalt Group Processing by the IHPG Institute in Mexico, and has training in CORE Energetics. She is a doctoral candidate at The Institute for Clinical Social Work. Rebeca holds a private practice in Los Angeles, CA, providing somatic therapy for individuals suffering from trauma and developmental wounds. Her professional interests include PTSD, chronic pain, sexual trauma, military trauma, phantom limb syndrome, as well as childhood neglect and abuse. Rebeca is past faculty at Antioch Santa Barbara, where she taught an introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. She developed and presented a workshop for the Department of Veteran Affairs in Los Angeles, CA, entitled, "Surviving the Aftermath: A Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Approach to the Wounds of War." Rebeca also developed the "SPI Protocol for Clinicians of Victims of War, Violence and Other Traumatic Events" which she presented with Dr. Pat Ogden in the free webinar entitled, "Building Resilience in Times of War, Violence, and Other Traumatic Events". She currently divides her time between clinical practice, guest lecturing at agencies and institutions, and teaching Sensorimotor Psychotherapy.

Laia Jorba, LPC, PhD (she, her, hers), (LPC.0013182) is a Catalan teacher, counselor, supervisor, and mentor, originally from Barcelona and currently residing in Colorado. She holds a master's degree from Naropa University with specialties in Body Psychotherapy and Dance Movement Therapy. She works with community-based programs and has a private practice. Her clinical interests include working with immigrant clients and marginalized communities, chronic pain, complex trauma and dissociation as well as exploring the embodied experience of migration. She also as a doctorate from the University Autonomous of Barcelona on Political Science, where she studied integration of migrant populations. She has taught at different universities including UAB and Naropa, and lectures nationally and internationally.