Somatic Resourcing Techniques: Grounding, Soothing and Containment for Trauma Recovery
- Speaker:
- Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 04 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
Jun 29, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS150294
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Re-visiting traumatic experiences in therapy can be re-traumatizing to clients. Without the ability to stay connected and present with their sensations, they can reflexibly fall back in the same immobilized states. Rather than experiencing this as reparative or healing, it can actually be re-traumatizing. In this workshop we will discuss the importance of helping clients reconnect with physical sensation, while reframing the body as a powerful, positive resource for grounding, comfort, and containment. Participants will learn specific strategies that can easily be taught to clients in a session. These techniques can allow for a deeper processing of traumatic experience while strengthening self-compassion and modeling tools for self-care.
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Speaker
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA Related seminars and products
The Ferentz Institute
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, is a recognized expert in the strengths-based, de-pathologized treatment of trauma and has been in private practice for over 40 years. She has been an adjunct faculty member at several universities, and is the founder of The Ferentz Institute, now in its seventeenth year of providing continuing education to mental health professionals and graduating several thousand clinicians from her two certificate programs in advanced trauma treatment. In 2009 she was voted the “Social Worker of the Year” by the Maryland Society for Clinical Social Work. She is the author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide, now in its second edition, Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing and Finding Your Ruby Slippers: Transformative Life Lessons from the Therapist’s Couch.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lisa Ferentz maintains a private practice and is the Founder and President of the Ferentz Institute. She receives royalties as a published author and is a consultant for Northwest Hospital. Lisa Ferentz receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lisa Ferentz is a member of the National Association of Social Workers and the American Psychotherapy Association.
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Objectives
- Demonstrate why the re-enactment of the freeze response does not allow for the full processing of past traumatic experience.
- Investigate somatic resourcing and explain why it can be initially challenging for clients to embrace in therapy.
- Implement at least six somatic resources including breath work, movement, self-touch and power poses to enhance grounding, comfort and containment.
Outline
- The role of immobilization and the risks of re-traumatization
- The principles behind somatic resourcing for trauma recovery
- Methods for releasing traumatic immobilization
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Physicians
- Psychologists
- Social Workers
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