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Polyvagal for Addiction & Trauma Treatment: A 6-Step Framework for Lasting Recovery

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Addiction isn’t just about behaviors, it’s the nervous system’s call for survival.

As a clinician, you know it doesn’t come down to willpower or “bad” choices.

It’s trauma, chronic stress, and a nervous system stuck in overdrive…

…leaving clients trapped in survival states of fight, flight, or freeze – bringing therapy to a halt.

That’s where Polyvagal Theory comes in – it’s the missing link to helping clients break through these barriers by addressing what lies beneath.

In this training with Jan Winhall, celebrated psychotherapist, author and prominent Polyvagal Theory expert, you will learn to help facilitate clients finding safety, connection and co-regulation. Through case studies, demonstrations and insightful commentary you’ll takeaway concrete skills to:

  • Find hidden pathways to safety and connection and put to rest ideas about “willpower”
  • Promote recovery with tailored interventions to help clients shift from nervous system arousal to more regulated states
  • Use “body cards” with clients to help pinpoint emotions trapped in the body and target the root causes of addiction and trauma
  • Do meaningful assessments with the Embodied Assessment & Treatment Tool™ that sensitively explores attachment and trauma history

Plus, you’ll develop an integrated perspective on how harm reduction and polyvagal strategies can work together.

With the right tools, you can become the expert clients need to navigate recovery from both addiction and trauma.

Discover how harnessing Polyvagal Theory can transform addiction treatment and foster lasting recovery through connection.

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Here's What You'll Learn

The Shift from Addiction Pathology to Strengths-Based Healing

  • Pros and cons of DSM-TR-V™
  • Limitations of the Brain Disease Model
  • Addiction as ‘adaptive coping’ Inspiration from the early days of feminist therapy
  • Connecting the interpersonal with neurobiology

The “Plastic Paradox” of Addiction

  • Neuroplasticity and the changing brain
  • Brain regions relevant to addiction treatment
  • The “plastic paradox” of addiction
  • A new lens: addiction as a neurophysiological survival state

Getting Started with Polyvagal Therapy

  • 5 lessons of Polyvagal Theory
  • Porges’ Polyvagal Model and updates to the traditional ANS model
  • Honoring the mind-body connection through interoception
  • Neuroception and the 7 F’s Graphic Model
  • Simple language to use with clients
  • Co-regulation is the “cure”
  • Teaching interoception
    • Skill building: Using body cards with “Blended States”

Polyvagal-Informed Six Steps of Focusing

  • What is a Felt Sense? Integrating thoughts, feelings, memories and physical sensations
  • Using The Experiencing Scale
  • Guide to the structure of focusing dynamics in session
  • Tuning into the Felt Shift: the motor of change
    • Experiential practice with six steps of Focusing

The Intersection of Polyvagal, Trauma & Addiction

  • “I’m a trauma therapist, I don’t work with addiction”
  • The intimate connection between trauma and addiction
  • Clients living in dorsal and sympathetic states
  • “Triggers are our friends”
  • The role of attachment styles in addiction history
  • Experiential Exercise in Early Attachment Styles
  • Dan Siegel’s interpersonal neurobiology & the 9 domains of integration

Treating Addiction with the Felt-Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM)

  • 5 foundational theories supporting the Felt-Sense Polyvagal Model
  • 4 core FSPM concepts
  • Skill Building:
    1. Neuroception: Teach clients to recognize and rewire nervous system states with 7 F’s 
    2. Interoception: Create emotional regulation with the 6 Steps of Focusing
  • Practice makes presence: The Felt Sense Ground Practice
  • FSPM Harm Reduction Practice: 4 Circles Method
    • Demonstration: FULL demonstration of the 4 Circle Harm Reduction Method

Everything You're Getting

  • More than 6 hours of video content
  • Up to 6.75 CE credits
  • Certificate of completion
  • Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Jan Winhall, MSW PIFOT

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Jan Winhall, MSW, PIFOT is an author, educator, mindfulness teacher, and trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She trained with Eugene Gendlin in the Focusing Felt Sense tradition for over 30 years, and her work is grounded in mindfulness, embodied awareness, and the healing power of the Felt Sense—a gentle, body-based way of listening inward that supports nervous system regulation, emotional healing, and inner safety.


Jan is the developer of the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM), an integrative approach that combines Polyvagal Theory, Focusing, mindfulness, and somatic psychotherapy. She is an Educational Partner with the Polyvagal Institute and teaches internationally through the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Institute. She is the author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction, hosts the Embodied Dialogue Podcast, and serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Jan Winhall maintains a private practice and has employment relationships with the University of Toronto, Athabasca University, Smith College, Yorkville University, and the Polyvagal Institute. She is the creator and co-director of Borden Street Clinic. Jan Winhall receives royalties as a published author. Jan Winhall receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Jan Winhall has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Media Type:
Digital Seminar
Product Code:
POS150154
Duration:
6 hours, 53 minutes
Copyright:
Dec 17, 2024
Closed Captions:
Available
Format:
Audio and Video

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