Body-focused Interventions in Schema Therapy with Janis Briedis - Level 1 - online

Body-focused Interventions in Schema Therapy (Level 1) - online training, UK time zone

Come join ISST accredited advanced schema therapist, supervisor and trainer Janis Briedis in this 2 day workshop that includes a 3 hour introductory self-paced online module (Total of 15 CPD hours)

This workshop presents the theory and experiential approach to integrating body-focused techniques to enhance schema therapy practice in a time-limited manner. These strategies are particularly useful for clients who present with complex needs and have histories of severe childhood neglect or trauma, and who have difficulties engaging with traditional narrative-based schema therapy techniques.
This interactive and experiential online workshop is designed for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. Attendees should have an understanding of schema therapy model who wish to expand their repertoire for working with trauma and the body by incorporating simple but powerful somatically-focused interventions.

Topics covered at the workshop:

• Understanding the role of the body in trauma – the neurobiology underpinning complex trauma and fragmentation of self
• Barriers to working with the body both for the client and the therapist and how to overcome them
• Tracking the body to identify triggers for modes and schemas
• Understanding the principles of working safely - helping clients stay within their Window of Tolerance while processing traumatic material
• Healing traumatic reactions, including freeze and submit states, with body-oriented affect regulation resources and working with intense affect, including anger, grief, terror
• Working on the therapist’s own body awareness to enhance self-regulation and to facilitate higher levels of attunement with and co-regulation of the clients in the therapeutic space
• Utilizing body techniques in the work with dissociation
• Enhancing imagery and chair techniques with somatic focus
• Somatic interventions for boundary setting and strengthening of a sense of self
• Facilitating development of an embodied healthy adult mode both for clients and therapists

Who can attend?

Clinicians (psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, social workers, counsellors) who are interested in body-focused work in the context of schema therapy. 

Cost

£290.00 for a two-day workshop and a 3-hour online introduction

Trainer

Janis Briedis is a Consultant Psychologist based in the UK, chartered by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), and has worked in the National Health Service (NHS) and private practice for many years. He is an ISST accredited advanced level Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer. He is a Level II trained Sensorimotor Psychotherapist. Janis is also a cognitive behavioural (CBT), EMDR, IFS, mindfulness and compassion-focussed therapist, and teaches regularly schema therapy, CBT, trauma-focussed approaches and mindfulness in a variety of NHS and academic settings. Janis has worked in primary care, drug and alcohol, LGBT services, community mental health teams and specialist psychology services and has a wide range of clinical experience working particularly with complex trauma, dissociation, personality disorders and relationship difficulties. Janis is an advanced accredited Group Schema Therapist and has run Schema Therapy Groups in the NHS.