In-Person Workshops

Body-Oriented Trauma Counselling Strategies

February 28, 2024 - February 29, 2024

(09:00 AM - 04:00 PM MST )

$529.00 (regular rate)

$489.00 (*early rate)

I have previous training in the area of trauma recovery. If you don't have existing training or experience, please attend our Trauma - Counselling Strategies for Healing and Resilience workshop.

Trainer Marwa Fadol MA, RPsych

Location: Royal Hotel Calgary, Calgary, Alberta

*early rate expires 02/07/2024

Continuing Education
Credit Hours (CEC)

When trauma occurs, its impact can be felt physically, emotionally, relationally, and spiritually. While traditional cognitive counselling approaches may not always be helpful in decreasing reactivity or increasing feelings of vitality, research shows that a body-based counselling approach can positively transform the impact of traumatic memories. This highly experiential workshop explores holistic body-based approaches to working with clients that focus on building resources and increasing tolerance of body sensations and related emotions. Participants will learn and practice strategies to help clients monitor and reduce traumatic arousal and move toward approaching life and relationships with hope and choice. Please note: Those attending this workshop should have previous training in the area of trauma recovery. If you don’t have existing training or experience, please attend our Trauma – Counselling Strategies for Healing and Resilience Workshop.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants should be able to:

Identify key principles of body-based counselling approaches including awareness of present experience, resourcing, and self-regulation interventions
Apply tools to help resource clients and prepare them for trauma processing
Practice skills to help clients build affect and sensation tolerance in preparation for trauma processing
Describe the theory behind processing and transforming trauma within a body-based framework
Deepen your existing approach to working with trauma by incorporating body-based techniques

Method of Delivery

Presentation, video, experiential practice, case study exercises, personal reflection, and small group discussions.

Some of the Topics Included

Body-Oriented Counselling Approaches
How Trauma Is Stored in the Body
The Role of the Helper as Guide and Co-Explorer
Four Components of Body-Oriented Trauma Therapy
Mutual Learning: Deep Listening and Psychoeducation
Stabilization and Restoring Connection to the Present
Tracking Body Sensations and Movement
Strategies for Transforming Trauma
Integration and Meaning Making
Integrating Body-Based Counselling Into Existing Approach

Target Audience

Attendees should already have some training and experience working with trauma. This is an intermediate–advanced level workshop for social service and health care professionals, counsellors, social workers, school personnel, and anyone working with people who have experienced trauma.

Terms & Conditions

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Trainer: Marwa Fadol

MA, RPsych

Marwa is a Registered Psychologist in Alberta and holds a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. In addition to training with CTRI, she is a Mental Health Therapist, providing triage and assessment to people struggling with addiction and mental health concerns. She also has a private practice where she works with families around various issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and family relationships. Additionally, Marwa consults with community and faith-based organizations on topics related to mental health. As a clinician she believes that people are the experts in their own lives and have within them the strength and capacity to enact change. Marwa approaches her work through an attachment and developmental lens and sees that her role as a therapist is to help empower people to write their own life stories, explore their own values and beliefs about how the world works, and develop authentic, fulfilling relationships. She is also a contributing author of CTRI’s book, Counselling in Relationships, and is the author or editor of several of CTRI’s training materials, including those on the topics of attachment and counselling in relationships. As a trainer she brings warmth and humour and draws on her varied experiences to make for an engaging, relevant training experience. Read blogs written by Marwa here.