How to Build Your Client’s Capacity for Compassion (and Why That Can Help Them Process Trauma)

Deborah Lee, DClinPsy Christopher Willard, PsyD
Christopher Germer, PhD Emiliana Simon-Thomas, PhD
Susan Pollak, MTS, EdD Kristin Neff, PhD

• The Dramatic Impact of Self-Compassion on PTSD
• Why Compassion-Based Approaches Are So Effective for Helping Patients Process Trauma
• What to Do When Early Childhood Trauma Has Compromised Your Patient’s Ability to Practice Self-Compassion
• How to Help Patients Cultivate Self-Compassion to Repair Attachment Ruptures
• A Powerful Metaphor to Help Patients Open Up to Self-Compassion After Trauma

Three Key Steps for Integrating Compassion-Based Approaches into the Treatment of Trauma

Dennis Tirch, PhD Deborah Lee, DClinPsy
Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PsyD

• Crucial Steps You Must Take Before Applying Compassion-Oriented Approaches to Your Patient’s Traumatic Memories
• How to Use Compassionate Mind Training to Heal a Traumatized Brain
• How to Help Your Patient Bring Compassion to Traumatic Memories
• The Game-Changing Power of Identifying “Safety Strategies” That Are Harming Your Client’s Relationships

How to Integrate Self-Compassion into the Three Stages of Trauma Treatment

Christopher Germer, PhD Susan Pollak, MTS, EdD

• Why Compassion Can Be So Effective in Helping Clients Reconnect with the World
• How Compassion Can Build Your Client’s Internal Resources and Their Capacity for Processing Trauma

Strategies to Help Patients When Trauma Creates Blocks to Compassion

Kristin Neff, PhD Christopher Germer, PhD
Laura Silberstein-Tirch, PsyD Jack Kornfield, PhD
Christopher Willard, PsyD Dennis Tirch, PhD

• How to Use Your Patient’s Blocks and Fears to Build Compassion-Based Skills
• Two Key Phrases for Working with “Backdraft” in Self-Compassion
• How Compassion Can Cultivate Courage and Accelerate Post-Traumatic Growth
• How to Use Compassion as Motivation for Transformation

Critical Insights: Integrating Compassion into the Treatment of Trauma

Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Ruth Buczynski, PhD

• The Role Oxytocin Can Play When Integrating Compassion into Trauma Work
• Why Some Patients Experience a “Vulnerability Hangover” After Compassion Practice – and How to Mitigate It
• The Key Factor That Can Make Self-Compassion Sustainable for Patients Who Have Experienced Trauma
• Compassion-Based Practices to Help Patients Feel Safe and Accepted
• Specific De-Shaming Language to Normalize a Client’s Response to Trauma

Concrete Compassion-Based Strategies for Addressing Trauma (and How to Integrate Them into Your Work)

Rick Hanson, PhD Deborah Lee, DClinPsy Ashley Vigil-Otero, PhD

• Self-Compassion Skills Patients Can Use to Create a Sense of Safety
• Practical Exercises That Can Bring Compassion to Your Patient’s Trauma Story
• Two Specific Ways to Use Psychoeducation to Help Patients Process Traumatic Memories
• How to Apply Compassionate Imagery to Help Patients Create an Internal Support System
• Three Key Compassion-Based Ways to Help Patients Expand Their Window of Tolerance

Here’s What You’ll Get:

Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library

Downloadable videos so you can watch at your convenience, on any device

Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like

TalkBack Segments to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the session)

Next Week in Your Practice sessions to give you concrete strategies to use with patients

Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple

Four downloadable bonus videos to help you apply compassion more effectively to trauma therapy