Certified Trauma and PTSD- Integrating CBT, DBT, ACT Skills

A Powerful Approach to Begin Your Recovery

The goal of this course is to offer you options for moving forward. Methods and techniques from all of these evidence-based psychotherapies are brought together into one course as a way of allowing you to explore a variety of methods you might find helpful in your journey toward recovery.

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If you’ve experienced a traumatic event, you may feel a wide range of emotions, such as anxiety, anger, fear, and depression. The truth is that there is no right or wrong way to react to trauma; but there are ways that you can heal from your experience, and uncover your own capacity for resilience, growth, and recovery.

Overcoming Trauma and PTSD offers proven-effective treatments based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you overcome both the physical and emotional symptoms of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This course will help you find relief from painful flashbacks, insomnia, or other symptoms you might be experiencing. Also included are worksheets, checklists, and exercises to help you start feeling better and begin your journey on the road to recovery.

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This course will help you learn:

• Manage your anxiety and stop avoiding certain situations

• Cope with painful memories, flashbacks and nightmares

• Develop a support system to help you heal and move forward

• CORE BELIEF DISRUPTION & GROWTH

• HOW TRAUMA AFFECTS YOUR THINKING

• REFLECTIVE THINKING & REBUILDING

• BUILDING A RESILIENT SYSTEM

• THE USEFUL SIDE OF TRAUMA

• TAKING CONTROL OF YOUR EMOTIONS

• RELAXATION EXERCISES

• THOUGHT JOURNALING

• IMPROVE PERSONAL STRENGTH

• IMPROVE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHERS

• OVERALL LIFE APPRECIATION

• DISCOVER NEW LIFE PATHS AND POSSIBILITIES

• COPING MECHANISMS

• FINDING COMPASSION AND COMPANIONSHIP

• FINDING MEANING, PURPOSE, AND MISSION

Overview of the course

This course is divided into three parts, each with several lectures.

• • Part 1 will help you understand what traumatic events are, and will also give you an overview of common psychological and physical reactions to experiencing trauma.

• • Part 2 goes into the specifics of how to manage the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). You do not have to have all of the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder to benefit from the exercises found here. This part of the course contains many exercises, which have been divided up by the type of symptoms you are experiencing. Your symptoms may include painful flashbacks and difficult memories about a traumatic event or events; a pattern of avoiding trauma-related situations and triggers; and a sense of being overwhelmed by or having difficulty with emotions and relationships.

• • Part 3 discusses ways to get more professional help if you need it. It also explores ways to get more support and take care of your physical health, particularly after you have had some relief of your current symptoms.

• Part 4 will help you use your trauma as a primary source of self knowledge and personal growth. I’ve heard somewhere a trauma survivor said, “Why waste this traumatic experience on just getting back to who I was?” This question captures Post traumatic growth or PTG. This term was coined in the early 1990s with the basic concept that positive personal transformation can occur in the aftermath of trauma. This course is designed for those who wish to go beyond being resilient, to experience meaningful personal growth and perhaps radical transformation in the aftermath of a trauma. I will give you the tools to thrive, grow, and transform yourself.