Outline

Insecure Attachment and Trauma.

• Neuronal patterns of PTSD
• The innate potential for relationship
• Unrepaired attachment disruption
• The inheritance of insecure attachment – the state of baseline survival fear
• Long-term consequences – void of self

The fear-driven brain is related to fear. Childhood trauma and adverse experiences.

• The traumatized brain
  • The autonomic and central nervous systems
  • The brainstem and hypothalamus
  • The cerebellum, hemispheres and lobes of the brain
• Neurodevelopmental consequences
  • Impaired brain development
  • Impaired emotional regulation and impulse control
  • Dysregulated stress response
  • Alterations in physical growth
  • Telomeres and cellular aging
• The firing and misfiring of neural networks
• Parasympathetic Nervous System shutdown and the vagal nerve
  • Polyvagal Theory in trauma practice – Porges
• The role of glial cells
• Accessing brain plasticity

Dysregulation in trauma is affected by arousal, re activity and activity.

• Overarousal and affect dysregulation
• Primary, sub-cortical and right hemisphere affects
• The inherent limits of talk therapy
• Chronic baseline fear and self-reflection
• The role of affect regulation in therapeutic effectiveness

It’s time to stop letting fear, shame, and rage.

• Shortcomings of medication
• The relationship between fear and shame
• Cognition in “survival mode”
• Manifestations of limbically driven emotions
• Neurofeedback and the pulses of fear, shame and rage

Fear is the core of transference. Counter-Transference issues should be handled.

• Critical interpersonal dynamics – a partnership in affect regulation
• Impacts on the therapeutic bond
• Minimize intense transference
• Cultivate presence and attunement
• Neurofeedback and quieting the alarm of abandonment

Neuroscience is used as applied neuroscience in therapy. Assessment and essentials.

• The risks of treatment
• Shift the burden of affect regulation from the therapist to the training
• A new experience of homeostasis
• Firing, frequencies, and arousal
• Strengthen circuits
• State dependence – fear states dysregulate
• States to traits

Quiet fear with neuroscience. Integrate neuroscience into trauma. It’s not like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it’s like it Treatment.

• When to talk and when to train
• Clinical assessment for neurofeedback
  • Attention, anxiety, depression, etc.
• Considerations regarding sexuality and medication
• Work with sensors, placements
• Identify maladaptive patterns of neuronal firing
• Using EEG – frequencies and amplitudes
• Adjust function – operant conditioning of brain waves
• Feedback – change the frequencies attributed to over-arousal
  • Inhibit frequencies you want less of
  • Reward frequencies you want more of
  • Reward disconnected areas to connect or overly connected parts to disconnect
• When training plateaus – lack of progress is not resistance
• How do you know when training is over?

Who will I be when I am not afraid? The Fear-Bound Identity is being worked with.

• A trauma identity inextricably bound to fear
• The healing paradox
• Treatment challenges when fear begins to quiet
• Transition clients to an unfamiliar identity
  • Integration of new state, new traits and new sense of self