Bessel van der Kolk, Deirdre Stewart and Claudia Black – Trauma and Addiction Online Course

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Bessel van der Kolk, Deirdre Stewart and Claudia Black – Trauma and Addiction Online Course

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We’re experiencing traumatic stress like never before, leading to a historic rise in addictions and addictive behaviors of all kinds…

…And the link between these two is clearer than ever before.

At the heart of addictive behaviors — from drugs and alcohol, to sex, love, and technology addictions, to eating disorders, self-injury and more…

You’ll frequently find unresolved trauma, abuse, and a history of pain.

The fact is, if you’re treating traumatized people, you’re often also working with addictive behaviors.

And if you’re an addiction professional, it’s extremely likely you’re working with trauma.

That’s why we’re inviting you to join us, along with thousands of your colleagues, for a rare opportunity to train with the senior faculty from The Meadows Behavioral Health, whose time-tested treatment model is unparalleled in creating successful outcomes that translate to lasting recovery.

Now, in the premier conference on trauma and addictions for 2020, you’ll learn the proven methods, used by the world’s premier treatment provider, that help heal:

• Traumatic stress, anxiety, and depression
• Drug and alcohol addictions
• Love & sex addictions
• Technology addictions
• Race-based trauma
• Self-harm (non-suicidal self-injury)
• Eating disorders
• And much more

Learn to heal trauma and addictive behaviors of all kinds with
the tools and techniques used by the world’s premier treatment provider

PESI is excited to announce our partnership with The Meadows for this exciting conference. For more than four decades, The Meadows has helped patients heal by addressing not just their symptoms or behaviors, but also by providing them with the tools they need to get to the root cause of their disorders and achieve lasting recovery. Clinicians and professionals trust them more than any other treatment program because of their impeccable reputation for quality, integrity, and proven results.

Now you can get a front-row seat to learn their proven methods for treating trauma, drug and alcohol addiction, sex addiction, panic and anxiety disorders, PTSD, codependency, depression, bipolar disorder, and eating disorders.

Conference Sessions

Helping Make the Unbearable Tolerable: Trauma & the Treatment of Addictions

featuring Bessel van der Kolk, MD, New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score

How Neurofeedback & Neurotherapies Can Heal Trauma & Addictions

featuring Deirdre Stewart, LPC, SEP, BCN, director of Trauma Resolution Services at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare

Techniques for Creatively and Compassionately Addressing the Impulse to Self-Harm and Relapse

featuring Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA, Founder of the Ferentz Institute and author of Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors

Using the Experiential “Trauma Timeline” Intervention in Treating Trauma and Addiction

featuring Tian Dayton, PhD, TEP, author of The Adult Child of an Alcoholic (ACoA) Trauma Syndrome

How the Body Carries Racialized Trauma: A Therapeutic Pathway to Resilience & Healing

featuring Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP, author of New York Times best-seller My Grandmother’s Hands

Addictive Behaviors as Self-Preservation: Key Insights from the Internal Family Systems Model

featuring Dick Schwartz, PhD, developer of Internal Family Systems Therapy

How our Unconscious Biases Toward Racial & Sexual Minorities are Affecting Clients & What to Do

featuring Whitney Howzell, PhD, LMSW, MEd, MPH, CSAT, clinical director of the Claudia Black Center

Healing Developmental Trauma in Therapy: The Science of Restoring Self-Regulation

featuring Jon Caldwell, DO, PhD, chief of psychiatry at Meadows Behavioral Health

How Diet is Connected Trauma & Addiction: A Practical Roadmap for Recovery

featuring Kristin Kirkpatrick, MS, RDN, President of KAK Consulting, LLC and a dietitian and consultant of Wellness Nutrition Services at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute

The Not-So-Hidden Epidemic of Sexually Compulsive Behaviors & Pornography Addiction: The Trauma Connection and Treatment

featuring Stefanie Carnes, PhD, LMFT, CSAT, president of the International Institute for Trauma and Addiction Professionals, expert on sex addictions

Reverberations of Trauma in the Addictive Family: A 7-Step Process of Recovery

featuring Claudia Black, MSW, PhD,, expert in family addictions and co-dependency

The Seven Myths of Addiction: A Special Closing Keynote Address

For twelve years, Dr. Maté was the staff physician at a clinic for drug-addicted people in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, where he worked with patients challenged by hard-core drug addiction, mental illness, and HIV, including at Vancouver Supervised Injection Site.

In his recent bestselling book In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, he draws on cutting-edge science to illuminate where and how addictions originate and what they have in common. Contrary to what is often claimed, the source of addictions is not to be found in genes, but in the early childhood environment where the neurobiology of the brain’s reward pathways develops and where the emotional patterns that lead to addiction are wired into the unconscious. Stress, both then and later in life, creates the predisposition for addictions, whether to drugs, alcohol, nicotine or to behavioral addictions such as shopping or sex. Helping the addicted individual requires that we appreciate the function of the addiction in his or her life.

Once we recognize the roots of addiction and the lack it strives (in vain) to fill, we can develop a compassionate approach toward the addict, one that stands the best chance of restoring him or her to wholeness and health.