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We are having an open board meeting. Come hear what we are doing and bring your questions! We’d love to hear from those who want to participate.

Email info@norcalsepa.com (Andrea) to get a link

Come connect with other practitioners in the 48 counties of Northern California. Email info@norcalsepa.com (Andrea) for a link.

Christine Donohue, MFT, SEP, CMT will offer a brief sharing of a composite clinical case of those who experienced complex developmental trauma. The goal is to demonstrate how combining SE intervention with Gestalt-based parts-work supports some client’s self-relationship and, as a result, their embodied empowerment and sense of wholeness.

Specific questions to be addressed are:

• “How does an adult client ‘grow’ internalized self-support when they grew up feeling alone, having experienced neglect or other forms of abuse and betrayal by a parent or care-giver?".

• “How does an adult client with a history of developmental complex PTSD and who lives with chronic hyperarousal, panic, heightened anxiety, debilitating depression, and a tendency to go into “fight or flight”, “appease” and/or “freeze” learn to value themselves such that they assertively set healthy boundaries in their lives?”.

The discussion will offer specifics regarding:

• Creating safety with individuals who use coping strategies of intellectualization, denial, and compartmentalization;

• Pacing considerations when working with individuals who experienced pre-verbal trauma or excessive abuse and who easily become overwhelmed with interoception.

• When and how to engage SE tools and Gestalt interventions to support someone to relate to traumatized internal parts of their psyche from their wise adult self.

There will be time allocated for discussion and Q&A during this presentation.

It is important to share here that based upon the specific population of this composite case presentation, each of the clients are Caucasian and have various degrees of white privilege. The clients discussed are based upon substantial growth each has made in treatment, however it is important to acknowledge that aspects of their improvement cannot be uncoupled from their financial means and socio-economic position as educated, white professionals. I look forward to convening with all who are drawn to join me and NorCA SEPA on Sunday, Dec. 10th, 2023.

About the Speaker: Christine Donohue, MFT, SEP, CMT is a CA and NJ Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who serves those in Mill Valley, SF Bay, throughout California and New Jersey. She brings thirty years of experience of body-based healing, including hands-on energetic and SE sessions, and psychotherapeutic approaches to clients and to workshop participants. Christine specializes in complex developmental trauma, chronic health issues, and supporting thriving relationships.

Christine was a Senior Teacher and a previous Director of the Creative Arts Department at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing for seven years, was an Associate Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies in the Somatic and Integral Counseling Psychology Departments for five years, and was an Assistant Clinical Director for the Community Institute for Psychotherapy in San Rafael, CA for over two years. Combining somatic, psychodynamic, and transpersonal approaches, Christine works with adults of all ages, couples, adult families, groups, and MFT interns. Since 1991, she has been studying and practicing energetic healing, Somatic Experiencing, Gestalt, and other body-based modalities in support of helping people shift from past patterns and current habits that no longer serve. Whether with clients, interns, or leading a training, Christine offers her steadfast presence, deeply honed intuition, extensive clinical training, and profound love and care for people. For more information, please visit www.christinedonohue.co

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 https://currenttreatment.eventbrite.com

We are all rightfully proud of our trainings in SE. They are thorough and prepare us well for practice. For professionals who need to explicate their clinical model or refer clients to other models, it's also good to know how our model fits in the larger frame of existing clinical approaches. This short talk will attempt to position SE within that larger frame and compare basic theories and practices

About the Workshop Leader: Mark Ludwig’s original academic training at UC Berkeley was in psychodynamic Clinical Social Work. The program was informed by a holistic model (bio-psycho-social) and continues to inform Mark’s practice and thinking as a Somatic Psychotherapist. Mark’s somatic psychotherapy training began in the mid 70’s at the Radix Institute, a neo-reichian training center that certified through a vigorous three-year training, and then continued in Switzerland in the early 80’s with David Boadella and an additional certification in Somatic Psychotherapy-Biosynthesis.

Mark Ludwig continued training and development with a series of depth trainings in early development within the parent-infant mental health model (Fellow in the Harvard Children’s Hospital-Napa County Department of Health Infant-Parent Program 2002-03). Mark studied interpersonal neuropsychology in the Allan Schore Study Group in Berkeley (2004-2012) and attachment theory applications to adult therapy in Mark’straining with Diana Fosha and her AEDP faculty (2006-08). Mark Ludwig completed the three-year training in Somatic Experiencing trauma and is Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Mark completed a one-year training in the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics a developmental trauma model designed by Bruce Perry MD.

Mark has been an international trainer (Western and Southern Europe, Australia, North and South America) in both schools of Somatic Psychotherapy from which he graduated and have served as core faculty and, at times, Program Director at the two San Francisco Bay Area universities with Somatic Psychology MA programs (JFK University and the California Institute for Integral Studies).

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NorCal SEPA Community Workshop Series

Join the Movement for Embodied NorCal: https://norcalsepa.com/

These workshop series are a time for northern California SE leaders to share their work, inspire us, and help us deepen core skills in being with people we serve in change. There will be a 60 min focused workshop, discussion time and time for networking as a community.

Come out, share in the learning, share. the kills you learn and help us grow the SE community in the Northern California region.

Deepening SE Through Accompaniment

w/ Linda Chrisman, MA, CMT, SEP

Linda has been a core leader in street medicine community called Faithful Fools in SF. She will share her skills in the process of healing through accompaniment. The power of presence to connect to shared humanity, move through traumas, and connecting to the inner power and dignity we all share.

When: July 9th, 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm PST

Where: Zoom

Link: Zoom will be sent 48 hrs before the workshop.

About the Workshop Leader: Linda Chrisman MA, CMT has been practicing holistic bodywork for over 35 years. She specializes in an integrative approach informed by her extensive training in Rosen Method Bodywork, Continuum, Somatic Experiencing and other movement and touch modalities.

For more information or to find out how to donate to Faithful Fools follow this link: https://www.faithfulfools.org/