Rachel Goldsmith Turow – Transform Trauma and PTSD with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills

Beyond decreasing symptoms of trauma and PTSD, mindfulness skills can provide a lasting foundation for overall health, resilience, and well-being.

Rachel Goldsmith Turow – Transform Trauma and PTSD with Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Skills

Match specific mindfulness practices to help heal diverse symptoms of PTSD and complex trauma
A rare opportunity for you to learn how to apply mindfulness skills to trauma and PTSD!
Discover a toolkit of mindfulness skills so that you can personalize your approach to clients’ unique trauma symptoms and therapy preferences

The multitude of difficulties stemming from trauma – emotional, cognitive, physical, spiritual, and relational-can overwhelm both trauma survivors and you as their clinician. You face a unique constellation of challenges with each client. Luckily, mindfulness practices can provide bountiful avenues towards trauma recovery and posttraumatic growth. Mindfulness skills offer an ideal synthesis of focusing on the “here and now” and healing layers of trauma-related distress. Using specific mindfulness techniques, you can target each client’s unique symptom profile to reduce experiences such as:

Anxiety
Avoidance
Depression
Hypervigilance
Dissociation
Self-criticism, self-blame, and self-hatred
Intrusions
Relationship disturbances

Beyond decreasing symptoms of trauma and PTSD, mindfulness skills can provide a lasting foundation for overall health, resilience, and well-being.
Join Dr. Turow, author of Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience (Norton Professional Books, 2017), as she distills her clinical and research expertise to pinpoint specific mindfulness techniques for common responses to trauma. By implementing these skills in your practice, you can confidently guide traumatized clients to tolerate and transform distress, promote bodily relaxation, and shift self-criticism to self-compassion.

Evaluate the mechanisms through which mindfulness practices can improve PTSD, anxiety, and depression.
Explore techniques to enhance clients’ sense of safety and control when implementing mindfulness skills to heal after trauma.
Analyze the scientific research supporting Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM) to help clients heal.
Categorize differences among trauma symptom profiles (e.g., PTSD vs. complex trauma) that can inform how to choose effective mindfulness practices.
Incorporate specific mindfulness techniques to manage dissociation, hypervigilance, intrusions, avoidance, relationships, and self-criticism.
Teach mindfulness and self-compassion skills for treating PTSD and related conditions.
Plan a personalized mindfulness program to nourish yourself when treating traumatized clients to improve your therapeutic presence in-session.

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Relevance for Trauma

The role of mindfulness and self-compassion in evidence-based therapies for PTSD

Cognitive Processing Therapy
Prolonged Exposure

Non-judgment, metacognition and re-perceiving in the context of trauma-related:

Shame
Guilt
Self-criticism
Self-blame

Direct attention to help with trauma related symptoms such as:

Intrusions
Anxiety
Depression
Dissociation

Skills to build bodily and emotional awareness after:

Avoidance
Numbing
Dissociation

Common misconceptions and stumbling blocks

Mindfulness Practices for Trauma and PTSD

The scientific evidence for trauma:

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Loving Kindness Meditation (LKM)
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Mindfulness-Based Exposure Therapy (MBET)

How mindfulness and self-compassion decrease psychological symptoms
Evidence-based specific mindfulness practices for survivors of:

Interpersonal violence
Childhood emotional, physical, and sexual abuse
Combat trauma
Military sexual trauma
Disasters

Match Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Skills to Trauma-Related Symptoms

Mindfulness skills for specific challenges:

DSM-5® PTSD symptoms
Depression
Anxiety
Substance abuse
Relationships

Mindfulness practices for complex trauma and post-trauma worldviews
Build compassion and self-compassion after trauma

Experiential Training in Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Skills for Trauma and PTSD

There’s more in this moment: Broaden attention to reduce suffering
Practice the small stuff to train for the big stuff— from a single breath to feared actions
Respect and re-appraise intrusions, core beliefs, and self-judgment about having PTSD
Bodily awareness and relaxation to manage hypervigilance/hyperarousal
Self-compassion and loving-kindness for trauma,
PTSD and self-criticism

Special Considerations when Practicing Mindfulness for Trauma

Client safety, choice and empowerment with respect to bodily practices
Non-pathologizing stance to trauma symptoms and treatment obstacles
Balance neutral mindfulness practices to build skills with practices related to trauma symptoms
Calibrate exposure to distressing material both within therapy and between sessions

Mindfulness & Self-Compassion Practices for the Clinician to Prevent Burnout

Balancing attention to self and other
Therapist mindfulness and self-compassion practice improves client outcomes
Modeling mindfulness and discerning self-disclosure
Prevent burnout; differentiate between empathy, compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction