What You’ll Discover in Dafna Lender, Peter Levine Healing Childhood Trauma with Peter Levine, PhD & Dafna Lender, LCSW An Integrative Approach for Mental Health Clinicians
- Faculty:
- Dafna Lender | Peter Levine
- Duration:
- 2 Hours 5 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and video
- Copyright:
- July 16, 2020
Description
Join international trauma experts Peter Levine, creator of Somatic Experiencing®, and Dafna Lender, Theraplay® and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy trainer, in this recording as they share their insights, expertise, and clinical experience treating childhood trauma.
Through lively discussion and demonstrations, they will discuss their respective approaches. Peter Levine Dafna Lenders offer practical lending “bottom-up” Tools for Children who have suffered trauma are able to regain their resilience and equilibrium.
- Simple containment strategies for Clients are invited to participate in trauma wound work
- Embodied attachment-based techniques derived from Theraplay®
- Somatic Experiencing® interventions that create positive experiences in the body
- Attunement tools for Families and caregivers
- More!
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Handouts
Manual Healing Childhood Trauma (7.1 MB) | 24 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Outline
Foundations of Somatic Experiencing® and Theraplay®
- The Polyvagal theory is an evolutionary basis for trauma.
- Flight, flight and freeze.
- Stress in children: The somatic effects
- Trauma Through the lens of attachment
- Why “bottom-up” The treatment process is only possible if you use the right techniques
Integrative Strategies to Restore Resilience and Attunement.
- How to determine which behaviors require intervention
- Simple containment tools for Children
- Therapeutics for Beating feelings of helplessness
- Touch-Somatically release by based interventions “stuck” Responses to Stress
- Trust and attunement practices for Caregiver and child
- Pendulation-To develop a greater sense of empathy, use these techniques. “flow”
- Guided Attunement Activities for Family caregivers, and more
Faculty

Dafna Lender, LCSW Similar seminars and products 5
Dafna Lender, LCSW serves as the program director at The Theraplay Institute in Evanston, IL and is certified as a practitioner, supervisor and trainer in both Theraplay and Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (DDP). Dafna This method is taught internationally to psychotherapists and it can be done in three languages. She is also a supervisor and author in the field of treating attachment and trauma issues in children.
Dafna has spent her career focusing children’s development of a secure attachment with their caregivers while resolving issues in their traumatic history. Early in her career Dafna worked in treatment foster care and witnessed child after child “fail” Foster placements were terminated for difficult behavior. Children were disruptive, unsettled and unhappy, and their caregivers felt defeated. Dafna’s sense of discouragement went away after taking the Theraplay training and learning direct, concrete ideas and interactions that she could apply in home with Her treatment families are to encourage healthier and more hopeful relationships. Dafna has successfully treated children with There are many backgrounds to choose from, including orphanages for children. with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, exposed to domestic violence and community violence and children of parents with chronic mental illness. Dafna Has worked in the area of child mental and child welfare. for 20+ years.
Speaker Disclosures
Financial: Dafna Lender is in an employment relationship with The Theraplay Institute. PESI Inc. gives her a speaking honorarium
Non-financial: Dafna Lender has no relevant non-financial relationship to disclose.

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Dr. Peter Levine He holds doctorates in psychology and medical biophysics. He is the developer of Somatic Experiencing® (SE), a naturalistic body-Dr. David teaches around the world about the awareness approach to healing from trauma. Dr. Levine The Foundation was also founded by him. for Human Enrichment was a stress consultant for NASA during the creation of the spaceship.
An Dr. Levine penned Healing TraumaSexual Healing This is the best-selling book. Waking the Tiger. He coauthored the book.-Authored with Maggie Kline Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes Trauma-How to Proof Your Children. His most recent book is In an Unspoken voice: How the body releases Trauma Goodness is restored His 40-year-long research into the connections between evolution biology, neuroscience, and animal behavior as well as his clinical experience in trauma healing is evident in this book.
Dr. Levine In 2010, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Award with A Lifetime Achievement Award from The United States Association for Body Psychotherapy (USABP), and is a Senior Fellow at Meadows Behavioral Healthcare.
Disclosure for Speakers:
Financial: Peter Levine is the Developer of Somatic Experiencing®. He is the Senior Advisor and founder of the Foundation. for Human Enrichment and Senior Advisor to The Meadows Addiction Treatment Center. Dr. Levine Receives a speaking honorarium of PESI Inc.
Non-financial: Peter Levine Is a member of the American Psychological Association, Humanistic Psychological Association, and International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies.
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