Research/ Presentations, Workshops, Lectures on a Number of Clinical Topics

Papers Presented:

FAMILY SYSTEMS: Theory and Techniques.

DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES OF THE FAMILY

FAMILY PSYCHOPATHOLOGY

USES OF ERIKSONIAN HYPNOSIS

USES OF HYPNOSIS / THERAPEUTIC TECHNIQUES IN ORDER TO INTENTIONALLY CHANGE AND HEAL FROM THE DESTRUCTIVE IMPRINTS OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND.
HYPNOSIS IN HEALTH AND HEALING
HYPNOSIS AND PEAK PERFORMANCE
HEALING TECHNIQUES, THE USE OF CREATIVE VISUALIZATION IN HYPNOSIS
HEALING MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT, THE HOLISTIC APPROACH TO HEALING PHYSICALLY AND EMOTIONALLY
STRESS MANAGEMENT AND HYPNOSIS MANAGING THE MIND, HEALING THE BODY WITH HYPNOTIC TECHNIQUES
USE OF HYPNOSIS TO MANAGE FEAR, ANXIETY, PHOBIAS, PANIC ATTACKS.
HYPNOSIS AND ADDICTIONS
WEIGHT CONTROL WITH THE HELP OF HYPNOSIS
SELF HYPNOSIS: INDUCTION OF THE HYPNOTIC STATE FOR
GROWTH, HEALING AND EMPOWERMENT
HYPNOSIS AND SMOKING CESSATION
HYPNOSIS FOR PAIN CONTROL
HYPNOSIS TO AID THE PROCESS OF HEALING FROM MEDICAL
DISORDERS: CANCER, CARDIOVASCULAR, EATING
DISORDERS ETC.
HYPNOSIS AND PREPARATION FOR SURGERY : RECOVERY FROM SURGERY
HYPNOSIS AND HEALING FROM NEGATIVE EMOTIONS
HYPNOSIS AND MIND, BODY PROGRAMMING FOR HEALTH AND
HEALING.
HYPNOSIS AND FUTURE POSITIVE ORIENTATION.

Trauma and Recovery

Attachment Trauma and Trauma Related Disorders
Abuse Trauma / Developmental Trauma
The Neuroscience or Trauma
Trauma and Brain Development
Traumatic Stress Disorders
Anxious Attachment, Disorganized Attachment
Traumatic Stress and Neurobiological Implications Including: Learned Helplessness, Neurobiological Imprints Leading to Somatic Re- Experiencing of the Trauma, Lack of Mastery, High Levels of Anxiety, Repetition Compulsion of the Trauma at a Symbolic Level

Early Life Trauma / Complex Trauma
How Adaptation to Trauma Leads to Self Destructive Patterns,Including Loss of Affect Regulation, High Levels of Stress, Dissociation and Amnesia, Memory
Impairment ,Personality Dysfunction Including, Low Self Esteem, Self Hate, Guilt and Shame, Chronic Fear, Paranoia and Distrust Along With Identification with the Aggressor. These Dynamics Lead to Destructive Relations with Self and Others.

The Body's Memory System/ Trauma

This involves exploring the neuroscience of Traumatic stress, fear, terror and anxiety. The memory system involved in the sensory system and the non- verbal aspects of trauma is often referred to as implicit memory. It's also called body or sensory memory. Somatic re-experiencing of sensations, feelings that drive continuous impulsive and disorganized behavior. Treatment involves Mind - Body integration techniques for healing Trauma, PTSD and healing the complex losses of Trauma.
Techniques used in Trauma Recovery
Techniques Include: THE NEUROSCIENCE OF TRAUMA including: affect regulation, somatic awareness of re-experiencing the trauma and focusing on sensations and feelings. Awareness of learned helplessness and loss of agency. Managing dis-regulated affect and fear regulation. Mindful enhancement of affect regulation. Self soothing techniques to soothe and calm the nervous system.
Mindfulness Training for Information Processing of thoughts, feelings, sensations, perceptions and reactions to events.
Somatic interventions to help the body release the trauma. Sensory integration techniques to release the Fear and dissociation.
Impulse control and Distress tolerance Techniques using DBT. Reprocessing and transforming trauma creating a coherent story and processing and metabolizing the Trauma story, Guided imagery with healing techniques.
Embodied Mindfulness: A SOMATIC APPROACH to distinguishing the past from the present.
Regulating the Nervous System of a traumatized patient. Instead of Talk Therapy, elements of Somatic Experiencing are used. This awareness helps patients to attend to their body sensations and learn to discriminate between physical and psychological reactions that are reactivated by anything that symbolically represents trauma. The Embodied Memory of a traumatized past is set on "High Alert" or "Shut Down" and is not focused on the present moment but rather is living in the past. A reoccurring traumatized space, that is not in the present reality, consequently will overreact to current situations.
Psycho education : Post Traumatic Growth and Healing, Resilience, Self Esteem and Empowerment, self efficacy, mastery and Agency.
Renewed sense of Meaning to life.

Intergenerational Family Patterns/ Family Systems

The Addictive Family, The Legacy of Trauma
Couples Therapy
Couples Feedback Loop, Neurobiology of Couples, The Unconscious collusion of the couple, creating a positive powerful couple, systemic and communication based approaches along with attachment dynamics that function as a guide to underlying mental health issues and create pathways to health, resilience, positive change and secure attachment. Examination of how intergenerational patterns are repeated in the current relationship. Diagnostic assessment of couples conflict and the unconscious evocation in both partners of unresolved conflicts and trauma that belong to past generations. The unconscious collusion of the couple is defined by their repetitive conflicts. Systemic and psychodynamic strategies resolve these impasses.
Adult Children of Alcoholics
Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
Adult Children of Abuse: Guide to what is normal
Sexual Harassment: Not in the job description
Trauma and its consequences
Meeting the demands of family and career n modern times.
The psychological impact of sexual harassment in the workplace
The Genogram: Intergenerational perspectives and patterns
Family Systems and Personality Typology
Early Childhood Development
The Neurobiology of Trauma/ The Body Holds the Memory
Happiness, Health and Longevity
Enhancing Couples Relationships/ Creating the Power Couple
Mindfulness/ Art and Practice
The Family System recovering from addiction
Psychoneuroimmunology: Mind Body Connections
Uses of Holistic Techniques in Mind, Body & Spirit Healing

The Power Couple: