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Exploring the Essential Features of “Deborah Fox – Repairing Ruptures in Connection: Integrating Somatic Intervention into Couples Therapy; Repair and Healing Inside the Dyadic Relationship – PESI”
Speaker: Deborah Fox, MSW
Duration: 2 Hours
Format: Audio and Video
Copyright: Sep 09, 2022
Media Type: Digital Seminar
Description
Helping couples in relationship therapy to repair and heal ruptures requires that their nervous system be in a “settled-enough” state. When partners are angry, defensive, or emotionally shutdown, effective communication isn’t possible and therapeutic momentum is stalled.
Included in this presentation is how to use the natural workings of the autonomic nervous system to help couples engage more effectively with each other. The structure of a session and skilled, somatic interventions enable the therapeutic process to move forward. Body-based therapeutic strategies enable the therapist to help the couple to identify the true sources of distress, allow constructive solutions to emerge and repair the ruptures that have occurred.
Speaker
Deborah Fox, MSW
Deborah J Fox, MSW, is a Certified Imago Relationship therapist and Certified Sex Therapist in private practice in Washington, DC. She offers individual, couples, and group psychotherapy, as well as clinical consultation. Deborah conducts seminars and consultation groups on couples therapy and sex therapy. She has presented on these subjects at the Washington School of Psychiatry, the Greater Washington Society of Clinical Social Workers, the Institute for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, and the Integrative Sex Therapy Institute and at the 2018 international Imago Relationship Therapy conference. She has studied Somatic Experiencing and wrote the chapter, The Mind Body Connection: Sex, Couples and Somatic Therapy in Integrative Sex and Couples Therapy, by Tammy Nelson, Phd. She is passionate about taking couples therapy to a deeper emotional level and enabling greater intimacy and satisfaction.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Deborah Fox maintains a private practice and receives a speaking honorarium from CEYOU, the Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Imago Therapists. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Deborah Fox has no non-financial relationships.
Objectives
- Explain why structuring a couples therapy session is important in supporting nervous system regulation.
- Explain Stephen Porges’s concept of “neuroception” and how the therapist can use this as psychoeducation and in therapeutic intervention.
- Identify at least three early signs of nervous system activation that indicate one or both partners are feeling threatened.
Outline
- How to structure a session with the nervous system in mind and why this is important in repairing ruptures
- How to structure a session to facilitate meaningful and healing communication
- Finding safe harbor in co-regulation
- Learning the “language of the body” and strategies for regulation
- Using somatic intervention strategies to access source(s) of rupture
- Implicit memory and the impact of adverse experience and trauma
Target Audience
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
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