From Chaos to Connection: Calming Reactive Couples Using Body-Based Therapies

From Chaos to Connection:

Calming Reactive Couples Using Body-Based

Therapies

Presented by: Cheryl Dolinger Brown, LCSW

PPSC

80 Fifth Ave., Room 1408

New York, NY 10011

October 24th, 2014, 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Working with couples can be like walking into a battleground as childhood wounds re-emerge and clients experience their partners as dangerous and threatening. They can't depend on each other to calm their anxieties and they turn to their own maladaptive strategies, inadvertently heightening the level of reactive stimulation. Body-based approaches such as Somatic Experiencing emphasize awareness of sensations in the body to help regulate intense arousal states in individuals, couples and within the therapist. In this workshop, we will give clinicians tools to help their clients access the body states that are locked in their nervous systems, provide resources that change the experience of old triggers, increase empathy and compassion, and help couples reconnect to their bodies and to one another.

Cheryl Dolinger Brown, LCSW has thirty years experience providing individual and couples therapy. She is a certified Imago Relationship Therapist, Imago Advanced Clinician and Consultant, a Psychoanalyst, and a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner who is now studying PACT with Stan Tatkin.