Emotional Regulation and Healing Trauma

*Are you a practitioner who would like to practice embodied, multi-sensory, right-brain skills on how to work with trauma?

*Do you want to explore expressive interventions that can support people who experience anxiety, anger issues or depression?

*Do you want to practice various expressive interventions that help the regulation of emotions?

Let us visualise, vocalise, sing, dance, smell, taste, touch and sense our way through healing.

In this experiential and expressive online training, my intention is to create a space with you to explore and practice more skills that aim at supporting the healing of trauma. These multi-sensory interventions are useful for emotional self-regulation and support healing when words might not be enough or people are finding it hard to speak. Such interventions are very useful for people who experience anxiety or depression or anger management issues. We will be taking into consideration the fact that when it comes to our preferred learning styles, we are wired differently. We might be aware that we rely on some of these senses more than others, so we might be attracted to ways of working that are more resonant to our learning style. At the same time, we can benefit immensely from expanding our comfort-zone in our practices. While working on our own personal development, we become more able to cater to clients with different needs. The senses we will explore include:

• Visual “I see you”,

• Auditory “I hear you”,

• Touch “I feel touched”

• Smell: “I smell something…”

• Taste: “The experience tasted…”

• Kinaesthetic learners: “I move with you”

• Intuitive “I sense…”

Therapeutic interventions (even online,) do not have to constantly take place sitting down or rely only on words. While for some clients incorporating movement or other non-verbal practices in our therapy is a choice, for others, right-brain, multi-sensory interventions are definitely the treatment of choice for many evidence-based reasons. When experiencing trauma, we might not feel initially regulated enough to ‘tell the story’, thus other ways that support expression and regulation of emotions can be crucial (Van der Kolk, 2014).

Expressive therapeutic interventions based on visualisation, sound, touch, smell, taste, movement or intuition can also be practised online. In fact, this is how I have practised many of these innovative ways of working myself (both as a therapist and as an explorer) during the lockdown. As you might have probably discovered, it is crucial that we keep finding ways to engage our body through the different senses. Therapy can be an unfolding, multi-sensory journey. To such a journey I am thus inviting you.

Looking forward to our co-constructed right-brain space.

Nature of Group: Open to Various Practitioners including psychotherapists, social workers, psychologists, care-workers, psychiatrists, counsellors, guidance teachers, teachers, youth workers, speech therapists, occupational therapists and more.

Location: Online Zoom (Participants who do not have zoom can still participate once they download the zoom app from a link I will be emailing you).

Fee 80€ Full Fee

70€ Early bird fee if you pay by the 12th February 2021

Payment Options:

Payment on Revolut

or Mobile Banking: 00356 99447307

Paypal elainemarygrech@gmail.com (If using PayPal please add 5 euro to the amount to cover the PayPal Fee).

Online Bank Transfer

SWIFT Code: VALLMTMT IBAN: MT60VALL22013000000040013125068

Booking Procedure If you would like to book:

Payment Procedures

1. Either book through the website www.drelainegrechpsychotherapist.com from Future events and click Register Now on the event of your choice.

2. How to secure your payment:

· Payment needs to take place within 24 hours otherwise your registration will not be secured.

· Write your name and the workshop’s title when processing the payment so that payment can be identified.

· Email confirmation of payment on elainemarygrech@gmail.com so that I can confirm your booking: Name and Surname, Workshop Title and Date, Method of Payment chosen and email address for correspondence regarding the workshop.

3. Alternatively, if not booking through the website:

· Text me on 0035699447307 or email me at elainemarygrech@gmail.com to confirm availability.

· Email me including the following information: Name, Mobile, email I will send you zoom invite on, Payment Details (amount and where money was sent).

· Kindly write your name, email address and date of the workshop as payment details. And please let me know the payment was sent.

4. Participants will receive a receipt of payment on the email provided and will receive a certificate of attendance after completing the workshop.

5. Please note that it is on a first come first served basis and therefore your booking can only be confirmed after receiving payment and registration.

6. The payment is non-refundable unless due to the rare eventuality of the workshop being cancelled by the facilitator if the minimum number is not reached.

7. Around a week before the workshop you will be receiving an email with the zoom link and some ideas on how to prepare yourself for the training.  

Looking forward to our shared space.

Many blessings

Dr Elaine Grech