Janina Fisher & Joni Gilbertson – Janina Fisher’s Trauma Treatment Telehealth Certification Course: Integrating Proven Approaches & Online Therapy to Help Clients Heal in Society’s New Normal
The slow-motion disaster of isolation, death, a drastically altered present and an unpredictable future is affecting the mental health of us all… And some more than others.
Thousands of people are struggling with the trauma of intense stress, loneliness, and radical uncertainty…
And many more are ALSO trying to heal old wounds while grappling with this “new normal” that’s been thrust upon us.
Not only that, but dedicated therapists like you are now being asked to treat clients virtually, using unfamiliar telemental health options, just when clients have an increased need for connection.
So how can you effectively treat trauma from afar?
With Janina Fisher’s proven trauma treatment approach combined with telemental health services (aka distance therapy or online therapy).
Janina Fisher, PhD, has been working with clients struggling with attachment wounds, substance abuse, shame, suicide ideation, relationship difficulties, and more for over 40 years. Through that experience she’s developed a trauma-centric approach that integrates:
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy’s body-based techniques
- Internal Family Systems parts-work
- mindfulness strategies
- and Polyvagal Theory insight…
…to offer deep healing outcomes without the pain of traditional approaches.
- What are the legal and ethical risks?
- Is distance therapy even effective?
- How do I get started?
- Work with trauma more effectively than ever before, using Janina Fisher’s proven approaches
- Become a Clinical Telemental Health Provider and stand out from the crowd
- Gain access to remote clients and those practicing social distancing
- Create a personal and connected virtual therapy experience for your clients
- Grow your practice in troubling economic times
- Gain competency in the legal and ethical requirements associated with privacy, security and crossing state lines
- Learn how to adapt use for various populations and disorders
- Protect yourself from common privacy violations when texting or emailing clients
What You’ll Discover in this Course
Part 1 | Janina Fisher’s Integrative Trauma Treatment Masterclass: Blending IFS, Sensorimotor, Mindfulness, Psychoeducation, and More
Module 1
Module 2
Meet a client whose shoulder twitches uncontrollable each time she’s triggered by her trauma.
Watch as Janina hones in on her client’s physical and verbal responses, applying parts and somatic therapy techniques to guide the client toward understanding and hopefulness.
Module 3
Module 4
If clients are going to heal from trauma, they must learn how to feel safe again.
See how Janina gently guides an armored trauma client into a new experience where she can safely lower her guard.
Module 5
The couple in this session is haunted by deep traumatic wounds—he was verbally abused and kicked out of his home at 10, and she grew up the victim of an angry, abusive mother.
Discover how Janina brings this traumatized couple back into connection with each other.
Part 2 | Certified Clinical Telemental Health Provider Training
Module 1
What You Need to Know Before You Get Started
- The 2 types of telehealth
- Evidence supporting the effectiveness of telehealth for clients and various populations
- The benefits and risk for telehealth
- Recent trends in telehealth
Module 2
- Following a code of ethics
- Legal implications of practicing across state lines
- Privacy & security
- HIPAA compliance concerns
- Documentation & paperwork issues
- Ensure data protection & avoid unintended access/disclosure
- The client’s perception of privacy via videoconferencing
- Boundary issues more likely to arise in telehealth
- Multicultural issues in telehealth
- Technology competence of the clinician and client
Module 3
- Offering your telehealth services – where to begin?
- How to introduce the concept to clients
- Who is a good fit for telehealth? Who is not?
- Administrative responsibilities
- Policies & procedures consideration – protect yourself and your license
- Informed consent – unique concerns & best practices
- Intake process – tips you need to know
- Emergency plan for telehealth
- Client interviewing & assessment techniques
- Videoconferencing vs. telephone
- Best practices for professionalism
- Camera placement, background, proximity & dress attire
- Handling technical issues
Module 4
- Marketing concerns with telehealth practice
- Billing & reimbursement strategies – is this covered under my client’s insurance policy?
- Payment fee structure considerations
- Communication of payment structure to client
- Professional liability insurance – telehealth covered?
- Client Expectations & how they differ versus in-person therapy
- Financial, accounting & tax concerns
- Giving and getting referrals – issues for telepractice
Module 5
What Technology is Right for You and Your Clients?
- An overview of the various platforms available
- Demonstrations of key features
- How to assess what features are important for you
- Cost comparisons
- What legal assurances do I need from a platform provider?
- Client considerations when choosing a platform
Module 5
- A guided tour of how to begin a telehealth videoconferencing session
- What videoconferencing looks like in practice
- Key techniques to enhance the telehealth in-session experience
- Presentation skills & tips
Module 7
- Text message & email telehealth – security, privacy & expectations
- Cloud storage – what are the legal issues?
- Virtual reality – what you need to know
Module 8
- Key adjustments recommended for practicing telehealth for different disorders
- Evidence & best practices for tailoring telehealth to a variety of clients PLUS important adaptations for groups or couples
- Which modalities most easily apply to telehealth & which could use adaptions
Module 9
- Possible future rules & regulations
- Up & coming technology trends to be aware of
- What distance therapy might look like in 10 years
Part 3 | Making Virtual Psychotherapy a Relational Experience, with Janina Fisher
Here you’ll discover how to adapt Janina’s trauma treatment approaches to today’s telemental health environment.
Janina addresses the challenges of helping clients deal with trauma in a time of danger, heightened anxiety and isolation—while self-isolating. You’ll discover:
- 3 ways to reduce technophobia
- Practical tips to ensure virtual psychotherapy feels personal and connected
- Resources for helping clients tolerate fear and loneliness
- Interactive neurobiological regulation: Using our nervous systems to regulate the client’s nervous system
- How to overcome the challenges of virtual psychotherapy, for clients and for yourself
- And much more…
Meet Your Course Experts:
Janina Fisher, PhD is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.
She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.
She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).
Joni Gilbertson, MA, NCC, LCPC, LMHC, BC-TMH, CTMH, is a Clinical Telemental Health Provider, Board-certified Telemental Health Provider, Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Illinois, Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida, and the owner/founder of Gilbertson Counseling Services. She has over a decade of experience seeing clients using distance counseling with specializations in domestic violence, anger management, and relationship counseling. Joni uses distance therapy to assist individuals, couples and families with everyday coping in areas such as relationship, depression, suicide, and general coping skills. She is also experienced as a clinical counselor supervising a mental health staff within a hospital setting and within her clinical practice.
Joni completed many trainings in distance counseling and completed and edited numerous online courses for telemental health. She is a certified trainer in mental health first aid and motivational interviewing, and she carries certifications in domestic violence facilitation and selective other methods that enhance client awareness. For many years she trained mental health agencies, children and family services, first responders, jails, prisons, and detention centers on mental health topics along with legal and ethical matters of relative concern to each population. As a former Chief of Probation and Probation Officer, she was responsible for training staff on mental health issues that included motivational interviewing, suicide awareness, personality disorders, substance use disorders and safety strategies.
Joni is also a recently retired college instructor with the Sociology Department where she created and instructed sixteen mental health and legal issues classes. During her employment, she was nominated and presented with the award for “Teachers Who Make a Difference” due to her engaging and dynamic style of teaching. She makes learning an enjoyable experience with her passion for the topic of using technology for mental health.
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