I’m pleased to share an achievement: 3 new CE credits towards treating trauma

January 2, 2023

I’m pleased to share that I’ve earned 3 new continuing education credits, from the National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM), in treating trauma. trauma-informed energy healing reiki sensitive

Specifically, through the use of Sensorimotor Therapy.

It was interesting to see how this therapy is a form of energy healing. In my definition, energy healing is: the use of energy to facilitate healing; and/or the manipulation of energy to facilitate healing.

Sensorimotor Therapy taps into a traumatic memory, but then invites the client to not focus on the memory, but rather to notice the bodily sensations that have come up.* Then, the client allows those sensations to express themselves, and eventually to reach completion.

A session would also track the bodily sensations as they move through the body, from one location to another.

Allowing a sensation (i.e., energy) to express itself is…the manipulation of energy to facilitate healing.

Right?

I took this course first because it allowed a first-hand look at a real ST session with a real patient (with his full consent); the session had been videotaped, and so course participants could watch a genuine trauma expert lead her patient through the healing process.

But I also took it because a recent client of my own inspired me.

I had this client in an in-person session, and they shared with me a trauma that they had never before told anyone else about.

It was a humbling experience to be the first.

I think the session went well. But there is always a “better”; and for this person, as well as for everyone like them, I wanted to know how I could have done better.

Within days, this short course from NICABM popped up, and I knew it was meant to be.

I’m honoured to do what I do. And always evolving.

~ Jen