Working with entrenched defenses, pathogenic affects and trauma states isn’t easy. It requires a strong therapeutic presence: leading boldly, co-regulating, psychobiologically attuning to our patients, our self, and the dyad moment-to-moment.

It requires tenaciously advocating and championing our patients’ capacity to heal and be whole when they see and feel nothing but darkness. It requires building capacity within our SELVES to “be with” and “stay with” deep emotional pain, grief, shame, rage, unbearable states of aloneness.

In short, it requires “Fierce Love.”

Fierce Love is a relationally bold therapeutic stance that assiduously champions the patient’s Core Self, breaks through entrenched defenses and transforms pathogenic self states, with a loving and finely targeted psychobiological attunement that reclaims the Core Self and restores one’s birthright of love.

In this course, we will explore how to heal and reclaim the self that has splintered under the impact of trauma by using the Core Self of the therapist as an active, healing agent.

We will learn techniques that go beyond classic practice to create a therapeutic alliance that is grounded in secure attachment and is actively reparative, using specific, fine-tuned clinical interventions that lead to memory reconsolidation, self restructuring, and deep characterological change.

This course is a lived experience. Through lecture, viewing patient videotape under a fine-tuned microscopic clinical lens, and lively discussion, you will come to learn how the most powerful tool in your clinical toolbox is courageously lending your own Core Self to your patients’ healing process.

I look forward to sharing Fierce Love with you and helping you turbocharge your work with clients who have experienced the deepest of trauma wounds.