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"This is a welcome shift of perspective in working with all populations but specifically for those suffering with substance use disorders. The exercises that were reviewed were very helpful." --Nicole Valdez
Course Timing
As a self-paced course, you can begin at any time and view on your own schedule.
Course Description
In this self-paced workshop, you will explore the intersection of trauma and addiction, and discuss therapeutic responses to both fields.
Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, we will shift the current pathologizing paradigm to a strength-based approach. The FSPM model integrates with Stephen Porges’ Polyvagal Theory, and provides students with a framework to support any therapeutic modality.
This course will be informative for those new to the field of trauma/addiction as well as seasoned practitioners.
For more information on the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and information on the Facilitator Training Sequence for certification, click here.
Payment Information
Access to this course costs $299.
Students can pay the full fee at registration or in three-month installments. Other payment plan options may be available upon request.
Your access will last for 180 days (approximately 6 months) from the date of registration
If you find you'd like more time, please email us at info@polyvagal.org to request an extension.
Course Requirements
There are no prerequisites for this course, however it is a great place to start if you are interested in the broader FSPM course sequence and facilitator training.
For more information on the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model and Facilitator Training Sequence for certification, click here.
Required reading:
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model</em>, by Jan Winhall, Routledge, 2021.<p>
To purchase this book at 20% off with code FSPM23, click here.
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Course Outcomes
You will receive a Certificate of Completion upon finishing this course.
You have the option to earn 5.5 hours of CE credit provided by the Spriritual Competency Academy for an additional fee of $35 fee for psychologists, LPCs, LCSWs, LMFTs, and nurses.
INSTRUCTOR(S)
Jan Winhall, MSW, RSW, FOT
Jan Winhall, M.S.W. F.O.T. is an author, teacher and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner and Course Developer with the Polyvagal Institute where she teaches a certificate course based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Coordinator with the International Focusing Institute. Jan is Co-Director of the Borden Street Clinic where she supervises graduate students. She enjoys teaching all over the world. You can reach her at https://janwinhall.com
"In Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Jan Winhall introduces a new strategy to treat addiction that brilliantly integrates Gendlin’s classic concept of a felt sense with Polyvagal Theory. The author shares her intellectual journey in which unique insights transform two disparate perspectives into obvious complements leading to a powerful treatment model." ―Stephen W. Porges, PhD, scientist, author, creator of Polyvagal Theory.
"In this insightful volume Jan Winhall brings together the essence of groundbreaking modern therapeutic practices with her own decades of hard-won clinical experience to fashion a new, deeply humane and promising model of addiction treatment, illustrated by poignant clinical vignettes." ― Gabor Maté, MD, is the author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction.
"Reframing addiction and its treatment through the lens of Experiential Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Interpersonal Neurobiology and Imago Relationship Therapy, Jan Winhall has produced a brilliant synthesis and expansion of addiction theory and treatment that should be read by all therapists, not just addiction specialists." ―Harville Hendrix, PhD, and Helen LaKelly Hunt, PhD, authors of Doing Imago Relationship Therapy in the Space Between
Jan Winhall, MSW, RSW, FOT
Stephen W. Porges, PhD
Stephen W. Porges, PhD
Stephen W. Porges, Ph.D. is a Distinguished University Scientist at Indiana University where he is the founding director of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium in the Kinsey Institute. He is Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina, and Professor Emeritus at both the University of Illinois at Chicago and the University of Maryland. He served as president of the Society for Psychophysiological Research and the Federation of Associations in Behavioral & Brain Sciences and is a former recipient of a National Institute of Mental Health Research Scientist Development Award. He is the originator of the Polyvagal Theory, a theory that emphasizes the importance of physiological state in the expression of behavioral, mental, and health problems related to traumatic experiences. He is the creator of a music-based intervention, the Safe and Sound Protocol ™ , which currently is used by approximately 4,000 therapists to improve spontaneous social engagement, to reduce hearing sensitivities, and to improve language processing, state regulation, and spontaneous social engagement. Dr. Porges is a founder of the Polyvagal Institute.
