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Class 4: Upsetting Events & Trauma
Reducing the "Charge"
This 3.5-hour course provides mental health therapists with practical techniques for Somatic Tapping for upsetting events and trauma experiences.
Participants will learn to recognize emotional and somatic cues, guide clients in identifying distressing sensations and emotions, and facilitate tapping techniques to address upsetting events, trauma, phobias, and cravings.
The course emphasizes client-therapist attunement to create a safe and effective therapeutic environment.
By the end of the course, therapists gain actionable skills to integrate Somatic Tapping into their practice, helping clients achieve emotional regulation and healing.
Several downloadable audio tapping exercises are included in the course. This class is only for licensed professionals.
Required Prerequisite: License verification and completion of
Classes 1, 2 & 3. Contact Diana Sturm if you are interested in taking this class.
Objectives
Upon completion of the class, participants will:
Identify and Interpret Key Indicators: Learn to recognize key words, body language, and emotional cues during client interactions to tailor tapping treatments effectively.
Facilitate Emotion Awareness and Regulation: Guide clients in evaluating subjective units of distress (SUDS) and body sensations, and lead them through tapping techniques for managing upsetting events or trauma.
Enhance Client-Therapist Attunement: Develop skills to establish and maintain attunement with clients during tapping sessions, ensuring a safe and supportive therapeutic environment.
Apply Targeted Tapping Techniques: Understand when and how to use specialized tapping techniques, including storytelling methods, phobias, and cravings, while recognizing limitations of tapping interventions.
✺ Target Audience ✺
Target Audiences: Psychotherapists, Mental Health Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists, Licensed Professional Counselors, Rehabilitation Counselors, School Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and Substance Abuse Counselors.
It may also benefit Speech Language Pathologists, Dentists, Medical Doctors, Physical Therapists, Psychiatrists, Nurses, and Occupational Therapists.
✺ Prerequisite: Register Your License: License Verification ✺
Continuing Education Hours
This is an asynchronous, on-demand class. It is NOT a live class.
3.5 CE hours, Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners approved provider #0763
The Commission on Rehabilitation Counselor Certification (CRCC) has pre-approved this continuing education activity for a maximum of 3.5 general credits. Certificants should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The pre-approval code is: 60007994044. Sponsor #641873.
Additional Details
Presenter:
Diana Sturm, MS, Ed.S. LPC. Diana received Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) certification in 2010 from Gary Craig, the founder of EFT; from EFT Universe in 2011, and became certified as an Energy Trainer for the Guild of Energists in 2019. She developed Somatic Tapping in 2021.
Format:
Asynchronous, On-Demand, Close-Captioned in English
Asynchronous classes are a series of videos with closed captioning in English. Students may start or stop the class at any time. Each video must be completed in entirety before the next video plays. An assessment is required at the end of the class to evaluate learning. A separate evaluation is also required to evaluate the format and presentation of the class. A certificate of completion with CE hours listed is available after the assessment and evaluation have been completed.
Registration Fee: $122
Questions?
If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact Diana at [email protected] or call 251-283-2112.
This class is close-captioned in English.
Classes found on SomaticTapping.com are presented by:
Diana Sturm, LPC
CopperFire Digital LLC
PO Box 850053, Mobile, AL 36685-0053
There is no conflict of interest or commercial support for this program.
Education Disclaimer:
This website provides educational content only and does not offer mental health treatment. No therapist-client relationship is created. Licensed clinical services are provided through a separate practice in authorized states.
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