About this Event
Helena Vissing, PsyD, is a somatic therapist and perinatal mental health expert who has been a leader in the field. There is a vital need for better approaches to treatment and support for mothers, families, and infants. Dr. Vissing is a compassion-centered, innovative teacher whose skills can help any professional in their ability to support perinatal mental health.
Dr. Vissing has developed a comprehensive model for approaching material and perinatal healing based on somatic and a whole-person biopsychosocial approach. This workshop will offer an opportunity to learn this cutting edge model with the innovative and highly impactful approach.
Zoom Link: Will be sent 2 days before the event to those registered.
Specific questions to be addressed are:
• “How can we meet our clients in this profoundly transformative moment of change?".
• “How does trauma from birth, previous experience, development, and complex trauma impact the perinatal process of becoming a mother and the developing infant?"
• “How can clinicians develop a human centered approach to understanding the biological, psychological and health impacts of trauma and how to ground interventions in the evolving needs of perinatal health?"
The discussion will offer specifics regarding:
• Developing a healing approach to the perinatal process and creating safety and connection that fosters attachment and connection.
• Considerations when working with individuals who experienced pre-verbal trauma.
• Understanding the human-centered biopsychosocial needs of mothers and infants in the perinatal developmental process.
A recent book authored by Dr. Vissing, Somatic Maternal Healing
Link: https://www.amazon.com/Somatic-Maternal-Healing-Helena-Vissing/dp/1032315245
About the book: "Somatic Maternal Healing introduces a cutting-edge understanding of the body into the growing field of perinatal mental health. Chapters lay out a complete trauma treatment model for maternal mental health, integrating psychodynamic and somatic clinical techniques within a systemic perspective. The book applies a biopsychosocial conceptualization of mental health in the perinatal period with a special emphasis on trauma and somatic trauma treatment."
About the Speaker: Dr. Vissing is a licensed psychologist certified in perinatal mental health (PMH-C) and has a private practice online in California. She practices trauma-informed somatic psychotherapy using Somatic Experiencing and EMDR, integrated with contemporary psychoanalytic and feminist psychotherapy.
Dr. Vissing is Adjunct faculty at several graduate institutions, including Reiss-Davis Graduate School, Antioch and The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She teaches Child and Adolescent Development, Treatment of Children and Adolescents, Psychodynamic Theories, and Maternal Mental Health. As Training Faculty for Maternal Mental Health NOW, Dr. Vissing also provides training and consultations for providers.
Dr.Vissing is originally from Denmark, where she specialized in developmental psychology, trained in Play Therapy, and worked as a School Psychologist before moving to Los Angeles in 2010. Here she completed the post-master’s PsyD in Applied Clinical Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology and began to specialize in Maternal Mental Health. She has published book chapters and articles on the topic of the psychology of motherhood. She has developed a biopsychosocial model for integrating somatic psychotherapy in Maternal Mental Health called "Somatic Maternal Healing". A book on this model is forthcoming from Routledge, expected Summer 2023.
Event Venue
Online
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