Continuing Education Training, Workshops & Webinars
Dr. Fatter is currently offering the following continuing education seminars in a live or recorded format. Please contact Dr. Fatter if you would like to schedule a speaking engagement, continuing education or training.
How to Integrate EMDR & IFS (3 CE's)
These two evidenced based trauma processing models are effective in and of themselves, but when integrated with each other, can help make trauma process accessible and tolerable to a wider clinical population. Dr. Fatter is certified in EMDR and has been using EMDR for almost 20 years. Dr. Fatter is also certified in IFS and is an Approved Clinical Consultant. This workshop will provide practical and nuanced applications to integrating EMDR and IFS with multiple case examples. Dr. Fatter is co-author of "EMDR & IFS Integration" in In Riemersma, J. (Ed.), Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (3 CE's)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become an increasingly popular non-pathologizing approach to individual therapy. Developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. over 30 years ago, IFS is now an evidenced-based practice for depression, phobia, panic and generalized anxiety disorder. IFS is considered a promising treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and complex trauma. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the conceptual framework of IFS including basic assumptions of IFS, goals of the model, and research to date. Clinicians will learn a road map for steps in doing IFS therapy with specific interventions on how to get started applying IFS in clinical work. This webinar will include a guided experiential exercise for therapists to begin to identify their own parts to demonstrate the model experientially. Applications of IFS in clinical work and a case example using IFS for complex trauma will be discussed.
These two evidenced based trauma processing models are effective in and of themselves, but when integrated with each other, can help make trauma process accessible and tolerable to a wider clinical population. Dr. Fatter is certified in EMDR and has been using EMDR for almost 20 years. Dr. Fatter is also certified in IFS and is an Approved Clinical Consultant. This workshop will provide practical and nuanced applications to integrating EMDR and IFS with multiple case examples. Dr. Fatter is co-author of "EMDR & IFS Integration" in In Riemersma, J. (Ed.), Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends.
Internal Family Systems Therapy (3 CE's)
Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy has become an increasingly popular non-pathologizing approach to individual therapy. Developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. over 30 years ago, IFS is now an evidenced-based practice for depression, phobia, panic and generalized anxiety disorder. IFS is considered a promising treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and complex trauma. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the conceptual framework of IFS including basic assumptions of IFS, goals of the model, and research to date. Clinicians will learn a road map for steps in doing IFS therapy with specific interventions on how to get started applying IFS in clinical work. This webinar will include a guided experiential exercise for therapists to begin to identify their own parts to demonstrate the model experientially. Applications of IFS in clinical work and a case example using IFS for complex trauma will be discussed.
Integrating Traumatic Memories: Conceptualization and Clinical Considerations in Evidence-based Approaches to Trauma Processing (3 CE's)
After clients are stable enough to begin delving into traumatic memories, many clinicians struggle with determining which method to use for trauma processing. This webinar will specifically focus on the second phase of trauma recovery, processing and integrating traumatic memories in trauma treatment. Dr. Fatter will review the nature of traumatic memory and how it differs from non-traumatic memory. The two “gold standards” evidence-based models for trauma exposure therapy will be presented: prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy. In addition, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and internal family systems, two research-supported models, will also be discussed. This webinar will describe how each model differs in its conceptualization of trauma and specific treatment approach in integrating traumatic memories. Clinical considerations including strategies to know your client is or is not ready for trauma processing will be presented in addition to ways to determine your client is “done” with the trauma processing stage of treatment. Cultural considerations are be reviewed.
After clients are stable enough to begin delving into traumatic memories, many clinicians struggle with determining which method to use for trauma processing. This webinar will specifically focus on the second phase of trauma recovery, processing and integrating traumatic memories in trauma treatment. Dr. Fatter will review the nature of traumatic memory and how it differs from non-traumatic memory. The two “gold standards” evidence-based models for trauma exposure therapy will be presented: prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy. In addition, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) and internal family systems, two research-supported models, will also be discussed. This webinar will describe how each model differs in its conceptualization of trauma and specific treatment approach in integrating traumatic memories. Clinical considerations including strategies to know your client is or is not ready for trauma processing will be presented in addition to ways to determine your client is “done” with the trauma processing stage of treatment. Cultural considerations are be reviewed.
Utilizing Phase-Oriented Treatment & Adjunctive Interventions to Regulate Arousal in Trauma Treatment (3 CE's)
One of the biggest challenges in trauma recovery is managing both when clients get emotionally overwhelmed and when clients numb out and shut down. Learning how to pace therapy and navigate clients’ emotional window of tolerance are key foundations of successful trauma treatment. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the impact of traumatic stress on the brain in tangible ways to help clinicians better conceptualize how trauma alters the body’s arousal system. Dr. Fatter will discuss in detail symptoms of hyperarousal, hypoarousal and calm states of our autonomic nervous system based on Polyvagal Theory. This will help clinicians know signs of what state clients are in and help clinicians be able to educate clients about their nervous system. We will address one of the most important aspects of the therapeutic relationship based on what we know about the traumatized brain. A phase-oriented treatment approach will be presented so clinicians learn an evidence-based structure for pacing the intensity of trauma treatment. In addition, we will explore three research-informed adjunctive therapies to help clients maintain stabilization and regulate arousal.
One of the biggest challenges in trauma recovery is managing both when clients get emotionally overwhelmed and when clients numb out and shut down. Learning how to pace therapy and navigate clients’ emotional window of tolerance are key foundations of successful trauma treatment. In this webinar, Dr. Fatter will review the impact of traumatic stress on the brain in tangible ways to help clinicians better conceptualize how trauma alters the body’s arousal system. Dr. Fatter will discuss in detail symptoms of hyperarousal, hypoarousal and calm states of our autonomic nervous system based on Polyvagal Theory. This will help clinicians know signs of what state clients are in and help clinicians be able to educate clients about their nervous system. We will address one of the most important aspects of the therapeutic relationship based on what we know about the traumatized brain. A phase-oriented treatment approach will be presented so clinicians learn an evidence-based structure for pacing the intensity of trauma treatment. In addition, we will explore three research-informed adjunctive therapies to help clients maintain stabilization and regulate arousal.
Race Socialization & Internalized Whiteness in Clinical Settings: For Any Therapist Treating Racial trauma (3 - 4 CE's)
Multicultural guidelines and ethical standards dictate warrant therapists to explore their own positionality including their own racial identity. Dr. Fatter will discuss race socialization, components of white supremacy culture and ways internalized whiteness can show up in clinical settings. Up to date models and practices will be offered including the evidenced-based model of broaching to increase every clinicians cultural attunement, competency, confidence and humility in treating racial trauma. Dr. Fatter will review current trends in multicultural competency and discuss the clinical cost of the therapist being ‘colorblind’. Dr. Fatter will describe ways "whiteness" can show up in clinical settings as well as provide examples of specific types of microaggressions that can damage the therapeutic relationship when working with clients of the global majority. Dr. Fatter will also discuss practical ways to bring up racial identity and racism with all clients and how to do a therapeutic repair when a relational rupture has occurred. Ethical considerations when navigating racism in session (e.g. when client expresses racist views, racialized stereotypes, or make racial microaggressions) will be also addressed.
* please note a percentage of money earned from teaching this webinar is donated to multiple social justice organizations including: Black Men Heal, The Trevor Project, Be the Bridge among others.
Affinity Training for White Therapists: Treatment Considerations Surrounding Racial Traumas (3-6 CE's)
This is an affinity training specifically for white-bodied therapists wanting to increase their racial stamina and cultural competency in providing ethical treatment to BIPOC clients when processing racial trauma in therapy. What parts get activated inside in response to race and racism? What helps us stay connected and continue to show up even when some parts are feeling discomfort, may feel stuck in helplessness, may fear making a mistake or don’t know what to do? In this workshop, Dr. Fatter will address common protector reactions that we as white people can express when faced with race-based stress. Dr. Fatter will discuss clinical examples of ways ‘whiteness’ can show up relationally in clinical settings, in the therapeutic relationship and in the group relational field. Dr. Fatter will also address ways to do a relational repair when harm has been caused as well as ways to better identify when a Pause and a “U-turn” would be helpful. This educational and experiential IFS workshop is an invitation for personal exploration and an opportunity to cultivate communal bandwidth. This workshop is intended to be one step on the lifelong journey of unpacking ways we hold activation, legacy burdens, decontextualized collective trauma and internalized whiteness in our bodies. Dr. Fatter has clinical experience and extensive training in providing racial trauma treatment as a white therapist. She teaches this with humility honoring lifelong learning. She continues to receive continued mentorship and doing her own work to support her facilitation of this topic.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Tools (2-3 CE's)
This webinar will provide hands-on tangible instruction of specific trauma-informed interventions you can use with your clients to help them cope with acute distress. Dr. Fatter will demonstrate specific interventions for hyper-arousal symptoms to help manage anxiety and emotional overwhelm and specific interventions for hypo-arousal symptoms to help manage shock, dissociation and emotional shut down. This webinar will be largely experiential so that participants can get a felt sense of how it feels to practice these interventions. Dr. Fatter will teach somatic interventions, and specific breathing techniques to help increase a sense of safety and connect to sense of resilience and relational support to mitigate the impact of social isolation. Dr. Fatter will offer ways to use sensory input from items in one’s home to help clients self-soothe.
Reproductive Trauma (3 CE's)
One of Dr. Fatter's clinical specialties is treating reproductive trauma. She will review applying IFS and EMDR and integrating the two models to treat clinical populations impacted by maternal health issues. Case examples will be used.
Multicultural guidelines and ethical standards dictate warrant therapists to explore their own positionality including their own racial identity. Dr. Fatter will discuss race socialization, components of white supremacy culture and ways internalized whiteness can show up in clinical settings. Up to date models and practices will be offered including the evidenced-based model of broaching to increase every clinicians cultural attunement, competency, confidence and humility in treating racial trauma. Dr. Fatter will review current trends in multicultural competency and discuss the clinical cost of the therapist being ‘colorblind’. Dr. Fatter will describe ways "whiteness" can show up in clinical settings as well as provide examples of specific types of microaggressions that can damage the therapeutic relationship when working with clients of the global majority. Dr. Fatter will also discuss practical ways to bring up racial identity and racism with all clients and how to do a therapeutic repair when a relational rupture has occurred. Ethical considerations when navigating racism in session (e.g. when client expresses racist views, racialized stereotypes, or make racial microaggressions) will be also addressed.
* please note a percentage of money earned from teaching this webinar is donated to multiple social justice organizations including: Black Men Heal, The Trevor Project, Be the Bridge among others.
Affinity Training for White Therapists: Treatment Considerations Surrounding Racial Traumas (3-6 CE's)
This is an affinity training specifically for white-bodied therapists wanting to increase their racial stamina and cultural competency in providing ethical treatment to BIPOC clients when processing racial trauma in therapy. What parts get activated inside in response to race and racism? What helps us stay connected and continue to show up even when some parts are feeling discomfort, may feel stuck in helplessness, may fear making a mistake or don’t know what to do? In this workshop, Dr. Fatter will address common protector reactions that we as white people can express when faced with race-based stress. Dr. Fatter will discuss clinical examples of ways ‘whiteness’ can show up relationally in clinical settings, in the therapeutic relationship and in the group relational field. Dr. Fatter will also address ways to do a relational repair when harm has been caused as well as ways to better identify when a Pause and a “U-turn” would be helpful. This educational and experiential IFS workshop is an invitation for personal exploration and an opportunity to cultivate communal bandwidth. This workshop is intended to be one step on the lifelong journey of unpacking ways we hold activation, legacy burdens, decontextualized collective trauma and internalized whiteness in our bodies. Dr. Fatter has clinical experience and extensive training in providing racial trauma treatment as a white therapist. She teaches this with humility honoring lifelong learning. She continues to receive continued mentorship and doing her own work to support her facilitation of this topic.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Tools (2-3 CE's)
This webinar will provide hands-on tangible instruction of specific trauma-informed interventions you can use with your clients to help them cope with acute distress. Dr. Fatter will demonstrate specific interventions for hyper-arousal symptoms to help manage anxiety and emotional overwhelm and specific interventions for hypo-arousal symptoms to help manage shock, dissociation and emotional shut down. This webinar will be largely experiential so that participants can get a felt sense of how it feels to practice these interventions. Dr. Fatter will teach somatic interventions, and specific breathing techniques to help increase a sense of safety and connect to sense of resilience and relational support to mitigate the impact of social isolation. Dr. Fatter will offer ways to use sensory input from items in one’s home to help clients self-soothe.
Reproductive Trauma (3 CE's)
One of Dr. Fatter's clinical specialties is treating reproductive trauma. She will review applying IFS and EMDR and integrating the two models to treat clinical populations impacted by maternal health issues. Case examples will be used.
The following workshops have clinical utility yet since they are outside Western psychotherapy paradigms, CE credits are not offered:
Integrating IFS and Working with Ancestral Guides (3 hours)
Dr. Fatter is the author of "Ancestral lineage healing: Restoring Belonging and Reconnection with Ancestral Wisdom and Collective Self-Energy." In Riemersma, J. (Ed.), Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends. She discusses ways to integrate IFS with ancestral guides and Dr. Daniel Foor's ancestral lineage healing method.
IFS and the Mysteries of the Unseen World (2- 3 hours)
In this workshop, Dr. Fatter will provide specific nuances to the IFS steps for how to navigate encounters in the unseen world. These include how to work with deceased family members that we showing up in helpful or unhelpful ways for clients; how to release unattached burdens with relational support and ritual safety; how to work with protective guides, spirit guides and ancestral guides; and specific additional steps to integrate in the IFS healing steps when working with exiles carrying memories from past lives. Experientials will be used to support clinician self-care, energetic hygiene and relational support.
Ancestral Lineage Healing (2 hours)
Dr. Fatter discusses Dr. Daniel Foor's this 5 step ancestral healing model in detail. Access points for integrating this model into traditional Western approaches to psychotherapy, including into grief therapy and into trauma treatment will be discussed.
Integrating IFS and Working with Ancestral Guides (3 hours)
Dr. Fatter is the author of "Ancestral lineage healing: Restoring Belonging and Reconnection with Ancestral Wisdom and Collective Self-Energy." In Riemersma, J. (Ed.), Altogether Us: Integrating the IFS Model with Key Modalities, Communities, and Trends. She discusses ways to integrate IFS with ancestral guides and Dr. Daniel Foor's ancestral lineage healing method.
IFS and the Mysteries of the Unseen World (2- 3 hours)
In this workshop, Dr. Fatter will provide specific nuances to the IFS steps for how to navigate encounters in the unseen world. These include how to work with deceased family members that we showing up in helpful or unhelpful ways for clients; how to release unattached burdens with relational support and ritual safety; how to work with protective guides, spirit guides and ancestral guides; and specific additional steps to integrate in the IFS healing steps when working with exiles carrying memories from past lives. Experientials will be used to support clinician self-care, energetic hygiene and relational support.
Ancestral Lineage Healing (2 hours)
Dr. Fatter discusses Dr. Daniel Foor's this 5 step ancestral healing model in detail. Access points for integrating this model into traditional Western approaches to psychotherapy, including into grief therapy and into trauma treatment will be discussed.