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TRAUMA RECOVERY GROUPS
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SUBJECT TO ACCEPTED APPLICATION

Burton Fischler, MPsych, Author
Certified Clinical Trauma Profession
Trauma Recovery Group Facilitator

It’s time we learn how to take the best from trauma, rather than letting it
continue taking the best from us. — Burton Fischler

What’s left after trauma? Abuse? Betrayal? Grief? Serious illness? Addiction? Financial loss? Relationship Breakup? Falling from grace? A Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) Model provides the framework for healing our body, mind, emotional child, and spirit.

Fischler’s Trauma Recovery Groups leverage the power of human connection to help us heal. Multimodal learning, exercises, techniques, and evidence-based therapies are harnessed to maximize our human healing potential. Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT), psychoeducation, exercises, videos, poems, and songs facilitate learning, integration, and healing. Sessions are held online via Zoom video.

As a Certified Seeking Safety counselor, the facilitator utilizes Dr. Lisa M. Najavits’ safe practices in a safe space, including body movement, somatic exercises, polyvagal exercises, breathing exercises, grounding exercises, meditation, trauma-informed yoga, the RAIN mindfulness technique, healthy coping, resilience-building, Dr. Kristen Neff’s Self-Compassion, Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT), Cognitive-Affective Stress Management Training, Acceptance-Based Behavioral Therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). As a huge fan of Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, the facilitator’s therapeutic approach emphasizes our freedom to choose how we respond to even the most horrific events.

The author has facilitated over 100 trauma recovery groups for trauma survivors interested in healing their bodies and minds from trauma.

Selected group members may take advantage of the healing power of human connection with fellow trauma survivors.

Importantly, members receive evidence-based psychoeducation, multimodal learning, exercises, healing practices from multiple disciplines, and resources. Shared member experiences are the cornerstone of the group.

The author is forming two closed groups of 10 – 12 members each. Selected members start and finish the 25-week group at the same time.
Subject to admission, availability, and scheduling constraints, members are invited to join either the Saturday morning groups from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM EST or the Sunday evening groups from 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM EST.

Selected members will be screened with a series of standardized screening assessments followed by a one-on-one 15-minute interview with the author. Confidentiality is guaranteed as permitted by law. All applicants will pay a non refundable $300 Assessment fee in advance. Membership is not guaranteed. Insurance is not accepted.

Selected members must have access to Zoom video and be willing to commit their time and financial resources to the 25-week program. To maximize group cohesion, selected members are required to pay in advance of the group commencement date. All members must sign an agreement to respect the privacy of all group members and not share group content outside the group. You

25 – Two-Hour Group Sessions @ $5,000. Insurance is not accepted.

The group process will organically unfold and will include the following stages:

FORMATIVE STAGE – group rules; signed confidentiality agreement; establishment of safe, gentle, and kind space; group participants information exchange; group goals; trauma healing journaling; and gratitude journal.

TRANSITION STAGE – storming and norming; group vs individual goals; moving from me-ness to we-ness.

WORKING STAGE – including weekly Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy (TF-CBT) exercises and unpacking cognitive distortions; weekly trauma-informed yoga; progressive muscle relaxation; cognitive reprocessing therapy exercises; trauma-sensitive somatic experiencing; Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); mandala and sensorimotor art therapy; kintsugi; morning altars; sound therapy; finding trauma’s silver lining; and creating a new life that’s worth living.

TERMINATION STAGE – wrap-up, evaluation, and next steps.

TO SCHEDULE AN ASSESSMENT, SEND AN EMAIL to schedule your assessment and for payment instructions.

a better life⚬

awaits you⚬