Training & Workshops

You know how deeply trauma impacts your client’s mind, body, and emotions — and how difficult healing can be.

Dr. Janina Fisher’s proven approach to complex trauma treatment, which is based on 40+ years of research and clinical practice, addresses the holistic impact of trauma to aid in effectively healing deep trauma and attachment wounds so clients can break free from the past, feel safe and calm, and thrive in life.

For decades, the certification training programs on Janina’s revolutionary treatment approach have helped thousands of clinicians around the world improve their client outcomes and advance their clinical practices.

Level 1 of this course introduces the Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) method, offering a gentle and accessible approach to addressing trauma-driven behaviors such as self-harm, addiction, and unsafe impulses. Therapists will explore neurobiologically-informed techniques to help clients build self-compassion, connection, and resilience while addressing core issues like self-alienation, traumatic attachment, and fragmented selves. By reframing self-destructive behaviors as protective responses, this level equips therapists with foundational skills to foster internal collaboration and compassion, effectively supporting clients and reducing therapist burnout.

This course combines on-demand learning modules with LIVE video training sessions led by Dr. Janina Fisher. Learn at your own pace and then deepen your understanding by engaging with Dr. Fisher and a supportive community of peers during the live cohort sessions.

22.5 CE credits available.

Module 1 May 8, 9-11 PST
Module 2 May 22, 9-11 PST
Module 3 June 5, 9-11 PST
Module 4 June 19, 9-11 PST
Module 5 July 10, 9-11 PST
Module 6 July 17, 9-11 PST

Join us for the 36th Annual Boston International Trauma Conference, hosted by Bessel van der Kolk and the Trauma Research Foundation team, from May 14th to 17th, 2025. Building on a rich legacy of over three decades, this event continues to merge cutting-edge scientific research with practical clinical applications.

Drawing from her work with Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), Dr Janina Fisher will guide participants through contemporary strategies designed specifically for working with high-functioning trauma survivors. TIST helps clinicians understand and engage with the protective parts that drive perfectionism, control, and emotional detachment.

Rather than viewing perfectionism and overachievement as personality traits, this approach reframes them as adaptive responses to trauma—strategies that once ensured survival but now limit emotional growth and connection. Through this lens, therapy shifts from “fixing” problematic behaviours to understanding the protective functions behind them and helping clients find new ways to feel safe without rigid control.

Nel secondo livello della formazione TIST, il focus si sposta sull’aspetto esperienziale del modello e sull’approfondimento della relazione con le parti del cliente. Dopo un ripasso delle abilità di base, i terapeuti imparano a:

• Aiutare i clienti a connettersi più profondamente con le proprie parti
• Coltivare compassione verso le parti ferite, ascoltandole e parlando a loro nome
• Lavorare attivamente con le parti protettrici, essenziali per accedere al trauma

Il training fornisce strumenti pratici per:

• Validare i protettori e costruire un rapporto di fiducia e negoziazione
• Stabilizzare il cliente prima di affrontare ricordi traumatici
• Navigare le sfide uniche del Disturbo Dissociativo dell’Identità (DDI), inclusi comportamenti impulsivi, amnesie, e parti in conflitto

Un principio centrale del TIST è che la resistenza in terapia riflette sfiducia, non opposizione. I terapeuti sono incoraggiati a riconoscere il ruolo di sopravvivenza delle parti protettrici, anche quando agiscono in modo distruttivo.

Infine, il modello TIST enfatizza il trattamento della memoria implicita (le sensazioni, le emozioni, i vissuti corporei non narrati) come più centrale della memoria esplicita nella risoluzione del trauma. L’obiettivo non è solo elaborare il passato, ma liberare il presente dalla sua influenza costante.

Ti invitiamo a segnare queste date per il prossimo TIST Livello 02 Edizione 02:
Martedì 3 Giugno 2025, dalle 17:30 alle 21:00 CET
Martedì 10 Giugno 2025, dalle 17:30 alle 21:00 CET
Martedì 17 Giugno 2025, dalle 17:30 alle 21:00 CET
Martedì 24 Giugno 2025, dalle 17:30 alle 21:00 CET
Martedì 8 Luglio 2025, dalle 17:30 alle 21:00 CET

Deepen Your TIST Practice with Expert Support and Community

Join Janina Fisher’s 2025 Online Monthly Supervision Group—an exclusive opportunity for clinicians who have completed TIST Level 1 to strengthen their skills, receive expert guidance, and connect with a trusted community of peers. Over six months, you’ll gain valuable clinical insight through monthly 2-hour sessions focused on real case consultations, practical application of the TIST model, and ongoing professional development.

Each session is recorded (with optional pauses for sensitive cases), so you can stay engaged even if you can’t attend live. Space is limited to ensure personal attention and meaningful discussion.

Program Highlights
✔️ Monthly 2-hour supervision sessions
✔️ Live case consultations and clinical Q&A
✔️ Recordings available exclusively for participants
✔️ Supportive, expert-led peer community
✔️ $525 for six months of supervision

Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills or feel more supported in your clinical work, this group is designed to help you grow.

Group 3
June 10 (3–5pm)
August 5 (3–5pm)
September 9 (3–5pm)
October 14 (3–5pm)
November 18 (3–5pm)
December 16 (3–5pm)

This group is open exclusively to clinicians who have completed TIST Level 1. By joining, you’ll become part of a supportive community of professionals dedicated to deepening their understanding and application of Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST).
Each 2-hour session will be held monthly and recorded for those unable to attend live. Recordings are confidential and shared only with group members. Participants will have the option to present cases or ask clinical questions. We typically cover 4–5 cases per session, prioritizing urgent or emergency cases.

Group Options & Dates (All times in Pacific Time Zone):

Group 1
June 13 (8–10am)
August 7 (8–10am)
September 12 (8–10am)
October 31 (8–10am)
November 21 (8–10am)
December 19 (8–10am)

Group 2
June 13 (10am–12pm)
August 7 (10am–12pm)
September 12 (10am–12pm)
October 31 (10am–12pm)
November 21 (10am–12pm)
December 19 (10am–12pm)

Group 3
June 10 (3–5pm)
August 5 (3–5pm)
September 9 (3–5pm)
October 14 (3–5pm)
November 18 (3–5pm)
December 16 (3–5pm)

What do you do when the most fundamental prerequisite to a patient’s success in therapy—wanting to be helped in the first place—is lacking due to treatment-resistant depression? How can you build a successful treatment plan with a client who has no desire, energy, or focus to commit to the first step?

In this course, you will learn how to meet your clients where they are, using Sensorimotor Psychotherapy interventions to help them view their depressive symptoms mindfully, ingraining the understanding that these are the somatic effects of trauma.

You will be equipped with carefully informed interventions, including posture, breath, and energy work, that are proven to deliver transformative results for clients with treatment-resistant depression.

Deepen Your TIST Practice with Expert Support and Community

Join Janina Fisher’s 2025 Online Monthly Supervision Group—an exclusive opportunity for clinicians who have completed TIST Level 1 to strengthen their skills, receive expert guidance, and connect with a trusted community of peers. Over six months, you’ll gain valuable clinical insight through monthly 2-hour sessions focused on real case consultations, practical application of the TIST model, and ongoing professional development.

Each session is recorded (with optional pauses for sensitive cases), so you can stay engaged even if you can’t attend live. Space is limited to ensure personal attention and meaningful discussion.

Program Highlights
✔️ Monthly 2-hour supervision sessions
✔️ Live case consultations and clinical Q&A
✔️ Recordings available exclusively for participants
✔️ Supportive, expert-led peer community
✔️ $525 for six months of supervision

Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills or feel more supported in your clinical work, this group is designed to help you grow.

Group 1
June 13 (8–10am)
August 7 (8–10am)
September 12 (8–10am)
October 31 (8–10am)
November 21 (8–10am)
December 19 (8–10am)

Deepen Your TIST Practice with Expert Support and Community

Join Janina Fisher’s 2025 Online Monthly Supervision Group—an exclusive opportunity for clinicians who have completed TIST Level 1 to strengthen their skills, receive expert guidance, and connect with a trusted community of peers. Over six months, you’ll gain valuable clinical insight through monthly 2-hour sessions focused on real case consultations, practical application of the TIST model, and ongoing professional development.

Each session is recorded (with optional pauses for sensitive cases), so you can stay engaged even if you can’t attend live. Space is limited to ensure personal attention and meaningful discussion.

Program Highlights
✔️ Monthly 2-hour supervision sessions
✔️ Live case consultations and clinical Q&A
✔️ Recordings available exclusively for participants
✔️ Supportive, expert-led peer community
✔️ $525 for six months of supervision

Whether you’re looking to sharpen your skills or feel more supported in your clinical work, this group is designed to help you grow.

Group 2
June 13 (10am–12pm)
August 7 (10am–12pm)
September 12 (10am–12pm)
October 31 (10am–12pm)
November 21 (10am–12pm)
December 19 (10am–12pm)

Abusers capitalize on their victims’ vulnerability. Without the power to escape or fight back, children are helpless in an unsafe world. It isn’t safe to cry, look frightened or voice any emotional needs for fear of punishment. Because they have no other choice than to appear “fine,” the brain and body instinctively develop habits that prevent showing vulnerability.

These strategies are adaptive in a threatening unsafe environment, but they become impediments in treatment. Years later, traumatized clients come for ‘help,’ but their phobia of vulnerability poses an obstacle for the therapist. Although most survivors of abuse can intellectually acknowledge that they were traumatized, talking about the events is overwhelming and frightening. Feeling emotion or acknowledging the hurt they experienced as little children automatically leads to shutting down or intellectualizing. We try to help them process the memories and emotions only to get blocked by clients’ inability to ‘go there.’

Successfully working with vulnerability-phobic clients begins with the therapist’s acceptance that vulnerable feelings invariably will stimulate fear. The perpetrator exploited their vulnerability. Therapists need to be equally interested in how they survived. Fortunately, modern trauma treatment affords us many ways to help survivors, including those who cannot ‘go there.’ In this webinar, Janina Fisher will share strategies for how to develop strong therapeutic alliances with these clients and how to manage our own needs for them to be vulnerable.

Learning Objectives:

• Articulate the role of avoidance in surviving childhood abuse

• Discriminate intentional avoidance versus unintentional disconnection from affect

• Describe the adaptive value of intellectualization under threat

• Implement 3 interventions for increasing client ability to tolerate vulnerability

Coming to therapy is a cry for help, requiring the ability to acknowledge vulnerability. But for those who have been abused, abandoned, or rejected, being vulnerable is associated with powerlessness, humiliation, and violence. Almost every kind of traumatic experience involves incompetence or cruelty perpetrated by other human beings. No matter how much clients sincerely want our help, they cannot control instinctive fight, flight, or submission defenses stimulated in relationships to other human beings.

Should the client commit to therapy or flee? Combat the therapist’s every effort? Or “submit” by coming but not fully participating? Seeking help may bring initial relief in a moment of crisis but also inevitably raises doubts: Is it better to trust or avoid trusting?

Whether resistance manifests as a passive aggressive ‘no’ to every intervention, chronic avoidance, or desperation for help alternating with resistance to accepting it, the underlying dilemma is the same. What we label “resistance” reflects inherent trauma-related conflicts activated by all forms of treatment and all types of therapist.

In this workshop, we will explore the complex relationships between these trauma-related conflicts and stuckness or resistance in psychotherapy. Using techniques drawn from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems, and other mindfulness-based models, participants will learn how to de-code these impasses and help clients work with them as an internal conflict, not a therapeutic issue. When we help individuals “befriend” the resistance, we become part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

Shame keeps clients trapped in cycles of hopelessness, making progress feel like failure. Attempts at growth are often met with more shame, leaving clients stuck in a frustrating two-steps-forward, one-step-back pattern.

This webinar explores shame as a neurobiological survival response—triggering submission, disconnection, and numbing. Through Sensorimotor Psychotherapy-inspired techniques, participants will learn to help clients shift from self-rejection to curiosity and mindfulness, transforming shame from a roadblock into a powerful tool for healing.

Durante los últimos 30 años, la Dra. Janina Fisher ha desarrollado un modelo de tratamiento del trauma que responde a los desafíos que enfrentan los profesionales al trabajar con clientes altamente desregulados, resistentes al tratamiento o que presentan síntomas crónicos como adicciones, autolesiones y una intensa desregulación emocional. El modelo TIST (Tratamiento de la Estabilización Informado por el Trauma) integra principios de la teoría de la disociación estructural, la psicoterapia sensoriomotriz, el modelo de Sistemas Internos Familiares (IFS) y la hipnoterapia clínica para ayudar a los clientes a involucrarse en el proceso terapéutico sin necesidad de revivir o relatar los eventos traumáticos.

Esta formación ofrece una introducción completa al enfoque TIST, con énfasis en el desarrollo de la conciencia interna, la regulación de los impulsos traumáticos y la construcción de una relación compasiva con las partes heridas del yo. Los participantes aprenderán a identificar respuestas de supervivencia impulsadas por el trauma y a aplicar intervenciones que promuevan la estabilización, reduzcan el conflicto interno y fomenten una recuperación sostenible. Este enfoque es especialmente útil para terapeutas que trabajan con personas que han vivido traumas de apego temprano, TEPT complejo o condiciones comórbidas como el uso de sustancias o los trastornos alimentarios.

Te invitamos a marcar estas fechas para el próximo TIST Nivel 01:

Martes 6 de agosto de 2025, de 9:00 a 11:00 a.m. (hora del Pacífico)
Martes 13 de agosto de 2025, de 9:00 a 11:00 a.m. (hora del Pacífico)
Martes 20 de agosto de 2025, de 9:00 a 11:00 a.m. (hora del Pacífico)
Martes 27 de agosto de 2025, de 9:00 a 11:00 a.m. (hora del Pacífico)
Martes 3 de septiembre de 2025, de 9:00 a 11:00 a.m. (hora del Pacífico)

Unhealed trauma often lives beneath the surface of addiction and disordered eating—shaping behavior, hijacking the nervous system, and interfering with long-term recovery. For many clients, trauma isn’t just part of the story—it is the story. Yet too often, professionals are forced to choose between addressing substance use or addressing trauma, when in reality, both are deeply intertwined.

This training explores how childhood abuse and neglect reshape the brain and nervous system, leaving clients vulnerable to emotional overwhelm, compulsive behaviors, and limited access to rational thinking or verbal communication. You’ll discover how to identify signs of autonomic dysregulation and apply practical, brain-based strategies that support both trauma healing and recovery from addiction and eating disorders.

This 3- hr virtual workshop, hosted by the Delphi Center, takes place at August 16th at 9am Australian Time Zone / August 15 at 3pm Pacific Time Zone.

TIST Level 1 beginnt am 25. September 2025 und bietet sechs Live-Sitzungen mit Dr. Janina Fisher, die jeweils von 18:00 bis 21:00 Uhr MEZ stattfinden. Diese Fortbildung vermittelt die Grundlagen der Trauma-Informierten Stabilisierungsbehandlung (TIST), einem Modell, das auf achtsamkeitsbasierten Interventionen sowie Techniken aus der sensomotorischen Psychotherapie, Ego-State-Therapie und Internal Family Systems basiert. Kindheitstraumata, Vernachlässigung und verletzte Bindungserfahrungen hinterlassen bei den Betroffenen oft ein fragmentiertes Selbstverständnis und ein geschädigtes Nervensystem, das die Emotionsregulation beeinträchtigt. Das Training hilft Therapeut:innen, die neurobiologischen und psychologischen Auswirkungen von Traumata zu verstehen, Symptome von Fragmentierung zu erkennen und Strategien zu erlernen, um Mitgefühl, innere Kommunikation und Stabilisierung zu fördern. Teilnehmer:innen lernen, wie sie Achtsamkeit, Selbstbindungstechniken und interne Zusammenarbeit gezielt in ihre Praxis integrieren können. Dieses Training bietet eine solide Grundlage, um traumabedingte Symptome zu adressieren und effektive Behandlungsansätze für komplexe Fälle zu entwickeln.

September 2025 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
Oktober 2025 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
November 2025 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
Dezember 2025 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
Januar 2026 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)
Februar 2026 von 18:00 bis 21:00 (Mitteleuropäische Zeit)

Découvrez pour la première fois en français la formation TIST Niveau 1 avec la Dre Janina Fisher, pionnière dans le domaine du trauma complexe. Cette formation en ligne et en direct vous permettra d’acquérir les bases du Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), un modèle novateur conçu pour aider les patients souffrant de traumatismes complexes, de comportements autodestructeurs et de troubles dissociatifs. Fondé sur la pleine conscience, la psychothérapie sensorimotrice, l’IFS et la neurobiologie du trauma, TIST propose une manière progressive, sécurisante et profondément humaine de travailler avec les parties fragmentées du soi.

Au fil de cinq modules, vous apprendrez à stabiliser les patients les plus difficiles à accompagner, à comprendre leurs comportements comme des réponses de survie, et à leur offrir un chemin vers l’auto-compassion et l’intégration. Cette approche transforme la thérapie en un espace moins menaçant pour le patient et moins épuisant pour le thérapeute. Si vous souhaitez enrichir votre pratique avec des outils concrets et efficaces pour faire face aux troubles liés au trauma, rejoignez la liste d’attente pour être informé·e de la prochaine session de formation TIST en français.

6 octobre 2025, de 18h00 à 20h00 (heure de France)
20 octobre 2025, de 18h00 à 20h00 (heure de France)
17 novembre 2025, de 17h00 à 19h00 (heure de France)
1er décembre 2025, de 17h00 à 19h00 (heure de France)
15 décembre 2025, de 17h00 à 19h00 (heure de France)

In TIST Level 2, we transition from the theory that was covered in TIST Level 1 into becoming more fluent and practiced at working with trauma, particularly complex trauma.

As we progress, you will develop the ability to be on the same wavelength as your client’s parts, allowing you to more deeply understand and communicate with them. Our work together will become more nuanced and you will have more skill in navigating interventions with even the most difficult or resistant clients.

In TIST Level 2 you will gain proficiency in:

• The Building Blocks of a Skilled TIST Therapist
• The Art of Working with Protector Parts
• The Do’s and Don’ts of TIST
• Challenges of Implementing the TIST Model with DID Clients
• Extreme Cases: Ritual Abuse, Trafficking, Sadistic and Malevolent Abuse
• Resolution of Traumatic Memory

By the end of Level 2, you will have a greater ability to use the TIST model not just intellectually, but more energetically so that your clients can feel it.

Using mindfulness-based interventions adapted from EMDR and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, this webinar will demonstrate simple, practical interventions for addressing the living legacy of effects rather than the events.  Underlying this way of working is an assumption that it is less important to know what happened than to feel that ‘it’ is over and we are finally safe.

Newer cutting-edge approaches to memory have different goals than earlier techniques.  Their goal is to reconstruct the clients’ relationship to the events so that they finally feel long ago and far away.  By addressing the effects of those events, we can help clients transform feelings of inadequacy and shame into a sense of “I survived, and I’m safe now.”

Negli ultimi 30 anni, i progressi terapeutici hanno aiutato molti clienti, ma rimane un gruppo significativo di sopravvissuti al trauma alla disperata ricerca di sollievo, per i quali gli approcci tradizionali non hanno funzionato. Spesso etichettati come “non trattabili,” questi individui ricevono diagnosi di disturbi della personalità, suicidi, autolesionismo, abuso di sostanze, disturbi alimentari o dissociazione. Questa stigmatizzazione li fa sentire emarginati e incompresi, mentre molti terapeuti si sentono sopraffatti e privi degli strumenti necessari per trattarli efficacemente.

Il modello TIST (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment), sviluppato dalla Dr.ssa Janina Fisher, offre soluzioni a queste sfide complesse, ponendo la stabilizzazione al centro del trattamento. Fondato su principi neuroscientifici, il TIST combina interventi basati sulla mindfulness con tecniche tratte dalla psicoterapia sensomotoria, dalla terapia degli stati dell’io e dall’IFS (Internal Family Systems), per affrontare le difficoltà cliniche di pazienti con diagnosi complesse come PTSD complesso, disturbo borderline di personalità, disturbo bipolare, disturbi dissociativi, alimentari e dipendenze.

totale di 30 ore

22 Ottobre 2025 ore 17:30 / 19.30
05 Novembre 2025 ore 17:30 / 19.30
19 Novembre 2025, ore 17:30 / 19.30
03 Dicembre 2025, ore 17:30 / 19.30
17 Dicembre 2025, ore 17:30 / 19.30
07 Gennaio 2026, ore 17:30 / 19.30

Self-rejection is a survival strategy that maintains children’s attachment to abusive attachment figures by disowning themselves as “bad” or “unlovable.” This deeply painful failure of self-acceptance is adaptive in an unsafe world but results in lifelong shame and self-loathing, difficulty self-soothing, identity confusion, and complications in relationships with others.

As clients learn to relate to their overwhelming emotions and impulsive behavior as signs of these rejected traumatized parts, they develop an increased ability to observe rather than react to distressing affects and/or act out associated impulses. Using strategies inspired by Polyvagal Theory and Internal Family Systems, therapists can help clients access the therapeutic power of mindful relationships to their most deeply disowned selves.