Polyvagal Theory Psychotherapy
20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction: Using the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model
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Here, the reader is presented with two vital tools for healing: learning how to recognise and rewire autonomic state and finding the felt sense of body wisdom. The book’s exercises are uniquely designed to be completed with a mental health professional, another person engaged in this embodied process or both. Through the twenty embodied practices, the reader and their felt sense partner explore their trauma history together, developing a Four Circle Harm Reduction Plan. Graphic models and case examples help to illustrate the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model.
Glimmers Journal: Reflect on the Small Moments That Bring You Joy, Safety, and Connection
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This beautiful journal provides a framework for readers to name and savour their glimmers. Expertly crafted prompts encourage readers to notice various types of glimmers that they might otherwise be unaware of—such as glimmers in nature or in the arts, “every day” glimmers, social glimmers, and even the range of glimmer “flavours”. Glimmers Journal is for anyone looking to build a foundation of wellness and regulation.
Somatic-Oriented Therapies: Embodiment, Trauma, and Polyvagal Perspectives
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Somatic-Oriented Therapies represents a significant consolidation of innovative research and clinical approaches aimed at addressing trauma through various somatic modalities.
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A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Therapeutic Work with Children and Young People
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A Polyvagal Informed Approach to Therapeutic Work with Children and Young Peoplepresents a guide to best supporting children and young people through a polyvagal lens.
Autism in Polyvagal Terms: New Possibilities and Interventions
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By presenting the autism diagnosis through the lens of a disordered nervous system—that is, by applying Polyvagal Theory—this book opens new avenues for intervention and treatment, while challenging age-old assumptions of what autism means and how it presents itself.
Polyvagal Perspectives: Interventions, Practices, and Strategies
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In this volume, Dr. Stephen W. Porges―the originator of Polyvagal Theory―presents a collection of recent writings that showcase the wide-ranging applications of the polyvagal perspective.
Polyvagal Prompts Finding Connection and Joy Through Guided Exploration
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In Polyvagal Prompts, Deb Dana and Courtney Rolfe invite readers to explore their nervous systems through Polyvagal Theory with engaging questions and exercises, which readers can respond to directly in the pages of the book. Readers are guided in noticing their systems, listening with curiosity, and reflecting on what they learn.
Polyvagal Power in the Playroom: A Guide for Play Therapists
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Polyvagal Power in the Playroom shows therapists how to treat children using play therapy to address the hierarchy of autonomic states. What do children need and how do play therapists purposefully use the principles of play to increase the feeling states of safety and regulation? Step inside the playroom and discover how trained play therapists are addressing treatment using polyvagal theory when working with children and teens.
Applied Polyvagal Theory in Yoga: Therapeutic Practices for Emotional Health
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This book focuses on the intersection of polyvagal theory, yoga and psychotherapy by weaving together the wisdom tradition of yoga with neuroscience, attachment theory, somatic psychology and traumatology.
Our Polyvagal World: How Safety & Trauma Change Us
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Our Polyvagal World definitively presents how Polyvagal Theory can be understandable to all and demonstrates how its practical principles are applicable to anyone looking to live their safest, best, healthiest and happiest life. What emerges is a worldview filled with optimism and hope and an understanding as to why our bodies sometimes act in ways our brains wish they didn’t.
Polyvagal-Informed EMDR: A Neuro-Informed Approach to Healing
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This is the first book to treat these topics together: assessing complex material and presenting it in an approachable, engaging manner.
Polyvagal Practices: Anchoring the Self in Safety
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Here, for the first time, is a layperson’s explanation of polyvagal theory, an approach to mental health and well-being that has taken the clinical world by storm.
Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change
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Deb Dana is the leading clinical translator of Stephen Porges’s influential polyvagal theory. Here she further extends the reach of this groundbreaking perspective on mental wellness in the form of a card deck.
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
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Practices and guidance to gently shape your nervous system for greater resilience, intuition, safety, and wonder Through guided imagery, meditation, self-inquiry, and more, Anchored offers a practical user’s manual for moving from a place of fear and panic into a grounded space of balance and confidence.
Polyvagal Theory and the Developing Child: Building Healthy Brains, Kids, Families, and Communities
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At its heart, polyvagal theory describes how the brain s unconscious sense of safety or danger impacts our emotions and behaviors. In this powerful book, pediatrician and neonatologist Marilyn R. Sanders and child psychiatrist George S. Thompson offer readers both a meditation on caregiving and a call to action for physicians, educators, and mental health providers.
Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation
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Our reaction to the continuing global pandemic supports one of the central concepts of polyvagal theory: that a desire to connect safely with others is our biological imperative. Indeed, life may be seen as an inherent quest for safety. These ideas, and more, are outlined in chapters on therapeutic presence, group psychotherapy, yoga and music therapy, autism, trauma, date rape, medical trauma and COVID-19.
Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model: A Bottom-Up Approach
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This text’s informed, compassionate approach to understanding and treating trauma and addiction is adaptable to any school of psychotherapy and will appeal to addiction experts, trauma specialists, and clinicians in all mental health fields.
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety
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This flip chart offers therapists an easy, standardised way to support clients in understanding the role of the autonomic nervous system in their lives. Using a flip chart makes psycho-education an interactive experience.
Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
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Essential reading for any therapist who wants to take their polyvagal knowledge to the next level and is looking for easy ways to deliver polyvagal solutions with their clients.
Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory – The Emergence of Polyvagal-Informed Therapies
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This comprehensive edited collection brings together accomplished therapists, including those who work with children, EMDR, medical trauma, energy psychology, grief and more
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation
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Written for all therapists who want to understand this groundbreaking theory as it might actually show up in their day-to-day practice, this book offers a comprehensive approach to polyvagal-informed intervention.
The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
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This book distills that theory into practical clinical tips, explaining its relevance to the social engagement system and offering clinical examples, including cases of trauma and autism.
The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundatons of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation
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This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges’s research. The world’s leading expert on the autonomic nervous system, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma and autism.