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Janina Fisher on Telehealth Treatment of Addictive Behavior

FREE CE. Develop a toolkit for helping clients with addictive behavior virtually.

Janina Fisher, Ph.D.

Treating addiction is difficult in normal circumstances. In a world battered by lockdowns, economic collapse, isolation, anxiety and increasing violence, it's gotten a whole lot harder.

The mental and emotional strain of these taxing times is pushing almost everyone to unhealthy and even self-destructive behaviors... many that could turn into a long-term addiction.

As a mental health professional, if you've ever felt like you don't belong in the world of addictions treatment, you need to know...

To help clients break free from the clutches of addiction, the worlds of mental health and addictions treatment must be intertwined.

That's why we're offering you this



It will give you a conceptual “map” for understanding addiction as a survival strategy for regulating environmental stress and personal distress...

And help you develop a toolkit for helping clients with addictive behavior virtually, even during a pandemic.


Become a Certified Addictions-Informed Mental Health Professional (CAIMHP)
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In this , you'll discover powerful approaches and strategies to add to your existing practice developed by world-leading treatment experts like Janina Fisher and Andrew Tatarsky...

So you can effectively treat the wide variety of addiction problems your clients may present—including drugs, alcohol, and digital pornography.
Meet the Expert:
Janina Fisher, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and former instructor at The Trauma Center, a research and treatment center founded by Bessel van der Kolk. Known as an expert on the treatment of trauma, Dr. Fisher has also been treating individuals, couples and families since 1980.

She is past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation, an EMDR International Association Credit Provider, Assistant Educational Director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, and a former Instructor, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Fisher lectures and teaches nationally and internationally on topics related to the integration of the neurobiological research and newer trauma treatment paradigms into traditional therapeutic modalities.

She is co-author with Pat Ogden of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Attachment and Trauma (2015) and author of Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation (2017) and the forthcoming book, Working with the Neurobiological Legacy of Trauma (in press).

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Topic: Addictions

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