DISCOVER THE POWER OF INTEGRATING
Play Therapy and Infant Memory
join the 10 week journey
Are you a therapist looking to create a deeper impact? My 10-week course is your path to mastery in the integration of Play Therapy and Infant Memory. Join us in this immersive experience and learn to truly connect with and guide children through their challenges.
Ever feel like you just don't know what to do? That is common, and I can help you get beyond that and treat in a style that is yours and is enjoyable and effective!
Learn to fully enjoy your work and stay present
while guiding children working through birth trauma and other life events...
Learn to handle it all. Meet your own emotional challenges that lively play therapy work can activate.
Is your play therapy effective? Are you ready to enhance your skills and bring about lasting change in the lives of children? Join our upcoming course, starting on November 15th, 2023. Whether you're new to therapy or a seasoned professional, we'll help you develop a style that's enjoyable and effective.
Expert guidance through 10 weekly 90-minute sessions
- Gain the skills to navigate play therapy with confidence
- Learn how to navigate complex emotional challenges
- Understand the hidden stories behind difficult behavior
- Apply developmental movement to reinform the brain and repattern the body-mind
- Recognize and help treat shock patterns
- Replace unsupportive attachment patterns with secure attachment
- Create an enjoyable and effective therapeutic style
- In-depth training resources, including guided somatic exercises, guided integrative writing and exercises to help you study, and more
- Access to Annie Brook's decades of experience helping children thrive
- You can ask supervision questions to help you help others
- Dates: 10 Wednesdays beginning November 15th 2023, until January 16th. (will be recorded so you can watch later if you need to)
Perinatal Child Therapy
differs from standard play therapy
Successful perinatal play therapy is a slightly different approach than standard play therapy, where a therapist completely follows the child's lead. In perinatal work, a therapist must both engage in the child's play and identify prenatal and birth related themes as they are expressed. The therapist must recognize the child's representation in play of their birth story, and connect them to that story in a resourced manner rather than making it traumatic. Highlighting perinatal themes as they emerge brings them to the foreground, and helps behavior to resolve more efficiently and effectively. Through numerous successes with child therapy, I have discovered that linking and naming (in other words, accurately attuning to what the child is expressing via a perinatal viewpoint), rather than just following the child's lead, is a most effective method.
Such methods support the child to enter territory that is uncomfortable, as was the initial perinatal experience they are representing in play. Meeting discomfort and releasing the body-centered shock is essential for nervous system healing. Shock must release at a tissue level and therapists who work with perinatal material do best to include work with body tissue and confusing or protective brain states that registered in the nervous system through sensory input and motor response to early experience. so regulation must be reintroduced by the therapist. This occurs through a supportive combination of body tracking, story listening, and engaged play, and skillful pacing of the expression of memory. therapists must engage the difficulty without prematurely eliciting a threat response and shock expression.
Children organically dive into deeper material they initially avoided as sessions progressed. Meeting these difficult experience memories with body patterning and reflective function ultimately leads to a child feeling understood and safe. They release the blaming identity beliefs that were created to manage sensation overwhelm, confusion, and lack of protection or connection with their parents.
Release the parental and generational shock
Therapists do best to think in a family system model when working prenatally. Treatment for a child is most effective if the parents release shock and imprints related to the birth, and if generational shock is also addressed. Doing so greatly relieves a child of burdens carried unconsciously that create an internalized stress. A child's difficult behavior often disappears when parents work on the shock that occurred in them during a difficult birth, followed by work with multi-generational issues.
Excellent Professional Training Resources
Unlock the secrets to healing birth trauma and providing relief for infant shock experiences.
Many children face sensory issues, struggle with transitions, procrastinate, or suffer from anxiety.
We'll show you how to access their cellular memory and help them heal their earliest impressions.
- Access deep-rooted memories stored in children's brains
- Transform child behaviors, relationships, and functionality
- Earn the gratitude of parents by creating lasting changes in just a few sessions
**Empower Yourself and Your Clients:**
Prenatal child therapy is different from standard play therapy. Learn to engage with the child's play, identify prenatal and birth-related themes, and connect them to their story in a resourceful manner. By highlighting these themes, you can resolve behavior more efficiently and effectively.
**The Journey to Healing:**
Our course supports children in confronting discomfort, releasing body-centered shock, and ultimately feeling understood and safe. They'll shed the identity beliefs created to manage overwhelming sensations and confusion.
**A Broad Approach:**
To achieve the best results, it's essential to consider the entire family system. Addressing parental and generational shock helps relieve children of unconscious burdens, allowing them to overcome difficult behaviors.
Start date: Wednesday November 15th 3-4:30pm ET 2023
YOU WILL LEARN TO STAY PRESENT BY
LISTENING FOR HIDDEN STORIES BEHIND DIFFICULT BEHAVIOR
Meet Annie Brook
Ph.D in Perinatal and Somatic Psychology, LPC, MSME, RSME, Body-Mind Centering teacher, and a therapist in high regard in the Somatic community
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Annie Brook
Annie Brook, with over four decades of experience working with hundreds of children and training therapists for over three decades, will guide you through this transformative journey. She understands the real-life struggles therapists face and provides practical tools to apply in your practice.
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Praise for Annie's Work
"there is not a day that goes by that I am not grateful for Annie and her body of work. The birth patterns that were held in the cells of my body affected all of my relationships ~ I feel blessed to now have a large toolbox of resources and the somatic re-learning of memories my body knew but my mind and heart couldn't remember ~ all of my relationships transformed and I have a language and deep understanding with which to work with them from!" JR
"I am not really sure how Annie does it, but she looks at the whole person, the body, their behaviors, and spirit. Taking all into consideration, she is able to get to the cause of their pain.
Through reflex work, story and play Annie connects with the girls and works with us to heal their hurt. She is very intuitive and her soft gentle energy has helped us all connect. It makes sense to me now and it is working."
"i'm just playing now, without thinking, without considering whether it's a good moment and place or not. love it!" Daria
"No shame but rather a playful journey, one where you can have compassion for yourself and laugh at yourself simultaneously. Annie is brilliant at at simplifying the overwhelming and calling out drama. She is also brilliant in maintaining group energy" Angie
"In Birth's Hidden legacy, Annie lovingly takes us through early imprints that underlie our adult connections, then provides practices for inner work on the path to deepening intimacy. Annie’s view into adult relationship is from the inside out and this book is a gem for all of us."
Anna Penenberg M.A., healer and author of Dancing In The Narrows
"Annie's groups are focused and clear, and with solutions and impactful tools. They are also fair, not cliques or weird experiences of showing up and wondering if you actually missed some secret memo about how to be that no one will speak to, not sweeping difficulty under the rug until someone explodes. No, they heal those very experiences. Her skill in making use of what is happening in any situation even while also keeping a group oriented, is incredible."
Anonymous
"It was all very interesting to me... maybe encountering a students inability to play and stubborness but it was very interesting how it resolved and how Annie was able to get down into the roots…
It brought play back into my life.. it also made me realize i am more playful than i thought i was and it gave it a nice purpose to keep exploring it
It can work with the nervous system in a fun way. It's easy to engage but can go very deep." Cecilia
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How do I apply this professionally with children
A: At 0-18 months of age, the bodymind forms the first neural pathways; dismantling behavior patterns at their matrix of origin produces lasting results. You can be an effective change agent when you learn to help children access this early memory, They heal nameless fears, self-doubt, aggression, and controlling behaviors when traced back through the bodymind.
Q: What if I am cannot have the parents in the treatment?
A: You have to see what is possible, and I highly recommend parents attendance because they were present at the birth. If not for every session, do invite them in when you are doing the deep birth process inquiry session.
Q: You talk a lot about being play therapy that works. Mine already works!
A: You could already be an amazing play therapist, and I can guarantee that if the child had attachment or birth trauma (precognitive, even prenatal events) and you learn how to address this, your work will explode in its' value! And, you will get the added bonus of understanding the 4 types of dissociation and how to treat.
Q: What do you mean about shock imprints and why does it matter?
A: Shock indicates a time when a child was overwhelmed and out of control, maybe even "left their body," or left their ability to think clearly. Shock indicates an internal freeze response and a kind of dissociation.
This early freeze is common during infant overwhelm, and this course provides you an incredible skill set. You can actually help children to go back and integrate the earliest pre-cognitive experiences during their play therapy sessions!, You will learn the child friendly language to do speak about trauma and precognitive experiences.
Q: So I study all these tools. How do they make a difference?
A: Professionally and personally! You will have more impact with your child clients and feel better about your work. You will gain not just the understanding, but recognize shock and trauma in a different way. It's the felt sense you develop once you start working with birth imprints. This is the experiential embodiment piece, and that's when lasting change can happen for those kiddos.
Q: If I do all this work myself, what changes in my life?
A: Unwrapping shock patterns allows natural life force to flow through. You are better able to stay present in life when there is stress; the natural stressors of daily life. When there is increased stress, you have a sense of your habits and how to interrupt them and return to health. Eventually they release and integrate and life so so much easier!
Q: What if I am triggered by adding infant memory healing to my skill set with children?
A: The good news is you are learning from the inside out. There are many body resources to help regulation found in Volume 2 of Birth's Hidden Legacy. You will also gain keen insights regarding attachment. You will be guided how to work with your triggers and use that energy when treating children! There are many resources in the membership site. In addition, I can help you get your own therapist on board. I have trained professionals who know my work and can offer services.
Q: How long can I access this material for study?
A: You have a full year so you can revisit the depth of treating birth trauma with children. The results are so worth your study efforts. I am excited for the children you will be helping!