Bessel van der Kolk MD

Author of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Week 7 – Going Beyond Talk to Treat Trauma

Week 17 – How Curiosity and Pleasure Lead to Aliveness

Week 23 – How Humor and Drama Can Rewire Limiting Beliefs

Week 25 – Factors That Create Resilience

Week 34 – Exploring the Core Purpose of Shame

Week 36 – How to Work with Shame when it’s Connected to Trauma

Week 46 – What Purposes Does Anger Serve?

Week 56 – Working With the Physiology and Neurobiology of Resistance

Week 83 – Mistakes in Treatment that Led to Professional Growth

Week 89 – The Advice We Gain Through Practice and Supervision

WEEK 115 – Fear in the Brain and Body

WEEK 120 – How to Uncover the Emotions Underneath Blame

Week 132 – Strategies for Clients Who Fear Abandonment

Week 148 – Working with the Body to Break Patterns of Avoidance

Week 151 – When a Client’s Self-Narrative Is Tied to Trauma

Week 152 – Breaking Patterns that Fuel Destructive Self-Narratives

Week 252 – How to Work with a Client’s Shadow Side That’s Rooted in Trauma

Week 261 – How to Help When Chronic Feelings of Unworthiness Are Rooted in Trauma

Week 265 – How to Help Clients When Trauma Fuels Feelings of Never Fitting In

Week 287 – Common Mistakes in Working with Overwhelming Events (and How to Avoid Them)

Week 291 – Working with Clients Whose Inability to Change Is Linked to Trauma