Trauma treatment is difficult even on our best day and relapse is normal. Without troubleshooting resources, we risk setting up our traumatized families for failure again and again. I hope you will join us at the Family Trauma Institute for this month's free webinar to learn how to sustain change in family systems. DATE: April 10, 2024 TIME: 12:00 PM to 1 :00 PM EDT FREE REGISTRATION: Click here. Register to watch live and receive the link to watch on-demand. Scott P. Sells, Ph.D., MSW,...

Parents often enter treatment with a “just fix my kid” mindset and refuse to engage or change themselves. An unchanged family cannot sustain change in a child. Join Dr. Scott Sells, founder of the FST| Family Systems Trauma techniques for this free webinar where you will learn a 5-question FST Motivational script that you can use the next day. DATE: Wednesday, March 20 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EDT COST: Free with REGISTRATION HERE An opportunity for Q & A with Dr. Sells will follow.

At the Family Trauma Institute, we define “interactional trauma” as the constant conflict between parent and child (drama = trauma) that leads to resentment, bitterness, and lost attachment. Often, the quickest way to heal this type of deep trauma is through the child or adolescent’s love language. Each child has a special one. For some it's “words of affirmation” and for others “quality time”. But our parents often have no clue what it is or why it’s so important. Therefore, both counselors...

The extended network of family, friends, and community supports are rarely engaged or actively involved in family treatment. And if they are, their roles and functions are not well defined. Therefore, the key questions are: “Why does this happen?” and “How do we overcome this problem?” We use the term “village” interchangeably with the term extended family. In this 10-minute training, Dr. Sells will examine the top two reasons why there is currently such a lack of extended family involvement...

One Reason Kids Today Are So Defiant is that they are experts at pushing their parent's buttons. Here is the Top 10 List. Please join me live tomorrow, July 6 at 12 Noon EST for: 10-minute Family Trauma Tools to see how Button Pushing works to enable kids to be defiant as well as other reasons. Just click on this Zoom Link: https://gopll.zoom.us/j/82520409977?pwd=dnNUN25KSmpESThCKzV4VFAwRytFdz09

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your clients traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. Join Dr. Scott Sells on April 12 from 12 - 1 pm ET to learn an FST (Family Systems Trauma) Nutritional Self-Assessment Handout to help talk to your families about nutrition and its potential benefits through a nutritional brain change. Dr. Sells will share a case study using...

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your clients traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. Join Dr. Scott Sells on April 12 from 12 - 1 pm ET to learn an FST (Family Systems Trauma) Nutritional Self-Assessment Handout to help talk to your families about nutrition and its potential benefits through a nutritional brain change. Dr. Sells will share a case study using...

Parents often enter treatment with a “just fix my kid” mindset and refuse to engage or change their behavior. When this happens relapse rates skyrocket as the child returns to or remains in an unchanged family. Join Dr. Scott Sells, the author of the FST| Family Systems Trauma model for this free webinar that shares a 5-question FST Motivational script handout that you can immediately use the next day at work. DATE: March 8 TIME: 12 - 1 pm ET Click HERE to register to watch live or receive...

Have you experienced these curveballs or resistance by parents you work with? Talks nonstop Non-stop blaming of their child Takes over your session Is Uninspired Will not engage If you answered “yes”, this lunch and learn is for you. Dr. Sells will use live dress rehearsals and audio clips to demonstrate how to use the Zen principle of and FST| Family System Trauma techniques such as “stick and move” to turn curveballs into victories. Come and enjoy the live interaction and Q & A!

Explosive kids often have explosive parents. This “interactional trauma” dance between kids and their parents often involves communication that contains criticism, lecturing, sarcasm, and a lack of nurturance. Over time, this drama leads to out-of-control behaviors like aggression or disrespect as well as unforgiveness and generational trauma. It often goes untreated when providers are only trained in individual therapy with the child and not the entire traumatized family. In this free...

Explosive kids often have explosive parents. This “interactional trauma” dance between kids and their parents often involves communication that contains criticism, lecturing, sarcasm, and a lack of nurturance. Over time, this drama leads to out-of-control behaviors like aggression or disrespect as well as unforgiveness and generational trauma. It often goes untreated when providers are only trained in individual therapy with the child and not the entire traumatized family. In this free...

Why do we treat technology problems with kids as an individual problem when it is really a family problem? Join Dr. Sells, founder of the Family Trauma Institute, for a free webinar for both professionals and parents who want to know why technology addiction has exploded post-COVID, how it leads to family trauma, and how to stop it. Registration is free to watch live or receive the recording: https://gopll.zoom.us/webinar/register/7116728637583/WN_eAOKI5c0RomhKlpOvLV0mA

Family Trauma Solutions for busy schedules. Join Dr. Scott Sells, Founder of the Family Trauma Institute, to learn tools and techniques to help families. Thursday, January 5 at 12 pm ET Zoom link to join: https://gopll.zoom.us/j/825204...SThCKzV4VFAwRytFdz09 January's topic: Four Lies that Fuel Technology Addiction

One of the biggest fallouts from the pandemic is that parent-child conflict was amplified or exacerbated to an extremely high level. At the Family Trauma Institute, we call this “interactional trauma” or constant conflict between parent and child (drama=trauma) that leads to resentment, bitterness, and lost attachment. Often, the quickest way to heal this type of deep trauma is through the child or adolescent’s love language. Each child has a special one. For some its “words of affirmation”...

When there is alcohol or substance-abuse in the family, it is often a central theme around which the entire family is organized. Yet for the most part, treatment is just with the individual and does not actively involve the entire family. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to bridge the gap from individual to family trauma treatment for substance-abuse issues. Case examples and handouts will be provided. DATE: Wednesday, November 16 TIME: 12 - 1 pm...

A difficult divorce is where marriage or the relationship ends and war begins. The child is then caught in the middle or used as a pawn or battering ram in this high stakes battle for control. Nothing is more challenging for professionals then to get the child out of the middle and the parents to work together. Family trauma is magnified under these conditions. This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to understand cutting edge strategies to quickly engage...

This free webinar training by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want to know why technology addiction has exploded with both children and parents since the COVID Pandemic and why it causes family trauma. This problem is further exacerbated by what is called “nature deficit disorder”. Family trauma solutions are offered to end or prevent technology addiction. DATE: Wednesday, September 14 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EST COST: Free with REGISTRATION HERE Join Dr. Scott Sells to learn: The top four lies...

Drama=Trauma. Extreme disrespect and button pushing between parent and child leads to constant drama. And in this pandemic world, disrespect is amplified to an all-time high, as stress in the family skyrockets. When this happens, family trauma explodes as attachment or nurturance between parent and child turns into unforgiveness, bitterness, and resentment. DATE: Wednesday, July 20 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EST COST: Free with REGISTRATION HERE Dr. Scott Sells, the author of the FST| Family Systems...

It takes a village to raise a child (an old African proverb). This means that a child needs both the immediate and extended family to overcome adverse traumatic experiences to heal long term. Unfortunately, traditional trauma treatment often only includes the individual child. And if you do mobilize, the extended family, you are often unsure what their role is or how to actively incorporate them into trauma treatment. DATE: Wednesday, June 29 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EST COST: Free with REGISTRATION...

Did you know that anxiety travels in families? As children become more anxious, so do their parents and the entire family. When this happens, parents will often use “overaccommodation” to insulate their child's stress and discomfort that can cause or maintain their child’s anxiety. Without family trauma treatment, the root causes of the child’s anxiety are not addressed, and relapse can take place again and again. DATE: Friday, April 15 TIME: 12 - 1 pm EST COST: Free with REGISTRATION HERE...

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your client's traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. This webinar is free to all registered participants.

Proper nutrition is a key ingredient in rewiring your client's traumatized neural pathways. Yet, research shows that nutrition is not part of trauma treatment. In fact, Nutrition and trauma are on two different planets. Join Dr. Scott Sells, to learn

Parents often enter treatment with a “just fix my kid” mindset and refuse to engage or change themselves. To address this problem, this free webinar will show an innovative FST (Family Systems Trauma) Motivational Technique based on a 5-question script that uses strength-based questions to quickly build rapport with your parents using a simple 15-minute phone call before your first session.

The fallout of the global COVID pandemic is accelerating suicide in our children and adolescents. Yet, the treatment for acts or threats of suicide often involves the individual child with little to no active family participation. This is a tactical mistake because suicide is systemic. It is caused or exacerbated by family trauma, family secrets, parent-child conflict, and/or isolation. This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to treat both the child and...

When there is alcohol or substance abuse in the family, it is often a central theme around which the entire family is organized. For the most part, treatment is often just with the individual and does not actively involve the entire family that is traumatized. What is our point of entry and how do we approach the parent and child without scaring them away? This free webinar by Dr. Sells is for professionals who want concrete tools to bridge the gap from individual to family trauma treatment...