Boots on the Ground: Lightly Treading the Trenches of Complex Trauma & Dissociation with Body Code™ and Play

April 26, 2024

Abstract
Play is the language children can relate to and speak. Play can avail a safer environment within which the child may engage in activities that foster attachment, grounding, and/or processing distressing memories. Play activities can be therapist or child-directed, and include a parent or sibling. Combining play with the Body Code™ can enhance the therapeutic process. This can be especially helpful when working with children who have Complex Trauma and Dissociation, because it does not require lengthy or detailed history, which is often not available—especially with adopted children. Re-experiencing or identifying specific traumatic or distressing events, and/or related emotions are not necessary. Through the muscle-testing process using The Body Code™ map, wide ranges of physical and emotional imbalances that may be contributing to presenting symptoms can be identified. The body is balanced through releasing, realigning, or resetting these imbalances energetically for more optimal functioning physically, mentally, and emotionally. The Body Code™ map is quite extensive, encompassing six areas with categories and hundreds of sub-categories in each of these six categories: Energy, Circuit or System, Toxin, Pathogen, Misalignment, and Nutrition or Lifestyle. The Emotion Code Chart® lists 60 emotions, which are organized in 2 columns and 6 rows, categorized by the organs/glands that create the correlating emotions, and is included in The Body Code™ System application, which can be downloaded on mobile devices and computers.

Imagine seeing your clients develop intuition, keener insight, and healthier emotional management skills throughout the Stabilization, Trauma Processing, Integration, and Post-Integration Phases. This workshop will demonstrate the use of effective, innovative energy techniques with clinical examples of dissociative children that applies and integrates standard principals of treatment and common playful interventions, as well as, an alternative way to involve parents in their child’s sessions. If you are intrigued by modalities that balance the mind, body, spirit, and can reduce treatment duration, this workshop is for you!

Potential to Distress: Yes

Target Audience

Advanced

Learning Objectives

Upon Completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
  • Plan play activities that engage child clients or parents/child clients during The Body Code processing
  • List three areas of functioning that can be addressed with The Body Code
  • Describe how you would use The Body Code involving a parent and child client
  • Identify the phases of treatment in which Body Code can be applied
  • Explain two areas children develop in, through the use of The Body Code
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 1.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program.
Course opens: 
02/20/2024
Course expires: 
12/31/2050
Event starts: 
04/26/2024 - 3:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/26/2024 - 4:30pm EDT
Part of: 
Child & Adolescent Full Day Webinar
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Presenter: Michele M. Yarberry, LPC, NCC, RPT, CBCP
Presenter Bio: Michele Yarberry, LPC, NCC, RPT, CBCP is the Founder and Director of Liberated Living, LLC and Naturally Balanced, LLC. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, National Board-Certified Counselor, Registered Play Therapist, Certified EMDR Therapist, Certified Equine Specialist in Mental Health/Learning, Certified Body Code/Belief Code Practitioner, Advanced Certificate in Complex Trauma & Dissociation, and Kinesiology & Applied Bioenergetics Practitioner Level IV. Michele earned a Master’s degree in Community Counseling from the University of Northern Colorado in 2011, and a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education, from Adams State College in 2008. 

Michele incorporates Complementary and Alternative Modalities with Play Therapies, as well as EMDR, Flash Technique, Art Interventions, and Animal/Equine Interactions. She enjoys presenting at conferences, and conducting local workshops for clinicians/caregivers.

Michele is a member of: International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD),  and an active member of Child/Adolescent SIG, Child/Adolescent Facts Sheet Group, and ISSTD Annual Conference Committee; the Association of Play Therapy (APT) – United States, Colorado Association of Play Therapy (CAPT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing International Association (EMDRIA), Professional Association of Therapeutic Horsemanship (PATH) International, American Kennel Club (AKC), and Discover Healing Practitioner Education Program. 

Michele’s articles and book:

  • Yarberry, M. (2022) Tandi’s brave friends and special helpers: real life stories of kids and their dissociative experiences. Bloomington: Xlibris Publishing Company
  • Yarberry, M. (2022) https://news.isst-d.org/a-multi-modal-integrative-approach-in-treatment-of-children-with-complex-trauma-dissociation/. ISSTD News, Clinical Reflections Column, 
  • Yarberry, M. (2021) https://news.isst-d.org/the-flash-technique-for-dissociative-children/. ISSTD News, Kid’s Korner
  • Yarberry M. (2019). https://news.isst-d.org/proposal-to-the-field-fourth-phase-in-treatment-of-dissociation-protocol/. ISSTD News, Kid’s Korner
  • Yarberry, M. (2018)  https://news.isst-d.org/squaks-nuzzles-tail-wags-woofs-and-whinnies-an-experiential-glimpse-into-animalequine-assisted-psychotherapyplay-therapy/. ISSTD News, Kid’s Korner

Available Credit

  • 1.50 APA
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
  • 1.50 ASWB ACE
    The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), #1744, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. ISSTD maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2021 – 08/20/2024. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.
  • 1.50 ISSTD Certificate Program
    This program is eligible for 1.50 credits in the ISSTD Certificate Program.
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