Healing Trauma in Relationships: Expert approaches to overcome attachment wounds, shame, betrayal, and more

✨ Summary | Healing Trauma in Relationships – Fisher, Perel & Real

This groundbreaking training brings together Janina Fisher, Esther Perel, and Terry Real to provide a powerful, integrative approach for healing trauma within relationships.

Designed for therapists working with individuals or couples, the program goes beyond treating trauma symptoms — it teaches how to rebuild safety, trust, intimacy, emotional connection, and healthy relational patterns.

🔑 What You’ll Learn

1) Rebuilding Safety & Connection (Janina Fisher)

• How trauma shapes the nervous system in relationships.

• Working with internal parts to reduce triggers and emotional reactivity.

• Helping couples shift from protective responses to genuine connection.

2) Erotic Recovery & Trauma Healing (Esther Perel)

• How trauma impacts desire, responsiveness, and sexuality.

• Why erotic recovery can be a catalyst for trauma healing.

• Practical ways to help clients reconnect with pleasure, aliveness, and openness.

• Includes a full master-class session with a real couple navigating PTSD and infidelity.

3) Treating Couples With Childhood Trauma

• How early attachment wounds affect adult intimacy.

• The “trauma dance”: shutdown, conflict, and misattunement.

• Using verbal + nonverbal communication to restore safety.

• Helping couples break rigid patterns and build emotional authenticity.

4) Janina Fisher In Action: Treating a Traumatized Couple

• Live demonstration using Sensorimotor and parts-based interventions.

• Strategies for reframing conflict, reducing panic responses, and restoring calm.

• Increasing emotional safety and self-soothing within the relationship.

5) Neurobiology of Healing Relationships

• Brain states that block connection and intimacy.

• How to shift clients from dysregulation into safe engagement.

• Using memory reconsolidation to update painful relational schemas.

• Tools such as:

  • Time-outs

  • Relational jujitsu

  • Inner-child witnessing

  • Core negative image + dead-stop contracts

6) Terry Real In Action: Confronting Deep Relational Wounds

• How past trauma drives rage, withdrawal, and power struggles.

• Relational Life Therapy (RLT) strategies to create immediate breakthroughs.

• Helping partners see and heal the “wounded child” within each other.

• Turning confrontations into moments of intimacy and repair.

Bonus Module – Sexual Fallout from Trauma

• How childhood sexual abuse affects adult intimacy and desire.

• Conducting a safe sexual history without re-traumatizing clients.

• Reducing shame, avoidance, and fear around sexuality.

• Behavioral and mindful-touch exercises for couples to co-create sexual healing.

🎯 Who This Training Is For

Psychotherapists · Counselors · Social Workers · Marriage & Family Therapists · Nurses · Physicians · Addiction Counselors · Mental Health Professionals working with trauma or couples.

💡 The Bottom Line

This is one of the most comprehensive trainings available on trauma in relationships, combining:
✔ Neuroscience
✔ Couples therapy
✔ Trauma treatment
✔ Erotic recovery
✔ Live sessions + expert analysis

You walk away with actionable tools, increased confidence, and the ability to help clients build safe, loving, connected relationships after trauma.