Reproductive Trauma Reprocessing: An Embodied Approach to Flash

This training will provide participants with stabilizing resourcing strategies along with the Flash Technique as an early intervention following exposure to reproductive and perinatal trauma. 

Perinatal clinicians frequently work with clients who carry trauma from fertility treatment, pregnancy, birth, reproductive loss, and medical interventions. This training introduces practical somatic stabilization tools alongside an embodied approach to the Flash Technique, giving therapists concrete strategies to help clients stay regulated, present, and safe, even when trauma is recent, intense, or overwhelming. 

The Flash Technique is a gentle, evidence-based reprocessing method that does not require imaginal exposure or specialized EMDR, ART, or Brainspotting training. Originally developed to reduce activation before EMDR, it has become a powerful standalone option for clinicians needing an accessible, client-paced trauma tool. This training integrates Flash with simple embodied practices—such as sensory anchoring, mindful drawing, and bilateral engagement—to support nervous system safety and expand client capacity during trauma healing.

Program Outline: 

Module 1: Theory and Practice of Embodied Technique

✔️ Theory & Research on Somatic and Embodied Trauma Stabilization
Understanding how the nervous system responds to reproductive and perinatal trauma and why body-based grounding improves safety during trauma reprocessing.

✔️ Experiential Learning: Practicing Somatic Grounding Tools
Hands-on practice with accessible strategies such as sensory anchoring, breath-body pacing, bilateral engagement, mindful movement, and embodied orientation.

✔️ Integrating Somatic Techniques with the Flash Technique
How embodied engagement enhances containment, reduces overwhelm, and supports client capacity during trauma reprocessing.

✔️ Clinician Self-Regulation & Embodied Presence
Using these tools for your own stabilization and attunement so you can co-regulate effectively in session.

✔️ Applying Somatic Grounding for Client Care
Practical ways to use these embodied stabilization tools with perinatal clients experiencing distressing memories, activation, dissociation, or overwhelm.

When: TBD
8:00PT / 9:00 MT / 10:00CT / 11:00 ET / 12:00 AT

Module 2: Theory and Practice of Flash Technique

✔️ Understanding Memory Reconsolidation Theory
How Flash supports gentle, rapid reprocessing without imaginal exposure.

✔️ Understanding the Role of Dual Attention Stimulus (DAS)
How DAS keeps clients oriented to safety and reduces the risk of activation.

✔️ Integrating Somatic & Embodied Grounding as DAS and Stabilization
Using sensory anchoring, bilateral engagement, mindful movement, and other embodied tools to support containment and deepen the effectiveness of Flash.

✔️ Strategies to Support the Containment of Distressing Memories
Maintaining safety, pacing, and nervous system stability throughout the session.

✔️ Experiential Learning: Flash Technique Demonstrations
Group demos and guided practice with the Embodied Engagement Flash Approach.

✔️ Learning the Steps of the Modified Flash Protocol
A clear, accessible walkthrough of the updated protocol used in perinatal trauma work.

✔️ Case Consultation and Clinical Application
Applying Flash and embodied stabilization tools to real perinatal trauma scenarios.

When: TBD
8:00PT / 9:00 MT / 10:00CT / 11:00 ET / 12:00 AT

Cost: $979 +hst. 

* This training is available for professionals accredited and/or trained to practice psychotherapy. It is also open to students who are currently completing their practicum. If you are uncertain if this applies to you, please email info@canadianperinatalmentalhealthtrainings.com to discuss options. 

This is a Stand Alone Trauma Reprocessing Strategy

This training will teach participants a modified Flash Technique protocol that integrates body-based approaches for increased stabilization and present-orientation throughout the process of trauma treatment.

This modified protocol is a safe and effective standalone trauma reprocessing strategy that reduces acute distress resulting from recent traumatic events, such as birth trauma. This modified protocol also supports containment skills to address traumatic grief and distressing childhood memories that show up during parenting.

**There will be group practice sessions made available through the facilitator when the learning modules have been completed**

Program developed by special guest facilitatior Jennifer Marchand, MA, CCC, RCAT

Jennifer (she/her) is a Canadian trauma therapist and EMDRIA-approved consultant & trainer with over 10 years of clinical experience in diverse settings and cultural contexts. She currently lives in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, specializing in work with humanitarian aid workers, health professionals, expatriates, and survivors of complex and generational trauma. Jennifer blends creative arts therapies and somatic therapies (such as trauma-sensitive yoga) with trauma reprocessing modalities, including EMDR, the Flash Technique, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) for a holistic and culturally-responsive approach. She has a special interest in the benefits of the Zentangle method, an arts-based approach to mindfulness and stabilization, leading her to become a Certified Zentangle Teacher (CZT) and integrating it into her work with survivors.

Jennifer has acquired in-depth knowledge and specialization in vicarious traumatization and burnout. She currently works with EMDR-trained Ethiopian clinicians as a consultant and facilitates burnout prevention groups. As a trauma trainer and technical advisor to medica mondiale, e.V., an international women’s rights organization based in Germany, she develops and delivers training on trauma sensitivity for health professionals in conflict-affected settings—such as Kurdistan, Afghanistan, and Southeast Europe—with a focus on responding to the psychosocial needs of survivors of conflict-related sexual violence. She has also worked with Blue Dragon, an organization in Hanoi, Vietnam, supervising a team of psychologists working with survivors of human trafficking, providing advanced training and supporting self-care practices.

Jennifer is also an editor and author in the exciting new publication on combining EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies to treat complex trauma with diverse populations across a range of cultural contexts: EMDR and Creative Arts Therapies (Routledge, 2022).

Website: Naturebasedemdr.com