Trauma Frozen states and an intersubjective affect-based treatment approach
Dr. Katrina Wood
Dr. Katrina Wood is an author, lecturer and psychotherapist focusing on emotional healing. She lives in L.A., where she runs the Wilshire/Valley Psychotherapy Center.
Educational Goals:
To distinguish intersubjectivity treatment approach from Trauma focused CBT treatment.
To understand a deeper meaning and experience of the impact of affect based collaborative treatment approach with a focus on loosening grip of ‘frozen trauma states.
To understand and gain greater insight from the concepts of ‘dwelling’ in intersubjectivity and the intersubjective concept of a ‘relational home’.
To incorporate in treatment the understanding and premise that both the observer is also the observed and how this impacts the therapeutic dynamic.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will learn to develop greater understanding of the impact of sustained empathic inquiry, the capacity to shift from ‘action focused healing’ ‘to state of ‘dwelling’, contextual interpretation, curative meaning made and impact ‘in treatment.
2. Attendees will recognize key differences between intersubjectively theory and trauma focused CBT. The concept of ‘trauma and human existence ‘and its expansive impact on both therapist and patient.
3. Attendees will be able to recognize the positive interpersonal effect of therapist’s personal trauma experiences in the ‘room absent the requirement of ‘self-disclosure ‘and how this is communicated via ‘meta communication’.
4. Attendees will develop key attunement skills, with understanding of how patients’ organization of their hidden or secret lives with reverence and insight for the impact of trauma and a vital grasp for recognizing individuals coping patterns which reveal how pain is not pathology rather creative and skillful.
References:
Freedle, L. R. (2025). When a Goddess Erupts: Pele in the Psyche of Women Paperback
by Robert D. Stolorow and George E. Atwood | Oct 26, 2018
Articles:
1. https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1220161/full
Front. Psychol., 11 June 2023
Sec. Human Developmental Psychology
Volume 14 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1220161
2. Stolorow Robert 2022 Psychoanalysis Finds a Home: Emotional Phenomenology. www.academia.edu
https://www.academia.edu/52674937/Psychoanalysis_Finds_a_Home_Emotional_Phenomenology?fbclid=IwY2xjawOX6VlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0TVRheEpqdE9WOWxxcnVoc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHv1xwXeJzQQj1UsBheL4rZrB5bPel6D0ToawWD0VeGtAJCYT9m-io4OWxuVC_aem_JVzv9623e7_OFOlAP1Vgn
3. Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis as Phenomenological Contextualism
By Robert D. Stolorow
https://www.academia.edu/71622039/Post_Cartesian_Psychoanalysis_as_Phenomenological_Contextualism?fbclid=IwY2xjawOX6iZleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0TVRheEpqdE9WOWxxcnVoc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHr0e0ywfoIyeleA4j-p_PbkB0Jz_5rZQC08XLCzeCJzkhZsNuIFJT3qPbX95_aem_vVr51uneVkiW9sGnG3eTFA
4. Emotional Trauma and the Fragilification of Being 2024
By Robert D . Stolorow & George Atwood https://www.academia.edu/110573746/Emotional_Trauma_and_the_Fragilification_of_Being?fbclid=IwY2xjawOX6s9leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE0TVRheEpqdE9WOWxxcnVoc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHv4Onnqgo3mlTVRjFTxWIaSgOjh7vcSseo2ocJA2gAmjDo2Mta_35oQutDMI_aem_bvroDd4_nTjsLzHj_I4jSQ
5. Wood. Katrina 2024 Journal of Psychiatry Reform vol. 11 #11, October 1, 2024 When the Hero takes a fall: an intersubjective approach to healing veterans
https://journalofpsychiatryreform.com/2024/10/01/when-the-hero-takes-a-fall-an-intersubjective-approach-to-healing-veterans/’
6. Wood, Katrina Trauma and the impact of mis attunement in Early Childhood 2024
Journal of Psychiatry Reform vol. 11 #1, January 2024
7. Wood Katrina The Therapist Magazine March / April 2025 Talk Therapy: A myth
