Debunking the Safety Myth
A New Framework for Healing Amidst Uncertainty
- Speaker:
- Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC
- Duration:
- 1 Hour 31 Minutes
- Language:
- Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN and FR
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
-
May 25, 2023
- Product Code:
- POS059261
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
Psychotherapists often presume that most forms of deep healing can take place only after we support a client in establishing a sense of safety. However, insisting on establishing a sense of safety can be countertherapeutic and invalidating for clients who are members of marginalized groups. A reliance on feeling safe may set up an impossible expectation for our clients, namely, that they can—and should be able to—feel safe in a profoundly unsafe world. In place of the safety axiom, this workshop will propose engaging our clients, and particularly those from marginalized communities, in nurturing a sense of boundedness. I propose boundedness as a framework that is more culturally humble and allows us to support a client in sitting in the kinds of decidedly queer ambivalence, ambiguity, and uncertainty that are essential to growth, change, healing, and coming into relationship with our embodied selves.
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Debunking the Safety Myth (3.7 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Debunking the Safety Myth (94.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Illinois Educators Self-Study Instructions (15.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Illinois Educators Evaluation Form (1.2 MB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| Manual - Debunking the Safety Myth - French (3.7 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Debunking the Safety Myth - French (94.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Debunking the Safety Myth - Italian (3.7 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Transcript - Debunking the Safety Myth - Italian (94.3 KB) | 18 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Debunking the Safety Myth - German (3.7 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Manual - Debunking the Safety Myth - Spanish (3.7 MB) | 19 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Speaker
Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC Related seminars and products
Lucie Fielding, PhD, MA, LMHC, (she/they) is a white, neurodivergent queer, trans misogyny affected (TMA) femme, and a therapist practicing in Virginia and Washington (on Monacan lands and unceded Duwamish territory, respectively). They specialize in sex therapy, kink-knowledgeable therapy, 2SLGBTQIA-knowledgeable therapy, sex work-affirming therapy; and they work from the narrative, imaginal, and somatic frameworks that honor the (intergenerational) wisdom of the body, promote community-care, and support empowered embodied eroticism. She holds an MA in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (2018) and a PhD in French from Northwestern University (2008), specializing in erotic literature. Their background in literature attunes them to the ways that cultural scripts inscribe themselves on our bodies and inform our embodied erotic lives. In addition to being a therapist, Lucie is a sex educator who has facilitated workshops for a range of groups, organizations, universities, and agencies. They are the author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments (2021), which was awarded an AASECT BookAward (Lammy) in the Transgender-Nonfiction category. You can find out more about Lucie at luciefielding.com or follow them on Instagram (@sexbeyondbinaries).
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Lucie Fielding has employment relationships with WattPad, Trans Care BC and Antioch University. She receives royalties as a published author. Lucie Fielding receives a speaking honorarium, recording, and book royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Lucie Fielding is a member of the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists and the Transgender Health Alliance of Central Virginia.
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Objectives
- Articulate three (3) ways in which a discourse of safety can be countertherapeutic.
- Define the concepts of “boundedness” and “bounded chaos”.
- Apply and deploy at least three (3) somatic, trauma-informed, and pleasure-centered techniques or interventions for building embodied awareness presented in this workshop within one's clinical practice.
Outline
The Safety Axiom in Psychotherapy
- How the Safety Axiom is Embedded in Clinical Practice
Problems with the Discourse of Safety
The Therapeutic Situation as “Bounded Chaos”: From Safety to Boundedness
Strategies for Nurturing Boundedness
Tools for Building Embodied Awareness
- The Somatic-Imaginal
- Finding “yes” and “no” in the body
- Identifying Sensations
- Case Study
Target Audience
- Addiction Counselors
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Nurses
- Psychologists
- Therapists
- Social Workers
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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