Morit Heitzler:

Healing Individual & Collective Trauma

Morit Heitzler

Trauma is increasingly common in our culture and we are exposed to traumatic news every day.
How does our ‘system’ cope with this ? How do our minds, our bodies, our brains take in and process trauma ?
Especially when trauma hits close to home, our resources to cope with it can get over-stretched. Post-traumatic stress is pervasive and not always recognised as such. It can get stored as body memory and engender all kinds of symptoms from sleeplessness to anxiety and depression. Even manageable degrees of such stress can interfere with our capacity to enjoy life. In some situations and for some people, post-traumatic stress can take over their lives and they cannot recover without some form of concentrated professional help.
In this presentation I would like to introduce the basics of what we now know about the neuro-physiology of trauma: how the effects of trauma are stored in the brain and the body. I will address some of the principles of helping people recognise and process trauma, as well as outlining the indicators when somebody might need professional help and what different kinds of treatment are now available.

Strand: Sustainable Consciousness & Psychology

Type of event: Talk

Place: Room 1 upstairs in Primary School

Starts: 12:30

Ends: 13:30

Presenter's Personal/Professional Background: Morit Heitzler

Integrative Body Psychotherapist and Trauma Specialist

Morit is an Integrative Body Psychotherapist (UKCP) based in West Oxford, where she maintains a private practice.
She first entered the field of complementary medicine 25 years ago in South East Asia where she lived and studied Shiatsu, Acupuncture, Thai Massage, Tai Chi, Yoga and meditation. Later she moved to London and practised Holistic Massage, Aromatherapy and Biodynamic Massage.
She studied and gained her diploma at the Chiron Centre for Body Psychotherapy, London and later acquired an MSc degree in Integrative Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute/Middlesex University. Since then she has completed further trainings in Group Facilitation, Supervision, Somatic Trauma Therapy, E.M.D.R and the systemic approach to Family Constellations. In her practice, she combines the knowledge and experience she acquired in the Far East with Western approaches and methods.
As well as working with individual clients and supervising psychotherapists, counsellors and complementary practitioners, she is an experienced teacher and group leader. For the past 12 years she has been teaching Integrative Body Psychotherapy and Trauma Work as well as leading Family Constellation groups in England and Israel.
As an Israeli and second generation holocaust survivor, she has a special interest in working with trauma and its transgenerational manifestations. For some years she worked as a team member with the Trauma Service at the Maudsley Hospital, London, where she practiced Somatic Trauma Therapy and developed her own integrative approach to trauma work. Currently, she is a team member at The Oxford Stress and Trauma Centre, and also works as an external supervisor at the Refugee Resource, Oxford where she supervises a team of counsellors working with refugees and asylum seekers.
She is a UKCP registered Integrative Psychotherapist and an EABP registered Body Psychotherapist. She is also a member of the following professional organisations: CABP, EMDR Association.
In the past 25 years she has been working with people from a diverse spectrum of cultural and ethnic backgrounds, spiritual and religious beliefs, age and sexual orientation.

Email: morit.heitzler@gmail.com

Website: http://www.heitzler.co.uk/