Neurofeedback and DBR: A Breakthrough in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma presented by Sebern Fisher, MA, and Frank Corrigan, MD, FRCPsych
Friday, April 17, 2026
12:00noon Eastern Time
11:00am Central Time | 9:00am Pacific Time
PLEASE NOTE: This is a 90-minute presentation.
1.5 CE credits are available when attending the live webinar. Additional purchase required.
Webinar Description:
All psychotherapies presently used, ranging from behavior therapies such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy to perennial favorites such as Psychoanalysis, typically fail those patients with histories of severe childhood neglect and abuse. Of the two, neglect is the more serious and even neglect may not be the true issue. In a recent longitudinal study from Harvard, researcher Karlen Lyons-Ruth found, surprisingly, that abuse was not a predictor of 'borderline personality' and suicidality. Unsurprisingly, she and her team found that the critical factor was the 'mother who turned away'. This is not necessarily neglect but it is absence.
Frank Corrigan and Sebern Fisher will focus on understanding and working with the profound impacts on the infant of the mother who turns away. Sebern will discuss how this infant grows up without an internalized mother and thus without the ability to regulate affect. What we call borderline personality is an inability to regulate feeling states at the neurological level and a deep and enduring sense of being unbearably alone, motherless. Neurofeedback can help this abandoned brain learn to quiet and regulate itself- it is the next best thing to having a "good-enough mother". For some, however, neurofeedback and psychotherapy are not sufficient. Frank will describe the contribution of Deep Brain Reorienting, a therapy in which the patient learns to quiet patterns of activation deep in the brainstem in the highly attentive company of an 'Other' and he will share the robust research findings that support it.
No therapy works for everyone, but this workshop will explore the very real possibility that neurofeedback and DBR offered together will significantly enhance the recovery of those who have suffered histories of even the most profound parental absence and trauma.
If you cannot attend the live webinar, all paid registrants will receive a recording of the webinar. However, CE credits are only available for attending the live presentation. This program, when attended in its entirety, is available for 1.5 CE credits. Purchase your CE credit as you register. The CE certificate is a separate fee of $15.00 for 1.5 CE credits.
Continuing Education:
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Who is the Audience: Psychologists, mental health clinicians, medical providers, social workers, educators/researchers, students, people concerned with serious mental health issues - clinicians, patients, researchers
Level: Intermediate
Agenda:
12:00pm - 1:20am Presentation
1:20pm - 1:30pm Q&A
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Sebern Fisher, MA, and Frank Corrigan, MD, FRCPsych
Specific Learning objectives:
Based on the content of this presentation, the participant will be able to:
- Discuss the significance of the mother who turns away
- Identify three areas of the brainstem that are significant in developmental trauma
- Describe how neurofeedback and Deep Brain Reorienting offer the possibility of resolution of developmental trauma
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If you cannot attend the live webinar, all paid registrants will receive a recording of the webinar. However, CE credits are only available for attending the live presentation. This program, when attended in its entirety, is eligible for 1.5 CE credits. The CE certificate is a separate fee of $15.00 for 1.5 CE credits. CE credits are sponsored both by APA and ISNR. When you purchase CE credit AND attend the live session, you will receive two certificates (one with APA credit and one with ISNR credit).
Disclosures: Sebern Fisher is the author of Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-driven Brain; Consultant and mentor for EEGER. Frank Corrigan is the co-author of Deep Brain Orienting: Understanding the Neuroscience of Trauma, Attachment Wounding and DBR Psychotherapy
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Instructors: Sebern Fisher, MA and Frank Corrigan, MD, FRCPsych
Sebern F. Fisher is a psychotherapist and neurofeedback practitioner in private practice who specializes in the aftermath of neglect and abuse in early childhood. She focuses on training the traumatized brain to learn its own regulation, which it can learn at any age. She trains professionals nationally and internationally on neurofeedback and on the need to integrate neurofeedback with psychotherapy. Her book, Neurofeedback in the Treatment of Developmental Trauma: Calming the Fear-Driven Brain, has helped her readers understand how the traumatized brain can give rise to explosive feelings, irrational thinking and destructive behavior. When the brain learns its own regulation, its owner can engage meaningfully in psychotherapy and in life. The book is available as an audiobook on Audible. In addition, Fisher has incorporated Deep Brain Reorienting, a second therapy that focuses on the impact of trauma on the brain, into her treatment of those who suffer the aftermath of developmental trauma.
Frank Corrigan was a Consultant Psychiatrist in Scotland, UK, from 1985 until 2018. He trained in EMDR in 1999 and was an accredited consultant with the EMDR Association (UK & Ireland) from 2006 until 2022. He completed Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI) Trauma Training in September 2010. He has also been a trainer in the Comprehensive Resource Model (CRM) (Schwarz et al 2016) for the treatment of complex trauma disorders. Since then, he has developed Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) as a therapeutic modality for the clinical sequelae of early attachment disruptions and for other post-traumatic presentations. He now uses DBR extensively in his clinical practice and provide training and supervision in its use.
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NFB and DBR by Fisher and Corrigan 90 min.
- Friday Apr 17 2026, 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
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12:00 noon Eastern Time
Presented via Zoom
United States
