It is a true pleasure to be able to recommend Lisa Schwarz’s training’s. Her Comprehensive Resource Model® is creative, intelligent, innovative, and effective. Lisa’s keen therapeutic sense, her authenticity, and her emphasis on empowering and supporting internal resources while working through overwhelming states and experiences, offer clinicians important tools for the very challenging work of resolving trauma. Her work with dissociation is similarly creative and effective. Not only have I enjoyed learning from Lisa directly, but have also seen the powerful and positive effect her teaching has had on the work being done by colleagues who have studied and consulted with her in their work with challenging dissociative disorder dynamics encountered in their practices. And, Lisa’s continuing expansion and deepening of what she offers as training’s is the best reason to see what she’s up to now.

Nancy J. Napier, LMFT

My mind, body, and spirit continues to process the richness and depth from your work with each of us at the Intensive. The model is an incredible resource AND attunement skill: Personally, I have practiced it whenever I feel called to it and it instantly “reminds me” i.e. helps me to feel into, my new truths and the love and learning from the Intensive circle. What we can do for ourselves with the resourcing tools, when we can identify the need, is amazing!! (Wish I had access to this as a teen!) – Professionally, it has been so satisfying to witness how my own inner work is influencing my ability to attune to my clients’ needs and how to guide them; and it’s been so exciting to share the self-attunement skills with my clients, geared of course to where they are in their journey and how they can use it. The fact that you teach not only the method and protocol, you teach what we need to be aware of, and attune to, in order to apply the tools in a way that the client can access it, relate to it and apply it. That is a rare gift in a teacher. Awesome, Lisa! I recommend your Intensives for all healers, and soon I hope to help you bring it to any and all in New England.

Elisa Elkin Cleary, LICSW, Integrative Psychotherapy

I just wanted to drop you a note thanking you for teaching and demonstrating the attunement skills at our intensive. Incorporating them in my work has increased the quality of my practice and positive outcomes for my clients.

I am also finding the resourcing model especially helpful. I am now using it with all of my clients suffering from complex PTSD, attachment disruption, and/or dissociation. I most often use the grid model with a spiritual being assisting as it enables the client to do the deep work necessary to heal the emotional body from a place of relative calm. It is really unbelievable what can happen in these sessions. People not familiar with this type of work would call them miracles.

Thank you again for this groundbreaking work.

Coy Osgood, MSW, LICSW-A, CDP

We are in the process of opening an inpatient unit that specialises in working with people who have histories of trauma, including those with diagnoses of dissociative disorders. Lisa provided her expertise in this area to help us formulate our ideas around what was needed to provide an effective, individually-led service for our client group. Her advice, energy, knowledge, compassion and clear therapeutic skills in this area provided us with guidance, insight and direction in so many relevant areas that we cannot thank her enough. Lisa brings a unique blend of theoretical and practical expertise to the area of trauma work and particularly in regard to working effectively with dissociation, and is someone we would have no hesitation in recommending as an excellent resource for anyone working in the difficult field of trauma.

Dawn Harris, Manor Hall, Centre for Trauma

My experience with Lisa during the intensive in September 2013 took everything I learned from her and turbo charged it. Lisa exemplified such attunement with each of the participants tirelessly, consistently, and with the devotion of a mother to her new born, whether the sessions took 2 hours or 6. When Lisa was working with an individual she managed to stay attuned to the fluctuating states and needs of the rest of us as observers as welI. I found this to be amazing. She also took every opportunity to invite us to be involved and attuned with the individual. Lisa’s loving energy was palpable and there was no question in my mind that her moment to moment decisions to silently allow the individual time and space to process; or to intervene; or to choose a particular way of intervening rested on her commitment to facilitate the highest healing and the best outcome for that person. Lisa repeatedly demonstrated the use of the attunement behaviors she taught us -involving eye contact, tactile contact, attention to the vibrations of voice, attention to smell, breathing and heart beat – to help repair attachment disruption as the need for ego state work surfaced for individuals. In this way not only was she present as an attachment figure herself but strengthened the individual by supporting the healing of attachment disruptions from within along with reclaiming of aspects of self that had been rejected, disconnected and otherwise dissociated. It was magical to watch and transforming to experience. During the intensive each participant experienced,first hand, Lisa’s skill in “resourcing” the individual, tailoring it to each one’s particular level of need including ways and levels to identify resourcing interventions. These enhanced our repertoire and capacity to help individuals and ourselves overcome otherwise overwhelming fears through the use of as many layers of resourcing as necessary to calm the amygdala, and create the safe incubator in which tranquil, curious, mindfulness could take place and neurological shifts in the memory of traumatic experiences could occur, culminating in the release of the emotions and a resolution of the distress.

Semra Kecelioglu, Brainwork with Semra