‘FSPM and the Four Circles’ with Travis Goodman

𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀
Every month, Jan Winhall (author of Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model) interviews guests who contribute to our understanding about trauma and addiction. She then opens the conversation to the group for questions and discussion in this live zoom event that runs for 1 hour.

The Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction group is a place for you to explore with others, through a polyvagal lens, the experiences of trauma and addiction. We are focusing on understanding addiction through the lens of the nervous system, as an adaptive response to maladaptive environments.

𝙅𝙊𝙄𝙉 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮:
Free to join, all welcome.
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The Felt Sense Polyvagal Model™ (FSPM™) is a framework by Jan Winhall that integrates Gendlin’s concept of a ‘felt sense’ with Polyvagal Theory. By emphasizing the importance of the body in understanding the nervous system’s responses to trauma, addiction and dissociation, the model offers a new way of working with trauma and addiction. FSPM teaches people how to emotionally regulate by connecting with two powerful embodied processes: interoception, felt sensing, and neuroception, rewiring dysregulated autonomic states.

The Four Circles Harm Reduction Practice is an FSPM™ practice that develops upon the Three Circle Practice (Cairns, 2001). It includes graphic elements and is used to help people engage and deepen their embodied connection by locating their state and practicing outer circle safety-seeking behaviors every day for reducing harm.

In this dialogue, therapist Travis Goodman will share his experiences on how he integrates the FSPM™ with EMDR to treat trauma and addiction.

About Travis

Travis is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) and Mind+Body Coach. He has been practicing over the past 10 years. He has further expertise, training, and certification in Attachment-Focused EMDR, Focusing-Oriented Trainer (FOT), Certified Felt Sense Polyvagal Model (FSPM), Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT), and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).

He has been married for 13 years to his amazing wife and resides in Southern California with their family. They have two boys and a girl. Travis is passionate about continuing to grow as a father, husband, friend, and therapist.

Through the video podcast, the Integrated Man Project, Travis invites you to hear and share in journeying towards integration psychologically, physically, socially, and spiritually. The mission of the Integrated Man Project is to create a space that aims to equip men around the world with the tools, inspiration, and resources needed to be the best and most effective men they can be.

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