David Grill, MFCC
TLC Certified Trainer

David Grill is currently the Clinical Director of the Treatment Center for Traumatic Life Experiences and Co-director of Trauma Prevention Services. He is a Certified Trauma Specialist and has been involved in the understanding and treatment of trauma since 1987. He has extensive training in cognitive, behavioral and somatic treatment approaches and is certified in the more innovative techniques of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Thought Field Therapy (TFT), Traumatic Incident Reduction (TIR), and Somatic Experiencing (SE).

Dave teaches the following courses:

Managing and Discharging Activation

The Managing and Discharging Activation course will focus on the instinctual survival roll of activation/arousal and the mechanisms that perpetuate it once the traumatic incident or threat has passed. Procedures that will directly aid in managing and reducing and discharging activation that occurs during a traumatic incident will be demonstrated and discussed. Understanding how to reduce and allow for gradual discharge of Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) hyperarousal enhances the success of resolving the trauma and aids in restoration of homeostasis and balance, and a return to normal functioning.

Psychophysiology of Trauma

This presentation focuses on understanding the physiology of trauma by understanding the normal life-preserving survival responses of “flight/fight/freeze” in an individual and how they fulfill nature’s species-preserving function. Investigating the disturbance of these responses forms the essential foundation for understanding symptoms that results in Post-Traumatic Stress and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Trauma is fundamentally a highly activated incomplete psycho-physiological response to threat, frozen in time. What is significant in the resolution of trauma is the completion of incompleted responses to threat and the ensuing discharge of the energy that was mobilized for survival.