About Dr. Ruth Lanius
Ruth Lanius, M.D., Ph.D. is a Clinician-Scientist, Psychiatry Professor, and Harris-Woodman Chair in Mind-Body Medicine at Western University of Canada, where she is the Director of the Clinical Research Program for PTSD. Ruth has over 25 years of clinical and research experience with trauma-related disorders. She has published four books and over 250 research articles and book chapters. She regularly lectures and teaches internationally about psychological trauma. Ruth is passionate about understanding the first-person experience of traumatized individuals throughout treatment and how it relates to brain functioning. She is regarded as a leading specialist in the mind-body effects of trauma and neuroscience-based approaches to trauma treatment.
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Trauma, Development, and Neuroplasticity
This six-part webinar explores critical brain systems that are affected frequently by trauma, and how altered functioning of each brain system can be associated with certain trauma-related symptoms.
Trauma, Balance, and Recovery
In this course, we look particularly at research and clinical practice with the vestibular/balance and cerebellar systems. New evidence suggests and supports the evidence base for brain-training and other bottom-up therapeutic modalities.
An Advanced-Level Approach to Treating Complex Trauma & Dissociation
With Dr. Ruth Lanius and Dr. Bethany Brand, learn how to use the unique Finding Solid Ground program to address the most difficult challenges experienced by patients who dissociate.
Ruth's Videos
In this video, Dr. Ruth Lanius highlights a new emerging treatment that she has found to be effective based upon her clinical experience and her research, called Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). She explains briefly how DBR works from a neuroscience-based perspective and in what ways she has found DBR to be useful.
In this short video, Dr. Ruth Lanius explains the key differences between bipolar disorder and trauma responses. This can help you better assess and target interventions to help clients find relief.
In this video, Dr. Ruth Lanius discusses critical breakthroughs in trauma research, helping dissociated clients to be present with the environment and their bodies. She shares why we should always begin trauma therapy by honouring our client’s neurobiological adaptive responses.
