Understanding the connections between neuroscience and different therapeutic approaches provides you with the knowledge to identify the reasons why your approach is or is not working. You'll be able to pinpoint which brain states your clients are in and use that knowledge to tailor your treatment plan.

• Treating Complex Trauma Clients at the Edge: How Brain Science Can Inform Interventions | Dr. Frank Anderson, colleague of Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Dr. Richard Schwartz, takes you through the neurobiological processes of hyperarousal and parasympathetic withdrawal and the underlying symptoms.


• The Neurobiology of Healing Relationships: Trauma Work Meets Couples Therapy | Learn to identify and access different brain states and leverage the power of relationships for healing trauma from The Relational Life Institute founder Terry Real, LICSW, and Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC.

Discover how to help your clients use their body to aid in healing from past traumas. You'll be able to teach them to access positive resource states, clarify the unconscious core beliefs that shape their responses, and embody resilience in their lives.

• The Body as Healer: Working from the Bottom Up | Peter Levine, Ph.D., author, and developer of Somatic Experiencing®, is going to show you how to read clients' physical and emotional cues and leverage their bodies natural healing instincts in therapy.


• Bringing the Body into Therapy: Clinical Tools from Somatic Experiencing | Explore how implicit memory shapes physiological and psychological responses to trauma and recovery and how to use that information to guide your client sessions from Abi Blakeslee, Ph.D., SEP, CMT, MFT.


• Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi: Listening to the Body | Co-director of the Hakomi Institute of California, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, will provide you with key insights and techniques to keep yourself grounded and to use your own somatic awareness to aid in your work with trauma clients.

Take the knowledge of world-leading treatment experts to effectively adapt your therapeutic approach so you can get past your trauma client's defences and set them up for success with therapy.

• Safe and Sound: How Your Voice Can Contribute to Healing Trauma | Discover how to use your voice to support the regulation of your trauma clients' nervous system to support healing from Stephen Porges, Ph.D., author of The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation.


• The Misattuned Family: Techniques for Healing Attachment Trauma | Dafna Lender, LCSW, will provide insights on how to build the connection between parent and child using an approach focusing on the physiologic, nonverbal connection, and learn to guide parents through reparative work around family traumas.


• Racial Trauma: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Trauma Rooted in Racism | Join racial trauma expert Monnica Williams, Ph.D., and change the way you work with race-based experiences in therapy as she gives you the tools to help clients name, express, and heal from racial trauma.


• Ancient Wisdom for Today's Ailments: Connecting the Body, Mind, and Spirit | Integrative psychotherapist Sabrina N'Diaye, Ph.D., LCSW-C, reveals the ancient practices that allow us to reconnect with the healing power of our bodies, minds, and spirits.