Event Details
Join me for a FREE live online training presented by PESI on somatic and sensory-based approaches to complex trauma.
This four-session intensive will provide practical, phase-oriented strategies you can use right away, including ways to adapt interventions for clients with sensory processing differences such as ADHD and Autism.
Dates: September 18 & 19, 2025
Time: 10:00am–3:00pm Central - 8:00am–1:00pm Pacific
Session Outline:
- Session 1: Getting to the Heart of Trauma Treatment
- A non-pathologizing view of trauma
- How trauma gets stuck in the body and psyche
- Effects of traumatic stress on body and mind
- How traumatic memories are encoded
- Understanding “neuroception” in trauma treatment
- Trauma adaptations: reactive vs. proactive, fawning and appeasement
- Links between traumatic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and DSM diagnoses
- Roadmap to holistic trauma treatment
- Session 2: Phase-Oriented Complex Developmental Trauma Treatment
- Brain and body-based grounding and regulation techniques
- The 5 main and 3 hidden sensory systems
- Impact of trauma on neurodevelopment and sensory systems
- Working with the Window of Tolerance & Capacity
- Identifying and addressing sensory processing differences
- Session 3: Structural Dissociation Theory & Parts Work
- The three main branches of the autonomic nervous system
- Blended autonomic states and common nervous system loops
- How autonomic state shapes perception, cognition, and emotion
- Integrating Structural Dissociation Theory and Parts Work for healing
- Session 4: Stabilization Techniques
- Upregulation, downregulation, and co-regulation methods
- Interventions for safety and nervous system regulation without body-based or breathing techniques
