Do you ever find yourself getting stuck and exhausted with clients who've experienced trauma? You're not alone. Traditional trauma approaches only get us so far, as our clients' unresolved conflicts inevitably keep sabotaging their efforts toward healing. The truth is that stubborn trauma often requires complex treatment, not just standalone therapy. In this session, Dr. Schwartz covers the essentials of somatic interventions, parts work, and EMDR, and how combining them in an integrative approach is the key to treating particularly stubborn trauma — including video demonstrations of these mind-body approaches broken down for concrete, practical use. You'll also learn how to:

• Access and work with preverbal memories in therapy
• Build powerful somatic and imaginal resources to support trauma healing
• Integrate somatic repatterning, parts work, and EMDR Therapy for deeper, more effective treatment

Duration: 2 h

Dr. Nelson examines sexual trauma through a systemic lens, addressing how victim, perpetrator, and rescuer roles can develop during treatment, and presents integrative relationship therapy techniques for both individual and couple work. The session moves through three treatment stages — investigating the narrative, processing grief, and establishing a healthy sexual vision — and introduces a pleasure-focused paradigm to help clients move beyond a dysfunction-only framework, along with strategies for managing triggers in session.

Duration: 4 h

More than any other obstacle, shame can block the joy and peace traumatized clients seek in therapy — feelings of worthlessness prevent them from metabolizing positive experiences, and shame can sabotage progress even as clients get better. In this session, Dr. Fisher explores how to understand and accept the role of shame in surviving traumatic events, undo the negative beliefs that fuel feelings of inferiority and unworthiness, and help clients connect with and move through shame to make space for pride and self-love.

Duration: 4 h

Sometimes the biggest behaviors come in the smallest containers — whether externalizing (screaming, crying, hitting) or internalizing (anxiety, depression, suicidal ideation). Too often, treatment focuses on extinguishing the behavior without understanding what's driving it. In this session, Paris Goodyear-Brown offers practical play therapy interventions based on TraumaPlay®, engaging the family in setting treatment goals, building adaptive coping, and strengthening the parent-child attachment while shifting paradigms around problematic behavior. Exploring the stress response system helps clients build anger management skills, expand emotional literacy, and increase coherence in their trauma narratives.

Duration: 8 h

Dr. Anderson explores how trauma shows up not just in individuals but in institutions and cultures, examining the similarities and differences between singular and global trauma. Using IFS techniques and concepts, this session helps clinicians expand their treatment approach to address the pervasive, often-hidden effects of cultural, institutional, transgenerational, and relational trauma — including why comparing different types of violation can be counter-productive to healing.

Duration: 2 h

Dr. Hayes explores how evidence-based therapy is shifting from syndrome-specific protocols toward process-based approaches that center the individual client's needs, strengths, and cultural context. The session covers how to distinguish process-based therapy from traditional protocol-driven models, recognize the psychological processes underlying a client's struggles, build case conceptualizations around mechanisms of change, and apply psychological flexibility from ACT as a central driver of that change.

Duration: 6 h