Trauma leaves traces that shape how the body functions long after the event has passed. In this eye-opening presentation, Professor Cyril Tarquinio bridges psychology and biology, revealing how early adversity and chronic stress disrupt the body’s stress response and fuel chronic inflammation. You’ll discover how these biological changes influence mood, immunity, and emotional regulation — and how recognizing them can sharpen assessment, deepen empathy, and guide more effective treatment. Through this lens, symptoms become meaningful signals rather than problems to be suppressed. You’ll leave with practical tools to help clients restore safety and regulation in both mind and body — and a renewed understanding of how true healing emerges when we address the whole human system.

Trauma doesn’t just shape emotions—it rewires the stories clients tell. Subtle linguistic shifts—fragmented timelines, emotional breaks, missing details—can reveal deep attachment wounds and unintegrated trauma.

In this session, you’ll learn to spot these language patterns as diagnostic clues and use narrative-based tools like symbolic storytelling, indirect autobiography, and “unsaid sentences” to access and integrate implicit memories.

Gain practical, evidence-informed techniques to help clients rebuild coherence, restore safety, and reclaim their life stories.

Therapists working with clients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder often face intense relational dynamics, emotional volatility, and repeated ruptures. These challenges can feel overwhelming—unless we understand what’s driving them. This training reframes BPD as a trauma disorder rooted in attachment injury and relational invalidation. Using a DBT-informed lens, you’ll learn to identify the control strategies clients use to protect themselves and how to respond with attunement, repair, and emotional safety. Walk away with practical tools and a renewed confidence in your ability to build secure, healing relationships with even your most complex clients.

Complex PTSD requires more than symptom management—it calls for an integrative, compassionate, and evidence-based approach that honors the depth of chronic trauma. Join Prof. Andreas Maercker, a leading expert in trauma, for a transformative exploration of Complex PTSD through an Integrative CBT lens. You’ll gain clarity on diagnosis, confidence in applying cutting-edge CBT strategies, and renewed inspiration in your role as a healer. Walk away with tools to help clients move from fragmentation to coherence, from survival to connection—and experience your own shift toward deeper therapeutic presence and effectiveness.

In a world marked by chronic stress, isolation, and collective trauma, many clients—and therapists—struggle to feel safe, connected, and present. The nervous system, overwhelmed and dysregulated, often defaults to protection over connection, making healing relationships harder to build and sustain. In this timely and deeply relevant training, Dr. Frank Anderson brings together the neuroscience of attachment and the transformative power of Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clinicians restore co-regulation and relational trust. You’ll learn how trauma disrupts the brain’s capacity for connection—and how IFS principles can guide clients back to safety, compassion, and healing. Through practical strategies and clinical insight, you’ll discover how to foster presence and connection not only within your clients, but also within yourself. Whether you're working with individuals, couples, or groups, this training will equip you to be a more grounded, attuned, and effective healing presence in a disconnected world.

This session is not endorsed by, sponsored by, or affiliated with the IFS Institute and does not qualify for IFS Institute credits or certification.

The loss of a loving, stable childhood or nurturing attachment figures often goes unseen—yet its emotional cost can shape a client’s sense of self. When grief is avoided, sorrow can turn into anger, shame, or self-blame, leaving clients trapped in cycles of rejection and abandonment.In this session, you’ll learn a mindfulness-based, trauma-informed approach that uses somatic interventions to help clients safely experience and regulate grief—finding the optimal balance of sadness without overwhelm. You’ll discover techniques to increase tolerance of grief, help clients befriend their sorrow, and cultivate self-compassion and healing in the body as well as the mind.

Experiences of racism and chronic racial stress are not just social or cultural issues—they are deeply psychological and can create trauma symptoms similar to other forms of trauma. Clients may present with dysregulation, hypervigilance, avoidance, or somatic distress that is often misunderstood or overlooked in traditional therapy. In this session, you’ll learn to recognize the clinical indicators of racial trauma, understand how they overlap with—but also differ from—PTSD, and explore trauma-informed, culturally responsive strategies to help clients process these experiences safely and effectively. Walk away with practical tools and approaches to support clients navigating the psychological impact of racism, enhancing both clinical effectiveness and cultural sensitivity in your practice.

Treating complex trauma with EMDR requires more than following a protocol—it demands precision, safety, and clinical flexibility.In this session, you’ll learn to distinguish complex PTSD from other trauma presentations, use the traumatic index to guide your interventions, and maintain safety in cases of ongoing traumatic stress. We’ll also explore when deeper stabilization is essential before reprocessing, and how to strategically select target memories and move between them as treatment unfolds. Walk away with clear, practical strategies to make EMDR both safer and more effective for your most complex trauma clients.

In today’s hyperconnected world, trauma is no longer confined to war zones or disasters—it can emerge from constant digital exposure. Drawing on his clinical work with refugees and survivors of armed conflict, Luis Muiño explores how cyberbullying, vicarious trauma, and chronic online stress can produce anxiety, dysregulation, and trauma-like responses. In this session, you’ll learn to identify the ways digital overexposure contributes to stress and trauma, apply trauma-informed strategies to support clients affected by online harms, and draw clinical insights from conflict-related trauma to better understand and empathize with everyday digital suffering. Through real-life cases, you’ll gain practical tools to navigate the subtle yet pervasive impact of modern hyperconnection and enhance your effectiveness as a clinician.

Compassion is becoming a powerful therapeutic approach for addressing guilt, shame, perfectionism, and self-criticism, especially in clients with trauma and insecure attachment patterns. In this session, you’ll discover how attachment-based compassion therapy restores trust and self-affection, helping clients repair relational wounds and transform their self-image. You’ll gain practical tools and strategies to integrate compassion into your clinical work, from working with early attachment figures to fostering self-compassion in the moment of trauma activation. By the end, you’ll be able to apply these approaches seamlessly in practice, guiding clients toward emotional healing while increasing your confidence and effectiveness as a therapist.

In a world that feels fast, fragmented, and overwhelming, the body remains our most reliable map. Trauma leaves its imprint in the body, but these traces also hold the keys to regulation, safety, and connection. This session explores Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, teaching clinicians to read bodily signals not only as signs of distress, but as gateways to peri-traumatic strengths—the implicit resources the nervous system used to survive even the most difficult experiences. You’ll learn how to help clients reconnect with their bodies, access somatic wisdom, and transform fragmented experience into integration, resilience, and growth—guiding them safely from disorientation to healing.

In a world filled with uncertainty and chronic stress, our nervous systems are constantly guiding us—often in ways we barely notice. In this session, Deb Dana will help you understand and honor your nervous system’s protective responses, and learn to use storytelling through a Polyvagal lens to make sense of client experiences. You’ll explore the transformative power of micro-moments to support regulation and discover how engaging the ventral vagal system fosters safety, connection, and resilience—for both individuals and communities. By the end, you’ll have practical, Polyvagal-informed tools to guide clients toward regulation, deepen connection, and cultivate wellbeing, even in the most uncertain times.

This training will focus on the principles of attachment – the most comprehensive and empirically based developmental, relational approach to personality growth and development ever created. Attachment science tells us who we are - our deepest longings and fears, and how we grow into emotional balance and resilience or become stuck in cycles of depression, anxiety and trauma responses. It provides a map for the therapist so that accurate attunement to each client’s inner and relational world is facilitated and a secure connection with self and with key others is made possible. Emotionally Focused Therapy uses this map to consistently and precisely shape core change events that significantly change the core patterns that make up the clients inner and relational world.