Unlock the secrets of trauma's impact on the body and mind in this groundbreaking 4-session intensive. Join our expert presenter as they guide you through cutting-edge approaches to trauma treatment, blending neuroscience, sensory processing, and phase-oriented techniques. You'll discover:
The connections between trauma, the nervous system, and personality
A holistic, phase-oriented approach to treating complex developmental trauma
Implement effective strategies for regulating the autonomic nervous system
Tailor interventions for clients with sensory processing challenges (ADHD, Autism, and more)
Utilize both body-based and non-body-based techniques for optimal healing
Whether you're a seasoned trauma specialist or new to the field, this comprehensive training will revolutionize your practice. Gain the skills to help your clients move from survival mode to thriving, with practical tools you can use immediately. Don't miss this opportunity to transform your trauma treatment approach and achieve better outcomes for your clients!
All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.
Continuing Education Information: Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this non-interactive self-study package. Program content is reviewed periodically per accrediting board rules for currency and appropriateness for credit. Credit approvals are subject to change. Please note, your licensing board dictates whether self-study is an acceptable form of continuing education, as well as which credit types are acceptable for continuing education hours. Please refer to your licensing board's rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval.
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Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your profession's standards.
For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.
Earn up to 8.0 CE hours. Please see below, for more details, as credit amounts vary by jurisdiction and profession.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to offer continuing education for counsellors and psychotherapists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This self-study activity is approved for 8.0 credit hours.

PESI, Inc., #1062, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: January 27, 2023 - January 27, 2026. Social workers completing this course receive 8.25 Clinical continuing education credits.
Course Level: Intermediate Format: Recorded asynchronous distance. Full attendance is required; no partial credits will be offered for partial attendance.
Canadian Social Workers: Canadian provinces may accept activities approved by the ASWB for ongoing professional development.
PESI, Inc. is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. PESI, Inc. maintains responsibility for the program. This program is approved for 8.0 self-study continuing education hours. Full credit statement at: www.pesi.com/cpa-statement
This self-study activity qualifies for 8.0 continuing education clock hours as required by many national and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your activity advertisement and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific requirements.
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Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.
Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be American United States-ian....she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Linda Thai maintains a private practice. She receives compensation as a presenter, and she receives a speaking honorarium from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Linda Thai is the co-founder of Yoga & Twelve-Step Recovery (Y12SR). She is a board member for Asian mental health Collective. She serves as a board member for Asian Mental Health Collective.
Access never expires for this product.
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Session 1: Getting to the Heart of Trauma Treatment: The Latest Advancements in How People Get Trapped by Trauma and New Approaches to Treatment
A non-pathologizing view of treating trauma survivors
How trauma gets stuck in the body and in the psyche
What traumatic stress really does in a human’s body and mind
How traumatic memories become encoded and remembered
Critical keys to understand about “neuroception” in trauma treatment
Trauma Adaptation #1: Reactive vs proactive responses
Trauma Adaptation #2: Fawning and appeasement responses
The important links between traumatic stress, nervous system dysregulation, and DSM diagnoses
A roadmap to holistic approaches to treating traumatic stress
Session 2: Phase-Oriented Complex Developmental Trauma Treatment: The Nervous System & Sensory Processing
Brain- and body-based techniques for grounding, resourcing and regulating the nervous system
The 5 main sensory systems and the 3 hidden sensory systems.
The impact of trauma upon pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems and the nervous system.
Working with the Window of Tolerance & Window of Capacity
Sensory processing differences: what is it and how does it present?
Sensory processing differences: strategies for grounding and resourcing.
Session 3: Structural Dissociation Theory & Parts Work: Traumatic Fragmentation & Re-Integration
The three main branches of the autonomic nervous system
Blended autonomic nervous system states
Common autonomic nervous system loops
How autonomic state drives perception, cognition and affective responses
Combining Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory with Parts Work, trauma responses and the nervous system fragmentation that require targeted interventions to support integration and healing.
Session 4: Phase-oriented complex developmental trauma treatment: Techniques for stabilization through coregulation, upregulation, downregulation, and sensory grounding.
Techniques for nervous system upregulation and downregulation and coregulation.
A whole bunch of interventions for establishing safety and for working with a dysregulated nervous system that do not require going into the body or the use of breathing techniques.
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