From Rupture to Repair: How Nervous System Regulation Can Support Trauma Recovery

Course overview

Trauma recovery is a complex dance between the nervous system states of fight, flight, and freeze. This is why a primarily top-down approach is not sufficient to support long-term wellness. If we want to provide holistic care to our clients, we must engage the body through bottom-up processing. Nervous system regulation is one such model, helping our clients return to a state of balance through the reduction of time spent in hyper- or hypoarousal. This is done through both parasympathetic training of the nervous system and by teaching clients how to allow the thwarted (and now stuck) protective responses of fight, flight, and freeze to process through. Both of these skills will be taught during this three hour long, as well as somatic practices that clinicians can use to help protect their own nervous systems as they work with such vicariously traumatizing material. This will support clinicians own long-term sustainability in the field as well as help them to provide their clients with direction in restoring a feeling of safety in their own bodies.