Embodied Healing: Advanced Diagnostics & Intervention Skills for C-PTSD

When insight isn't enough: advanced nervous system-informed approaches for diagnosing and healing complex trauma.
About this Event

Advanced Clinical Skills for Complex Trauma and Embodied Connection

Many therapists are highly skilled at helping clients understand their trauma, yet still find themselves working with clients who remain stuck in cycles of emotional overwhelm, dissociation, chronic stress, relationship difficulties, and persistent nervous system dysregulation. This immersive advanced training is designed for clinicians who want to improve their diagnostic skills and move beyond insight alone and develop practical, body-informed skills for working with complex trauma.

Grounded in current neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic psychotherapy principles, participants will learn how to recognize the physiological and relational impacts of complex trauma and apply effective strategies that foster safety, regulation, resilience, and connection. Through a combination of didactic instruction, case application, and experiential exercises, attendees will deepen their understanding of Complex PTSD, developmental trauma, attachment wounds, dissociation, and survival responses while building confidence in supporting clients through embodied healing processes.

This training is ideal for social workers, counselors, and other behavioral health professionals seeking advanced clinical skills for working with survivors of developmental trauma, attachment trauma, chronic stress, and Complex PTSD.

Led by nationally trained trauma specialists Dr. Cat Poehling, LCSW-BACS, SEP, and Emily Madeira, LMSW, Somatic Experiencing® Advanced Student, this workshop combines decades of clinical, supervisory, educational, and research experience with experiential learning that allows participants to embody the concepts they will use with clients. Whether you work in private practice, community mental health, healthcare, schools, or integrated care settings, you will leave with a deeper understanding of trauma, a more refined clinical lens, and practical interventions that can immediately strengthen your work with clients living with the lasting effects of complex trauma.

Learning Objectives

1. Participants will identify and analyze three disturbances in self-organization (DSO) that define Complex Post Traumatic Disorder.
2. Participants will define and apply three key elements of complex trauma, including its developmental, attachment, and racial dimensions, and describe their prevalence and etiology.
3. Participants will identify three evidence-based interventions to treat C-PTSD.
4. Participants will apply and analyze three embodied movement interventions for treating C-PTSD.

CEUs

Social Work: LABSWE Approved 6 hours clinical, in person

Counselors: Applied for 3 Diagnosis, 2 Helping Relationship, 1 Counseling Theory

Lunch Provided

Agenda

🕑: 09:00 AM - 04:00 PM
Advanced Clinical Skills for Complex Trauma and Embodied Connection