Nervous System Regulation in Therapy
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DAY 1
Understanding The Nervous System
Tuesday, October 7 2025
LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)
10:00AM EST
OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame
Featuring:
Peter A. Levine, PhD
Trauma and the Nervous System: Foundations for Safety, Regulation, and Healing
- Explain how trauma reshapes nervous system function and identify effective ways to introduce this psychoeducation to clients
- Apply somatic regulation strategies such as “vu” humming and orienting, with guidance on when and how to integrate them in session
- Utilize orienting, containment, and interoception to establish safety, track sensations, and prepare clients for deeper trauma resolution
Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Nervous System Literacy in Therapy: Foundations for Healing and Resilience
- Understand the big-picture importance of nervous system literacy and why regulation is central to effective healing and therapy outcomes
- Recognize what regulation looks like in real time through practices like vagal toning and breathwork
- Explore how building regulation skills opens pathways to safety, resilience, and post-traumatic growth—supporting clients and therapists to move from survival toward thriving
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW
Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation (replay)
- Learn how attachment cries, defense cascades, and shutdown states shape the nervous system’s response to trauma
- Distinguish between fawn, appease, freeze, and shutdown—and explore how each state reflects a unique survival strategy
- Help clients map their window of capacity, recognize their somatic patterns, and develop personalized practices for self and community care
This is a replay of one of the most loved videos from the Somatic Approaches in Therapy Summit
Jordan Quaglia, PhD
What is Nervous System Regulation? Bridging Neuroscience and Practice
- Understand why nervous system regulation can mean different things in science and practice
- Recognize the paradox of nervous system regulation and how it shapes our language and methods
- Expand your view of regulation to include top-down, bottom-up, and social pathways
- Identify your strengths and blind spots in how you regulate and teach regulation
- Strengthen your flexibility and integration across diverse strategies for resilience
Rick Hanson, PhD
Neuroplasticity, Resilience, and The Nervous System
- Understand how the brain and autonomic nervous system work together to shape stress, safety, and healing
- Learn how to recognize and regulate sympathetic activation in the moment and support parasympathetic recovery
- Learn how neuroplasticity supports long-term resilience and helps shift the nervous system from reactivity to create lasting change
- Understand how compassion and self-compassion act as powerful regulators for both clients and therapists
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW
Nervous System Regulation with Neurodiverse Clients: Sensory-Affirming Neurodivergent Care at the Intersection of ADHD, Autism, Trauma and Sensory Processing (Recorded Live)
- Apply the Window of Tolerance (or Window of Capacity) to support neurodiverse clients
- Explore how trauma impacts pediatric neurodevelopment, the sensory systems, and overall nervous system regulation
- Learn practical guidelines and three interventions for sensory avoidance and sensory seeking behaviors
- Watch Linda hold a Q&A with live audience
LIVE Deep-Dive Workshop 3pm ET (upgrade required)
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW
Trauma, Neurodevelopment, and Sensory Processing: Practical Tools for Clinicians
Join us live for this special live workshop and Q&A with Linda Thai October 7th at 3pm ET/12pm PT (recording available). Access to this workshop is included in the Event Training Package or available for individual purchase.
DAY 2
Clinical Tools & Practices for Regulation
Wednesday, October 8 2025
LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)
10:00AM EST
OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame
Featuring:
Deb Dana, MSW, LMSW
Nervous System Strategies for Creating Safety (Recorded Live)
- Track moment-to-moment shifts in regulation and spot early signs that a client may be moving outside their window of tolerance
- Apply practical, polyvagal-informed tools for both high-arousal (fight/flight) and low-arousal (shutdown) states
- Deepen co-regulation capacity while also helping clients build their own “regulation toolkit” for long-term resilience
- Watch Deb hold a Q&A with live audience
LIVE Deep-Dive Workshop 5pm ET (upgrade required)
Deb Dana, MSW, LMSW
Nervous System Strategies for Creating Safety
Join us live for this special live workshop and Q&A with Deb Dana October 8th at 5pm ET/2pm PT (recording available). Access to this workshop is included in the Event Training Package or available for individual purchase.
Chinwé Williams, PhD
Regulating from Within: Nervous System Tools for Therapists and Clients
- Make sense of the neurobiology of stress and resilience to better understand how clients’ nervous systems respond to challenge and recovery
- Apply practical, evidence-based regulation techniques—such as grounding, breath, and orienting practices—that you can immediately bring into sessions
- Strengthen both client care and your own therapeutic presence by integrating nervous system tools that reduce stress and foster resilience on both sides of the relationship
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
Attunement and Regulation in Virtual Therapy: Tracking the Nervous System Online
- Identify somatic indicators of nervous system states—such as breath, micro-expressions, tone, and posture—within the limited frame of a virtual session
- Assess client arousal levels and window of tolerance in real time online, and apply strategies for checking in without disrupting therapeutic flow
- Implement and adapt nervous system regulation interventions for teletherapy, using pacing, tone, and presence to support client safety and engagement despite technical or environmental constraints
Download a copy of Manuela’s Ethics & Safety Agreements Checklist for Virtual Somatic Therapy.
Bonnie Badenoch, PhD
Co-Regulation as Treatment: How Safety and Attunement Rewire the Nervous System
- Explore why the myth of self-regulation persists and uncover why co-regulation is not only natural, but essential to healing and growth
- Learn the neuroscience of attunement and safety, and how moment-to-moment nervous system exchanges between therapist and client create pathways for transformation
- Build practical skills to become a safe, attuned container, supporting long-term nervous system rewiring through connection rather than quick fixes
Pat Ogden, PhD
Regulation and Resilience: Exploring the Sensorimotor Approach to Developing Resources
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Understand the foundational role of resources in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and how they support regulation, safety, and resilience in trauma healing.
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Explore and experience somatic resourcing practices—such as grounding, centering, and containment—to help clients access strength, stability, and self-regulation.
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Identify how therapists can track bodily cues for under- or over-activation and cultivate their own somatic resources to enhance presence and co-regulation in session.
DAY 3
Nervous System Resilience & Integration
Thursday, October 9 2025
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Licia Sky
Synchrony and Safety: Embodied Presence in Trauma Healing
- Understand how trauma alters brain networks and nervous system responses, leading to hypervigilance, shutdown, and difficulty regulating emotions
- Explore the role of body awareness, sensation, and co-regulation in re-establishing safety, presence, and trust in therapy
- Learn embodied practices—such as mindful breath, gentle movement, and attuned therapist presence—that support regulation, resilience, and self-relationship
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW
Coping with Toxic Stress in Difficult Times: Nervous System Regulation & Resilience
- Discover how toxic stress impacts the body on individual, systemic, and collective levels
- Understand core nervous system functions and recognize the body’s toxic stress responses
- Build resilience through regulation strategies that strengthen personal well-being and foster stronger, more connected communities
Jordan Quaglia, PhD
Compassion as Container and Compass: Navigating Nervous System Regulation Through Care
- Discover how compassion supports nervous system regulation—not just as a tool, but as a foundation that makes other strategies more effective
- Understand the difference between empathy and compassion, and why one can overwhelm us, while the other helps us stay grounded and present
- Learn how bringing care into your approach, toward yourself and others, expands your capacity to regulate stress and restore balance
- Reflect on self-care and self-compassion as part of a bigger picture of connection and resilience
- Explore how caring for yourself can also support the people and spaces around you, including how nervous system health is always relational
David Treleaven, PhD
Broadening the Window of Tolerance for Resilience and Healing
- Explore what it means to expand the window of tolerance and how an overemphasis on “safetyism” can inadvertently undermine resilience and natural grit
- Learn practices to widen the window of tolerance and deepen resilience, self-trust, and nervous system regulation
- Understand the value of promoting resilience and complexity tolerance in our current times
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14 Continuing Education (CE) Credits
included with purchase for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT’s, Nurses and others. Provider approvals with APA, ASWB, and ANCC.
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Guided Meditation Library
short clips of all guided practices from the event, to help you revisit often and use them in your sessions
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Includes 2 LIVE Workshops and Q&A with Deb Dana, LCSW and Linda Thai, LMSW, MSW
Gain access to 2 live, exclusive workshops with Q&A!
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW is on Tuesday, October 7th at 3pm ET/12pm PT.
Deb Dana, LCSW is on Wednesday, October 8th at 5pm ET/2pm PT.
Join us for a live integration & practice lab hosted by Clarissa Cigrand, PhD, one week later to integrate skills and insights in real time.
Can’t make the live call? Lifetime access to the workshop recording is included.
CE Credits
14 CE Credits are in included in the Summit Training Package for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs and many others. Provider approvals with:
American Psychological Association (APA)
Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
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What Previous Attendees Said...
Incredibly impressed by the integration of research, practical strategies, and down to earth sharing of information. I felt as if I was receiving a one-on-one teaching session and made pages of notes to reflect on later. Thank you so much for such an uplifting and informative event.
Natalie P,
Psychotherapist
A perfect mix of research background, overview of compassion based therapy and concrete information of how to integrate it in the daily clinical practice! Exactly what I needed at this point in my therapeutic experience with compassion-based therapies.
Julian M,
Therapist
The discussions were so intimate, grounded and touching. There was a natural warmth to the interaction that was both skilled and focused, and as a result the information presented had more meaning.
Brian Q,
Clinical Services Manager
Kara C,
Psyschologist
As a clinician of color, this was such a necessary panel. What a beautiful discussion–the guided meditation felt like poetry to my soul. Thank you, thank you!
Natalia B,
Psychologist
Felt like I was bathed in a sea of compassion.
Paula C,
LMFT
Heartfelt. Learning packed.
Megan R,
Counselor
Charlotte,
Germany
Loved that each talk incorporated at least one direct practice that I can use in sessions with clients. Good mix of experiental and theoretical.
Isaac F,
Social Worker
I thought I knew quite a lot already about “therapeutic presence”, but this event helped me to gain a lot more and deeper insight. Thank you so much for this profound overview of such an important theme.
Katharina W,
Psychotherapist
Excellent speakers; light and conversational tone (not “too academic”)
Charlotte,
Jungian Analyst
I had goose bumps throughout this whole hour because I can feel how real and important this is in my bones. I am currently in grad school and have found myself feeling very down for the past year and burdened by western mental health approaches (i.e. diagnosis). This event inspired me to continue listening to my soul and doing this work in a harmonious and healing way that might not look like what they teach in school. Thank you
Jill M,
Mental Health Counselor
Such a helpful and dual-purpose Summit — teaching us things we can use and apply to both our clients and to our selves for self-care! Loved that last question about how to “recover” after a session with a client with a heavy diagnosis.
Henrietta L,
LPC
Note: In response to many requests, the Event Pricing has been extended through the end of the day. Please place your orders soon. If you have questions or difficulties while ordering, please contact us at community@theawakenetwork.com.
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Own recordings of all Summit Training Sessions, plus exclusive bonuses for continual inspiration and learning.
Earn CE Credits
14 CE Credits are included for Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFTs and many others. Provider approvals with APA, AMA, and ANC.
Buy-1, Gift-1 Offer
Get a second package FREE to gift to a friend or colleague, includes 14 CE credits for you both.
+ Access 2 Workshops
Gain access to 2 special workshops with Q&A — featuring Deb Dana, LCSW and Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW.
Last day for special event pricing!
$497
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30 Day Money Back Guarantee
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