Adverse Childhood Experiences in the Consulting Room: Treating Traumatic Stress at the Roots

Few experts have done more to raise awareness of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) than Nadine Burke Harris—California's first Surgeon General and founder of San Francisco’s Center for Youth Wellness.

Her groundbreaking work has transformed trauma care by showing that treatment is incomplete without addressing how ACEs reshape brain development, disrupt immune and hormonal systems, and even alter gene expression—effects that can lead to lifelong challenges in health and well-being

In this eye-opening talk, she'll break down what science can teach us about mitigating the effects of ACEs, as well as what we can do to change the future of integrative care.

Polyvagal Interventions for Trauma: Applying the Science of Safety to Clinical Practice

Many clients who enter therapy feel overwhelmed, shut down, or emotionally dysregulated – so it's crucial that we begin our work with embodied, attuned interventions that can mean the difference between healing and retraumatization.

This workshop integrates Polyvagal-informed interventions that provide a roadmap to help clients heal from trauma. You'll learn to translate the science of safety into interventions that foster stabilization, deepen capacity for resourcing, and support memory reprocessing and integration.

You'll discover how to:

• Support clients in dysregulated states using polyvagal strategies through a phase-based mode of trauma care
• Apply these interventions from the get-go, even when the therapeutic relationship is still forming
• Use tracking, titration, and pendulation to gently build your clients' capacity for emotional regulation and integrate traumatic material
• Blend nervous system regulation strategies into your existing clinical framework to enhance client safety and improve therapeutic outcomes

*On-Demand replay of the event will be available within 24 hours after the event ends.