How Trauma Hurts the Nervous System

🌿 Program Description When the Body Feels Safe, the Mind Can Heal | Nervous System Training for Therapists is a trauma-informed, nervous-system-led course designed for talking therapists who want to support clients beyond insight alone. Many therapists notice that clients can understand their experiences intellectually, yet still feel overwhelmed, anxious, shut down, or dysregulated in their bodies. When the Body Feels Safe, the Mind Can Heal | Nervous System Training for Therapists addresses this gap by helping practitioners work with the nervous system as the foundation of emotional healing. Grounded in Polyvagal Theory and contemporary trauma-informed practice, this training explores how trauma shapes the nervous system, why clients may “know” they are safe but not feel safe, and how regulation creates the conditions for meaningful therapeutic change. Throughout When the Body Feels Safe, the Mind Can Heal | Nervous System Training for Therapists, you will learn how the vagus nerve communicates safety, connection, and calm — and how subtle cues such as breath, tone, pacing, and presence influence a client’s capacity to stay engaged in therapy. This nervous system training for therapists places strong emphasis on co-regulation. You’ll explore how your own regulated presence already acts as a therapeutic tool, often long before words are fully processed. Rather than introducing complex techniques or rigid protocols, the course focuses on awareness, attunement, and gentle in-session practices that support regulation without overwhelm. The program includes simple, client-led practices such as breathwork, sound, grounding, and orientation, all designed to fit safely and ethically within talking therapy sessions. You’ll also learn how to recognise clear physiological signs that the nervous system is responding, including softening of breath, emotional settling, increased presence, and greater tolerance for therapeutic work.