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Trauma Training
Applied Neuroscience for Trauma Therapists
A 1-Day Clinical Training on Brain-Based Interventions
A grounded, clinically usable introduction to the neuroscience of trauma, taught by a clinical psychologist and applied neuroscientist who has spent two decades translating brain science into work therapists can actually do in the room.
Neuroscience is everywhere in our field right now, and most of us have been left to piece it together from books, podcasts, and conferences that talk over our heads. You know the amygdala matters. You have heard about polyvagal, predictive processing, and neuroplasticity. What is often missing is a clear, clinically honest answer to what to do with any of it in your next session.
This one-day training closes that gap. Dr. Kate Truitt walks you through the neuroscience of trauma in language that respects your clinical intelligence, then shows you exactly how the brain and body science translates into interventions you can bring into the room the following week. Rather than treating trauma responses as symptoms to eliminate, you will learn to work with them as organized survival adaptations the brain built to protect safety, belonging, and agency.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
Throughout the day, you will learn how to:
- Partner with Amy the Amygdala to help clients relate to survival responses with compassion and curiosity instead of shame or self-blame.
- Guide clients through the Amygdala's Core Values Check-In to identify which core value is being protected in the moment: safety, lovability and belonging, or agency.
- Use the iCASE Check-In to track present-moment experience across five domains: interoception, cognitions, autonomic nervous system, somatosensory experience, and emotions.
- Run the CASE for Survival Assessment to map how a mild stressor activates a client's cognitive, autonomic, somatosensory, and emotional systems in real time.
- Apply CPR for the Amygdala as a foundational regulation protocol for interrupting survival activation and restoring cognitive flexibility in session.
- Use the Emotions Thermometer to help clients name emotional activation and nervous system intensity as they move through the session.
- Integrate the Interoceptive NeuroEmpowerment Scale (INES) to measure how internally available an adaptive state feels to your client, and use that data to guide pacing.
- Teach the Sigh Breath and Mindful Touch practice to cue safety and support autonomic settling through breath and self-applied touch.
- Choose from four types of Mindful Touch including butterfly tapping and other adaptations for clients where gentle touch is not accessible or appropriate.
- Build a Client-Centered Cognitive Distraction Inventory of working-memory interventions that interrupt rumination, threat searching, and trauma or grief loops by giving the brain a new intentional task.
- Guide Resilient Target Identification to help clients select an adaptive emotional or energetic state their nervous system can begin to access.
- Run the GROW Practice to deepen and anchor a client's chosen Resilient Target through repeated, targeted experience.
- Deliver the Creating Possibilities Protocol a structured neuroplasticity-based intervention for strengthening adaptive state ownership and expanding access to future possibility.
- Introduce the Resilient Brain Program as an ongoing resource for nervous system care and self-directed regulation between sessions.
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
Understand trauma as adaptive survival, not pathology
See how threat exposure reshapes circuits involved in detection, regulation, executive function, and relational safety, and how those systems can reorganize through targeted, repeated experience. Your case conceptualization sharpens because you can name what the brain is trying to do.
Work with the NeuroTriad Model and Brain Partnership framework
Move fluidly between the three intersecting systems the brain uses to protect safety, belonging, and agency. When a client is stuck, you will know which system to reach for and how to help it update.
Translate predictive processing into clinical decisions
Understand why insight alone is often not enough for change, and how safety, emotional salience, interoceptive access, and repetition create the conditions for adaptive updating. Your interventions land differently when you know why they work.
Use interoception as a clinical anchor
Learn to read and work with what the body is signaling before the client can put it into words. The INES gives you a shared vocabulary for measuring adaptive state accessibility in real time.
Interrupt survival activation without shutting the client down
CPR for the Amygdala, Sigh Breath, and mindful touch give you a graded set of tools for meeting a nervous system where it is and moving it toward regulation without forcing the process.
Learn on your schedule
Live attendance is followed by on-demand access. You can revisit any module whenever a case brings you back to it. Lifetime access is included.
Build resilience as a repeatable neuroplastic practice
Resilient Target Identification, the GROW Practice, and the Creating Possibilities Protocol give you a structured way to help the brain strengthen access to adaptive states through repeated, emotionally salient learning.
Free community membership
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Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Dr. Kate Truitt
PhD, MA, MBA
Dr. Kate Truitt is a clinical psychologist, applied neuroscientist, and international educator whose work sits where rigorous research meets real nervous systems, especially the ones shaped by trauma, chronic stress, grief, and long seasons of survival. For more than two decades, she has focused on translating complex brain and body science into ethically grounded, evidence-based strategies clinicians can actually use in the room.
She is the creator of the NeuroTriad Model and Brain Partnership, integrative frameworks that draw from affective neuroscience, psychophysiology, interoception, and experience-dependent neuroplasticity. Her work examines how threat exposure reshapes the circuits involved in detection, regulation, executive function, and relational safety, and, just as importantly, how those systems can reorganize through repeated, targeted experiences that rebuild agency and capacity over time.
Dr. Truitt founded the Truitt Institute to shorten the distance between neuroscience and care. She leads the award-winning clinical team at Dr. Kate Truitt & Associates and, through her leadership of the Amy Research Foundation and the Trauma Counseling Center of Los Angeles, advances research, training, and accessible support for trauma-exposed communities. She is the author of Keep Breathing and Healing in Your Hands, and her newest bestseller, The Brain Partnership Toolbox, offers a practical, science-rooted guide for addiction, mental health, and trauma treatment professionals working inside high-demand systems.
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Bring the Brain Into the Room
Neuroscience should not live only in textbooks and conferences. This foundational training teaches the core principles of applied neuroscience for trauma treatment, giving you a coherent framework and a set of practical, evidence-based interventions you can begin using in your next session.