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Free Course
Vicarious Trauma
How are you safeguarding your well-being while caring for others? The Vicarious Trauma course, led by Amy Staley, LCSW, is designed to help therapists recognize and manage the often-overlooked impact of being regularly exposed to trauma. This course dives deep into understanding vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout, offering insights into how these challenges can subtly and significantly affect your mental, emotional, and physical health. You’ll learn to identify the signs and symptoms early, ensuring that you can continue your vital work without sacrificing your well-being.
In this course, you’ll gain practical strategies for building resilience and creating a sustainable balance between your professional responsibilities and personal health. From emotional regulation techniques to setting effective boundaries and seeking organizational support, this course equips you with the tools you need to thrive in your career while maintaining your passion and commitment to helping others. Whether you’re a seasoned therapist or new to the field, this course is essential for anyone committed to maintaining their well-being in the demanding world of trauma care.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
In this free introduction to Somatic EMDR, you'll learn how to:
- Understand how EMDR and somatic therapy complement each other to support bottom-up and top-down healing
- Apply the Nest Metaphor as a body-based framework for understanding how a client's history shaped their nervous system, and how present-day triggers connect to that history
- Recognize the difference between escapable and inescapable threat, and how incomplete threat response cycles show up as stuck or dysregulated EMDR processing
- Use curiosity as a clinical guide in Phase 2, slowing the pace so the body can lead through interoception and felt sense
- Apply the Finding the Whispers technique to help clients notice comfortable sensations alongside uncomfortable ones and build interoceptive capacity
- Use Finding the Edge to gently identify the boundaries of activation, staying just at the edge to observe what unfolds without flooding
- Teach clients to track moment-to-moment body changes using naming and noticing skills drawn from Kathy Kain's work
- Practice somatic self-of-the-therapist awareness, tracking countertransference in real time to stay grounded and present with your clients
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This Training
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EMDR and somatic integration
See how the two approaches complement each other to support both bottom-up and top-down healing.
The Nest Metaphor
Use this body-based framework to map how a client's history shaped their nervous system.
Escapable vs. inescapable threat
Recognize how incomplete threat response cycles drive stuck or dysregulated EMDR processing.
Finding the Whispers
Help clients notice comfortable sensations alongside uncomfortable ones to build interoceptive capacity.
Finding the Edge
Identify the boundaries of activation and stay just at the edge to observe what unfolds without flooding.
Somatic self-of-the-therapist awareness
Track countertransference in real time to stay grounded and present with your clients.
Lifetime on-demand access
Go at your own pace and return to the material whenever a client's somatic work calls for it.
Free community membership
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Amy Staley
LCSW
Amy is a LCSW, who received her Masters in Social Work from Boston University. Amy has just under 19 years of experience in the social work field, primarily working with those impacted by trauma as well as the larger mental health system. Amy has provided direct practice, management, and directorship in a variety of clinical settings, including community mental health, behavioral health hospital, and schools. Amy utilizes a trauma informed approach not only in clinical care, but with a macro lens of the larger systems impacting the community. Amy brings a spicy energy with innovative ideas and approaches by thinking outside of traditional mental health structures, flows and processes. Amy has training experience through her professional roles as well as an adjunct faculty at the University of Denver, Graduate School of Social Work for just under 7 years.
Take The Next Step
Ready to Begin?
Your Clients Are Doing EMDR. Their Bodies Are Doing Something Else.
When clients freeze, flood, or stay stuck despite careful preparation, the body is signaling that standard protocol alone is not reaching everything that needs to be reached. This free introduction gives you the Nest Metaphor, the threat response framework, and the somatic awareness foundations to begin bridging EMDR and the body.
Free. Lifetime access. ASWB and NBCC CEs.