Training/Workshops
Somatic and Nervous System Approaches in Clinical Practice
Integrating the Science of Safety, Connection, and Healing
DATES
March 20, 21, 27 & 28, 2026
TIME
9am to 5:30pm (1.5 hour lunch)
PRESENTER
Ruby Jo Walker/Southwest Trauma Training
LOCATION
Love Life Therapy Center, LLC, 1430 E Ft Lowell Rd, Suite 210, Tucson, AZ (In Person)
CEU HOURS
6.5 CEU hours per workshop/26 CEU hours total
This workshop series brings contemporary nervous system science into practical clinical application. Participants will learn innovative approaches for supporting regulation, transforming entrenched survival patterns, and expanding the possibilities for healing. Through a blend of teaching, experiential learning, and live demonstrations, each workshop offers both a deep conceptual framework and hands-on strategies that clinicians can immediately integrate into their practice.
Each session can be taken individually as a stand-alone training, or bundled together as a series at a discounted rate. Together, they form a comprehensive, somatically grounded learning experience that equips practitioners with the knowledge and skills to bring somatic and nervous system work to life in their clinical practice.
Individual Workshops in the Series
Session 1 - Friday, March 20, 2026 Somatic Applications and working with the Nervous System in Real Time: A Day of Live Clinical Demonstrations
A full-day experiential training where clinicians observe and engage in live demonstrations of somatic, nervous system–centered clinical work as it unfolds in session. Participants develop practical skills for tracking, mapping, and supporting downregulation to facilitate deeper stabilization and lasting therapeutic change.
Session 2 - Saturday, March 21, 2026 Working with Attachment through the Lens of the Nervous System: Expanding Capacity for Connection and Safety
Brings together attachment science and nervous system–informed approaches to help clinicians support clients in developing greater capacity for safety, connection, and relational resilience through practical tools and experiential practices.
Session 3 - Friday, March 27, 2026 Beyond Fight/Flight/Freeze: The Neurobiology of Fawning and Appeasement: Where Adaptive Responses Meet Healing Possibilities
Explores the neurobiology of fawning and appeasement as adaptive trauma responses, offering clinicians strategies to recognize and transform survival patterns into pathways toward agency and authenticity.
Session 4 - Saturday, March 28, 2026 Healing Core Beliefs Through the Nervous System: Transforming Stuck Patterns into Pathways of Change
Examines how developmental wounding shapes core beliefs, and provides practitioners with nervous-system-based strategies to release entrenched patterns and support clients in reclaiming freedom and agency.
