Colonization has had a lasting impact on the field of mental health, shaping cultural biases and perpetuating trauma that continues to affect communities today. In this session, Dr. Patricia Vickers explores the intersection of neuroscience with ancestral healing practices such as neurofeedback and ceremony. After this session, you'll walk away with tangible tools to address assessment and intergenerational trauma within First Nations communities.

Forgiving can feel overwhelming for clients, especially when it involves trauma from those they trusted most. In this powerful session, Dr. Robert T. Muller will guide you through forgiveness in trauma therapy, recognizing its complexities as both a healing journey and a struggle. You'll leave with practical tools to help your clients differentiate between genuine and premature forgiveness, grasp the forgiveness process, and nurture self-forgiveness when needed.

High-risk clients often bring trauma to therapy, but even seasoned clinicians may hesitate to fully delve into treatment, apprehensive about the emotional toll it may take on clients. In this session, Dr. Nathalie Lovasz will demonstrate how DBT can help clients regulate and tolerate intense emotions, ensuring trauma therapy remains within their zone of tolerance. Gain immediate tools to integrate into your practice and enhance your effectiveness in supporting these clients.

Unconscious bias poses a significant challenge in therapeutic relationships, especially when working with clients of colour. In this session, Dr. Ndejuru will explore the application of polyvagal theory within racially diverse therapist-client dynamics. Through insights gleaned from Black Community Collective Care Circles, she will help equip you with strategies to empower clients of color on their journey towards personal and collective liberation. This interactive session combines theoretical insights, real-life case studies, and reflective exercises to deepen understanding and foster meaningful dialogue.

While EMDR is a powerful treatment, some clients get flooded or go numb making treatment more difficult. In this session, renowned trauma expert Janina Fisher will give you effective body-based interventions that you can easily integrate into your practice, leaving clients feeling safe and engaged in treatment.

Given the pervasiveness of trauma in our world, the need for short-term, effective treatments that help clients create real change in their lives is tremendous. In this engaging session, Dr. Candice Monson, co-developer of Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) will show you advanced cognitive therapy interventions to get your clients unstuck from limiting beliefs blocking their recovery. You’ll also get the latest updates and innovations to tailor CPT to your specific clients and specific treatment setting, including intense dosing, psychedelic-assisted CPT, and more.

Difficulty with painful emotions is at the heart of posttraumatic problems, and without attending to your clients’ intense feelings of fear, disgust, anger, and helplessness, you can’t heal their heartbreak. In this keynote session, Dr. Leanne Campbell will show you an emotionally-focused therapy model that offers you a simple, proven 5-step attachment-informed process to create predictable, repeatable, and lasting transformation for your clients.

From the initial development of PTSD to its treatment, sleep disturbance plays a huge role in how clients recover from trauma. And while most therapists recognize that their clients aren’t sleeping well, few understand that sleep hygiene strategies alone are insufficient and ineffective. In this session, Dr. Colleen Carney will show you simple, evidence-based tools you can use to both improve the effectiveness of your trauma treatment and help your clients get the rest they need.

Therapists frequently encounter clients grappling with various forms of addiction, and the treatment process itself can sometimes trigger deep-seated traumatic experiences. In this session, Dr. Frank Anderson will show you strategies from IFS therapy to help clients befriend their addictive parts as they move toward healing the underlying traumatic wounds beneath their addictions.

Clients who have experienced trauma are inevitably holding loss, and therapists must support their grief in culturally-attuned ways. In this session, Dr. Marianela Medrano will give you a framework for implementing culturally aligned interventions to support a transformational grief process.

Childhood trauma can hinder stable, fulfilling intimate relationships, often leading to past wounds resurfacing within couples. You require effective strategies to address trauma's impact and help individuals and couples rebuild enriching relationships. This session offers tools to provide compassionate support and facilitate healing for those facing relationship challenges stemming from trauma.