Transform Your Trauma Practice with Proven Tools from EMDR, CBT, Somatic, and Narrative Therapy
Take your trauma treatment to the next level with this intensive workshop designed to equip you with effective, integrative strategies that make a real difference.
You’ll learn how to:
Accurately assess and stabilize clients in preparation for trauma work
Safely guide clients through the reprocessing of traumatic memories
Help clients develop lasting internal resources for recovery
Effectively manage challenging scenarios involving anger, resistance, and suicidality
This training is built for clinicians who want to feel more confident, less overwhelmed, and better equipped to support even their most complex trauma clients.
Purchase today and gain practical tools to move your clients from surviving to thriving — with clarity, structure, and renewed therapeutic impact.
Who should takes the course
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Case Managers
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the brain regions involved in trauma.
- Communicate the clinical implications of the freeze response in trauma treatment.
- Establish how clinicians can assess for simple, complex, and intergenerational trauma.
- Characterize how bottom-up techniques like grounding and breathwork can increase felt safety in clients.
- Evaluate methods clinicians can use to gauge when clients are ready for intense trauma work.
- Describe how narrative therapy exercises can be employed in session to help clients talk about hotspots.
- Determine how somatic approaches can be used to address the physical symptoms of trauma survivors.
- Integrate techniques that can be used to “slow” emotions in clients.
- Communicate how EMDR-based techniques can be used with clients to resolve traumatic memories.
- Differentiate between EMDR, EFT and neuromodulation approaches.
- Utilize techniques for working with anger, resistance, and suicidality in clients who’ve experienced trauma.
- Communicate the potential risks and limitations of trauma treatment techniques.
Course Modules / Outline
The Neuroscience of Trauma and Mechanisms of Change
- Key brain areas involved in trauma
- Fight, flight, freeze, fawn survival responses
- Clinical implications of the freeze response
- The neuroscience of EMDR, exposure therapy and cognitive therapy
Connect Clients to a Diagnosis: Trauma Assessment Tools
- Simple vs. complex trauma
- Intergenerational trauma
- Symptom clusters and physical manifestations
- CAPS-5 and PCL-5
- Primary Care PTSD Screen
- Dual diagnosis
Stabilize Your Clients Prior to Trauma Work
- Trauma treatment roadmap – order of operations
- Bottom-up techniques to reconnect and feel safe in the body
- Self-soothing techniques
- Grounding strategies
- Breathwork
- Gauge when a client is ready for intense trauma/cognitive work
Proven Skills and Techniques from Evidence-Based Approaches:
- Somatic Approaches: Address Physical Symptoms of Trauma
- Relevance of Polyvagal theory and early trauma
- Assess for readiness to apply somatic tools
- Teach body awareness
- Manage unease with “Felt sense” exercises
- Resourcing strategies to create a safe space
- CBT Coping Skills: Manage Emotions
- Identify inaccurate trauma-related cognitions
- Exposure, titration and pendulation to slow emotions
- Cognitive reframing and reappraisal interventions
- Memory reconstruction techniques
- EMDR-Based Techniques: Resolve Traumatic Memories
- Adaptive Information Processing Theory
- EMDR vs EFT vs neuromodulation
- Resourcing strategies
- Combine memory reprocessing with cognitive restructuring
- Using “restricted processing” with complex trauma
- Narrative Therapy Exercises: Rewrite Traumatic Experiences
- Interventions to help clients talk about hotspots
- Reclaim identity with the “Tree of life” exercise
- Awareness and closure – create life stories
Solutions to Trauma Treatment Roadblocks
- How to handle the angry client
- Strategies for the resistant trauma client
- Boundary concerns
- Dealing with crises, suicidality, substance use
Reintegration and Post-Traumatic Growth
- Better than normal – the neuroscience of post-traumatic growth
- The therapeutic alliance as a brain-based approach
- The power of forgiveness in moving forward
- Meaning making exercises
Why Take This Course?
1. Integrate Evidence-Based Modalities in One Training
Learn how to combine the most effective trauma therapies — EMDR, CBT, somatic techniques, and narrative therapy — into a cohesive, client-centered approach.
2. Gain Practical Tools for Complex Trauma Cases
Move beyond theory with hands-on techniques for stabilizing clients, managing emotional overwhelm, reprocessing trauma, and promoting long-term recovery.
3. Navigate Real-World Clinical Challenges
Get clear guidance on how to respond to anger, resistance, suicidality, and crisis situations — the moments that often leave clinicians feeling stuck or uncertain.
4. Learn from an Expert in the Field
Dr. Chinwé Williams brings decades of experience, a deep understanding of trauma, and a practical, somatically informed perspective that bridges research with real-world application.
5. Feel More Confident, Equipped, and Energized
This course empowers you to show up for your clients with renewed confidence, compassion, and clarity — especially when working with your most vulnerable or dysregulated clients.
6. Support Deep Healing and Lasting Change
Help clients move from surviving to thriving with tools that tap into the body, rewire the brain, and rewrite painful stories into empowering ones.
Who is Chinwé Williams...
Chinwé Williams, PhD, is a licensed and board-certified EMDR therapist, and counselor educator and supervisor with close to two decades of experience supporting individuals in trauma recovery. She has a strong commitment to helping clients overcome various forms of trauma and anxiety. As a published researcher, author, consultant, and educator, Dr. Williams brings a wealth of knowledge to her work.
Her expertise lies in somatically focused approaches that teach clients how to regulate the nervous system and utilize the body for healing from various traumatic experiences. Formerly a faculty member at Georgia State University, the University of Central Florida, and Rollins College, she specializes in trauma recovery, stress/anxiety management, adolescent and women’s wellness, and equity-centered trauma-informed education.
Dr. Williams is actively involved in contributing to the field of behavioral health. She consults with several corporate and nonprofit organizations, and school districts. Dr. Williams also serves on the advisory board for Brightline, a telemedicine company providing mental health support to kids, teens, and families. In this role, she consults on the best practices to support diverse youth and families through programs, content development, and care team training.
She is the author of two books, SEEN: Healing Despair and Anxiety in Kids and Teens Through The Power of Connection and Beyond the Spiral: Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything Anxiety Tells You. As the owner of Meaningful Solutions Counseling & Consulting, a thriving private practice in Roswell, GA, Dr. Williams applies her expertise to address a broad range of trauma issues across many client demographics.
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