Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200
Dear Therapist
Trauma is all too prevalent.
It comes to us from many places and impacts us in many ways.
For the trauma therapist, it can be tricky to untangle the symptoms and narratives of the trauma survivor to find effective treatments.
Enter: Linda Thai.
Linda is an expert in complex trauma and somatic approaches to therapy. She specializes in areas of childhood adversity, colonization, intergenerational refugee trauma, and social justice. She integrates her experience as a yoga and meditation teacher, grief tender, addiction counselor, and international refugee.
Through these lenses, Linda has created a multi-faceted approach to trauma treatment that encompasses the nervous system, storytelling, sensory processing, parts, interrelational dynamics, and attachment in her new course, Befriending the Nervous System: Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds.
Linda is superb at integrating and synthesizing information and modalities to provide a comprehensive body of knowledge, skills, and tools for any therapist working with trauma survivors.
Join Linda Thai, an inspiring collaborator, infiltrator, cross-pollinator, and agent of change in Befriending the Nervous System: Strategies for Trauma, Sensory Processing, and Developmental Wounds.
When you complete this course, you’ll have a toolkit to:
- Create a holistic approach to managing chronic stress that addresses past, current, and future-oriented responses.
- Employ techniques to complete the stress response cycle to facilitate healing.
- Identify autonomic nervous system interrelational dynamics so you can notice, name, and navigate transference and countertransference.
- Recognize the wounds of racialized identity trauma so you don’t risk mis-diagnosing BIPOC clients.
- Bring the nervous system back into regulation for both you and your clients.
5 In-Depth Training Modules
Each on-demand module includes presentations, demonstrations, and step-by-step explanations of practices so you can immediately understand and apply your new knowledge.
5 On-Demand Training Calls
Dive deeper into your understanding of the nervous system, get guided instruction, learn and practice new techniques and get your toughest questions answered directly by Linda Thai. You’ll gain confidence and competency to start applying your knowledge and skills right away.
Downloadable Course Materials
Audio recordings, transcripts, handouts and more allow you to revisit the material on your schedule. Our dedicated support team is here to help with any questions.
Private Member Dashboard
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what you get in
Interview with Kirkland Newman Smulders
Kirkland Newman Smulders (she, her) is the founder of MindHealth360, co-founder of the Horizon Foundation, and Executive Director of Integrative Medicine for Mental Health consortium.
Embodied Metaphor: Integrating Sensory Motor + Movement Practices to Support Healing + Narrative Transformation
Linda & Mariah will explore how research in developmental trauma and sensory processing can transform the embodied narratives our clients carry from their histories into empowered stories for their futures.
The Impact of Retained Primitive Reflexes on Neurodevelopment
In this presentation, Emma Ashfield, a neurodevelopmental specialist talks about retained primitive reflexes.
Grounding Practices for Hypo- and Hyper-Sensitive Clients
A PDF worksheet provides sensory grounding ideas for hypo-sensitive (sensory seekers) and hyper-sensitive (sensory avoiders) individuals.
Self-Regulation Hacks for Therapists
This video and PDF set will show you easy ways to immediately self-regulate during and between client sessions.
Grounding Without Going Into the Breath
Linda shares these exercises in a video and handy PDF format. Some of these techniques do not even require going into the body!
These Insightful Bonuses…
Traumatic Stress and the Nervous System: Techniques for Stabilization
Video Module + Session 1
This module covers the impact of acute and chronic perceptions of threat on the nervous system. We’ll look at how the psyche adapts to create future-oriented survival strategies that guide responses in the present, how that turns into autonomic nervous system dysregulation, and how it can present in various DSM diagnoses. You’ll gain a perspective that depathologizes and destigmatizes the symptoms and experiences of clients so you can reframe the ways in which nervous system dysregulation may be expressed as mental health symptoms.
You will learn:
- The neuroception of danger and life threat.
- How to distinguish between reactive or proactive survival-oriented responses.
- The find response to trauma.
- A more holistic approach to conceptualizing chronic stress.
- The relationship between traumatic stress, trauma triggers, and DSM diagnoses.
Beyond Window of Tolerance: State Creates Story for Each of Our Parts
Video Module + Session 2
In this module, you’ll develop a solid understanding of the three main branches of the autonomic nervous system so you can normalize and contextualize the nervous systems of your clients.
We’ll discuss the intersection of trauma responses, parts work, and Structural Dissociation of the Personality Theory to create more effective bottom-up resourcing for traumatized clients.
You will learn:
- The most common autonomic nervous system myth.
- Six techniques to complete the stress response cycle.
- The three blended autonomic nervous system states.
- Four common autonomic nervous system loops.
- The common narratives, emotions, needs, and fears generated by each nervous system state.
Sensory Processing Differences: The Confluence of ADHD, Trauma & Autism
Video Module + Session 3
This module covers the five common sensory systems and the three hidden sensory systems. We’ll discuss sensory differences and preferences, Sensory Processing Disorder, and the confluence between sensory system differences, ADHD, Autism and complex developmental trauma. You’ll have a working knowledge of sensory differences, the intersection of trauma responses, and innate differences in neuro-processing.
You will learn:
- The five main sensory systems and the three hidden sensory systems.
- Different ways of sensory seeking and sensory avoidance for each of the sensory systems.
- Three strategies for sensory seekers and for sensory avoiders for each of the sensory systems.
- The overlap of SPD, ADHD, Autism, and CPTSD.
Transference & Countertransference, Relational Re-Enactments, and the Nervous System
Video Module + Session 4
In this module, Linda will cover the interrelational dynamics that emerge in the therapeutic relationship as a result how each person’s unique history and experiences has shaped their nervous systems and their relational strategies. With this understanding, you’ll be more effective in noticing, naming, and navigating transference and countertransference.
You will learn:
- How to recognize autonomic nervous system transference and countertransference.
- The sympathetic nervous system-oriented “satisfactions of the ego” and the drama triangle.
- Common relational dynamics when working with survivors of complex developmental trauma.
- The window of capacity: from compassion satisfaction to compassion fatigue to burnout.
The Missing Experiences of Development
Video Module + Session 5
The final module explores the common experiences, patterns, and characteristics of under-resourced / dysfunctional families and those raised within these family systems. You’ll develop a knowledge base around the conditions that give rise to family-of-origin dysfunction and how children within those family systems adapt so that you can develop skills around ambiguous grief and the missing experiences of development.
You will learn:
- The foundational physical, emotional, and psychological needs of humans.
- Family scenarios that give rise to family dysfunction.
- Common missing experiences of development for those raised within dysfunctional / under-resourced families.
- Adaptive strategies of children raised in under-resourced families.
- The invisibilized wounds of racialized identity trauma and to examine this within the context of complex developmental trauma so that clinicians do not risk mis-diagnosing BIPOC clients.
- Techniques to bring the nervous system back into regulation.
- An expanded concept of secure attachment that encompasses holistic attachment needs.
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Meet your presenter
Linda Thai, LMSW, ERYT-200
With over 16 years of experience, Linda Thai is uniquely qualified to integrate somatic and holistic approaches for trauma treatment.
Linda is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting edge brain- and body-based modalities for healing complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize, and communicate complex and nuanced issues of identity, mental health and wellbeing resulting from oppressive systems and the invisibilized wounds of racial trauma. Linda is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels, and deeply believes in the healing power of coming together in community to grieve.
Born in Vietnam, raised in Australia, and now living in Alaska, Linda is a former child refugee who is not only redefining what it means to be Vietnamese, to be Australian, and to be a United States-ian….she is redefining what it means to be wounded and whole and a healer.
CE Information:
This program has been approved for 5.5 distance learning CEs by the following organizations: CAMFT, NBCC, NASW MA Chapter, NYSED MHC.
Complete CE info can be found by clicking here.
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