Empower Yourself and Your Clients with over 30 Easy-to-Learn Tools for Emotional Regulation
With Linda Thai, LMSW
Warmly,
Linda Thai, LMSW
Academy of Therapy Wisdom
There's 5 minutes left in a session with your client, who has been on and off disregulated throughout your time together. You're concerned about them leaving the session in that state, but what can you do?
If that's at all familiar, my course with Academy of Therapy Wisdom will change how you approach those situations...
In it I teach practical, body-based techniques to help your clients regulate their nervous systems and leave sessions feeling calm and in control.
These techniques will work for you too-in your personal life, and in those precious moments between sessions when it's so important for you to practice self-care and work to regulate your own nervous system.
This course, Somatic Hacks for Calming the Nervous System, offers simple, effective tools you can start using right away.
In this workshop, you'll move beyond theory and learn body-based therapy hacks that work in real time to calm the nervous system, regulate emotions, and complete the stress response cycle.
Whether you're a therapist, counselor, or healer, these techniques are designed to be easy to learn and easy to teach, helping both you and your clients build resilience and foster emotional well-being.
I promise you that when you start putting these life-changing hacks to work for you and your clients, you'll be amazed at how easy self-regulation can be!
"I'm so excited to share these techniques with you and I hope that you can take this from the frame of research, and wesearch, and mesearch in order to empower yourself, and to empower your clients to be able to get to know themselves and get to know what works for them."
This course takes for granted that you already know about polyvagal theory and the window of capacity, and that you're just looking for more tools to add to your toolbox.
Through the tools Linda will teach you, you'll learn how to empower yourself and your clients to get to know themselves and what works for them.
When trauma narrows our ability to engage with the world, intentional movement such as swaying side to side tells the brain it's safe to expand. This module teaches how vestibular engagement can unlock joy, release tension, and re-activate the social engagement system. Without understanding the power of movement, clients may remain trapped in patterns of rigidity and stillness, unable to explore new possibilities for connection.
Learn how small, intentional eye movements can signal safety to the brain, helping to overcome the narrowed vision and tension that accompany trauma. This module demonstrates how to gently guide clients into trusting stillness and reconnecting with their bodies. Without these techniques, clients often remain caught in hyper-vigilance, unable to relax or focus.
Explore the power of sound and vocalization as a way to counteract trauma's "be quiet, stay small" narrative. This module encourages adding playfulness and experimentation to sessions, helping clients feel more at ease and better regulated. Sound-based techniques help clients that have struggled to move beyond the silence imposed by trauma.
Discover the calming effects of self-holding and self-swaddling techniques, which mimic the sensation of being soothed and supported. These tools can enhance co-regulation in therapy and promote a deep sense of safety. Therapists and clients alike may feel emotionally frayed at the end of a long day, but these techniques are restorative practices that help build resilience.
Bilateral sounds and movements help clients stay grounded, keeping the prefrontal cortex engaged so they can think clearly and focus during sessions. This module shows how to use these techniques to overcome overwhelm and maintain emotional equilibrium.
Learn how to integrate multiple somatic hacks into a cohesive practice that helps clients complete their stress response cycles. By closing sessions with these techniques, you'll empower your clients to leave feeling calm, centered, and ready to face the world.
Breathing techniques like the physiological sigh and 4-7-8 breathing offer quick and effective ways to reset the nervous system. This module provides easy-to-teach strategies for helping clients regulate their emotions through intentional breathwork. These tools are some of the simplest, most accessible ways to achieve calm.
This final module ties everything together, emphasizing curiosity and collaboration as key components of nervous system regulation. Try one hack each week and invite clients to share their experiences, fostering a deeper connection and mutual understanding. Without this mindset of experimentation and trust, growth can feel stagnant, limiting both therapeutic progress and personal growth.
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We are confident you will learn new skills in this online training. However, If during your first 7 days with this course, you don't believe you will learn anything to enhance your practice, please contact our support team at support@therapywisdom.com within 7 days of purchase and we will give you a full credit or exchange for another course, no questions asked.
Linda Thai LMSW (she, her) is a trauma therapist who specializes in cutting-edge brain - and body - based modalities for the healing of complex developmental trauma. As an educator and consultant, she is gifted with the capacity to contextualize, synthesize and communicate complex and nuanced issues pertaining to the impact of oppressive systems upon identity, mental health and wellbeing, 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.
Linda Thai
"I highly recommend anything she does"
"Linda is a brilliant and generous teacher and mentor who is both wildly intelligent and deeply embodied. Her mere presence has allowed me to feel a deep sense of belonging and acceptance. Learning from Linda has widened my perspectives on the roots and effects of collective, intergenerational, historical, and individual trauma as well as the varied ways of healing. I highly recommend anything she does, not only for the plethora of information she shares but also for the experiences of connection that she creates."
- Abby Wyers
"It's powerful, healing medicine."
"You are a gifted synthesizer and space holder, Linda. I appreciate the ways you challenge patriarchal/white supremacy culture in your teaching by locating yourself as someone actively engaged in ongoing learning, healing and sharing knowledge from that place. It's powerful, healing medicine."
- Lindsay Elin
"Linda opened my world."
"Linda opened my world and brought together decolonization, trauma, intergenerational trauma and how it affects all of us with such clarity and compassion that everyday I am grateful for her."
- Siobhan Shiels
"Linda Thai's course was one of the best I attended."
"Thank you, Linda, for this comprehensive course. [It] taught me the relationship between the nervous system and trauma, exploring how the autonomic responses to danger impact physical and mental well-being. It gave me an even better understanding of how trauma affects the nervous system and provided practical tools for fostering resilience, self-regulation, and healing."
- Iulia Popescu, Psychotherapist, UK
"Linda is a fearless and tender trailblazer"
"Linda is a fearless and tender trailblazer for those yearning to integrate intergenerational traumas…"
- Tina Tin
"It's actually making my job easier."
"This [course] has completely transformed the way I operate as a therapist. It's actually making my job easier and making me much more effective when working with my clients…I've already learned more than I could have imagined…and one of the most amazing things about Linda and this training is the accessibility and inclusivity. I've never heard of such a high quality training at such an affordable cost."
- Sidney Hays, MSW, LISW, DARTT
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