Bonus Interview With Dr. Martin Paulus, M.D.
Thank you for registering for the Interoception & Trauma Summit. As a special thank you, we sat down with Dr. Martin Paulus, President and Scientific Director of the Laurier Institute for Brain Research, to explore one of the most significant findings in interoception research: prior expectations can prevent accurate interoceptive signaling. For clients with trauma histories, this means they may not be sensing danger, they’re expecting it, and their brain delivers that experience.
In this exclusive interview, Dr. Paulus explains how his team has developed paradigms to measure how much our clients’ prior expectations (often established through ACEs, trauma, and early life stress) influence what they actually perceive in their bodies. This isn’t just about “body awareness”, it’s about understanding how the predictive brain constructs interoceptive experience, and what that means for your clinical work with trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship patterns, and so much more. We hope this gives you valuable insights before the summit begins on February 27-28.
This kind of material deserves more than one viewinG
Dr. Paulus covers critical ground in this interview, and this is just one faculty member, one perspective on interoception and trauma. The summit itself features eight expert sessions over two days, each bringing their own research, frameworks, and clinical applications.
You’ll want to return to these insights again and again. The first time through, you get the big picture. The second time, you catch the specific language that helps you document your work. The third time, you’re working with a challenging case and a particular framework becomes exactly what you need.
But here’s the reality: you won’t be able to attend every session live. Even if you could, this isn’t content you absorb once and master. You’ll want to return to specific sessions when you’re stuck with a particular client presentation, or when you need research-backed language for treatment documentation, or when you’re teaching a colleague why interoption matters.
