Continuing Education Information
General Information:
- Interoception and trauma: advancing the integration of interoception in trauma, emotion, and mental health
- Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and
- Release Date: 05/26/2025
- Expiration Date: [?]’Estimated time to complete activity: [#] hours

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Interoception International. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Continuing Psychologist Education
Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.
Credit Designation:
This program offers # continuing education credits for psychologists.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC,DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT,VA, WA, WI, WY
MI: No CE requirements
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Marriage Family Therapist: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO,CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI,WY
MI: No CE requirement
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC,DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (outstate held)*, OK, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY
MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA,ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY
* If the activity is held live in the state of NY, then direct addictions board is required, ie: NAADAC. If the activity is heldoutside NY, is virtual, enduring or remote, it is considered “outstate” and this reciprocity applies.

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive [number] [type – PIM clinical to determine: Clinical, Ethics, or Cultural Competency] continuing education
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Counselors: AK, AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC,DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, KY, MD, ME, MO, NC, ND, NH, NE, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT,VA, WA, WI, WY
MI: No CE requirements
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Marriage Family Therapist: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO,CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, MD, ME, MO, NE, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI,WY
MI: No CE requirement
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Addictions Professionals: AK, AR, CO, CT, DC,DE, GA, IA, IN, KS, LA, MD, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NJ, NM, NY (outstate held)*, OK, OR, SC, UT, WA, WI, WY
MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
The following state boards accept courses from APA providers for Social Workers: AK, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, FL, GA,ID, IN, KY, ME, MN, MO, NE, NH, NM, OR, PA, VT, WI, WY
* If the activity is held live in the state of NY, then direct addictions board is required, ie: NAADAC. If the activity is heldoutside NY, is virtual, enduring or remote, it is considered “outstate” and this reciprocity applies.
Advancing the Integration of Interoception in Trauma, Emotion & Mental Health
Earn CE and Advance your knowledge and skills for $199
All registered participants will be offered an opportunity to access recordings of the live event, certificate, & exciting bonus material!
Summit Schedule
Day 1 | Friday, 27 FEBRUARY 2026
Interoception: Interpreting the Language of Trauma & Recovery for Effective Intervention
Interoception, the conscious awareness of internal bodily sensation, shapes how trauma is experienced, maintained, and healed. Shock and developmental trauma are accessed through interoceptive experience and reflected in self-concept. This workshop examines survival and healing states, teaching clinicians to recognize metaphoric interoceptive patterns as nervous system biomarkers, enabling more precise intervention, state change, recovery, and restoration of a coherent self.
Healing COMPLEX TRAUMA WITH INTEROCEPTIve INTELLIGENCE
Complex trauma disrupts interoceptive awareness and accuracy, creating “ background noise” that distorts internal signals of safety, emotion, and need. This workshop draws on contemporary interoception research to build interoceptive clarity and precision. Participants learn to reduce signal noise, accurately track nervous system states where possible, and support restoration of regulation, coherence, and embodied self-connection through experiential practice and applied interoceptive skill-building.
INTEROCEPTION & EXPreSSIVE ARTS: The BRIDGE OF CREATIVE AWARENESS
This workshop offers clinicians practical, research-informed approaches to working with trauma through interoception-informed expressive arts practices, where disrupted internal sensing and implicit bodily memory limit verbal processing. Participants learn to integrate creative and art-based approaches to help clients access, differentiate, and modulate interoceptive signals, restoring clarity, regulation, and coherence. The material supports work with complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment-related challenges within neurobiologically grounded, interoception-informed trauma care.
2:35 PM – 4:00 PM ET
Interoceptive Ownership & Adaptive State Feedback: Integrating Interoception-Based Tracking into Trauma-Informed Care
This workshop focuses on interoceptive ownership, the degree to which clients can access, feel, and authentically claim adaptive internal states, such as safety, connection, or agency, and explores how this capacity supports trauma-informed clinical change. Grounded in empirical findings on interoception and neuroplasticity, clinicians will learn how to integrate moment-to-moment interoceptive tracking and state-rating routines into treatment in ways that enhance adaptive state embodiment. The focus throughout is on integrating interoception-based feedback through the lens of Brain Partnership to enhance collaborative, trauma-responsive care.
Summit Schedule
Day 2 | Saturday, 28 FEBRUARY 2026
BEYOND REGULATION: USING INTEROCEPTION TO REFINE POLYVAGAL-INFORMED CLINICAL INTERVENTIONS
Recent advances in interoception and autonomic nervous system research are reshaping how effective psychotherapy is understood and practiced. This session brings that science directly into the clinical room, demonstrating how interoceptive assessment and practice can significantly enhance existing therapeutic approaches. Drawing on Polyvagal Theory and contemporary interoception research, leading Polyvagal trainer, Courtney Rolfe, bridges brain, body, and nervous system to offer an integrative, evidence-based framework that expands clinical precision, depth, and therapeutic impact for therapists and wellness professionals.
EMBODYING ESSENTIAL OPPOSITIONAL TENSIONS: PHILOSOPHY, PHENOMEMOLOGY, & PHYSIOLOGY
Following a brief framing of dialectical tension and relational phenomenology, this presentation focuses on physiology and interoception as drivers of lasting trauma change. Building on Bruce Ecker’s concept of mismatch, it examines how embodied experiences of warmth and safety, prior to trauma processing, expand interoceptive safety, creating adequate mismatch that enables deeper reconciliation without triggering entrenched defensive reactivity.
Neurocardiology of Cardiac Interoception in Trauma: clinical implications for emotion & mental health
In trauma work, clients often say, I felt it before I knew it. This session explores why, through cardioception, the science of how heart-based signals shape attention, threat perception, and rapid emotional state shifts. You will learn the neurocardiology behind heart-to-brain communication, and how cardiac sensations can become internal triggers that maintain anxiety, hypervigilance, shutdown, or dissociation. You will leave with practical, trauma-informed tools you can use immediately, including a simple method to separate sensation from meaning and a guided exhale-weighted breathing practice grounded in HRV biofeedback principles. Designed for clinicians who already know the brain, this talk adds the missing heart-based layer that makes interoception clinically actionable.
INTEROCEPTION & MEANING MAKING: AN INTEROCEPTIVE FRAMEWORK IN MEMORY PROCESSING & TRAUMA RECOVERY
This workshop examines how interoceptive inaccuracy disrupts emotional meaning-making, memory integration, and conscious experience following trauma. Drawing on emerging research in interoception, emotion, and consciousness, participants will learn how distorted internal signals shape traumatic memory processing. The presentation offers a clinically applicable interoceptive framework for restoring signal accuracy, supporting adaptive emotional integration, and promoting durable recovery from trauma.
FREE LIVE VIRTUAL SUMMIT
Interoception & Trauma Summit
Live Online February 27-28th, 2026
Sign up for FREE (Valued at $449)
All registered participants will be offered an opportunity to access recordings of the live event, certificate, & exciting bonus material!
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Why register for this summit?
Why Interoception?
Interoception is our path to connecting mind, body, and nervous system in a comprehensive approach to understanding the human experience. Interoception practices bridges the body’s signals and our internal experience with emotional awareness and regulation. Many common clinical presentations — anxiety, trauma expression, and autonomic nervous system dysregulation— stem from difficulty sensing or interpreting internal states. By helping clients notice and understand what their bodies are telling them, interoception based therapy strengthens emotional clarity, grounding, and resilience. Interoception brings the body back into the healing process, making it a cornerstone of effective, embodied therapeutic work.
Who is this summit for?
Who is this summit for?
Counselors, psychologists, psychotherapists, researchers, psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, addiction counselors, mental health professionals, and anyone interested in interoception and trauma.
Will this Summit be recorded?
Will this Summit be recorded?
Yes, this Summit will be recorded. Registrants can buy access to the recordings for an additional fee.
Can I get CE for this summit?
Can I get CE for this Summit?
CE will be available on the summit recordings. Offers CME/CE Credit, Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Interoception International
What do I get with the VIP Recording Upgrade?
What do I get with the VIP Recording Upgrade
The VIP Upgrade ($99) includes lifetime access to the full Interoception & Trauma Summit recordings, allowing you to watch all sessions on demand and revisit them anytime.
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FREE LIVE VIRTUAL SUMMIT
Interoception & Trauma Summit
Live Online February 27-28th, 2026
Sign up for FREE (Valued at $449)
All registered participants will be offered an opportunity to access recordings of the live event, certificate, & exciting bonus material!