The body is always communicating - do you know how to read it?
Complex trauma isn’t just a memory experience. It’s a body, brain, and consciousness experience.
For many trauma survivors, internal sensations have become unreliable, overwhelming, or even dangerous signals. As a result, clients may feel chronically dysregulated, disconnected from themselves, and unable to sustain progress in therapy, even when they are highly motivated to heal.
Interoception, the brain’s capacity to sense, interpret, and regulate internal bodily signals, is profoundly disrupted by complex trauma.
When interoceptive awareness itself becomes a source of threat, traditional psychotherapeutic approaches fall short.
Without a neurobiologically grounded framework for understanding this disruption, clinicians risk missing the very mechanism that drives dysregulation, dissociation, and therapeutic impasse.
In this thorough 4-hour training, you’ll develop a clinically precise, neuroscience-informed understanding of how complex trauma reshapes interoception…
And how to work with it safely and effectively.
Through contemporary trauma theory, the science of interoception, and applied clinical skills, you will leave equipped to support regulation, trauma integration, and recovery in even your most complex presentations.
Interoception & the Neurobiology
of Complex Trauma Recovery
Only $119 for 4-hour on-demand course
CE Credits coming soon
Enhance your clinical expertise
WHAT YOU'll DISCOVER
- How interoception shapes emotional regulation, nervous system functioning, consciousness, and recovery from complex trauma.
- How complex trauma disrupts interoceptive awareness, predictive coding, autonomic regulation, and survival responses in the brain and body.
- How to recognize trauma-related states such as hyperarousal, hypoarousal, dissociation, activation, and shock through physiological and interoceptive indicators.
- The role of key neurobiological structures, including the insula, amygdala, periaqueductal gray, and prefrontal cortex, in trauma-related dysregulation.
- Practical trauma-informed interoceptive interventions and awareness-based strategies that support safety, stabilization, regulation, and integration in complex trauma treatment.
SKILLS THAT YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY APPLY
- Recognize trauma states through the body — identify hyperarousal, hypoarousal, dissociation, and shock through physiological and interoceptive indicators
- Apply a neurobiological map to dysregulation — understand how key brain structures like the insula, amygdala, and prefrontal cortex drive trauma responses, so you know what you’re working with in the moment
- Assess interoceptive style with clinical precision — use tools like MAIA to identify how a client’s interoceptive patterns are shaping their symptoms and progress
- Intervene safely when the body itself feels threatening — apply trauma-sensitive interoceptive strategies that support stabilization and integration, even in your most complex presentations
Training Focus Areas
- Damasio’s theory of being, feeling, and homeostasis
- Understanding complex trauma
- Neurobiology and symptom recognition in complex trauma
- Understanding interoception
- Interoception 3-dimensional model
- Interoceptive appraisal and reappraisal
- MAIA, mapping MAIA, and interoceptive styles
- Trauma-sensitive interoception interventions
- Core clinical skills
DESIGNED FOR THERAPISTS WORKING WITH TRAUMA
Suitable for therapists, psychologists, counsellors, psychiatrists, physicians, addiction professionals, and marriage and family therapists working across CBT, TF-CBT, DBT, IFS, somatic, psychoanalytic, integrative, and other evidence-based treatment approaches.
This training focuses on clinical principles that transcend modality, helping you apply interoception, neuroscience, and trauma-informed practice to complex presentations.
Interoception & the Neurobiology
of Complex Trauma Recovery
Only $119 for 4-hour on-demand course
CE Credits coming soon
Enhance your clinical expertise
Gain Expertise in working with Trauma
Increase your clinical effectiveness
IMPROVE CLIENT OUTCOMES
Benefit From Decades of Clinical Experience
Tracy Jarvis, MSc, CSP, UKCP
Tracy Jarvis, MSc, is a world-renowned licensed psychotherapist, international trainer, founder, and consultant with over 20 years of experience in psychology and mental health.
Specialising in neuroscience and trauma, Tracy combines a rigorous academic foundation with over 25 years of yoga and movement practice, bringing a deeply embodied and neurobiological perspective to her clinical and teaching work.
More widely, Tracy is co-founder and core faculty of Interoception International, the leading training institute that integrates interoception and embodiment science with the clinical application of psychotherapy. She is the founder and former CEO of PESI UK (previously Psychotherapy Excellence), a not-for-profit organisation and the largest clinical content provider in the UK and Europe.
In addition, Tracy is a former trainer with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute and has a specialist private practice in PTSD, complex trauma, and trauma-related issues/diagnoses. She teaches, advises, and consults on trauma and clinical strategy for various organisations worldwide, emphasising the importance of a bi-directional approach to treating psychological trauma.
Our PROMISE TO YOU - REgISTER WITH 100% CONFIDENCE
Join with complete confidence. If you attend and feel the training has not provided meaningful clinical value, simply contact us and we will issue a full refund. Our goal is simple: to provide the kind of nuanced guidance, practical insight, and professional training that helps you become more effective with the clients you see.
Interoception & the neurobiology
of complex Trauma recovery
Only $119 for 4-hour on-demand course
CE Credits coming soon
Enhance your clinical expertise
Continuing Education Information
Please see details below on continuing education information
Continuing Education Information details
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
This activity is intended for Counselors, Psychologists, Social Workers engaged in the care of patients with PTSD, Anxiety Disorders, Depression, or Complex PTSD
Obtaining CE Certificate
In order to obtain your CE certificate, please follow the steps below at the conclusion of the activity:
- Go to www.cmeuniversity.com
- Login or Create a New Account (will take less than 1 minute)
- If you receive a message when creating a new account that “the email you entered is already in use”, please click the forgot my username or password link to have your Username and Password sent to you via email
- After logging in, you may be asked to verify/update your information; after doing so, click Save at the bottom of the page
- Type in <insert code> at the top of the page, “Find Post-Test/Evaluation by Course”, and click enter
- Click on the activity title when it appears
- Choose the type of credit you desire
- (If applicable) Complete the Post-test with a passing score of 75% or better
- Complete the online Evaluation
- Receive an immediate CE Certificate to download and/or print for your files
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.
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This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
