Despite decades of advances in trauma, emotion, and mental health research, many talking and body-based clinicians still encounter the same frustrating reality:
Clients understand their issues intellectually, yet remain stuck emotionally, physiologically, and behaviorally.
They can name their triggers, describe their histories, and even practice coping skills, but their nervous systems continue to react as if danger, unprocessed emotions, and uncertainty are ever-present. Symptoms persist. Regulation feels elusive. Progress plateaus.
This is not a failure of therapy.
It is a gap in how trauma and mental health issues are addressed.
At the center of that gap is interoception, the brain’s ability to sense, interpret, and respond to internal bodily signals. When interoceptive processes are disrupted by trauma, the nervous system struggles to accurately detect safety, emotional states, and internal cues. This has profound implications not only for regulation and healing, but also for memory processing, consciousness, suicidal risk, dissociation, and clinical decision-making.
Join us for this Interoception & Trauma Summit, where leading clinicians will explore how restoring interoceptive awareness and nervous system trust can unlock stalled treatment, deepen regulation, and support clients who feel chronically unsafe within themselves.
You will hear from world-renowned speakers and gain immediately applicable strategies that bridge trauma physiology, interoception, and mental health.
Do not let this opportunity pass you by. Register to attend today. Offers CME/CE Credit, Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Interoception International
Advancing the Integration of Interoception in Trauma, Emotion, & Mental Health
Earn CE and Advance your knowledge and skills for $199
All registered participants will receive access to course recordings, a certificate of attendance, CE credits, & bonus materials!
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COURSE OUTLINE
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.
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.
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.
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.
Advancing the Integration of Interoception in Trauma, Emotion, & Mental Health
Earn CE and Advance your knowledge and skills for $199
All registered participants will receive access to course recordings, a certificate of attendance, CE credits, & bonus materials!
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Advancing the Integration of Interoception in Trauma, Emotion, & Mental Health
Earn CE and Advance your knowledge and skills for $199
All registered participants will receive access to course recordings, a certificate of attendance, CE credits, & bonus materials!
Continuing Education Information
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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
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- 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
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MI: No CE requirement
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MA / MFTs: Participants can self-submit courses not approved by the MAMFT board for review.
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* 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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Disclosure of Unlabeled Use
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.
