Trauma changes how clients experience their bodies from the inside out, often long before they can put words to what is happening.
As a result, even highly motivated clients may feel overwhelmed, emotionally confused, disconnected, or unable to sustain regulation in therapy. When internal sensory signals are unclear or intolerable, progress stalls and traditional talk-based approaches fall short.
Interoception, the process by which the nervous system senses, interprets, and integrates signals originating from within the body, providing a moment-by-moment mapping of the body’s internal landscape across conscious and unconscious levels , is a missing link in effective trauma treatment. Without a clear framework for working with interoceptive signals, clinicians may rely too heavily on cognitive strategies, overlooking the precise point where expectation, perception, and interoceptive regulation can be accessed and reshaped.
In this powerful 6-hour training, you will gain a clinically grounded, practical framework for understanding interoception and applying it directly to trauma treatment. You’ll learn how internal sensory patterns reflect nervous system activity and emotional meaning, and how to use this information to improve pacing, enhance stabilization, reduce overwhelm, and create more targeted, effective interventions that support lasting therapeutic change.
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the relationship between interoceptive awareness and autonomic states
- Recognize how disrupted or misinterpreted interoception signals contribute to anxiety, trauma, dissociation, and unexplained body symptoms
- Help clients safely reconnect with physiological sensations without overwhelm
- Use interoceptive tracking to support emotional regulation, connection, and relational ease
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
SKILLS YOU CAN APPLY WITH CLIENTS IMMEDIATELY
- Read interoceptive signals as clinical data — recognize how disrupted or misread body sensations show up as anxiety, dissociation, and unexplained physical symptoms in your clients
- Pace trauma work using nervous system cues — use real-time interoceptive tracking to know when to slow down, stabilize, or move deeper
- Guide clients back into their bodies safely — help even dysregulated clients reconnect with physical sensation without triggering overwhelm
- Turn body awareness into regulation and connection — apply interoceptive tracking to build emotional regulation and relational ease in session
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. The consultation series focuses on clinical principles that transcend modality, helping clinicians apply interoception, neuroscience, and trauma-informed practice to complex presentations.
Benefit From Decades of Clinical Experience
Abi Blakeslee, SEP, MFT, PhD
Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a leading voice in Somatic Psychology and an internationally acclaimed educator. She is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy and Up-Level Dream Work. Dr. Blakeslee holds a Ph.D. in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology. She is senior faculty at Somatic Experiencing International, bringing decades worth of experience to her teaching and clinical interventions. She is featured at Psychotherapy Networker, a world premiere therapy conference, and teaches world-renowned programs and Master Classes. Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, primary and secondary trauma interventions, neuro-consulting, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma. Dr. Blakeslee teaches and consults world wide. She lives in Bozeman, Montana with her husband and enjoys the snow, mountains, and rivers with their three children.
Interoception & the neurobiology
of complex Trauma recovery
Only $119 for 4-hour on-demand course
CE Credits coming soon
Enhance your clinical expertise
Training Focus Areas
- Introduction to Interoception
- Interoception and the Autonomic Nervous System
- The Autonomic Nervous System and Trauma
- Group Nervous System Activity – Sensation and Observation
- The Threat Response Cycle
- Interoception and Sympathetic Arousal
- Interoception and Parasympathetic Arousal/Freeze Collapse
- Interoceptive Reappraisal
- Interoception of Non-Traumatized States
- Group Exercises of Enhancing Positive Experiences of Interoception
- Live Demonstration: working with a volunteer – Interoception and 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
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- 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
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- 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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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.
