Complex trauma isn’t just a memory experience.  It is 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. When interoceptive awareness itself becomes a source of threat, traditional psychotherapeutic approaches fall short. 

Interoception, the brain’s capacity to sense, interpret, and regulate internal bodily signals, is profoundly disrupted by complex trauma. Without a neurobiologically grounded framework for understanding this disruption, clinicians risk missing the very mechanism that drives dysregulation, dissociation, and therapeutic impasse. The body is communicating constantly; the question is whether we know how to read it. 

In this rigorous 6-hour training, you will 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. 

You’ll Learn

• 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.