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Somatic and body-based approaches often assume that more awareness of bodily sensation is inherently therapeutic. The research doesn’t fully support that.
For some clients, turning attention inward brings regulation and insight.
For others, it increases hyperarousal, dissociation, and a plethora of symptoms, and that risk doesn’t sort neatly by diagnosis. An anxious client and a depressed client can both go the wrong way with the same well-intentioned body-scan instruction, for opposite reasons.
The more useful question isn’t how much a client notices their body. It’s how they relate to what they notice, as trustworthy information, or as a threat to be managed.
This training teaches you to assess that before you decide whether, and how, to bring the body into a session at all.
If you are working with trauma, PTSD, C-PTSD, anxiety, depression, or dissociative disorders, join us on 25 September to take your practice to the next level!
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THE FIRST LAyer - The Framework
The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) was developed in 2012 by Dr Wolf Mehling and colleagues and updated in 2018 to strengthen its reliability. It is now a 37-item, 8-scale measure and one of the most widely used tools for interoceptive awareness in the research literature.
Interoception International Co-Founder and Lead Faculty, Tracy Jarvis, MSc, CSP, UKCP, translates its eight scales into a clinical map, not a questionnaire to score, but eight questions to hold in mind as you listen to any client, regardless of presentation:
- Noticing – can they detect sensation in the body at all? Or how do they do this?
- Not distracting – do they push discomfort away, or stay with it?
- Not worrying – does a sensation stay a sensation, or spiral into catastrophe?
- Attention regulation – can they direct and hold attention on the body on purpose?
- Emotional regulation – can they use bodily cues to track what they’re feeling?
- Self-regulation – does turning toward the body actually produce calm, or more distress?
- Body listening – do they use the body’s information to guide decisions?
- Trusting – is the body a safe place to live, or something to be endured?
The Second Layer - The SENSE Framework™
Not every client’s disrupted relationship to the body looks the same, and it doesn’t map cleanly onto diagnosis. Interoception International’s SENSE Framework™ identifies a client’s predominant interoceptive styles, so you can match your intervention to the pattern in front of you rather than to the label on the intake form.
Clients don’t sit in one category permanently, and they don’t sit in one category by diagnosis. A client can be scanning in the waiting room and numbing twenty minutes into describing what’s actually wrong. This training teaches you to track that movement in real time, and to intervene accordingly.
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WHAt YOU'LL LEaRN
- Identify a client’s predominant interoceptive styles across anxiety, depression, trauma, and mixed presentations
- Name and work directly with the five interoceptive appraisal patterns, without pathologizing the client for having them
- Decide, before you bring body-based work into a session, whether it will support regulation or risk destabilizing a client further, and adjust the decision by presentation, not just by protocol
- Help clients separate a nervous-system pattern from a fixed identity “I go numb under pressure,” not “I’m just a cold person”
- Sequence interventions using the 8 Pathways, so you’re building capacity in the order a dysregulated nervous system can actually use it, whatever brought the client to you.
Who This TRAINING Is For
Therapists, psychologists, counselors, psychiatrists, addiction counselors, marriage and family therapists, trauma therapists, and other clinicians working with anxiety, depression, trauma, or the mix of the three that shows up in most real caseloads, across ALL modalities and clinical frameworks.
This framework complements all modalities and sits underneath diagnosis, so it applies to whatever model you already practice from and whoever walks into your office.
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Presented By
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.
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