NEW CERTIFICATE PROGRAM
Applied Neuroscience for Trauma Healing
Trauma is a sensory fragmentation.
Learn to read adaptation with precision — system by system, network by network.
FORMAT
HOURS
3 Live Weekends
18 Sessions
Format
Live online via Zoom
Hours: 30HR Certificate
11AM - 6PM ET
Sessions
18 live sessions
Faculty
5 Leading Experts
12 CEUs
Available
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The Integration
Somatic, affective, and narrative — lasting clinical change requires all three.
About This Program
This certificate program offers a deeply integrated exploration of how trauma reorganizes the brain, body, and sensory self — and how practitioners can work skillfully with that reorganization.
The integration is threefold: somatic, affective, and narrative. The primary focus is experiential, connecting rigorous theory to felt experience and clinical application.
Weekends
Sessions
CE
Why This Training
Most trainings give you tools. Few give you the map.
QUESTIONS PRACTITIONERS CARRY INTO SESSION:
Traumatic experiences are insults to the eight sensory systems of the brain — vision, hearing, touch, smell, taste, balance, proprioception, and interoception.
Each insult alters how sensory information travels through the brain, shapes perception, and drives behavior long after the threat has passed.
Most clinical training tells you trauma lives in the body. This program teaches you exactly where, exactly why, and exactly what to do about it.
SYSTEM BY SYSTEM, NETWORK BY NETWORK.
Trauma fragments us.
Into bodies that brace, freeze, or shut down. Into sensory systems that can't distinguish past threat from present safety. Into brain networks that stay stuck in patterns of protection long after the original danger has passed.
When the survival brain detects threat, structures respond within milliseconds. They trigger fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown without ever recruiting the reflective cortex. In the aftermath of trauma, they remain primed. This state of chronic threat has a name: sensory disintegration.
This certificate offers a comprehensive neuroscience framework that explains why trauma affects the brain and body the way it does and translates that science directly into practice. Understanding precisely how the brain adapts is what transforms a skilled practitioner into a truly effective one.
What Makes This Certificate Different
More than tools. A framework.
Most trainings either teach you theory or techniques. This certificate is designed to help you master both — while also developing the discernment to know when and how to apply them.
The eight sensory systems as your clinical map
Trauma doesn't live in the abstract. It lives in specific sensory processing pathways that feed into distinct neural networks.
The SAN Protocol — a clinical framework for intervention
A navigational system that assesses sensory and autonomic organization and guides your treatment sequencing.
The body–brain–gut connection
This program extends into the endocrine–immune–autonomic axis, showing how chronic pain, inflammation, and immune dysregulation are embedded in trauma.
Somatic, affective, and narrative integration — not just one
Trauma is stored in the body, felt in the emotional system, and made sense of through story. Durable healing requires all three layers.
Brain networks, not just brain regions
You'll learn to see fragmentation at the network level (salience, default mode, central executive), not just the symptom level.
Faculty who work at the frontier of this field
Your teachers are contributing original clinical frameworks to this program. This is what current, integrated applied neuroscience looks like in practice.
A clinical Sensory Profile for each client
This anchoring tool assesses each client's unique pattern of sensory over- and under-responsiveness across all eight systems, telling you exactly where to begin.
The Program Arc
Three weekends. Eighteen sessions. One integrated framework.
The curriculum is organized into three progressive arcs — each weekend building on the last, each culminating in applied clinical practice. All sessions are recorded and available in your online library within 48 hours.
WEEKEND 1 THE TRAUMATIZED BRAIN — NETWORKS, FRAGMENTATION, AND MEMORY How does trauma actually reorganize the brain? This weekend maps it precisely — across the neural networks, the sensory self, the memory and affect systems, and the dissociative spectrum. You'll understand why the survival brain bypasses the reflective cortex, how sensory disintegration unfolds at the level of the thalamus and the hippocampus, how Panksepp's primal emotional circuits shape what reaches conscious awareness, and how dissociation — rather than being a mystery — is a predictable, neuroscientifically coherent response to overwhelm. You'll leave with a rigorous, clinically usable understanding of what fragmentation looks like at the level of brain and body.
SESSIONS INCLUDED
Foundations: The Traumatized Brain, Body, and Sensory Self
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Scott Lyons
The Mapping of Fragmentation
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
The Salience Network, Dopaminergic Pathways, and Threat Detection (including Addiction)
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
The Default Mode Network, Narrative Self, and Shame
WITH Dr. Frank Anderson
Memory, Emotional Systems, and Affect Circuits (Panksepp's primary emotions)
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
The Dissociative Subtype and Altered States of Consciousness
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
WEEKEND 2 REBUILDING THE SENSORY SYSTEM Trauma is a sensory fragmentation — and healing means restoring what was disrupted. This weekend moves through the eight sensory pathways one by one: the vestibular system's role in orienting the body to safety and its connections to arousal and visceral emotion; the proprioceptive maps that shift from purposeful movement to avolitional defense under threat; touch as the neurobiological substrate of attachment and social engagement; interoception and the insula as the gateway to the felt sense of being alive; the auditory and prosodic pathways that carry emotional meaning in voice; vision's dual capacity for hypervigilance and dissociative shutdown; and the gut–brain axis, with its direct links to limbic memory, inflammation, and chronic pain. You'll leave with a sensory map of your clients, and the tools to begin rebuilding from the ground up.
SESSIONS INCLUDED
The Sensory-Motor Loop: Vestibular and Proprioceptive Pathways
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
Touch and the Social Engagement System: The Neurobiology of Attachment
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
Interoception, the Insula, and the Bodily Self
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Olfaction, Gustation, and the Gut–Brain Axis: Limbic Memory, Inflammation, and Chronic Pain
WITH BG Mancini
Auditory Pathways and Prosody: Sound, Voice, and the Relational System
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Visual Processing, Hypervigilance, and Perceptual Reorganization After Trauma
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
WEEKEND 3 INTEGRATIVE SOMATICS AND APPLIED NEUROSCIENCE This is where neuroscience becomes somatic practice. The final weekend synthesizes everything — sensation, memory, autonomic patterns, and meaning — into the SAN and SANS clinical protocols. You'll learn to move fluidly between bottom-up sensory intervention and top-down narrative processing: when to enter through the body and when to enter through story; how to use breath and movement to shift autonomic organization; how to support somatic–affective connection and meaning-making without overwhelm; and how to apply the Sensory Profile as a real-time clinical assessment tool. The SANS Protocol addresses pattern recognition, narrative processing, and memory reconsolidation — the neuroscientific mechanism through which new learning can update traumatic memory at the cellular level. You'll leave with a clinical framework you can apply the very next week with clients.
SESSIONS INCLUDED
Breath, Movement, and Autonomic Rhythms
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
Somatic–Affective Connection, Reappraisal, and Meaning Making
WITH Dr. Frank Anderson
Sensory Profile and Integration
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Scott Lyons
SAN Protocol for Trauma: Under/Over Sensory, Under/Over Mobilized
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Arielle Schwartz
SANS Protocol: Pattern Recognition, Narrative Processing, and Memory Reconsolidation
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt, Dr. Scott Lyons & Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Integration
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr. Arielle Schwartz & Dr. Kate Truitt
Program Schedule
The curriculum is organized into three progressive arcs — each weekend building on the last, each culminating in applied clinical practice.
All sessions are recorded and available in your online library within 48 hours.
Foundations: The Traumatized Brain, Body, and Sensory Self
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Scott Lyons
The Mapping of Fragmentation
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
The Salience Network, Dopaminergic Pathways, and Threat Detection (including Addiction)
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
The Default Mode Network, Narrative Self, and Shame
WITH Dr. Frank Anderson
Memory, Emotional Systems, and Affect Circuits (Panksepp's primary emotions)
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
The Dissociative Subtype and Altered States of Consciousness
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
The Sensory-Motor Loop: Vestibular and Proprioceptive Pathways
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
Touch and the Social Engagement System: The Neurobiology of Attachment
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
Interoception, the Insula, and the Bodily Self
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Olfaction, Gustation, and the Gut–Brain Axis: Limbic Memory, Inflammation, and Chronic Pain
WITH BG Mancini
Auditory Pathways and Prosody: Sound, Voice, and the Relational System
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Visual Processing, Hypervigilance, and Perceptual Reorganization After Trauma
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt
Breath, Movement, and Autonomic Rhythms
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons
Somatic–Affective Connection, Reappraisal, and Meaning Making
WITH Dr. Frank Anderson
Sensory Profile and Integration
WITH Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Scott Lyons
SAN Protocol for Trauma: Under/Over Sensory, Under/Over Mobilized
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr. Kate Truitt & Dr. Arielle Schwartz
SANS Protocol: Pattern Recognition, Narrative Processing, and Memory Reconsolidation
WITH Dr. Kate Truitt, Dr. Scott Lyons & Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Integration
WITH Dr. Scott Lyons, Dr. Arielle Schwartz & Dr. Kate Truitt
You'll Learn To
These aren't abstract competencies — they're the specific clinical capacities you'll carry into your next session.
Map sensory fragmentation with precision
Build a complete Sensory Profile for each client, identifying which of the eight sensory systems is over-responsive, under-responsive, or dysregulated.
Read neural networks, not just symptoms
Identify which brain networks are driving your client's presentation and understand what restoring communication requires.
Apply the SAN Protocol in session
Use the Somatic Applied Neuroscience framework to assess sensory and autonomic organization and sequence your interventions.
Work with memory at the physiological level
Understand how traumatic memories are relived rather than remembered, and how memory reconsolidation creates lasting change.
Integrate the body–brain–gut connection
Bring the endocrine–immune–autonomic axis and the gut–brain relationship into your clinical understanding.
Navigate dissociation with confidence
Distinguish between dissociative subtypes based on their neurobiological signatures and develop tailored clinical responses.
Track vestibular and proprioceptive patterns
Understand how disruption affects arousal, balance, and felt safety, restoring grounded embodiment.
Use prosody, sound, and touch as clinical tools
Apply voice, rhythm, and touch as direct routes into the sensory and affective networks that trauma disrupts.
The Science + The Somatics
Where neuroscience meets clinical practice. Every scientific framework is connected to what it means for the practitioner in the room.
Sensory hierarchies and neural networks
Tracking exactly where in the hierarchy a client's experience is being processed.
Predictive processing and trauma memory
Understanding how the survival brain anticipates unsafe sensory input at a preconscious level.
Sensory hierarchies and neural networks
Tracing the link between stress physiology, immune function, and chronic pain as essential clinical knowledge.
Affect circuits and emotional memory systems
Understanding Panksepp's seven primal emotional circuits that shape what reaches conscious awareness.
The sensory profile as assessment
Building a detailed map of patterns of hyper- and hypo-responsiveness to guide your approach.
The SAN/SANS protocol
A navigational system guiding the sequencing of somatic, affective, and narrative interventions.
Interoception and the felt sense of aliveness
Creating pathways back to felt presence for clients who report feeling emotionally numb or disconnected.
Embodied prosody, movement, and sound
Using voice, rhythm, and movement as primary, direct-access therapeutic tools.
Your Faculty
Learn from the experts shaping the frontier of applied neuroscience.
Who This Is For
Built for practitioners ready to go deeper.
This is a practitioner-level training designed for helping professionals who already have a foundation in trauma-informed work and want a rigorous neuroscience framework to deepen and integrate what they do.
Homework
No assignments; Self-Reflections for certificate
CEUs
12 CEUs available for eligible health professionals
Scholarships
Details coming soon
Refund Policy
Full refund up to 48 hours before start
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this program designed for?
This program is designed for a wide range of practitioners and helping professionals, including therapists, psychologists, coaches, somatic practitioners, yoga therapists, movement therapists, physicians, nurses, occupational therapists, bodyworkers, mindfulness teachers, and other wellness and healthcare professionals. It is an education program, not a licensing program.
Do I need to attend live, or can I watch recordings?
All sessions are recorded and available in your online library within 48 hours, so you can attend live or catch up on your own schedule.
Is this a theoretical or experiential program?
The primary focus is experiential, connecting rigorous theory to felt experience and direct clinical application.
Are there homework requirements?
There are no formal assignments. Self-reflections are used to support your certificate completion.
Will I receive a certificate?
Yes, a certificate of completion is provided once you've completed the program requirements.
Will Continuing Education Units (CEUs) be offered?
CEUs are available for eligible health professionals. Details are provided during enrollment.
Do you offer scholarships?
Scholarship details are coming soon — check back shortly for more information.
What is the refund policy?
A full refund is available up to 48 hours before the program start date.