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Academy of Therapy Wisdom, 1530 Lee Hill Drive, #7, Boulder, CO (2026)

03/13/2026

Academy of Therapy Wisdom trainings for therapists features a powerful reflection from Dr. Sabrina N'Diaye on the role of love in psychotherapy. You’re invited to consider a radical but simple question: what would change if you valued people simply because they exist?

Dr. Sabrina N'Diaye shares how this idea shaped the direction of her career and led her to explore psychotherapy as an act rooted in genuine care and humanity. While the concept was often misunderstood as something inappropriate or sexualized, she emphasizes that love in therapy simply means deep respect, compassion, and presence.

03/11/2026

Love and intimacy don’t exist outside the world around us.

Systemic forces like racism, homophobia, sexism, and other forms of oppression can shape the way marginalized couples experience safety, trust, and connection in their relationships. When therapists recognize these dynamics, they can support couples not only in resolving conflict—but in building relationships that resist and heal from systemic harm.

In this workshop, Akilah Riley-Richardson, MSW, CCTP, explores how systemic trauma impacts intimate relationships and how therapists can respond with a liberatory, culturally responsive approach to couples therapy. You’ll gain practical tools to understand relational privilege, identify the effects of systemic oppression on relational dynamics, and help couples cultivate deeper connection and safety.

✨ Join us for this transformative training and deepen your capacity to support marginalized couples in therapy. Comment "Book" below and we'll send you the registration link!

03/10/2026

Academy of Therapy Wisdom trainings for therapists highlights a reflection from Janina Fisher on a moment every clinician encounters: feeling stuck with a client. Instead of seeing this as failure, you’re invited to recognize it as an important signal in the therapeutic process.

Janina Fisher explains that when clients feel overwhelmed, therapists can begin to feel that overwhelm as well. In those moments, many therapists instinctively turn inward—questioning their approach, wondering if something is missing, and searching for better ways to help.

03/08/2026

Many people think ADHD struggles are only about attention. But for many clients, the deeper story includes years of misunderstanding, criticism, and shame.

At the Academy of Therapy Wisdom, we often explore how early experiences shape the nervous system and emotional patterns.

Here’s one way this pattern can unfold:

Growing up, many children with ADHD repeatedly hear messages like “try harder” or “why can’t you focus.” Over time, these experiences can lead to internalized shame and the belief that something is wrong with them.

Later in life, these experiences may show up as self-doubt, fear of making mistakes, perfectionism, or avoidance. Many adults with ADHD also experience strong rejection sensitivity.

Healing often involves more than improving focus or productivity. It can include addressing internalized criticism, rebuilding self-trust, and supporting nervous system regulation.

And like most therapeutic work, healing is a non-linear process. Progress often happens through cycles of awareness, stabilization, and growth.

Understanding this dynamic can help therapists approach ADHD with greater compassion and a trauma-informed lens.

👇 Want to learn practical bottom-up trauma stabilization strategies?

Comment “System” below and we’ll send you the link to Linda Thai's free webinar:
Bottom-Up Strategies for Trauma Stabilization: A Phase-Oriented Approach

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03/05/2026

Healing from trauma isn’t a straight line. It’s a non-linear process where people move forward, revisit earlier stages, and build resilience over time.

Understanding the phases of trauma healing can help therapists normalize what clients experience and support the nervous system more effectively. Through trauma therapy training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, clinicians learn experiential and somatic approaches that support healing at each stage.

Here’s a simple roadmap:

1️⃣ Shock
The nervous system becomes overwhelmed after trauma. People may feel numb, confused, or dissociated.

2️⃣ Survival Strategies
Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn responses activate to protect the body and help someone survive threat.

3️⃣ Stabilization
Therapy focuses on building safety, grounding, and nervous system regulation before deeper trauma work.

4️⃣ Processing
With enough stability, clients can begin exploring traumatic memories, emotions, and body sensations safely.

5️⃣ Reconnection
People begin reconnecting with themselves, others, and a renewed sense of identity.

6️⃣ Resilience
The nervous system becomes more flexible, allowing people to navigate stress with greater awareness and choice.

Remember: people often move back and forth between stages. Healing is dynamic and unique for everyone.

At the Academy of Therapy Wisdom, therapists learn experiential and somatic methods that support trauma healing and lasting change.

👇 Want experiential therapy techniques you can start using right away?

Comment “SAFE” below and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s free webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques.

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03/04/2026

Your clients’ stories don’t emerge in a vacuum — state creates story.

This graphic maps how different nervous system states shape trauma responses, relational patterns, and core needs. From ventral connection to sympathetic protection to dorsal disconnection, each state organizes behavior in ways that are deeply adaptive — even when they become clinically challenging over time.

In trauma therapy training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, clinicians are encouraged to track state shifts with precision. When we can differentiate between attach/submit patterns, fight/flight activation, and freeze-based collapse, our interventions become more targeted, compassionate, and effective.

A nervous-system-informed lens helps us ask:
• What state is leading right now?
• What fear is driving the system?
• What primary need is seeking resolution?

For many clients, healing involves restoring access to ventral safety while building capacity to move flexibly out of protective survival states.

At Academy of Therapy Wisdom, this phase-oriented, bottom-up perspective supports therapists in working more confidently with complex trauma and nervous system dysregulation.

If this framework supports your clinical thinking, comment “System” below and we’ll send you a link to Linda Thai’s free webinar: Bottom-Up Strategies for Trauma Stabilization: A Phase-Oriented Approach.

How do you currently help clients recognize their state shifts in session?

03/04/2026

Trauma therapy training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom explores what happens neurologically when clients appear noncompliant or unable to use coping skills. In this teaching, Janina Fisher explains how trauma activation can inhibit the prefrontal cortex, disrupting judgment, memory retrieval, and access to previously learned strategies.

You are invited to reconsider behaviors that may be misinterpreted as resistance or defiance. Janina Fisher highlights that when trauma responses are stimulated, clients may be unable to remember safety agreements or access their own good intentions because the thinking brain has gone offline.

03/03/2026

Today is a landmark day for the field of relational therapy.

We are honored to help celebrate the official release of Akilah Riley-Richardson’s (.rileyrichardson) groundbreaking new book, “Marginalized Couples in Therapy: Interventions for Healing from Systemic Trauma.”

This book is the culmination of Akilah’s years of deep clinical research and mastery. In it, she provides a rigorous, vital framework for working with BIPOC and LGBTQI+ couples—offering practitioners the tools to move beyond traditional models and directly address the impact of systemic harm with precision and clarity.
Impactful work of this scale resonates deeply within our community.

We are proud to stand alongside leaders and colleagues like Resmaa Menakem, Rae Alibey, Juliane Taylor Shore, and Sue Marriott in celebrating Akilah’s massive contribution to the profession.

Join the Celebration:
To honor this launch and help practitioners integrate these tools, Academy of Therapy Wisdom is hosting a 2-hour Live Celebration Workshop on March 26th. You will receive a seat in the live training plus your own copy of Akilah's book. Comment "Book" below and we'll send you the registration link!

Please join us in the comments in showering Akilah with congratulations on this incredible achievement! 📖 ✨

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03/01/2026

Trauma is not defined only by what happens to someone—but by what happens inside the nervous system when coping capacity is overwhelmed.

This resilience-informed graphic maps the continuum many clinicians see in practice: from acute trauma responses that are part of healthy biological processing, to PTSD presentations, to the layered impacts of complex trauma. It also centers something essential in trauma work—the role of relational connection and restored self-efficacy in recovery.

In Academy of Therapy Wisdom trainings for therapists, there is a strong emphasis on distinguishing where a client may be on this continuum and pacing interventions accordingly. Acute stress within the first weeks often reflects the body’s natural adaptation process, while persistent re-experiencing, avoidance, hyperarousal, or dissociative numbing signal different regulatory needs that call for phase-oriented care.

A resilience-informed lens invites us to look beyond symptom checklists and ask:
• What is the nervous system trying to organize or protect?
• Where is the client’s current capacity for regulation?
• What relational resources help restore a sense of agency?

At Academy of Therapy Wisdom, this nuanced, nervous-system-informed approach supports clinicians in helping clients move from overwhelm toward resilience and meaningful recovery.

If this perspective resonates with your work, comment “Resilience” below and we’ll send you a link to Arielle Schwartz’s free webinar on Therapist Burnout.

How are you currently helping clients build self-efficacy after trauma?

02/25/2026

🧠 4 Phases of Trauma Healing

Trauma healing unfolds in stages — and recognizing where your client is can help you pace the work with greater precision and care. In trauma therapy training at Academy of Therapy Wisdom, clinicians often explore how matching interventions to the phase of healing supports nervous system safety and deeper integration. These principles are central to the learning community at the Academy of Therapy Wisdom.

1️⃣ Stabilization
You focus on building safety, regulation, and internal resources so the nervous system has enough support before deeper work begins.

2️⃣ Processing
Traumatic memories and survival responses are worked through gradually, with careful pacing to avoid overwhelm.

3️⃣ Meaning-Making
Clients begin to make sense of their experience and update old beliefs, often with growing self-compassion.

4️⃣ Integration
Body, emotion, and narrative come together, supporting more flexibility, regulation, and choice in daily life.

✨ Trauma-informed therapy isn’t about moving faster — it’s about moving at the speed of safety.

💬 Comment “Safe” below and we’ll send you the link to Jules Taylor Shore’s FREE webinar on Experiential Therapy Techniques.

02/23/2026

Tomorrow is the day! 🗓️

The Therapy Wisdom Podcast officially lands in less than 24 hours.
Your commute, your walk, or your coffee break is about to get a whole lot more inspiring.
🎧 Where to listen: We’ll be available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and everywhere you get your podcasts.
Get your headphones ready. We’ll see you in the morning!

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