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If you’re a therapist who wants to do better by your neurodivergent clients, here’s your chance:🗓 Free training — Founda...
09/30/2025

If you’re a therapist who wants to do better by your neurodivergent clients, here’s your chance:
🗓 Free training — Foundations of Neuro-Affirming Practice
📅 October 3, 2025 • 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM ET
🎟 Live virtual event + 14-day access to recordings
✅ Up to 6 CE hours

💸 Register now at no cost here: https://bit.ly/4nPBv6S

09/30/2025

*Listening intently while also praying that my stomach doesn't growl so loudly that it interrupts this very poignant moment in therapy* 🙏🏽😖😋

Join us for the Deb Dana’s most up-to-date live virtual workshop on October 2 — completely FREE. Register here: https://...
09/29/2025

Join us for the Deb Dana’s most up-to-date live virtual workshop on October 2 — completely FREE. Register here: https://bit.ly/3K5igrB

Deb Dana is one of the world’s highly sought-after experts on the clinical application of Polyvagal Therapy and this opportunity to take your treatment to the next level at no cost may not come again.

During this live training session, you’ll learn how to:
〰 Create a roadmap for regulating experiences of stillness
〰 Safely guide clients from movement to rest
〰 Foster pathways to stillness through tailored practices

Sign up for this free training: https://bit.ly/3K5igrB

Healing doesn’t always come from intervention alone. It can come from belonging. Creating neuro-affirming spaces means h...
09/29/2025

Healing doesn’t always come from intervention alone. It can come from belonging. Creating neuro-affirming spaces means honoring the client’s lived experience, nurturing safe connections, and affirming that difference isn’t deficiency. 💙

09/28/2025

Everyone is out here stressing about AI stealing their jobs.
Meanwhile therapists are like 😬

09/27/2025

Hate to break it to you, but therapists aren't exactly in the business of giving advice.

If you're looking for collaboration, self-reflection, insight, perspective, tools, and someone who knows you've got all of the answers you need deep down inside?

We've got you covered. 😉

Clip from Rodney Norman

This reminder is powerful: even when clients have lived through trauma, adversity, or chronic stress, their nervous syst...
09/26/2025

This reminder is powerful: even when clients have lived through trauma, adversity, or chronic stress, their nervous system retains the innate ability to move toward safety and connection.

With a polyvagal lens, we can help clients tap into that biological resilience, gently guiding them from protection back to presence.

➡️ Learn more in Deb Dana’s FREE training on Polyvagal Theory, where she offers practical strategies to use immediately in your practice.

👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/3K5igrB

So many of us were trained to be a "blank slate" in therapy. To be aware of our own emotions, but not to let our clients...
09/24/2025

So many of us were trained to be a "blank slate" in therapy. To be aware of our own emotions, but not to let our clients know what we're feeling. These days however, therapists who utilize somatic techniques are adding some much needed nuance to that outdated methodology.

When done with intention, attunement, ethics, and care, letting our clients see us regulate in the moment can serve as a valuable and irreplaceable form of healing.

Co-regulation gives our clients (and us) real experiences of being seen, soothed, and accepted. Those moments of safety can become the foundation for self-regulation for a nervous system that has never learned how to trust.

When we stay connected to our own body and nervous system in session, we do more than teach tools. We model what it looks like to be regulated while sitting with hard emotions, and that can be profoundly healing. 🌱

Click the link to read the full blog today and learn more valuable tips for putting these skills into practice today. 🪷
https://bit.ly/4nxuLdR

09/24/2025

🔥I'm fine. This is fine. Everything is fine.🔥

*laughing nervously as I book my own therapy appointment*

When we shift our perspective from judgment to compassion, we see our clients’ protective responses not as resistance, b...
09/24/2025

When we shift our perspective from judgment to compassion, we see our clients’ protective responses not as resistance, but as adaptive survival strategies.

Join Deb Dana’s FREE training to explore how Polyvagal Theory can reshape your clinical practice and give you concrete tools to help clients move from protection to connection.

👉 Sign up here: https://bit.ly/3K5igrB

09/24/2025

Does "dissociate and chill" count as self-care? Asking for a friend.

What are your best tips for those of us who might be struggling to regulate after a particularly stressful day? Let us know in the comments!

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Since our founding in 1979, PESI, a nonprofit organization, has provided cutting-edge continuing education to professionals across the globe. Working alongside the world’s leading experts, we create a wide range of continuing education products and services, including seminars, conferences, online courses, DVDs, CDs, and books. All of our work is dedicated to training professionals like you on today’s newest and most talked-about topics.

We are proud to have the most robust continuing education library in the nation. You can attend one of our live seminars in all 50 states and can access our products and digital library anywhere in the world. We are a leading publisher, with over 160 titles and 11 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.

Currently, PESI works with 225 credit boards and other credit-granting entities to provide you with the tools, resources, and certifications you need to grow and help those you serve.

In 2019, we were honored to have been voted Chippewa Valley’s Best Employer. PESI currently employs 150 talented associates globally—all dedicated to helping Connect Knowledge With Need.