The effectiveness of Polyvagal therapy as a treatment modality for trauma

Live webinar details Dates: July 24 and 25, 2025

Time: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET

Facilitator: Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW.

CE hours: 12

This training is suitable for:

• Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
• Medical Professionals: nurses, psychiatrists, pediatricians, family doctors.
• Direct Service Workers: drop-in workers, shelter and hostel workers, child and youth workers, youth justice workers.

Client age category: For professionals who work with children and youth (12 years to adulthood), families and adults.

Level of training: Introductory

Trigger Warning: Participating in our programming may evoke powerful feelings and can trigger participants who have experienced personal trauma.

Description: Polyvagal Theory, developed by Dr. Stephen Porges (1995, 2001), provides a neurobiological framework for understanding how the autonomic nervous system (ANS) mediates our sense of safety, connection, and threat. This theory has become foundational in the development of trauma-informed, attachment-focused, and somatically integrated therapies. While Polyvagal Theory itself is a theoretical model, its integration with empirically supported practices in psychology, psychiatry, and social work has been increasingly recognized in peer-reviewed literature and clinical applications.

This webinar will provide you with the principles of the Polyvagal Theory, the features of the social engagement system and how to apply this within your practice. You will learn effective and proven strategies and interventions that build client safety and connectedness, and how to mediate the disarming symptoms of trauma, PTSD, depression, autism, ADD, addictions and other mental health disorders. 

This workshop includes knowledge exchange and interactive learning to support clinical integration into practice of this treatment approach.

Learning objectives:

• The role of polyvagal theory in the treatment of trauma, mental health and addictions.
• Mapping the nervous system.
• Learning how to up regulate the nervous system back to safety and connection.
• Developing ventral regulation.
• The connection between self-regulation and co-regulation. 
• Learning to establish safety inside oneself, outside one self and with other people

Learn more and reserve your spot now at: https://cvent.me/2MyM3k