The effectiveness of Polyvagal therapy as a treatment modality for trauma

Enhance trauma treatment with proven, neurobiologically informed tools to foster safety, connection, and healing.

Join Ian Robertson on July 24 and 25 to explore the use of Polyvagal Theory for trauma treatment.

Polyvagal Theory (PT), 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 PT 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.

It covers the principles of Polyvagal Theory, the social engagement system, and how to apply them in 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 training 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.

Register now to equip yourself with practical, polyvagal-informed strategies that deepen client trust, improve outcomes, and strengthen your trauma-focused practice.

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