Trauma-Work 101 Masterclass & Consultation Group
Move beyond Insight & Management Strategies to Renegotiation & Repair
You understand your client’s trauma. Maybe they do too.
But you’re not always sure how to support their nervous system to actually experience something different.
How to stop looping, protecting, living in vigilance, or numbing out and keeping everything at a distance- maybe even you and the healing process too.
You and your client both can identify the wound.
You both understand the patterns.
You’re both aware of when the shut down, panic, people-pleasing, or overwhelm happens and how the symptoms are all related.
And yet, you may still find yourself wondering:
What do I actually do with this in the room?
How do I know whether my client is processing—or repeating?
What should I do when their words say they are fine, but their body tells a different story?
How do I actually help? not just rescue, bypass, analyze, reassure, over-regulate, or reach for another coping skill.
Because here’s the thing:
Insight can help clients understand why they are suffering. Coping skills can help clients manage their distress.
But insight and coping skills do not change or heal clients’ symptoms or patterns.
To help a client renegotiate what their bodies, nervous systems, and attachment systems have learned to do to protect themselves, and the way they might be stuck, we need to move beyond insight and management strategies.
This is what I teach in the masterclass.
A 2-part embodied learning space for clinicians and coaches
In this training you'll learn:
How to define and understand trauma not simply as an event but as a nervous system experience that shows up in session
How to identify trauma physiology and healing physiology
How incomplete self protective responses become emotional and physical symptoms
How to recognize incomplete self protective responses (fight, flight, freeze, fawn) & work with them in real time in a session
How to recognize a client’s capacity for contact with trauma content, and when a client is approaching overwhelm, or moving into shutdown
5 Principles of trauma-informed care and conditions for trauma renegotiation
An Understanding of orienting & neuroception, and how & why to support a client to orient
How to listen beyond the story and practice the number 1 trauma-work skill: tracking
How & why to help clients access bodily sensation without overwhelming them
How to observe & use what’s happening inside you
You’ll leave this training with a framework that shifts reliance on coping skills, fixing & management strategies to trauma renegotiation & resolution on a nervous system & attachment system level.
Your learning continues after the videos
Your purchase also includes access to a live, quarterly consultation group for masterclass participants.
Bring questions from the training, moments from your clinical work, or cases you want help thinking through from a trauma-informed, somatic, and attachment-based perspective, or just join to listen and connect!
The group is:
Live and interactive
Offered quarterly
Optional and ongoing
Open only to masterclass participants
Not recorded, allowing for greater privacy and honest clinical exploration
You can attend once or return each quarter as new questions emerge in your work.
Part Two: Applying the Work
Understanding trauma theory and knowing how to use it with a real person are not the same thing. In the second video, I walk you through 2 mock client sessions and demonstrate how I would apply these principles in practice.
You’ll see how I think through:
What the client’s nervous system may be communicating
What I would track in the room, in the client, and in myself
How I would pace the work
Examples of what I might say or ask
How I support safety, choice, connection, and capacity
How the therapeutic relationship becomes part of the healing environment
This is not a scripted protocol. It is an opportunity to learn how a somatic and attachment-oriented therapist sees, thinks, and responds in sessions.
Part One: The Foundations
In the first video, we explore:
What trauma actually is
Trauma physiology and healing physiology
Incomplete self-protective responses
Identifying Window of Tolerance
Orienting and neuroception
Tracking
Principles of trauma-informed care
Curiosity, attunement, and listening beneath the narrative
Building capacity for accessing sensation
What you’ll get:
2 on demand training modules with approximately 90 minutes of video instruction
immediate and lifetime access to training materials
FREE access to ongoing live consultation group (optional, drop in support & connection)
This is not about becoming the provider who always knows the perfect thing to say.
It is about becoming the clinician or coach who can stay curious when there is nothing to fix.
Who trusts that their relationship with their clients is their greatest intervention.
Who can recognize when a client is stuck fighting, fleeing, freezing, or fawning, and know how to create the conditions for renegotiation.
When you understand those conditions, sessions begin to feel less like searching for the right tool, skill, or words to say and more like supporting a process that is already trying to unfold.
About Maggie
Maggie Saltiel, LCSW, PMH-C, is a somatic and attachment-based trauma therapist, educator, and founder of Sensoma Psychotherapy. She specializes in trauma, attachment, reproductive and perinatal mental health, grief, anxiety, and the experiences that change how safety is felt in the body. In this masterclass, she draws on her training in Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal Theory, EMDR, and Infant Mental Health to support clinicians and coaches to hone a more embodied, relational, and deeply attuned way of practicing.
Frequently Asked Questions
Still have questions? Take a look at the FAQ .
Not ready for the full masterclass? Drop your email to hear about future free trainings, new resources, and course updates!
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This training is designed for therapists, coaches, or other health and wellness providers who want to provide deep, transformative spaces for their clients.
Whether we are trauma therapists or not, when we work with people, we are always encountering the way trauma has shaped their experience.
The reality is that many providers actually do harm because they are not trauma trained.
Whether you're a nurse, therapist, health coach, or other helping professional, understanding trauma physiology and how to work with it can transform your practice. You’ll leave this training with a framework that helps you meet clients where they are, hold space for their stories without needing to fix them, and support their nervous systems toward repair, renegotiation, and resilience.
The result is less burn out for you, and more transformation and healing for your clients.
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If you’ve already taken extensive training in polyvagal theory, EMDR, or Somatic Experiencing, some of the foundational concepts in Video 1 will be a review.
However, Video 2 and the consultation group both offer clinicians support and connection in sharpening their ability to recognize trauma physiology, listen beyond the story, and apply trauma-informed principles more intentionally in real clinical work.
The value is in how the material is organized and applied: helping you connect familiar ideas, notice more of what is happening in the room, and translate theory into moment-to-moment clinical practice.
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You’re absolutely welcome and will probably feel much more confident working with clients after taking this training!
This training is designed to make complex trauma and nervous system concepts accessible without requiring previous somatic training.
It can really help you begin your clinical work with a clearer understanding of how to attune to your clients. I wish I had this training when I was just starting out!
Please note: The material is educational and should be applied within your current scope of practice and level of supervision.
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Your purchase of this masterclass includes ongoing access to a live, one-hour consultation group that meets quarterly. The group is totally optional and open to all masterclass participants, so you may attend whenever a meeting fits your schedule or a question arises in your work. An email to RSVP will be sent out to all participants 2 weeks before each quarterly group is held.
We’ll use the space to deepen the material, explore clinical scenarios, and think together about how trauma-informed, somatic, and attachment-based principles apply to our work.
Meetings are live and are not recorded in order to support privacy, safety, and vulnerability.
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Not currently. This masterclass does not yet offer formal continuing education credit, although CE approval may be pursued in the future. At that time, pricing will increase to reflect that.
You will still receive 90 minutes of professional education and access to the ongoing consultation group, but please do not assume the training will count toward your licensing requirements.
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After purchasing, you’ll receive access to the course directly through my website. You’ll be able to log in to your account and watch both training videos from the course portal at your own pace and return at any time! Information about upcoming quarterly consultation groups will also be shared with enrolled participants by email.
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