What You’ll Learn
1. Build, knowing we are building ruins so that you can identify when chronic stress, not trauma, is driving dysregulation, and help clients address the true source of their exhaustion.
2. Understand how sleep affects diagnostic clarity so that you can recognize when symptoms of poor sleep mimic ADHD, anxiety, or depression, and guide clients toward foundational self-care before pathologizing their experience.
3. Ask the essential somatic questions in session so that you can better assess the physiological factors behind emotional distress by exploring sleep, nutrition, and daily rhythms.
4. Apply nervous-system-informed “sleep hygiene” tools so that you can teach clients accessible, non-pharmaceutical ways to down-regulate and restore balance through breath, gentle movement, and mindful eating.
5. Use yoga and brain-based hacks for better rest so that you can integrate evidence-based, embodied practices that promote parasympathetic activation and support deep, restorative sleep.6. Support yourself while supporting others so that you can experience these tools firsthand, improving your own sleep, focus, and emotional resilience, because therapist well-being matters too.