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Your client understands the trauma completely. Their body has not gotten the message. That is not a therapeutic failure. That is a nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do — protect first, feel safe second, never on command. The problem is that most trauma training was designed around the story. The narrative. The cognitive processing of what happened. None of it was designed for the moment the client freezes mid-sentence and the window for connection closes before you can reach them. Courtney Rolfe, LCPC has spent years inside that exact room. She is a senior trainer in Deb Dana's Foundations of Polyvagal-Informed Practice and co-author of Polyvagal Prompts with Deb Dana herself. On May 14th she is teaching a free 6-hour live masterclass on exactly what to do when the nervous system pulls your client out of reach. You will learn to read autonomic states in real time before shutdown closes the session. You will learn why co-regulation is the intervention, not the warm-up. You will learn how to build felt safety for clients whose bodies have never experienced it. This is not a theory overview. If you have read Deb Dana, you have the foundation. This is what you do with it on a Tuesday afternoon when the session stops moving. Free. Live. May 14th. 9 board-approved CEs available for purchase after registration. Claim your seat before it fills.