You Got Your Peanut Butter in My Chocolate!: Working with Complex Trauma in Relationships, Restoring Connection without Overwhelming the System

Title of Event: You Got Your Peanut Butter in My Chocolate!: Working with Complex Trauma in Relationships, Restoring Connection without Overwhelming the System

Description of Event:

This training equips licensed social workers and mental health clinicians with a neurobiologically informed framework for understanding and intervening in couples conflict. Drawing on current research in autonomic nervous system functioning and relational neuroscience, participants will explore how each partner's physiological stress responses are activated, expressed, and mutually influenced during interpersonal conflict.

Through didactic instruction and clinical application, participants will develop the ability to recognize signs of nervous system overwhelm as they present in couples' communication patterns, somatic responses, and relational behaviors. The training further prepares clinicians to implement evidence-informed de-escalation strategies that support both partners in returning to a regulated, connected state — a prerequisite for productive therapeutic engagement.

Date of Event: 7/14/26

Time of Event: 2:00 PM MST

Location: Online Synchronous

Sex Therapy (ST) Training:

ST3. Theory and methods of approach to intervention in relationship systems experiencing sex and intimacy problems.

Presenter/Speaker: MARY C. ATTRIDGE, MPS, LCMHC, ATR-BC, ATCS, EMDRIA-CIT

Company/Organization Sponsor: The Healing Group Institute

Contact Name: Katie Potts

Contact Telephone Number: (309) 530-9375

Contact Email: katie@thehealinggroup.com

Event Website: thehealinggroupinstitute.com

AASECT Approved CEs: 1