Generational Trauma Treatment Workshop
Tools to Break Intergenerational Patterns Shaped by Epigenetics, Family Systems and Communal Histories
- Speaker:
- Ashlei Petion, PhD
- Duration:
- Approx 6 hrs
- Copyright:
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Dec 02, 2026
- Product Code:
- POS151027
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar - Also available: Live Webinar
Description
- Identify inherited survival patterns across family, cultural, and historical contexts
- Somatic and polyvagal informed interventions to support regulation and safety
- Facilitate narrative repair and meaning making
- Integrate cultural and spiritual resources ethically within scope of practice
So many treatment models try to isolate healing to the individual client and their experiences.
But trauma is shaped by family systems, cultural context, and collective experiences that we can’t just leave at the therapy door.
As clinicians we need to be ready to work with trauma relationally, culturally, and across generations.
That’s why we created this workshop with Dr. Ashlei Petion. She’s a National Certified Counselor and assistant professor at Nova Southeastern University whose research focuses on generational trauma.
Dr. Petion will share the latest on epigenetics, social transmission and neuroscience that explains how trauma is transmitted across generations …
… then teach you somatic, cognitive and polyvagal-informed interventions along with spiritually integrated and culturally rooted approaches you can use to support regulation, safety, and repair at both the individual and intergenerational level.
You’ll walk away ready to:
- Use mapping tools to identify inherited survival patterns across family, cultural, and historical contexts
- Apply somatic and polyvagal informed interventions to support regulation and safety
- Facilitate narrative repair and meaning making without pathologizing clients
- Integrate cultural and spiritual resources ethically within scope of practice
Generational trauma isn’t an emerging niche – it shows up in everyday clinical work.
This training will help equip you to respond to all the things your clients are carrying – and give you the tools to support repair.
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Speaker
Ashlei Petion, PhD Related seminars and products
Dr. Ashlei Petion, is an assistant professor in the Nova Southeastern University Department of Counseling. She earned her PhD in counselor education and practice from Georgia State University and her MA in counselor education from the University of Central Florida, specializing in clinical mental health counseling. She is a board-certified licensed professional counselor and MFT.
Dr. Petion has many years of experience in the mental health profession, ranging from the National Suicide Hotline and crisis centers to community – and school-based mental healthcare. Primarily, her clinical expertise involves working with teens, young adults, and their families to promote healthy familial relationships that contribute to healthy, strong communities. Her research focuses on generational trauma and healing in black communities, primarily within qualitative and mixed methodology frameworks. Dr. Petion is a two-time NBCC Minority Fellow, a former CSI Intern, and an ACA graduate student representative to the Governing Council, and currently serves as the assistant editor of CSI’s Exemplar as well as AMCD’s vice president of women’s concerns.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Ashlei Petion maintains a private practice, is the co-owner of HealWell Counseling, PLLC, and has employment relationships with RAPPORT 1ST, Kumquat Pilates, and the College of New Jersey. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Ashlei Petion has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Define generational trauma using epigenetic mechanisms, cultural and historical influences, and pathways for social transmission.
- Examine the mind-body-spirit framework for generational trauma and healing, including: cognitive and narrative repair, nervous system and somatic regulation,
- and spiritually integrative practices.
- Choose mind-body-spirit tools for integration across intrapersonal, interpersonal, and communal contexts.
- Apply the mind-body-spirit framework for generational trauma and healing to clinical work using tools for intervention.
- Examine relevant cultural and developmental considerations for treating generational trauma and healing.
- Utilize relevant ethical principles and limitations for clinical intervention and treatment.
Outline
The Legacy We Inherit: Why Generational Repair Matters
- Definitions and pathways or generational trauma
- Epigenetics and nervous system transmission
- Survival adaptations across family systems
- Cultural, historical, and contextual influences and clinical indicators
- Case study introduction: 22-year-old Naomi, conflict with mother
A Mind-Body-Spirit Framework for Generational Trauma
- Cognitive meaning-making and narrative repair
- Nervous system regulation, polyvagal-informed care, and somatic interventions for safety and stabilization
- Spiritually integrative practices within ethical scope
- Case study application: relational attunement and culturally-relevant strategies
Integrate Individual and Collective Interventions into Treatment
- Family systems and intergenerational mapping tools
- Community- and culture-informed clinical approaches for individual clients
- Move beyond individualistic treatment models
- Address systemic and historical trauma in practice
- Research, risks and limitations
- Case study application: collective resilience and relational repair
Clinical Application, Ethics, and Limitations
- In-session tools and phased intervention strategies with follow-up procedures
- Scope of practice and clinical boundaries
- Limitations of current and developing research
- Potential risks of somatic and intergenerational work
- Contraindications and referral considerations
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Registered Psychotherapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Other Menal Health Professionals
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