Few figures have transformed the trauma field like Judith L. Herman, MD—the psychiatrist whose groundbreaking Trauma and Recovery redefined trauma as not just a personal wound but a social and political one.

Now, in her powerful new work Truth and Repair, Dr. Herman reveals what survivors say they actually need to heal—and why justice, not silence, is the missing piece of recovery.

• Tools to center survivors’ own vision of justice—not impose one
• How to unpack the power dynamics of dominance, subordination, coercive control, and mutuality
• How to sensitively handle discussions about confronting and exposing perpetrators
• The profound impact of restoring connection with a "moral community," where healing and justice take root

Your women clients are stuck in harsh self-criticism—replaying mistakes, questioning their worth, and feeling overwhelmed by an inner voice that never seems to quiet. Negative self-talk isn’t just a mindset issue; it’s driven by brain networks shaped by stress, hormones, trauma, and lifelong social conditioning—and the nervous system pays the price.

In this session, you’ll get clear, brain-based tools to understand where negative self-talk comes from and how to treat it more effectively.

• How the DMN, CEN, and salience network drive patterns of self-criticism, anxiety, and rumination
• How gender-specific factors like fatigue, hormones, trauma, and social conditioning intensify negative self-talk
• How to match evidence-based and adjunctive interventions to a client’s neurobiological presentation

Having accurate information about the impact of hormones on mental health is crucial for working with women in therapy. From the fluctuations in mood, energy levels, and mental clarity that are baked into the menstrual cycle – to the symptom vulnerability that comes with the lifespan transitions of puberty and perimenopause – women’s sex hormones play an important role in the well-being of your clients.

In this session, Dr. Sarah E. Hill – award-winning researcher and author of the groundbreaking books This is Your Brain on Birth Control and The Period Brain – will show you what you need to know to provide hormone-informed treatment.

• Cutting-edge assessment tools to uncover the impact of hormones on your clients’ symptoms
• Emerging evidence-based guidance around timing of treatment interventions to maximize effectiveness
• Strategies to support clients’ resilience to hormonal changes and nervous system regulation

If you don’t know what to look for, it can be easy to miss. ADHD and Autism in women don't look like the textbooks or the “typical” male-normed cases.

You need specialized skills so that you don’t misunderstand or misdiagnose your neurodivergent women clients who are already at high risk of a cascade of problems connected to low self-worth, including eating disorders, relationship abuse, and suicide.

In this session, Jennifer Gerlach, LCSW – psychotherapist and neurodiversity expert – will help you give you an integrative toolkit for working with neurodivergent women.

• Strategies to address core negative beliefs and build self-compassion
• A powerful values clarification exercise to improve clients’ self-relationship
• Techniques to empower neurodivergent women clients to self-advocate more effectively

Your women clients are doubting their memory, minimizing their instincts, and wondering if they’re “too sensitive.” Even when something feels wrong, gaslighting has taught them not to trust themselves—and the nervous system pays the price.

In this session, you’ll get clear, trauma-informed tools to help clients name gaslighting and begin repairing self-trust.

• How to distinguish gaslighting from conflict or miscommunication
• How gaslighting disrupts identity, attachment, and nervous system regulation
• Practical somatic and psychoeducational strategies to help clients re-anchor reality and rebuild confidence

This session gives you language, structure, and brief interventions you can use immediately to validate survivors, name what’s been invisible, and help women reclaim their sense of self.

Your women clients have been saying "yes" to everything and everyone. They've turned away from their own needs and gotten lost in others'. And even though they may feel the negative effects of exhaustion, depletion, and burnout – self-abandonment is a hard habit to break.

In this session, Drs. Avery Hoenig, Lucy Smith, and Jamie Wilson – authors of Overcoming Self-Abandonment – will give you the tools you need to help clients reclaim their identity.

• How to name the systemic forces that drive women to self-abandon
• Strategies to detect the subtle ways that women can silence their own needs and desires
• Powerful mindfulness, embodied awareness, and self-compassion practices to restore self-connection

Clinicians today are witnessing unprecedented levels of trauma among women and, for many, the invisible disconnection from pleasure can be just as harmful as symptoms like flashbacks and hypervigilance.

And while your women clients may not even think to bring up the loss of their sensuality, ongoing disconnection from it serves as a barrier to their recovery.

In this session, Dr. Tammy Nelson – sought-after sex and relationship expert and author of several books, including the acclaimed Integrative Sex & Couples Therapy: A Therapist’s Guide to New and Innovative Approaches – will show you how pleasure can override traumatic memories and help heal the brain.

• Tools to recognize pleasure denial and avoidance as trauma responses that perpetuate disconnection
• Somatic and relational strategies for rebuilding pleasure capacity so your clients can reclaim body joy
• How to create empowering spaces for women to rediscover self-trust, confidence, and agency

Women often overextend themselves when they try to do it all alone.

And for them, setting better boundaries isn’t just about saying no. It’s also about learning when to say yes to help.

In this session, Nedra Glover Tawwab – sought-after relationship expert and New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace – invites you to help your clients embrace interdependence – because healthier boundaries don’t isolate us, they help us to belong more fully.

• Strategies for letting go of unrealistic expectations and embracing “good enough”
• How to help clients recognize the strength that comes from connection and community
• Tools to practice accepting support from safe partners, friends, family, and neighbors

You’ve tried to help them shift problematic behaviors and unhelpful thinking patterns, but your clients with disordered eating and body dissatisfaction still struggle. Every meal and every mirror is a stressor. And with the high risk of common dieting developing into a full-blown eating disorder, it’s time to shift your approach.

In this session, Ann Saffi Biasetti, PhD, LCWSR, CEDs, CIAYT – author of Befriending Your Body and The Awakening Self-Compassion Card Deck – will give you a new set of foundational skills in interoception and nervous system regulation to end your clients’ fear-based relationship with food.

• Tools to counter disembodiment and create a more compassionate connection to the body
• Skills to help clients focus on their internal experience over their external appearance
• Interventions that shift your clients from body distress to body respect

The transition to parenthood triggers a need to balance new roles and revisit the division of labor in a relationship. With childcare responsibilities on top of household tasks, couples are often overwhelmed by challenges that impact both their personal mental health and the quality of their relationship. And very often, women find themselves in a position of doing more than their fair share.

In this session, Dr. Darby Saxbe – clinical psychologist and award-winning researcher on family relationship behaviors – will highlight how the division of childcare and household labor impacts women’s mental health.

• How to target the mental load in therapy, even when your clients aren’t bringing it up
• Strategies for making invisible labor visible
• Research-informed communication strategies for couples working on dividing responsibilities

Your women clients may not name their experiences as “abuse,” yet they live with chronic hypervigilance, self-doubt, shame, and exhaustion. Coercive control, harassment, and subtle safety violations often hide in plain sight—and without careful intervention, even well-intentioned therapy can unintentionally increase risk.

In this session, Dr. Robyn Gobin equips clinicians with concrete, trauma-informed tools to recognize safety erosions across the continuum—from microaggressions and coercion to IPV and abuse—and respond with clarity and care.

• The real signs of coercive control — from subtle gaslighting to quiet boundary violations that chip away at safety
• Practical ways to assess risk and calm the nervous system without triggering blame, conflict, or danger
• Simple, effective tools — grounding, compassionate self-talk, CBT reframes, and safety planning — that help survivors stay safer in and out of session

Most women in therapy don't think they have a drinking problem-- and they're probably right by traditional standards. They're not "alcoholics" – they’re exhausted and they’re over-functioning and they’re using wine exactly as marketed: as self-care, as a reward, as their "off switch."

And because alcohol serves such an important function, it’s hard for them to talk with you about changing how much and how often they drink.

In this session, Amanda White, LPC, LMHC – author of the acclaimed Not Drinking Tonight and creator of the popular Instagram account @therapyforwomen – will show you how to approach gray-area drinking in a way that bypasses defensiveness and shame.

• Key curiosity-based questions to understand patterns of disordered drinking
• How to collaborative exploration creates more change than confrontation ever could
• Why moderation fails and what to do instead to break the perfectionism-exhaustion-wine-anxiety cycle

The unspoken rule to wait until 12 weeks to announce a pregnancy in case of miscarriage. The stigma of infertility. Women have been socialized not to talk about common occurrences in the journey to parenthood.

And so when it happens to them, your women clients experience not just the pain of loss, but also the suffering of isolation.

In this session, Dr. Janet Jaffe – renowned expert in reproductive psychology and author of Reproductive Trauma: Psychotherapy with Infertility and Pregnancy Loss Clients – will show you how to use the tool of the reproductive story to respond to the complex challenges experienced by women with reproductive trauma.

• Assessment strategies to sensitively explore clients’ deeply personal thoughts and feelings about pregnancy
• Tools to assist clients experiencing shame, self-blame, and disenfranchised grief and loss
• How to help clients rewrite their reproductive story to find meaning – whether that ultimately includes having children or not

Your clients won’t say, “I have a self-love problem.”

They’ll say they’re exhausted. Over-responsible. Stuck in shame. Unable to rest without guilt. And when self-love gets reduced to spa days and slogans, the real clinical work — protection, boundaries, compassion — disappears.

This session reframes self-love as a measurable, behavior-based practice tied to regulation, identity, and resilience — not indulgence. You’ll walk away with tools you can use immediately in the room.

• How to separate self-love from self-care — and spot the myths quietly harming clients
• Powerful interventions to translate self-compassion science into concrete, structured interventions that feel accessible (even for skeptical clients)
• Clinical tools that strengthen boundaries, stabilization, and healthy self-protection

Our stories hold the key to creating a more equitable and honest reality for us all. For far too long, the therapy office has seemed like the only safe space to explore common, yet taboo, female experiences such as: body image issues, sexual trauma, miscarriage, motherhood, fertility struggles, menopause, anxiety, depression, and so much more.

But what if more women spoke up about their hardships, struggles, and pain? What if… we could replace the antiquated silence with storytelling?

In this recording, you’ll hear an honest discussion between renowned Dr. Jessica Zucker – author of Normalize It: Upending the Silence, Stigma, and Shame that Shape Women’s Lives – and therapist and mental health influencer Israa Nasir – author of Toxic Productivity: Reclaim Your Time and Emotional Energy in a World that Always Demands More.

They'll dive into:

• How to shift toward more authentic and grounded conversations
• How to start speaking up about our important stories so that healing can begin
• How therapists can inspire their female clients to be that much more outspoken about the hard stuff

You won’t want to miss this rare opportunity to hear two of today’s leading experts in women’s issues connect around the important, unspoken issues.

Friendship is often described as a protective factor. Yet many women come to therapy exhausted from holding relationships together.

In this session, you’ll learn how to work clinically with women’s friendship health—including strengthening, strain, rupture, and repair—without shaming, pathologizing, or rushing to boundaries. You’ll gain practical ways to help clients assess which friendships need support, which need repair, and which may need to change.

This training treats friendship as real clinical material and offers tools you can use immediately.