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GXC 2025 Online Virtual Conference - Mental Health Without Borders

Nervous System Healing Without Borders: Innovations in Trauma Recovery with Benjamin Fry

Benjamin Fry, Psychotherapist, Author and Entrepreneur 🇬🇧
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Description

This session invites renowned trauma expert, author, and founder of Khiron Clinics, Benjamin Fry, to share his journey from client to global advocate for somatic and nervous system-based trauma care. In candid conversation, Fry and Sam Quinlan will explore how lived experience, clinical innovation, and cutting-edge science converge to create scalable, humane trauma treatment models. Participants will gain actionable insights on Polyvagal-informed care, the global need for accessible trauma services, and practical pathways for integrating person-centered, bottom-up approaches in any context. This session offers real-world learning for clinicians and leaders seeking to transform mental health across borders.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Describe core models of nervous system regulation and healing, including somatic frameworks like Polyvagal theory, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, Brainspotting and Trauma-informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST), and analyze how these approaches expand upon and differ from traditional cognitive or top-down methods.

  • Analyze Benjamin Fry’s integration of lived experience, neuroscience, and clinical innovation in founding Khiron Clinics.

  • Apply principles of nervous system regulation and global accessibility to design trauma-informed care models in diverse practice settings.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this session is for participants will enhance their professional understanding of nervous system–based approaches to trauma treatment by exploring how Polyvagal theory and other somatic frameworks can be integrated into diverse clinical settings. Through this session, clinicians will develop greater sophistication in applying bottom-up, person-centered methods that promote safety, regulation, and healing across cultural and systemic contexts.

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Benjamin Fry, Psychotherapist, Author and Entrepreneur 🇬🇧
Benjamin is the Founder of Khiron Clinics, one of the world’s leading residential and outpatient trauma clinics, and Televagal, a groundbreaking mental health technology platform. He is an accredited psychotherapist, author and entrepreneur. He is the author of four books, including The Invisible Lion, a plain-English guide to understanding the nervous system and trauma.

Benjamin has had a rich and varied career, combining his interests in psychology, the media and business. In his twenties he went to film school and made a feature length film which was distributed by HBO and Paramount, then founded and ran popular nightclubs and restaurants, before starting a family, training as a psychotherapist and writing his first book which led to presenting a television series for the BBC, as the expert psychotherapist in Spendaholics.

After confronting his own mental health challenges and finding help in the USA, he returned to the UK and combined his business experience and clinical training to set up Khiron Clinics in 2011, one of the only residential trauma treatment centres in the world, which continues to offer cutting edge trauma treatment to patients suffering from a variety of mental health issues. In 2018 he founded Televagal, which has developed a polyvagal-informed sensor for helping therapists to track the nervous system in real time during client sessions.

Benjamin is a practising couples therapist, using trauma and nervous-system informed therapies to help his clients optimise and heal their relationships.

Financially Sponsored By

  • GXC Events - The Global Exchange Conference