Open help menu
On-Demand

PTSD with Embodied Methods: Growing Up with Addiction

Tian Dayton, PhD
|

Information

Recorded

  • -

Description

Experiential, embodied RTR helps clients become engaged in their own healing.

Drawing from Growing Up with Addiction, this workshop explores how children from addiction-impacted families develop nervous systems wired for vigilance, shaping attachment, identity, and self-worth. In adulthood, those early survival patterns become reenacted and repeated through partnering, parenting, work, and connection. Through Relational Trauma Repair (RTR)—a synthesis of sociometry, psychodrama, somatic awareness, and embodied action—participants transform implicit trauma into felt safety. RTR turns healing into something lived in the body: clarifying, connecting, and reorganizing the inner world so new relational possibilities can be felt in real time.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop is to equip participants with an understanding of the neurobiological and relational effects of growing up in addiction-impacted families and to provide practical, embodied tools from the Relational Trauma Repair (RTR) model to promote healing and relational flexibility in clinical practice.

Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Explain the neurobiological and emotional imprint of growing up in addiction-impacted families.

  • Analyze common relational and attachment patterns that emerge from early trauma.

  • Apply Relational Trauma Repair (RTR)-informed somatic and relational interventions in both individual and group therapy contexts.

Target Audience

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

Presenters

Financially Sponsored By

  • Meadows Behavioral Healthcare