Trauma-Informed Training for Mental Health Clinicians and Healthcare Professionals

Roots of Resilience: Attachment and the Nervous System

A Trauma-Focused Framework for Clinical Practice

The Reclamation Institute offers trauma-informed training for mental health clinicians, including psychiatric nurse practitioners, therapists, and counselors, as well as medical professionals such as physicians, advanced practice providers, and allied health staff working in psychiatry-adjacent areas of medicine.

Sessions integrate both biological and relational approaches to care. Applied frameworks include attachment theory, polyvagal science, and Internal Family Systems, each presented with a focus on equipping clinicians with practical, embodied tools for trauma-focused practice.

Learning Objectives

By the end of a session, participants will be able to:

  • Describe how early attachment experiences shape nervous system responses to stress.

  • Differentiate survival resilience from growth resilience in clinical practice.

  • Recognize insecure attachment and adaptive survival strategies across the lifespan.

  • Apply attachment and polyvagal frameworks to trauma-focused psychiatric care.

  • Integrate protective factors and relational supports into treatment planning.

Session Highlights

Trainings explore:

  • Attachment as survival: Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Harlow reframing care as essential, not luxury.

  • Nervous system imprints: polyvagal theory, window of tolerance, and early stress responses.

  • Adaptive survival strategies: insecure attachment presentations across the lifespan.

  • Trauma-informed differential diagnosis: avoiding pathologizing survival.

  • Internal Family Systems: reframing attachment strategies as protective Parts, cultivating Self-led resilience.

  • Strengths-based tools: protective factors, relational supports, and widening the window of tolerance.

About the Presenter

Julie Greene, MSN, APRN, PMHNP-BC is a psychiatric nurse practitioner, trauma educator, and faculty member in the PMHNP program at Kennesaw State University. With more than a decade of experience spanning pediatric and community health nursing, advanced psychiatric practice, and graduate-level teaching, she equips clinicians with frameworks for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed psychotherapy, and embodied approaches to therapeutic alliance.

As founder of The Reclamation Institute, Julie develops trauma-informed curricula and workshops for mental health professionals and interdisciplinary teams as well as community leaders and individuals navigating trauma.