Podcast Course
Treating Trauma Through the Five Phases
Our work is world work.
(number of) NCCAOM PDA
Goals and Objectives
- Somatic experiencing, the phases and movements through the cycles of trauma
- Clues to recognizing your patients are suffering through trauma
- The role of the Vagus nerve
- Coherence and the heart
Meet Your instructor
Alaine Duncan, L.Ac
I have a unique approach to acupuncture treatment that integrates modern understandings of the neuro-biology of traumatic stress with ancient healing principles from acupuncture and Asian medicine. This clinical fascination has carried my heart and my feet to places and people I never imagined when I graduated from acupuncture school in 1990. The boundary between me and military families, immigrants, refugees, and survivors of natural and human-made disasters has grown more and more thin – and that is a gift of spirit. I love our medicine. I love what it can explain about life and how it can reach people whose life and health resides at the margins.
Asian medicine has a rich place at the interface of individual healing and social transformation. It has a lot of power to restore balance and regulation, not just for individuals, but for how those individuals relate to their families, workplaces, and our communal ballot box. We are pretty important to our planet and all who live on it.