- Overview of childhood trauma
- Trauma, prefrontal cortex functioning and limbic response
- How childhood trauma shows up in adults
- Self-regulation issues
- Emotional and relational dysregulation
- Somatic symptoms
- Cognitive distortions – catastrophizing, black-and-white thinking
- Core processes of relational trauma repair through action and connection
- Introduction to psychodrama, sociometry, and embodied practices
- Floor Checks to engage, bond and build emotional literacy and co-regulation
- The Empty Chair embodied dialoguing with parts of self or others
- Doubling to give voice to the unspoken
- Role Reversal to foster empathy, perspective and action insight
- Timelines to fill in context, reveal problematic relational dynamics, and develop resilience
- Social atoms to map relational systems and quality of connections
- Adapting techniques for individuals, groups, couples, and telehealth
- Clinical risks, safety, and limitations
Dr. Tian Dayton's Relational Trauma Repair Certificate Course: Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
Trauma is wired through experiences. Healing is too.
Get the tools to create powerful reparative therapeutic experiences—safely,
simply, and effectively.
When caregivers didn’t care. When love wasn’t there. When the hurt came from the ones clients trusted most…
Those traumatic experiences embedded themselves deep in your clients’ nervous systems.
And until they can feel something different – safety, connection and agency -- their nervous system will keep replaying the past.
That’s why if you work with attachment and developmental trauma you need experiential therapies.
Because they go where most approaches can’t —healing relational wounds by letting clients embody reparative experiences in sessions…
…rewiring the nervous system and transforming old trauma patterns into new relational and emotional possibilities.
This certificate program shows you how.
You’ll join Dr. Tian Dayton—a pioneer in experiential healing—praised by Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine and other experts.
She’ll give you a complete toolbox of psychodrama-based interventions, role play techniques, and embodied exercises to:
- Safely revisit painful experiences and access long-avoided emotions
- Rewrite old relational scripts into healthy new patterns
- Repair broken attachment bonds and restore clients’ ability to trust
- Process the pain of what was missing or never got a chance to be
No prior experience needed — this program makes experiential techniques simple for individual, couple or group therapy.
Enroll now and start giving your clients what no other approach can — healing experiences that transform trauma at its root.
P.S. Your registration includes over a dozen FREE clinical worksheets.
Dr. Tian Dayton’s Relational Trauma Repair Certificate Course
Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing£389.99 Usually
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 11 CPD Hours
included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for course objectives and outline
High Praise from Today’s Leading Trauma Experts
“Psychodrama is one of the most effective treatments of PTSD and developmental trauma that I am familiar with, and Tian Dayton has written a terrific manual to serve as our guide.”
—Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Body Keeps the Score
“Tian Dayton masterfully integrates principles of group dynamics and psychodrama therapies with insights into bodily states and feelings gained from contemporary neuroscience.”
—Stephen W. Porges, PhD, creator of the Polyvagal Theory
“Tian Dayton has provided us with an unparalleled approach for treating relational trauma.”
—Peter Levine, PhD, developer of Somatic Experiencing® and best-selling author of Waking the Tiger
Relational Trauma Repair Training Curriculum
Talk therapy gives clients insights. Experiential therapy gives them freedom.
Join Dr. Tian Dayton for 4 self-paced training modules that show you exactly how to bring relational trauma repair to life through psychodrama, embodiment, and experiential tools that help clients access core emotion and create moments that can heal.
Module 1:
Attachment Trauma and an Introduction to Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Embodied Practices
Get ready to move your treatment beyond words and into healing through action and experiences! In this foundational module, Dr. Dayton will take you on a deep dive into how early attachment trauma from unresolved childhood experiences shapes your clients’ emotional, cognitive, and relational struggles.
Then she’ll turn her decades of experience into easy-to-use interventions that let clients safely revisit the moments that hurt them, access emotions they’ve long avoided, and begin to rewrite their internal stories with new feelings of safety and connection.
Module 2:
Trauma and Resilience Timelines: Tools to Identify Moments of Rupture and Strengthen Inner Resources
Trauma disrupts a client’s sense of time. Memories don’t unfold in a neat sequence—they can feel fragmented, blurred, and surface without warning. Without that clarity, the path to healing can feel blocked, leaving clients stuck—unable to fully process their trauma or restore a sense of safety and control.
In Module 2, Dr. Dayton will teach you how to use Attachment Trauma and Resilience Timelines—structured, experiential processes that help clients put trauma into context and real-time, and uncover hidden reservoirs of strength and resilience they need to heal.
- How trauma distorts time, memory, and narrative
- How childhood attachment ruptures shape adult patterns
- Neuroception and autonomic states
- Polyvagal Theory as a map for understanding trauma responses
- Felt safety as a prerequisite for effective treatment
- Adult attachment styles and reactivity in relationships
- Boundary confusion and identity enmeshment
- The Attachment Trauma Timeline Step by Step
- Identify core moments of rupture, abandonment, neglect, or betrayal
- Integrate somatic cues, emotional responses, and relational patterns
- Anchor the past to present-day symptoms and behavior
- The Resilience Timeline: How to Unearth Your Client’s Strength
to Support Healing
- Map moments of safety, regulation, and support
- Reframe trauma narratives through evidence of healing and survival
- Repair inner child roles and rehearsing new behaviors
Module 3:
Map Relational Patterns, Externalize Relational Pain
and Create Healing Moments
Many clients can’t easily explain how their attachment wounds show up—or where they learned their current patterns of closeness, distance, or disconnection.
In this module, you’ll learn how to use powerful experiential tools to help clients visually map their key relationships, highlight missing support, and reveal inherited roles—creating moments of recognition and emotional integration. Dr. Dayton will show you how to apply this approach with individuals, couples, and groups, offering step-by-step guidance and real client demonstrations.
- Role theory and the systems that shape us
- Role conflicts: the tension between who we are, were, and want to be
- How to use social atoms to map clients’ social systems and internalized roles
- Simple role plays and role reversals to access emotion, build empathy, and rework patterns
- Work with inner parts as roles in conflict or collaboration
- Access core emotion through movement and embodiment
- Address wounds from the family of origin
- Build and rehearse resilient roles: protecting, nurturing, truth-telling, boundary-setting parts
- Guide clients in constructing repaired systems for identity, healing, and connection
Module 4:
Relational Trauma, Loss, and Grief: Experiential Tools for Processing What Was and What Wasn't
In this powerful module, you’ll learn how to use experiential techniques to help clients process both tangible and invisible losses. Through role plays, timelines and somatic awareness that give grief shape, voice, and movement, you’ll learn how to help clients speak “to” who or what they’ve lost, not just “about” it—opening pathways for healing that traditional talk therapy often leaves untouched.
- How experiential and embodied methods support clients grieving both death and non-death losses
- Role plays to reconnect with who or what has been lost (people, roles, identity, safety)
- The power of talking “to” rather than “about”: facilitating direct expression and closure
- Access and process grief through somatic cues and bodily awareness
- Differentiate types of grief: acute, anticipatory, ambiguous, disenfranchised
- Use Grief Spectrograms to externalize and normalize grief reactions and symptoms
- Floor checks to help clients explore grief themes, emotional states, and relational impact in real-time
- Structuring role plays for unresolved grief, complicated grief, and internal conflict
- Use timelines to chart loss experiences, developmental impact, and moments of resilience
- Addressing non-death losses (estrangement, missed childhoods, betrayal, identity loss)
- Experiential letter writing: for closure, unmet needs, goodbyes, or unspoken truths
Dr. Tian Dayton’s Relational Trauma Repair Certificate
Course
Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
£389.99 Usually
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
£389.99 Usually
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Your Expert Trainer
Tian Dayton, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows and a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in trauma, addiction, and psychodrama. Her work has been praised by many of today’s leading voices in psychotherapy including Peter Levine and Stephen Porges. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute and author of 15 books including Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma (PESI Publishing, 2023).
A board-certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy, she’s spent her decades long career adapting psychodrama and sociometry for work specifically with relational trauma and addictions. Her trademarked processes Socio Metrics, are in use nationally and around the world, as is her model Relational Trauma at NYU for eight years, and has appeared a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC and other major media outlets. She has received many awards for her work including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
Click here for information about Tian DaytonHere’s What Therapists Like You Are Saying About Training with Dr. Tian Dayton…
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"This is my first foray into such experiential
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"The videos demonstrating the interventions were
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"One of the best PESI courses I've
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"Excellent skills and interventions I will add to
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"Emotional and powerful…I definitely was moved in
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Frequently Asked Questions
This course is designed for mental health professionals including Therapists, Counsellors, Social Workers, Psychologists, and anyone providing clinical care to clients with trauma or attachment wounds.
No prior experience is required. Dr. Dayton provides clear instruction and real-client demonstrations to help you integrate these tools into your practice with confidence.
This course equips you with embodied, experiential methods that help clients feel and live new relational experiences in the here and now.
It’s fully self-paced and on-demand, so you can complete the training on your own schedule and revisit the materials anytime.
A certificate is a document issued upon the completion of a training program. It signifies
that you have trained on specific skills, have trained with a particular individual, or have
acquired knowledge in a particular subject.
Certification on the other hand
often requires you to meet specific standards, pass rigorous exams, and many even include
additional practice, consultation, supervision, evaluations, and ongoing continuing
education requirements. While you will need to pass an exam, this course does not include
many of these elements — making this a "certificate" program.
So while
there are a lot of "certifications" out there — including some that are not endorsed
by an actual certifying body or even taught by a licensed trainer — you need to be the
judge of what adds value to your work and your ability to help your clients.
This certificate does distinguish you as a professional who has trained extensively with Dr.
Dayton on relational trauma repair… and it's an acknowledgment that can set you apart
in the eyes of clients and peers.
Dr. Tian Dayton’s Relational Trauma Repair Certificate Course
Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
£389.99 Usually
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
£389.99 Usually
Just £191.66 Today — Unbelievable Savings!
Plus, earn up to 11 CPD Hours
included in the course tuition.
Click here for course objectives and outline
Click here for course objectives and outline
The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
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Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited
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app to access the course content on your phone or tablet. Choose video or audio-only versions of
online courses from the world’s best instructors, and complete your CE requirements anywhere, anytime,
at your own pace.
Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through
interactive message boards. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on
integrating the most effective trauma techniques, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and
experiences and to build your professional network.
Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 11 CPD hours!
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