Session recording
Why regulation & psychoeducation aren't enough to create deeper embodiment
A live clinical case study with real in-session clips
She came to me with a long list of ACEs and years of regulation work behind her.
She could settle her nervous system. She could name what was happening. She understood her own patterns better than some practitioners do.
But whenever our work moved towards the parts of her body where healing needed to happen, she couldn't stay there. She'd notice something, then lose it. Or she'd feel it, and start regulating it away.
She wasn't resisting. She hadn't yet built the capacity to be with what was there.
In this recording I take you into the room with her, through real clips from our sessions. You'll see what regulation built for her, where it stopped, and what she needed in order to go deeper safely.
Your training got you here, but your practice is showing you where you're stuck
You already know the body is where the work is. You've learned to regulate, to track, and to bring a client back into their window of tolerance.
Perhaps you can't get your client into their body at all. Or you get there and the work still isn't moving, however many regulation tools you bring in.
In both cases the problem is rarely the client, and it isn't a missing technique. Most of us were taught that we need to work with the body, without being taught how internal experience becomes accessible and workable.
Knowing you need to work with the body is not the same as knowing how to work with what you find there.
What's in the recording
What years of regulation built
The case: her history, what she could already do, and what kept her at the surface.
Where it stopped
Clips from the session showing the point where regulation reached its limit, and exactly what it can and can't do.
The missing piece
Why noticing and regulating an internal state isn't the same as being able to differentiate it and work with it. The interoceptive capacities that make depth possible, and how they can be assessed and developed.
Building capacity, then going deeper
What changed in the room once those capacities were in place, and how I judged how deep was safe to go.
What this means for your clients
What you can take into your next session, and what takes further training.
What you'll take away
- Why a regulated client can still be blocked at the body
- The difference between noticing an internal state and being able to work with it
- The interoceptive capacities deeper work depends on, and how to recognise when they're missing
- How to judge how deep is safe to go
Who this is for
Therapists, counsellors and psychotherapists who are already trauma-informed and use somatic or body-based approaches, and who are coming up against the limits of regulation.
It's also for practitioners who know the body is the place to work and want to understand how to get there safely.
No prior training in the InCorr Method is needed.
All clips are shared with the client's written consent.
Your teacher
Shauna Quigley
Shauna is a psychotherapist and trauma educator, and the founder of InCorr Academy, which trains practitioners worldwide in the InCorr Method (Interoceptive Core Reconsolidation). She is a TEDx speaker and the host of the podcast Healing at Last.
Watch it in your own time
The full 90-minute session, clips included, after the live session.
£19 Get the recording