What You will Learn

An interactive clinician workshop on transforming political activation into useful clinical information—without surrendering personal values or allowing emotional reactions to steer care. Triggers can reveal important information about the clinician, client relationship, identity, context, and safety. The clinical task is to notice, regulate, and return attention to the client’s meaning, autonomy, and welfare.

  • Participants will recognize physiological reactions to emotional triggers and practice strategies for managing them.

  • Participants can identify emotions that may arise in response to a trigger.

  • Participants can practice mind–body techniques to regulate the nervous system and return attention to the present moment.

  • Participants will be able to maintain a therapeutic alliance without endorsing harmful beliefs.

  • Participants can determine when conflicts in values require consultation, referral, or intervention.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    The Gift of Being Triggered in a Polarized Political Climate (No CEUs)

    • Welcome to your CEU Webinar

    • Course Objectives

    • Course Review Survey

Instructor(s)

LCSW, RYT

Margaret Berger

Margaret Berger, LCSW, RYT 500, has been a clinician at The Juniper Center for 10 years. Her experience with complex trauma led her to explore ways to integrate yoga into therapy to help clients regulate their nervous systems. This focus addresses nervous system dysregulation, which is common across many mental health diagnoses and can affect healing and emotional stability. She trained at The Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Boston, where she learned yoga teaching techniques tailored to individuals healing from complex trauma.