Brainspotting
Human Trafficking Victims
You Have Likely Already Sat Across From a Human Trafficking Survivor.
Did you recognize them?
Brainspotting with Survivors of Human Trafficking is a 3-day specialty intensive for Brainspotting practitioners who are ready to move beyond checklists and into something deeper: genuine attunement with some of the most layered nervous systems you will ever encounter in your work.
Brainspotting
Human Trafficking Victims
You Have Likely Already Sat Across From a Human Trafficking Survivor.
Did you recognize them?
Brainspotting with Survivors of Human Trafficking is a 3-day specialty intensive for Brainspotting practitioners who are ready to move beyond checklists and into something deeper: genuine attunement with some of the most layered nervous systems you will ever encounter in your work.
Brainspotting Human Trafficking Victims Training
September 24-26, 2027
9:00am to 5:00pm CT each day
Presenter: Amanda Pulley, MSW
Online Interactive Webinar | 3-Day Intensive
Total CE Hours: 19.5
Prerequisite: Brainspotting Phase 1 Training
Early Bird: $745 (through August 13, 2027)
Regular: $795 (Begins August 14, 2027)
Student Rate: $395
Registration Closes: September 23, 2027
Checklists Cannot See a Person. You Can.
Some of the people you are already working with have experienced human trafficking. They may not use that word. They may not see themselves in common cultural representations. They may protect the people who harmed them.
They may present their experiences in fragments, not full disclosures. Their nervous systems carry the story long before their words do.
If you have worked with clients who seem stuck in ways you cannot explain, clients who have tried many therapists and nothing seems to work, clients whose patterns look like pathology but feel like something else entirely, you may already be sitting with a survivor.
What you need is not a longer checklist. What you need is a different presence.
This Training Begins Where Most Trainings Stop.
Most trauma trainings teach you what to do. This one asks a different question first.
Brainspotting with Survivors of Human Trafficking is grounded in the Neuro-Experiential Model: the client's system knows more than we do. Healing emerges. It is not imposed.
In trafficking work specifically, certainty is not a clinical asset. When we operate from certainty, we collapse attunement, trigger fawn and compliance responses, and risk replicating the very coercive dynamics that caused harm.
This training will ask you to slow down. To hold uncertainty as a clinical posture, not a deficiency. To learn how to be with a survivor.
"We don't have to know what it is to know that it is."
After This Training
See full learning objectives in a later section.
See why checklists for identifying trafficking survivors are not enough, and what to look for instead.
See the patterns in clients you've already been working with: the ones who never said the word, but whose system has been speaking the whole time.
Catch yourself before you reach for a diagnosis, and ask the question that actually serves the person in front of you.
See the moments where the therapeutic relationship starts to mirror the dynamics that harmed your client, and have somewhere to go instead of repeating them.
Meet dissociation with confidence and understanding.
Feel the moment your own nervous system slips out of attunement: the urgency, the impulse to fill the silence, the reach for technique. Know how to return.
Measure success in trauma-informed, victim/survivor-centered ways.
Your Presenter
Amanda Pulley is the President of Wild Hope Brainspotting and Consulting. She holds a Master of Social Work degree and is a Brainspotting Practitioner and Consultant. She is also a Certified Life Coach and a Victim Advocate with over ten years of lived and professional experience in the anti-trafficking field.
Amanda has worked directly with over 200 survivors of trafficking and complex trauma and has trained providers and partnered with agencies across the country to strengthen identification, response, and clinical practice. Her work is grounded primarily in the Neuro-Experiential Model of Brainspotting, with additional training in parts work and somatic processing.
As both a professional and a survivor of human trafficking, domestic violence, and other forms of high-impact trauma, Amanda brings a perspective that is grounded in lived experience as well as clinical training. She does not lead with her story for effect. It informs how she listens, how she paces the work, and how she stays attentive to what is happening beneath the words.
Her approach reflects the reality that many practitioners are already working with trafficking survivors, whether identified or not, and are often navigating presentations rooted in complex, layered, and coercive trauma. Amanda helps practitioners shift from approaches that rely on certainty and explanation toward those that allow for curiosity, nervous system honoring, and genuine relational presence.
Through this training, Amanda offers a grounded, experience-based perspective on how Brainspotting can support regulation, expand internal capacity, and allow the healing already present within survivors to come forward, at their own pace and on their own terms.
Amanda is based in Conway, Arkansas, and consults nationally within anti-trafficking and complex trauma spaces.
This Training Is For You If...
You have clients you feel stuck with and cannot figure out why
You have completed Brainspotting Phase 1 training
You work with trauma survivors and wonder whether some of your clients may have trafficking histories you have not identified
This training is open to all licensed professional counselors, licensed social workers, psychologists, psychoanalysts, MFTs, Substance Abuse Counselors, victim advocates, Brainspotting practitioners, graduate students who are curious and seek to expand their knowledge, and helping professionals seeking advanced trauma-informed training. Participants must have completed Brainspotting Phase 1 prior to attending.
Course Level: Mixed (Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced).
Reserve Your Place
Early Bird Rate: $745
Available through August 13, 2027
Regular Rate: $795
Available August 14, 2027
Student Rate: $395
What's Included With Your Registration
Each registration includes 3 days of live instruction and access to the training recording following the event. CE certificates are purchased separately through Elevated Life Academy after course completion.
Student proof of enrollment required. Select at checkout.
Have a discount code? Enter it at checkout.
This training is designed as an intimate, experiential intensive. Space will fill.
The survivors in your caseload are waiting for a practitioner who knows how to be with them.
Be that practitioner.
Course Description
Brainspotting Human Trafficking Victims is an advanced specialty training designed for Brainspotting practitioners seeking to deepen their clinical effectiveness with survivors of trafficking and complex coercive trauma. This training is not a technique upgrade. It is a posture shift.
Participants will explore what it means to work with a population whose nervous systems were shaped by coercion, grooming, relational harm, and survival, and why certainty, however well-intentioned, can replicate the very dynamics survivors have already lived. Through the Neuro-Experiential Model of Brainspotting, participants will learn to work from a place of uncertainty, attunement, and cultural humility rather than a clinical agenda.
Course content includes the culture of trafficking, nervous system adaptations, dissociation as intelligent protection, grooming dynamics and their parallels in therapeutic relationships, Brainspotting frames, dual attunement, dorsal vagal collapse, working with survivors in the life and in programming, sleep and grief as nervous system repair, and practitioner self-care. Case studies, experiential practicums, and applied clinical discussions are integrated throughout.
Participants leave with a framework not just for what to do, but for how to be with people who have survived the unsurvivable.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:
Beginning Level: Knowledge and Comprehension
1. Describe at least two limitations of checklist-based identification approaches when working with survivors of human trafficking.
2. Identify at least three nervous system adaptations commonly observed in survivors of human trafficking, including activation, dissociation, and dorsal vagal collapse.
3. Recognize behavioral, relational, and somatic indicators that may be present in people with trafficking histories across three contexts: currently in the life, recently exited, and not previously identified.
4. Describe the impact of grooming, coercion, and trauma bonding on treatment engagement, relational dynamics, and nervous system organization.
5. Explain dissociation as an adaptive nervous system response within the context of complex, relational, and coercive trauma.
Intermediate Level: Application and Analysis
1. Differentiate certainty-based clinical approaches from uncertainty-based attuned practice and explain why this distinction is central to ethical work with trafficking survivors.
2. Apply Brainspotting as a developmental model by examining client presentations as adaptive survival responses rather than diagnostic pathology.
3. Apply Brainspotting frames, including receiving, holding, and shaping, within clinical sessions with trafficking survivors.
4. Analyze how grooming dynamics may emerge within therapeutic relationships and influence client engagement, trust, and compliance.
5. Recognize signs of dissociation, collapse, activation, and other survival responses during clinical sessions and demonstrate appropriate attuned responses without premature resolution.
6. Recognize internal practitioner cues indicating loss of attunement and implement strategies to return to a regulated, present clinical state.
Advanced Level: Synthesis and Evaluation
1. Evaluate practitioner countertransference responses, including limbic countertransference, that may interfere with attunement and clinical decision-making.
2. Integrate nervous system awareness into case conceptualization for people with suspected or confirmed trafficking histories.
3. Demonstrate culturally responsive clinical considerations relevant to trafficking survivors, including relational norms, safety perception, communication patterns, and the culture of trafficking.
4. Develop treatment considerations for survivors currently in exploitation, in early exit, or in structured programming.
5. Formulate Brainspotting interventions that align with client readiness, nervous system capacity, cultural context, and stage of recovery.
6. Assess client progress by identifying observable shifts in nervous system regulation rather than relying solely on symptom elimination.
Agenda
Day 1: Posture, Nervous System, and Trafficking Context
6.5 CE Hours
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Opening Frame: Trafficking Defined and A Different Posture
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Break
10:45 AM - 11:45 AM - Uncertainty Principle in Trafficking Survivor Work
11:45 AM - 12:00 PM - Practicum
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM - Practicum
1:30 PM - 2:45 PM - Nervous System Indicators and Survivor Presentation
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM - Break
3:00 PM - 4:15 PM - Developmental Model and Grooming Dynamics
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM - Case Study
Total: 19.5 CE Hours across 3 days. Each day provides 6.5 hours of instructional time. Breaks and lunch periods are excluded from CE credit calculations. CE credit is awarded in quarter-hour increments per ELA guidelines.
Day 2: Culture, Attunement, and the Clinical Frame
6.5 CE Hours
9:00 AM - 10:15 AM - The Culture of Trafficking
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM - Break
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Brainspotting Frame
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Dual Attunement and the Tail of the Comet
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Countertransference and Therapist Regulation
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Break
2:15 PM - 3:15 PM - Focused Mindfulness and Processing Barriers
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM - The Three Legs of Brainspotting
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Practicum
Total: 19.5 CE Hours across 3 days. Each day provides 6.5 hours of instructional time. Breaks and lunch periods are excluded from CE credit calculations. CE credit is awarded in quarter-hour increments per ELA guidelines.
Day 3: Clinical Application, Practitioner Care, and Integration
6.5 CE Hours
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM - Dissociation, Activation, and Dorsal Vagal Collapse
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM - Break
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM - Case Study
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Survivors in Programming
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM - Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM - Practicum
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM - Break
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM - Practitioner Self-Reflection
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM - Practicum
3:45 PM - 4:30 PM - Practicum
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM - Ending Sessions, Measuring Success, and Closing
Total: 19.5 CE Hours across 3 days. Each day provides 6.5 hours of instructional time. Breaks and lunch periods are excluded from CE credit calculations. CE credit is awarded in quarter-hour increments per ELA guidelines.
Accreditation
This course is cosponsored with Elevated Life Academy. 19.5 CE credits are pending approval with ASWB, ACE, and/or NBCC.
Course Details & Policies
Format
Online Interactive Webinar, 3-Day Intensive
Total CE Hours
19.5 CE Hours. Each day provides 6.5 hours of instructional time. Breaks and lunch periods are excluded from CE credit calculations. CE credit is awarded in quarter-hour increments per ELA guidelines.
Course Level
Mixed: Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced. See Learning Objectives above for level-specific outcomes.
Prerequisite
Brainspotting Phase 1 Training is required prior to attending.
Course Completion Requirements
Course attendees must be present for the entire course and complete an evaluation. Partial credit is not allowed. Zoom attendance will be taken for each attendee.
System Requirements
To access this online interactive webinar, you will need a cable, high-speed DSL, or other medium that is internet accessible and a device (typically made within the last 5-7 years) that can run the Zoom software. Please view Zoom System Requirements for more information.
Accessibility and Accommodations
Reasonable accommodations for disabilities are available upon request. Please contact the training organizer at least 14 days prior to the training date to ensure accommodations can be arranged. Contact: [email protected]
Certificate Issuance
Certificates of completion will be issued after attendance verification and successful completion of the required course evaluation. An email will be sent following the training with instructions for completing the evaluation and purchasing CE certificates. CEs are typically available for purchase within 2 business days after Elevated Life Academy receives attendance records and remain available for 30 days.
Contact Information
Wild Hope Brainspotting & Consulting
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 501-501-7011
Address: 3900 Dave Ward Dr, Suite 1900-190, Conway, AR
Grievances
Participants with questions or grievances are encouraged to contact Wild Hope Brainspotting and Consulting within 30 days of completing the course.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 501-501-7011
Address: 3900 Dave Ward Dr, Suite 1900-190, Conway, AR
Grievances should include the participant's name and contact information, course title and date of completion, instructor name, a detailed description of the concern including any relevant facts, and the desired outcome or resolution sought. Grievances will be reviewed and a response provided within a reasonable timeframe.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will I get partial CE credit if I miss part of a day?
No. Partial credit is not allowed. To receive CE credit, you must be present for the entire course and complete the post-training evaluation. Zoom attendance is tracked each day.
When and how will I receive my CE certificate?
After the training, you'll receive an email with instructions to complete the required evaluation and purchase your CE certificate through Elevated Life Academy. Certificates are typically available within 2 business days after attendance records are submitted, and remain available for 30 days.
What if I need accommodations for a disability?
Reasonable accommodations are available on request. Please contact [email protected] at least 14 days before the training so we can arrange them.
Do I need to have completed Brainspotting Phase 2?
Phase 1 completion is required. Phase 2 is not required but recommended, though many attendees will have completed it.
Will there be a recording available?
Yes. A recording will be made available to all registered participants following the training.
What does a typical day look like?
Each day runs from 9:00am to 5:00pm CT. The format includes teaching, video, case examples, and experiential practicums in pairs. This is not a passive training. You will be actively engaged throughout.
I work in an agency or program, not private practice. Is this for me?
Yes. The training specifically addresses working with survivors in programming, advocacy settings, and community mental health contexts, alongside private practice clinical work.
What if I have never worked with a trafficking survivor?
You may have, without knowing it. That is part of what this training addresses. If you work with complex trauma, this training is relevant to your current caseload.