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
June 26, 27, and 28, 2026
9:00am to 5:00pm CT each day
Live Zoom Webinar
Presenter: Amanda Pulley, MSW
Early Bird: $745 (through May 15, 2026)
Regular: $795 (Begins May 16, 2026)
Student Rate: $395
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."
By the End of This Training, You Will:
Understand why checklists for identifying trafficking survivors are not enough, and what to look for instead: nervous system patterns, not proof
Recognize the indicators that may already be showing up in your current caseload, and know how to respond without reaching for certainty
Apply Brainspotting as a developmental model that asks "what did this nervous system have to become in order to survive?" rather than reaching for a diagnosis
Understand the grooming process and its parallels in traditional therapeutic dynamics, and how the Neuro-Experiential Model disrupts those patterns
Work with dissociation as the intelligent, adaptive protector it is, rather than a problem to be solved
Recognize when your own nervous system has been pulled out of the tail of the comet, and how to return
Measure success not by symptom elimination, but by small shifts in the nervous system
Your Presenter
Amanda Pulley is a Brainspotting practitioner, MSW, victim advocate, and certified life coach with over ten years of experience in the anti-trafficking field. She is the founder of Wild Hope Brainspotting and Consulting. Her work is grounded primarily in the Neuro-Experiential Model of Brainspotting, with additional training in parts work and somatic processing. She 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 and response.
As both a professional and someone with lived experience, Amanda operates from the belief that survivors already carry the capacity for healing within them. Her role is not to create that capacity, but to help create the conditions where it can be accessed and expressed. Through her work with Brainspotting, she has seen how attunement and working with the nervous system can support survivors in processing trauma without forcing narrative, allowing healing to emerge in ways that honor the survivor's own timeline and capacity.
Amanda's work reflects the reality that many providers are already working with trafficking survivors, whether identified or not, and are often navigating behaviors rooted in complex, layered trauma. She helps programs and providers shift from approaches that rely on certainty and explanation to those that allow for curiosity, flexibility, and nervous system-informed understanding. Through this training, Amanda offers a grounded and experience-based perspective on how Brainspotting can support regulation, expand internal capacity, and allow the healing already present within survivors to come forward.
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 Brainspotting practitioners.
Reserve Your Place
Early Bird Rate: $745
Available through May 15, 2026.
Regular Rate: $795
Available May 16, 2026.
Student Rate: $395
Available to supervised interns and graduate students working toward licensure. 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.
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
The survivors in your caseload are waiting for a practitioner who knows how to be with them.
Be that practitioner.