This 90-minute workshop reviews deep nervous system study that extends beyond fight, flight, and freeze to include a broader map of autonomic states, such as play, tonic immobility, appease, and compete. As Clinicians we will explore how to differentiate regulation from survival, refine intervention pacing, and respond more accurately to patients in the current climate - enduring chronic threat, combat exposure, and prolonged uncertainty.
Course Overview
Participants will explore how nuanced patterns of autonomic nervous system activation show up in clinical work, and how this understanding can support more precise in-session tracking, pacing, and intervention timing. Rather than relying solely on a fight/flight/freeze lens, the workshop focuses on recognizing mixed and subtle nervous system states that commonly emerge in talk therapy and learning how to work with them effectively - particularly in the context of prolonged exposure to threat, grief, and ongoing collective stress that many clients and clinicians are currently navigating in Israel.
Therapists will develop greater clarity around:
- How autonomic states shape emotional capacity, cognitive access, and relational availability
- Why insight lands, bypasses, or overwhelms depending on nervous system state
- How to distinguish regulation from shutdown, activation from integration, and calm from inhibition
- How to adapt language, pacing, and interventions to match moment-to-moment state
- How the therapist’s own autonomic state influences attunement and clinical judgment
Ideal for:
- Trauma-informed talk therapists
- Clinicians familiar with or curious about polyvagal theory
- Integrative therapists - this model can be integrated with the following modalities: psychodynamic, relational, IFS, AEDP, EMDR, trauma-informed CBT
This workshop is FREE for members of Get Help Israel: The Israel Association of Mental Health Professionals. A coupon code will be sent to the members of the Association.
Jordhynn Guy
Jordhynn Guy, MACP is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with over seven years of experience across mental health, conflict resolution, reconciliation, and trauma-informed care. She works from a somatic psychodynamic approach, integrating nervous system regulation with relational and depth-oriented frameworks.
Her background includes reconciliation-focused work in Rwanda, psychosocial sport interventions and crisis social work support with Indigenous mothers and youth. She is formally trained in mediation and holds an MA in Conflict Resolution, which informs her work with relational dynamics, rupture and repair, and decision-making under stress.
Jordhynn specializes in intrapersonal and interpersonal relational conflict and works at the intersection of wellbeing and high performance, supporting individuals and couples navigating recurring relational tension, emotional withdrawal, and performance-related stress. She is the founder of Elite Resilience and a former professional volleyball player.
