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Come join us at Intuition Wellness Center on April 17, 2026 at 9:00 AM for this 3.0 CE event. When a child has difficulty experiencing felt safety, co-regulation and relational confidence, rhythmicity can support attachment and connection. This 3.0 continuing education workshop is designed to help pediatric therapists step into an embodied, play-based approach to strengthening attachment.

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Description of Program:

Rhythm is at the heart of all life. How we experience those rhythms in the context of relationship is the heart of attachment.  When trauma, adversity or overwhelming experiences disrupt a child’s world, the fundamental rhythms of life are often derailed, leaving the child feeling out of sync with themselves and others. If this experience of feeling “out of sync” and disconnected in relationship is prolonged, children may be impacted in several ways. They may have difficulty experiencing felt safety in relationship, accessing co-regulation, or lack confidence in the possibility of relational repair. These difficulties often resulting in increased feelings of overwhelm and dysregulation for the child and their family.

In this workshop, participants will explore Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART), an evidence-informed therapeutic approach that uses movement and fully embodied play as a foundational entry point for helping children build regulatory and relational capacities necessary for processing overwhelming experience. Using the SMART lens, participants will explore and experience the power of incorporating full body rhythms into play therapy and learn selected tools and skills that build strong attachments.  Attention will also be given to discussing incorporating rhythmic games discovered in the play room to support felt safety, connection and build the capacity for rupture and repair in relationship. Teaching methods include didactic presentation, viewing and discussing video case examples, and clinical demonstration with invitational opportunities for movement-based experiential learning.

Educational Objectives:

After attending this intermediate level program in full, participants will be able to:

• Describe the impact and power of rhythmic play in building co-regulating experiences in relationship.
• Discuss the role of synchronization and bi-directional coordination on attachment.
• Identify fully embodied games and experiences for use in a therapy session that provide opportunities for building new rhythms of engagement.
• Observe and discuss the impact of engaging in playful, rhythmic games on a social engagement system and present moment attachment experience using video reflection
• Experience the impact of fully embodied rhythmic play on one’s own social engagement and attachment system.

Eager to deepen your learning? Bundle this and Heather’s March 6th training: The Power of Rhythmic Play: Building Somatic Regulation Capacity with Multi-Stressed Children and Families

Presenter:

Heather Finn, LCSW is a practicing clinical social worker licensed in Arizona and Massachusetts. Her clinical specialization focuses on treating children, adolescents, adults and families impacted by stress, trauma and adversity. She earned her MSW from Smith College School for Social Work in 2001, worked for almost ten years at Trauma Center in Brookline, MA and was trained under the medical director, Dr. Bessel Van der Kolk. In her tenure at the Trauma Center, Heather embraced several roles including that of a therapist, clinical supervisor, agency consultant, trainer and eventually was promoted to the role of Clinical Director.

As a therapist, Heather is passionate about increasing access to high quality trauma informed training and effective treatments that support safe opportunities for people to move, explore, heal and grow as individuals and members of their community. She currently works part time at Intuition Wellness Center, maintains a virtual private practice, and is a founding Partner of SMARTmoves, LLC a training, consultation and education entity for mental health practitioners. In her role as lead trainer and consultant, Heather facilitates learning opportunities for clinicians, milieu counselors and educators across the United States and internationally.  She also is a co-author on the SMART book – “Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing and Attaching-Building” (2020),  and lead co-author of the article The Boy Who Was Hit in the Face:  Somatic Regulation and Processing of Preverbal Complex Trauma, published through the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma in 2017.

Participants:

This workshop is open to all psychologists and mental health professionals interested in learning more about treatment approaches to working with children, adolescents and families. This program is intended for those with an intermediate to advanced level of knowledge and experience.

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Continuing Education:

This program is available for three (3) continuing education credits. Participants must attend 100% of the lecture. Upon completion of a program evaluation form, a certificate will be issued. This serves as documentation of attendance for all participants. Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC maintains responsibility for the program and its content.

Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC is committed to accessibility and non-discrimination in continuing education activities and will conduct all activities in conformity with the American Psychological Association’s Ethical Principles for Psychologists. If participants have special needs, reasonable efforts will be made to accommodate them. Please contact Gina Babunovic at 520-333-3320 with questions, concerns or to request special accommodations. There is no commercial support for this program nor are there any relationships between the CE Sponsor, presenting organization, presenter, program content, research, grants, or other funding that could reasonably be construed as conflicts of interest.

This workshop is co-sponsored between Intuition Wellness Center, PLLC and SMARTmoves, LLC. The presenter Heather Finn, LCSW is an employee of Intuition Wellness Center and founding partner of SMARTmoves, LLC, contributing developer of Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation Treatment (SMART) model and co-author of the book – “Transforming Trauma in Children and Adolescents: An Embodied Approach to Somatic Regulation, Trauma Processing and Attachment Building.”