Medical Trauma, Dissociation & Safety Repair in Pelvic Pain Care: Tools for Clinicians
Practical relational tools to help you support real-world dysregulation in pelvic healthcare.
Learn how to recognise, respond to, and repair a disrupted sense of safety in pelvic pain care.
Which clinicians?
Physios
Osteos
GPs
Gynaecologists
Pain Specialists
Why This Workshop?
A practical, science-rich training designed for clinicians who work with people living with pelvic pain, trauma histories, and complex body-based distress.
This isn’t a “theory-only” PD. It’s about what actually happens in the room — when a client freezes mid-exam, when consent becomes murky, when you feel the atmosphere drop and can’t name why.
Through a neurobiological and relational-safety lens, you’ll learn how to recognise, respond, and gently repair moments of dissociation and shutdown in real time.
Online via Zoom
90mins duration
Recording available for 3mths post workshop.
Fee: $80 + GST
Afterpay available (we know the cost of living is insane and have tried to keep prices low and offer payment options).
If you would like to access Afterpay, please email admin@lauragracepsychology.com.au and we will invoice you directly.
The details:
You’ll explore:
Established trauma response patterns: the defence cascade of fight, flight, freeze, fawn and collapse — and how these adaptive states shape perception, pain, and relational safety.
Relational safety, embodiment, and predictive threat: how the brain and body learn to minimise sensory input when safety feels impossible.
Interoceptive silencing: the neuroscience of “numbness” and disconnection
Safety repair: what helps the body return to presence
Relational micro-repair: tone, pacing, and attunement as part of the treatment
Clinician regulation: how to stay steady when your client disappears
This isn’t about teaching therapy. It’s about enhancing your ability to hold space, notice, and respond within your existing scope.
What you’ll learn:
Identify early signs of dissociation, freeze, or protective shutdown in your sessions.
Understand how the brain learns to anticipate danger and how to safely update those predictions.
Use practical micro-tools for co-regulation, pacing, and safety repair (language, tone, orientation, pauses).
Hold space when a client “disappears” without forcing or retraumatising.
Reflect on your own nervous system patterns and how to stay grounded during difficult sessions.
Communicate safely across teams — how to document and discuss without pathologising.
What You’ll Take Away
✨A clear understanding of how medical trauma, dissociation, and pain physiology intersect — and what that looks like in real-world clinical care.
✨A fresh lens for safety: moving beyond “calming the nervous system” to updating threat predictions through relational repair and sensory data. How both are wonderful together!
✨ How to spot early signs of protective shutdown or dissociation (even subtle ones).
✨ Reading the room: environmental and relational cues that signal safety or threat.
✨ How to respond when a client becomes overly compliant or shuts down — without escalating fear or shame.
✨ Language you can use when a client freezes, dissociates, or goes blank — what to say, how to say it, and when to pause.
✨ Simple orientation and grounding techniques to bring clients back to presence without overexplaining or overwhelming.
✨ Ways to check consent and capacity mid-session that feel natural and safe.
✨ Differentiating between tension, distress, and disconnection — and what each needs from you.
✨ How to ground your own nervous system when things get heavy or the energy drops.
✨ Concrete tools to make every clinical interaction safer, steadier, and more effective.