Tian Dayton – Relational Trauma Repair Course: Psychodrama-Based Tools, Role Plays and Embodied Exercises for Experiential Trauma Healing
Trauma is wired through experiences. Healing is too.
Get the tools to create powerful reparative therapeutic experiences—safely, simply, and effectively.
When caregivers didn’t care. When love wasn’t there. When the hurt came from the ones clients trusted most…
Those traumatic experiences embedded themselves deep in your clients’ nervous systems.
And until they can feel something different – safety, connection and agency — their nervous system will keep replaying the past.
That’s why if you work with attachment and developmental trauma you need experiential therapies.
Because they go where most approaches can’t —healing relational wounds by letting clients embody reparative experiences in sessions…
…rewiring the nervous system and transforming old trauma patterns into new relational and emotional possibilities.
This certificate program shows you how.
You’ll join Dr. Tian Dayton—a pioneer in experiential healing—praised by Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine and other experts.
She’ll give you a complete toolbox of psychodrama-based interventions, role play techniques, and embodied exercises to:
- Safely revisit painful experiences and access long-avoided emotions
- Rewrite old relational scripts into healthy new patterns
- Repair broken attachment bonds and restore clients’ ability to trust
- Process the pain of what was missing or never got a chance to be
No prior experience needed — this program makes experiential techniques simple for individual, couple or group therapy.
Enroll now and start giving your clients what no other approach can — healing experiences that transform trauma at its root.
P.S. Your registration includes over a dozen FREE clinical worksheets.
Relational Trauma Repair Training Curriculum
Talk therapy gives clients insights. Experiential therapy gives them freedom.
Join Dr. Tian Dayton for 4 self-paced training modules that show you exactly how to bring relational trauma repair to life through psychodrama, embodiment, and experiential tools that help clients access core emotion and create moments that can heal.
Module 1: Attachment Trauma and an Introduction to Psychodrama, Sociometry, and Embodied Practices
Get ready to move your treatment beyond words and into healing through action and experiences! In this foundational module, Dr. Dayton will take you on a deep dive into how early attachment trauma from unresolved childhood experiences shapes your clients’ emotional, cognitive, and relational struggles.
Then she’ll turn her decades of experience into easy-to-use interventions that let clients safely revisit the moments that hurt them, access emotions they’ve long avoided, and begin to rewrite their internal stories with new feelings of safety and connection.
Module 2: Trauma and Resilience Timelines: Tools to Identify Moments of Rupture and Strengthen Inner Resources
Trauma disrupts a client’s sense of time. Memories don’t unfold in a neat sequence—they can feel fragmented, blurred, and surface without warning. Without that clarity, the path to healing can feel blocked, leaving clients stuck—unable to fully process their trauma or restore a sense of safety and control.
In Module 2, Dr. Dayton will teach you how to use Attachment Trauma and Resilience Timelines—structured, experiential processes that help clients put trauma into context and real-time, and uncover hidden reservoirs of strength and resilience they need to heal.
Module 3: Map Relational Patterns, Externalize Relational Pain and Create Healing Moments
Many clients can’t easily explain how their attachment wounds show up—or where they learned their current patterns of closeness, distance, or disconnection.
In this module, you’ll learn how to use powerful experiential tools to help clients visually map their key relationships, highlight missing support, and reveal inherited roles—creating moments of recognition and emotional integration. Dr. Dayton will show you how to apply this approach with individuals, couples, and groups, offering step-by-step guidance and real client demonstrations.
Module 4: Relational Trauma, Loss, and Grief: Experiential Tools for Processing What Was and What Wasn’t
In this powerful module, you’ll learn how to use experiential techniques to help clients process both tangible and invisible losses. Through role plays, timelines and somatic awareness that give grief shape, voice, and movement, you’ll learn how to help clients speak “to” who or what they’ve lost, not just “about” it—opening pathways for healing that traditional talk therapy often leaves untouched.
Your Expert Trainer
Tian Dayton, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at The Meadows and a nationally renowned speaker, expert, and consultant in trauma, addiction, and psychodrama. Her work has been praised by many of today’s leading voices in psychotherapy including Peter Levine and Stephen Porges. Dr. Dayton is the director of The New York Psychodrama Training Institute and author of 15 books including Treating Adult Children of Relational Trauma (PESI Publishing, 2023).
A board-certified trainer in psychodrama, sociometry and group psychotherapy, she’s spent her decades long career adapting psychodrama and sociometry for work specifically with relational trauma and addictions. Her trademarked processes Socio Metrics, are in use nationally and around the world, as is her model Relational Trauma at NYU for eight years, and has appeared a guest expert on NBC, CNN, MSNBC and other major media outlets. She has received many awards for her work including the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Psychodrama, Sociometry and Group Psychotherapy.
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