[Video] Simple Stabilization Tools You Can Use With Clients Right Away

In this free 10-minute video, Dr. Chinwé Williams shares three somatically-grounded techniques that she has found most helpful as a resource for supporting clients with trauma. Practitioners can use these tools starting in the very first session to help clients stabilize and regulate overwhelming emotional states.

Through gentle techniques like butterfly tapping and guided imagery, she demonstrates how to create safety and support emotional intensity with compassion and skill.

Join Our Upcoming Live Workshop + Q&A With Dr. Chinwé Williams!

We’re thrilled to be hosting a 90-minute interactive workshop on July 16, 2025 with Dr. Chinwé Williams on Helping Clients Through Emotional Crises: DBT Tools for Anger, Anxiety, and Sadness. Learn more and register here >>

Join Our Upcoming Live Workshop + Q&A With Dr. Chinwé Williams!

We’re thrilled to be hosting a 90-minute interactive workshop this month with Dr. Chinwé Williams on Helping Clients Through Emotional Crises: DBT Tools for Anger, Anxiety, and Sadness.

In this live online workshop, you will be introduced to practical tools to support clients in managing overwhelming emotions such as anxiety, anger, and sadness. Through a combination of psychoeducation, case illustrations, and experiential activities, participants will learn tools to help clients survive emotional crises without making things worse, and strengthen inner resilience. You will walk away with a personalized toolbox of DBT skills to help your client respond to intense emotions with intention rather than reaction.

The workshop will take place on Zoom on Wednesday July 16th at 4:00pm ET.

A week later, mental health professionals will have the opportunity to deepen in a live, one-hour integration & practice lab led by Naropa University professor Clarissa Cigrand.

Learn more and register for the Live Workshop + Q&A >>

About the speakers

Chinwé Williams, PhD, is a licensed and board-certified EMDR therapist based in Georgia. She is a former graduate counseling professor, college and high school counselor, and executive coach. Currently, she serves as a consultant to K–12 schools, nonprofit organizations, faith-based communities, and corporate work settings. Her expertise includes trauma recovery, stress and anxiety management, adolescent and women’s wellness, and somatic practices. Dr. Williams has served on the faculty of several graduate programs, including Rollins College, Georgia State University, Argosy University, and the University of Central Florida. She is an active member of the American Counseling Association and former Board Secretary of the Association for Specialists in Group Work. She is the author of two books, including the best-selling Seen: Healing Despair and Anxiety in Kids and Teens Through the Power of Connection and an upcoming book, Calm, Courageous, and Connected, scheduled for release in May 2025. Dr. Williams is also a frequent media contributor on topics related to anxiety, workplace wellness, and trauma recovery. Check out Dr. Williams’ website

One Comment

Nancy Forrester July 5, 2025 at 7:07 am - Reply

So lovely to witness the therapy field beginning to catch up with the evolution that is possible. Here this practitioner is so clear in her wisdom that safety for the nervous system must be the foundational intervention for any helping professional. I might add that the safety she is talking about is neuroceptive safety (Dr. Porges) – not physical or even psychological safety. It is safety at the most foundational core energy system of the client. However, the next step isn’t trauma resolution – it is building the here and now capacity of the nervous system to sustain regulation today, in current life. After 40 years in this field, I am excited to see highly respected leaders like Janina Fisher beginning to say that ‘trauma resolution’ is not necessary. A focus on current life holds all the opportunities a practitioner needs to support their client in expanding their Window of Joy.