LIVE: Healing the Healers: Introducing the BYRD Model for Culturally Rooted Trauma Care

June 5, 2026
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM Pacific

3 Hours | 3 CEs

$175 Registration | $150 Early Registration (through May 30th) | Live Virtual Training via Zoom

Sharlisa L. Byrd, LMFT, presents a live virtual professional training program on Healing the Healers: Introducing the BYRD Model for Culturally Rooted Trauma Care.

Healing the Healers: Introducing the BYRD Model for Culturally Rooted Trauma Care is a 3-hour training designed for clinicians, educators, and graduate-level students seeking to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed, culturally responsive care. Developed by Sharlisa Byrd, LMFT, this training introduces participants to the BYRD Model—a somatic and justice-driven framework for healing that centers the embodied experience of trauma, particularly among marginalized communities.

Grounded in real-life narratives and supported by somatic psychology, the BYRD Model invites clinicians to integrate four key pillars—Belonging, Yielding, Resilience, and Disruption—into their therapeutic practice. These concepts are explored through storytelling, case studies, and experiential somatic exercises that promote nervous system regulation, cultural attunement, and collective care.

Participants will walk away with a fresh perspective on how to apply body-based healing tools in clinical work, how to identify and challenge systems of harm, and how to sustain their own resilience as helping professionals. Whether you're a new clinician or seasoned practitioner, this course provides immediately applicable tools for fostering deeper healing for both clients and clinicians navigating oppressive systems.

This program is more than a training—it’s a call to reclaim wellness as a radical act of resistance, and to support healing not only for our clients, but for ourselves.