Healing for the Heart: Compassionate Approaches for Trauma and Connection
Healing from trauma—especially complex trauma—requires more than insight.
It calls for compassion, regulation, and connection. “Healing for the Heart” offers a deeply experiential and practical exploration of how clinicians can use compassion-based approaches to support nervous system regulation, repair attachment wounds, and foster healing within individuals and communities.
This training bridges current research on trauma, attachment, and the nervous system with actionable clinical tools. Participants will learn to help clients move beyond survival responses toward safety, connection, and growth.
What You’ll Learn
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By the end of this training, you’ll be able to confidently:
Describe how trauma and complex trauma impact nervous system regulation and interpersonal functioning.
Apply compassion-based and nervous-system-informed interventions to support clients in trauma recovery.
Explain how attachment patterns influence emotional regulation, relationships, and resilience.
Identify strategies for fostering community and connection as essential components of healing.
Why This Training Matters
Trauma recovery begins with safety, understanding, and connection. This training gives clinicians the tools to help clients regulate their nervous systems, repair relational patterns, and rediscover the strength that comes from compassion and community.
Join us to strengthen your skills, nurture your own well-being, and bring healing-centered approaches into every level of your work.
Meet Your Trainers:
Lynn Jimenez, LCSW, PPSC is the founder of CFG and has ~20 years in the field. Her clinical specialties include: trauma, nervous system dysregulation, attachment, and substance abuse use. Personally, Lynn has witnessed the devastation addiction causes families and the hope recovery provides.
As the Co-founder of Project Kinship, Steve Kim has built a nationally recognized organization that supports individuals impacted by incarceration, gangs, and systemic barriers. After decades of studying and addressing the impacts of trauma, he now focuses his work on fostering healing, opportunity, and justice through trauma-informed and restorative practices. With personal insight and professional expertise, Steve’s work restores dignity, rebuilds lives, and inspires philanthropy and collaboration across Orange County.
Training Details
Dates: February 24 & March 3, 2026
Time: 8am -5pm PST
Location: 1833 E. 17 Street
Santa Ana, CA 92705
Online via Zoom also available
Investment: $197 Early bird pricing until 1/31/26
$231 beginning 2/1/26
There will be a 1 hour lunch and two 15 minute breaks, this time is not included in CE time.
This course meets the qualifications for 15 hours of CE credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences. Lunch and breaks are excluded from CE time.
Certificates awarded within 48 hours of completion.
Non BBS registered participants are welcome to attend, CE credits will not be awarded.
Lynn Jimenez dba Connect Flow Grow is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for school mental health professionals. Lynn Jimenez dba CFG maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content
CAMFT approval #1032823
Cancellation Policy
A complete refund, minus $45 administration fee, is given up to 3 weeks (21 days) prior to workshop’s start date. If cancellation occurs for any reason within the 3 weeks prior to the event, the student may apply the tuition paid towards any future workshops offered by Connect.Flow.Grow.
To request accommodations or submit a grievance please email info@connectflowgrow.com