Neuroscience of Resilience
Trusting Our Process
Training led by:
Laurel Thornton, LPC
Resilience isn't a fixed trait — it's biologically foundational, inherently relational, and trainable across the lifespan. In this 3-hour live training, you'll explore the contemporary neuroscience of resilience through the lens of neuroplasticity, sociality, and the distinctly human experience of meaning-making.
LIVE: MAY 27, 2026 | 11AM - 2PM MTN
Cost: $97
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Who is this training for?
This continuing education program is intended for graduate-level professional counselors and mental health practitioners. It is designed for clinicians who hold a master's degree or higher in a mental health field, as well as graduate students actively pursuing that level of training.
COURSE OVERVIEW
Resilience isn't a fixed trait — it's biologically foundational, inherently relational, and trainable across the lifespan. In this 3-hour live training, you'll explore the contemporary neuroscience of resilience through the lens of neuroplasticity, sociality, and the distinctly human experience of meaning-making. Stress and trauma disrupt the brain networks that support adaptive functioning, and here we'll explore how to honor how function gets unbalanced in trauma and increase access to what helps us move through the healing process. You'll leave with a guided, trauma-informed framework for Resilience-Oriented Resource Development — an example of how to help clients access and strengthen the resilience networks already present in their lives. We'll also explore how this work shapes us as clinicians, and why showing up, again and again, is itself a resilience factor.
CEs:
This course is eligible for 3 NBCC CEs.
Training Format:
Live on May 27, 2026 and available on demand after.
Investment:
This course is $97. Installment options available.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
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Able to describe 3 key principles from contemporary neuroscience of resilience.
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Able to identify how biology, genetics, and experiences influenced their self of the therapist.
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Able to implement at least two practical strategies to activate resilience and co-regulation in themselves and their clients during clinical sessions.
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Able to recognize how stress and trauma unbalance brain networks that support adaptive functioning, and identify what helps clients move back toward integration.
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Able to apply a guided, trauma-informed framework for Resilience-Oriented Resource Development to help clients access and strengthen the resilience networks already present in their lives.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
This program is intended for licensed professional counselors, clinical mental health counselors, and other mental health professionals who provide counseling services. The content is appropriate for intermediate to advanced practitioners seeking to deepen their clinical skills in EMDR therapy and trauma-informed care. Counselors-in-training and other allied professionals (e.g., social workers, marriage and family therapists, psychologists) may also benefit from the material.
IRIS Training Collective has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 8002. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. IRIS Training Collective is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
MEET YOUR TRAINER
Laurel Thornton, LPC
Laurel Thornton is a licensed counselor, clinical supervisor, and EMDRIA-approved consultant known for her ability to make complex concepts both clear and actionable. As a neuro-psychotherapist, she brings a deep understanding of brain-based healing to her work with complex trauma, neurodivergence, and high-performing individuals. Laurel owns a group practice, Whole Brain Solutions, specializing in EMDR for stress- and trauma-based disorders and blends clinical excellence with whole-person care.
As a passionate educator and co-founder of the Whole Brain Institute and the Iris Training Collective, Laurel helps professional helpers and healers deepen their skills with clarity, creativity, and compassion. She brings a love of the AIP model and a respect for each brain’s unique wiring into every training space—empowering clinicians to trust themselves, embrace nuance, and lead with purpose.
Laurel’s teaching brings a belief in the learner’s unique brain, clarifying insight, humor, and a steady commitment to cultivating spaces where learning is both rigorous and deeply human.
Course Attendance and CE Credit:
For live credit: Attendees must attend live via Zoom and attendance will be taken for course credit. Partial credit is not available. Live certificates are issued upon request within 5 business days of verified attendance and completed evaluation.
For on demand credit: Attendees must view the full course video, complete the quiz and evaluation to receive credit. Upon completion of all modules your certificate will be issued and sent via email.
Cancellation & Refund Policy:
Full refunds are available for cancellation requests received up to 1 day prior to the program. Cancellations on/after the live date or no-shows are non-refundable. If IRIS cancels, full refunds are issued or free transfer to a future date is offered.
