Aimie Apigian – Biology of Trauma: Applications of Functional Medicine and Healing

Description Of Biology of Trauma

What is functional medicine and how can we use it to help the therapy process?

Stress and trauma cause changes in one’s biology. Those changes slow down the healing process or make it stuck. In this workshop you’ll learn simple tools from functional medicine that can make the nervous system more available for therapy and accelerates the trauma healing journey. Join us and learn how to harness the power of biology and stop making the healing journey harder than it needs to be.

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Functional Medicine provides a tool through which to support the body and increase the nervous system’s capacity for change and healing. An overview of the model and principles of functional medicine will be reviewed, and then we will jump into the most practical aspects of functional medicine that will either help or hinder the healing journey.

We will look at nutrients, neurotransmitters and epigenetics and how each can even predispose one to trauma. The immune system absorbs all of the stress of a system, and we can recognize different patterns of how the immune system has been caught in a biology of trauma. Cortisol, hormones and the digestive system are all crucial to the conversation and then we show how trauma and getting stuck in trauma patterns is an energy problem and how to address that through the model and principles of functional medicine.

You will learn practical tools to implement in your life or with your clients that will make a difference now for supporting the biology and moving forward in the trauma healing journey.

What You’ll Learn In Biology of Trauma

• What is the model and principles of Functional Medicine.
• How to address the freeze response through a functional medicine approach.
• The role of brain inflammation in the freeze response and how to identify it.
• Understand and identify the role of epigenetics in stress and trauma.
• How to work with the digestive system so that it helps (and doesn’t hurt) the healing journey.
• How to assess for biological factors that may be holding a person back from healing.

COURSE OUTLINE

• The Functional Medicine Model and Principles
• Nutrients and Testing
• Immune System Caught in a Biology of Trauma
• Brain Health in Trauma
• Epigenetics and Neurotransmitters
• Digestive System and the Vagus Nerve
• Stress, Cortisol and Hormones
• Trauma as an Energy Problem

Who Is This Course For

This 8-hour workshop series is for practitioners, mental health providers and lay people who want to learn more about how functional medicine can help the therapy process. Whether you’re here to help yourself or others, if you want more skills and tools for effectively addressing trauma and heal faster, this training is for you!

About Dr. Aimie Apigian

Dr. Aimie Apigian is a Double Board-Certified Medical Physician, boarded in both Preventive and Addiction Medicine with a Double Masters Degrees in Biochemistry and in Public Health.

Dr. Apigian is the leading medical expert on stored trauma in the body and developed The Biology of Trauma™ protocols which she teaches in her certification course for practitioners.

She has personal experience in foster parenting, adopting and then having her own health crash. In addition to her medical studies that have included Functional Medicine Certification, she has sought out trauma therapy trainings since 2015 including Somatic Experiencing (SE™) and NeuroAffective Touch. She bridges the two worlds of Functional Medicine and trauma therapy to accelerate the healing journey by addressing The Biology of Trauma.

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