Presented by Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and Trauma Educator, Effie Kli

 

Thursday, June 18, 2026

5pm BST | 12pm EDT | 9am PDT 

If you live with complex trauma, the past doesn’t stay in the past.

 

It lives in your body, shaping how you feel in the present

 

and what your nervous system expects from the future.

In this 90-minute workshop, you’ll learn why complex trauma can make the body confuse past danger with present experience, and how self-attunement can help expand your nervous system capacity for feeling and processing.

 

You’ll be guided through accessible nervous system education and a slow somatic process designed to help you stay “with” yourself, instead of meeting your inner experience with catastrophic fear about the future, self-judgment, or abandonment.

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Why self-attunement is essential after
complex trauma

 

If you live with complex trauma, daily triggers can feel like the traumatic past repeating itself in the present.

This is because trauma is not only stored as a story you can remember. It can also live in implicit memory: in body sensations, emotional reactions, protective impulses and nervous system states. 

When something in the present touches an old wound, your body doesn't say:

“This reminds me of something that happened before.”

It responds as if the old trauma gets repeated again.

You might suddenly feel anxious, frozen, ashamed, abandoned, hypervigilant, defensive, numb, or desperate to fix something. And because you are not seeing a clear image from the past, it can feel as though the present situation is the whole problem.

Then, the nervous system moves one step further.

It begins predicting the future from the wound of the past.

“I’m going to be abandoned.”
“I’m too much.”
“I’m not safe."

“Something bad is coming.”
“I won’t be able to cope.”

This is the Past-Present-Future Loop of Complex Trauma

 

The Past

Lives in the nervous system

 

 

The Present

Becomes the trigger

 

 

The Future

Becomes the catastrophe

 

Self-attunement helps you begin interrupting this loop, not by talking yourself out of what you feel, but by learning how to notice what is happening inside with enough curiosity and compassion that you can begin to tell the difference between:

  • what is happening now
  • what your body is remembering
  • what your nervous system is afraid might happen next

This is why insight alone often isn’t enough.

You might understand what happened to you and still find your body bracing, collapsing, freezing, fawning, or being hypervigilant. Self-attunement gives you a way to notice these shifts sooner, support your body before they become too intense, and build a steadier relationship with your inner experience.

Instead of meeting your body with judgment, fear, shame, or self-abandonment, learning to practise self-attunement, over time, can help you slow down enough, choose a new response and decide with more agency.

This is for you if:

  • You live with the impact of complex trauma and often feel overwhelmed, shut down, disconnected from yourself, or unsure what is happening inside you
  • You understand your past intellectually, but you still feel unsafe and overwhelmed inside your body, and don't know how to support it
  • You notice that small present-day moments can quickly become big emotional reactions or catastrophic fears about the future
  • You often judge yourself for how you feel, or abandon your inner experience because it feels too much, too confusing, or too shameful
  • You want to learn how to relate to your body with more curiosity, steadiness, and compassion
  • You want practical somatic tools that don’t ask you to override your limits or force yourself into regulation
  • You’re curious about somatic work and want an experiential taste of it before entering something more intensive

This might not be suitable for you if:

  • You are currently unsafe in your environment and need immediate crisis support
  • You are only looking for 1:1 therapy, or personalised clinical treatment
  • You want a quick fix; this workshop is about slowly building a foundational capacity, not forcing your nervous system to change overnight

What You'll Learn:

  • Why after complex trauma the body responds as if the traumatic past is happening now, even when you cognitively understand what happened to you
  • How implicit memory shapes triggers, body sensations, emotional reactions, and nervous system states
  • Why a present-day trigger can quickly be experienced as a future-based catastrophe in your body
  • How a lack of self-attunement can make sensations, emotions, and protective responses feel confusing, shameful, or even more threatening
  • How to begin telling the difference between what is happening now, what your body is remembering, and what your nervous system is predicting
  • Why self-attunement is a foundational skill in complex trauma recovery, emotional processing, and nervous system repair
  • Language to name what’s happening inside you with more nuance than simply “anxious,” “numb,” “triggered,” or “dysregulated”
  • A slow, repeatable somatic process you can use daily to connect with your body without pushing past your limits
  • Simple trauma-informed ways to respond to your body with curiosity instead of self-judgment
  • A felt sense of what it can be like to feel slightly more resourced, present, and on your own side

About Me

 

Effie Kli is a trauma-trained somatic coach and educator with over 1,800 hours of somatic, nervous system and trauma training, combined with client work privately and in groups. Her credentials include training as a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, Compassionate Inquiry (the somatic-based psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté for healing trauma), the Polyvagal Certificate Course, and a High Performance Coaching Certificate — forming a rigorous, multi-disciplinary foundation for her work. Her holistic approach is informed by science-backed psychology and neuroscience, by the understanding that body and mind are one system, and by what she sees her clients benefit from as she supports them with the processing of trauma and repressed emotions stored in their bodies.

For two decades she lived with cPTSD, and one thing she's seen proven inside her practice and through her own personal change is that our body always guides us towards healing. 

In her work and teachings, Effie is not interested in pathologising symptoms and pain because she knows these are our body's way of talking to us. Instead of shaming those experiences, a paradigm shift of healing is to learn to apply compassionate curiosity and learn to speak our body's language so that trauma gets resolved sustainably.

"Effie's course has been life changing for me. I decided to join because of her philosophy, her story and because I felt that she'd 'get' me. She broke down complex information so it was understandable, gave me tools to support myself with my cPTSD, anxiety and depression, and she offered persistent and reliable guidance. There has been such a transformation for me and I'm in a totally difference place compared to where I was before."

Corina Ebnother

"Effie showed me how to re-connect with my body, to feel my feelings, and how to listen to them. She challenged me to see the past and myself without the shame, and soon it became clear to me that there wasn’t anything wrong with me’. She helped me get to the core of my problem, gave me tools to transcend it, and techniques to help me feel and release emotions I used to shut down out of fear. She truly helped me feel ‘whole’ again."

Dave Cooke

What's Included with Your Purchase of ÂŁ37

  • Live 90-minute workshop on Zoom
  • Clear, accessible teaching on the neuroscience of triggers, implicit memory, complex trauma, and self-attunement
  • A guided somatic self-attunement practice you can return to in daily life
  • Access to the replay for 90 days so you can revisit the teaching and practice on your own time
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"Your guidance has helped me immensely. I feel my emotional, mental and physical situation has improved a lot, and it happened in the best moment in my life. In certain ways my whole mindset shifted and I learnt a new approach. It works! I will use the methods you taught us. Thank you for being a devoted, genuine, motivating, sensitive and warm-hearted human being."

Szilvia Frank

"I feel that the biggest part of not feeling worthy and feeling inadequate has been healed through working with Effie."

Lili Suke

"Effie’s ability to get to the truth of the matter and create a path to a different way of seeing myself has been life changing."

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