This workshop offers 5 simple, empowering skills to use with clients to build affect regulation, tolerance & capacity. You will learn in simple language, why it is important to include the physical body in trauma processing with adults and children. Also, how trauma affects the nervous system and brain, and simple ways to cue the brain that the threat has past. MATES skills can be used by clients in and out of sessions to increase manageability and build a sense of mastery in their lives