Pelvic Resilience Course Library
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I’ve collaborated with world class professionals and organizations to develop high impact continuing education on topics in pelvic health & psychologically-informed practice. Check out my sought after courses below!
Psychologically-Informed Practice Deep Dives!
These sought-after courses will take you from feeling overwhelmed, stuck, and unsure to feeling more grounded, confident, and equipped with concrete skills for working with psychology, the nervous system, and complex symptoms.
Trauma-Informed
Pelvic Health Certification
Developed in partnership with Lindsey Vestal of The Functional Pelvis, this certification was created for clinicians who recognize that pelvic health care often unfolds in vulnerable emotional territory and want to feel more equipped, confident, and grounded when it does.
The first comprehensive program designed to help clinicians bring trauma-informed care into pelvic health.
Pelvic health sessions can bring forward nervous system activation, protective responses, and echoes of lived experiences or trauma histories. Yet most pelvic health training focuses on anatomy and biomechanics, leaving clinicians to navigate emotional complexity without a clear framework or support.
This program fills that gap.
Through a blend of structured online lessons, guided practices, reflective work, and live community support, clinicians learn how to:
Create conditions of safety through language, presence, and environment
Navigate emotional or protective responses with steadiness and clarity
Honour autonomy, consent, and pacing in every interaction
Utilize trauma-informed principles into every aspect of care from marketing to intake to assessment to treatment
Recognize nervous system cues and respond without escalating distress
Whether or not your practice includes hands-on or internal pelvic health work, Canadian OTs are uniquely positioned to bring a trauma-informed lens to this deeply personal area of care. This certification offers a meaningful way to deepen your confidence, expand your perspective, and strengthen the therapeutic relationships at the heart of your work, no matter how pelvic health currently shows up in your role.
It’s an immersive, supportive learning experience designed to shift not only what we do, but how we show up, so pelvic health care becomes safer and more compassionate for our clients, and more sustainable for us.
And if you’re wondering whether you need pelvic-health experience to benefit from this training: you don’t. Trauma-informed principles are an excellent place to start and despite it being Level 2 in the Functional Pelvic Practitioner Certification, there no prerequisites for this course.
As long as you’re working with humans, and even if you’re just beginning to dip your toe into pelvic health, you belong here.
What participants are saying…
“The Trauma-Informed Pelvic Health Program has truly changed how I practice. The information was complex, yet digestible and allowed me to start implementing into my treatment sessions as soon as the first week. It also challenged me and taught me more about myself in so many ways. The community experience I had during the certification was one of a kind. It’s not just about how to treat your clients, what’s more important is how you take care of yourself to be able to serve your clients effectively every day.”
— Brianna Murosky, OTPCBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms
A comprehensive, practical, clinician-focused training for working with the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural layers of challenging physical symptoms.
CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms is designed for clinicians who support clients experiencing physical symptoms that feel confusing, overwhelming, or difficult to treat with biomedical strategies alone.
Whether the symptoms relate to pain, pelvic health, fatigue, concussion, or other distressing sensations, this course helps clinicians understand the patterns that often keep our clients stuck in distress and obtain practical, evidence-based techniques to help shift them out of these patterns safely and collaboratively.
Through digestible lessons, clinical examples, a demonstration land a plethora of accessible worksheets and tools, clinicians learn how to:
Recognize cognitive and behavioural patterns that heighten symptom distress.
Explore symptom experiences using validating, non-pathologizing language
Help clients shift from avoidance and fear toward confidence and meaningful engagement
Introduce CBT skills such as cognitive reframing, behavioural activation, pacing, and functional exposure
Integrate CBT principles into everyday assessment, treatment planning, and functional goals
Rehabilitation training rarely addresses how thoughts, emotions, nervous system activation, and protective behaviours can amplify physical symptoms.
CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms expands what’s possible when symptoms persist despite standard treatment, helping clinicians feel more grounded, confident, and effective in their approach.
This course fills that gap by offering practical CBT-informed strategies you can integrate immediately into your existing practice.
What participants are saying…
"I really appreciate how tangible this course is. While being a "psych" course, I really felt I had small nuggets of gold (word choice, recognition of thought processes) that I could immediately take away and put into practice in my professional and personal life. A lot of it spoke to my soul!"
— Caitlyn Goodfellow, Ortho and Pelvic PTACT: A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Providers
A skills-focused ACT program designed to help clinicians apply psychological flexibility principles directly to rehabilitation, pain care, and meaningful daily function.
ACT: A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Providers was created for clinicians who recognize that supporting clients means working with more than symptoms alone. Clients often struggle with the relationship that they have with persistent and distressing symptoms.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) offers an evidence-based, compassionate framework for helping clients navigate their experiences with greater psychological flexibility while moving toward what matters.
But many clinicians, whether new to ACT or already familiar with its principles, struggle with one key question:
“How do I actually use ACT in my day-to-day clinical practice?”
Through a blend of structured online lessons, guided practices, reflective work, and illuminating clinical examples, clinicians learn how to:
Understand patterns of avoidance, fusion, and control that maintain distress and limit engagement
Introduce ACT processes in simple, relatable language clients can immediately connect with
Foster values-based action that aligns with meaningful daily life
Help clients build openness to difficult sensations, emotions, and thoughts
Integrate ACT seamlessly into assessment, treatment planning, goal setting, and occupation-centred work
You’ll leave with a clear foundation in ACT’s core processes and the confidence to tailor an ACT approach to your own caseload.
What participants are saying…
“I went into the course thinking I already had a pretty good handle on working with chronic pain and the emotional side of it. But it actually shifted my thinking in a really helpful way. The ideas and skills were simple to bring into the clinic right away, and my conversations with patients feel a lot more natural now. Thanks Lara!!!”
— Anonymous, ACT Course ParticipantPsycholgically-Informed Practice Primers
These low-cost, highly curated courses are designed to help you dip your toe into psychological approaches and gain high-impact practical tools to start working with psychology, the nervous system, and complex symptoms . They serve as comprehensive primers to our deeper-dive courses.
CBT for Pain:
A Primer
In this low cost learning snack, you’ll build a clear foundation in key CBT principles and develop practical skills you can begin applying right away in rehabilitation settings!
This primer is highly curated to provide you with the most impactful tools to support your clients with shifting unhelpful pain related beliefs and behaviours.
You’ll receive case examples and demonstrations to help you integrate this learning into your practice. This course is designed to help you get started with confidence and serves as a comprehensive primer for our Deeper Dive: CBT Skills for Distressing Physical Symptoms.
ACT for Pain:
A Primer
When pain, fear, or overwhelm keep clients stuck, it can be hard to know how to help move things forward.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy offers a different path. Rather than trying to eliminate difficult thoughts, emotions, or symptoms, ACT helps clients build flexibility and reconnect with what matters most.
This highly practical primer will give you simple ACT concepts, language, and practical resources to get you started helping clients:
step back from unhelpful thoughts
navigate fear, avoidance, and distress
reconnect with values and meaningful goals
take action, even when symptoms are still present
This course serves as a comprehensive primer for our deeper dive, ACT: A Practical Guide for Rehabilitation Providers
Moving from Fixer to Facilitator:
An Introduction to Psychologically Informed Strategies for Pain Clinicians
A practical, clinician-focused training for working with the cognitive, emotional, and behavioural layers of challenging physical symptoms.
Rehabilitation training rarely addresses how thoughts, emotions, nervous system activation, and protective behaviours can amplify physical symptoms. This course fills that gap by offering practical psychologically-informed strategies you can integrate immediately into your existing practice.
This course is designed for clinicians grounded in biomechanical or physiology-based models who are just beginning to explore how psychological and behavioural factors influence pain, recovery, and participation.
Many providers feel confident treating tissue-level contributors but less prepared when clients express fear, avoidance, frustration, or emotional distress in relation to their symptoms.
This course offers a supportive first step as a part of Reframe Rehab’s Biopsychosocial Bundle.
Through accessible concepts, reflective exercises, and real-world clinical examples, learners gain insight into how to:
Understand the psychological processes that shape pain and symptom experiences
Shift from a “fixing” stance to a collaborative, facilitative clinical approach
Introduce simple, psychologically informed strategies from Polyvagal Theory, CBT, and ACT into everyday practice
Build comfort navigating emotional and behavioural components of complex presentations
Recognize patterns that keep clients stuck in cycles of distress or avoidance
It’s the perfect starting point for rehabilitation clinicians who want to broaden their lens before diving deeper into ACT, CBT, or trauma-informed care.
Available only as part of the Biopsychosocial Bundle on Embodia.
Occupation-Based Pelvic Health
Coming Soon!!!
The first Pelvic Health course designed specifically for Canadian Occupational Therapists!
Your accelerated pathway from pelvic health-curious to confident pelvic health OT.
Looking for Live or Private Training?
I’ve had the privilege of teaching these psychologically informed and trauma-informed approaches in a wide range of settings including private rehabilitation firms, professional organizations, interdisciplinary clinics, university programs, national associations, and conferences across North America.
If your team is interested in a live workshop, a private course, webinar or tailored professional development in ACT, CBT skills, psychologically informed practice, trauma-informed care, or occupation-based approaches to pelvic health, I’d love to connect.
Get in touch to discuss options for bringing Pelvic Resilience Education to your group.
Whether your goal is to build a pelvic health caseload, weave pelvic health conversations into everyday OT practice, navigate complex pain presentations, or integrate psychotherapeutic approaches into the work that you do, you’re in the right place.
This is a community for clinicians who want to grow with intention, stay grounded in their values, and feel supported in the work that matters most.
Take what serves you. Explore, learn, ask questions, stay curious.
I’m glad you’re here.
