IN PERSON WORKSHOP
Embodied Supervision
Trauma-Informed Somatic & Relational Practices for Supervisors
With Dr. Bianka Hardin
Cultivating Presence, Curiosity, and Connection
A 6-Hour Workshop to Support Supervisors with relational and body-based strategies that nurture resilience, trust, and ethical care.
This 6-hour in-person workshop introduces a relational, somatic-informed framework for supervision that centers curiosity, presence, and self-reflective inquiry—while engaging the body and relational dynamics as sources of insight and regulation.
Participants will learn to use themselves and the supervisory relationship as tools for cultivating here-and-now awareness, pacing, and attunement.
We’ll translate core trauma-informed principles—safety, trustworthiness, collaboration, choice, and empowerment—into embodied supervision practices. These include regulation protocols, somatic check-ins, and differentiation strategies to work safely with activation.
Through this lens, supervisors can navigate complex dynamics such as countertransference, relational enactments, and parallel process by tracking both relational and somatic cues to shift from content to process.
Attendees will practice micro-skills that transform supervision into a relational, experiential practice that enhances presence, reduces “efforting,” and supports ethical discernment without sacrificing connection.
Participants will leave with concrete protocols they can implement immediately to deepen reflective capacity, strengthen co-regulation, and model trauma-informed care in supervision and clinical work.
Trauma-informed supervision fosters psychological safety, trust, and professional growth for both supervisors and supervisees.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Understand trauma-informed, relational, body-oriented supervision, and articulate how a somatic-aware stance (embodied check-ins, regulation skills) supports safety, trust, and empowerment in supervisory relationships.
Apply embodied micro-skills co-regulate in supervision and pace conversations around challenging material.
Recognize and work with relational and somatic indicators of parallel process and countertransference and pivot from content to process using present-moment inquiry.
Integrate NARM principles—curiosity, presence, and self-inquiry—to reduce efforting and unmanaged empathy, maintaining differentiation and boundaries while modeling transparency and vulnerability.
Establish a clear supervisory frame (roles, expectations, developmental pacing) and create a trauma-informed framework that incorporates choice, agency, and somatic differentiation, while practicing ethical discernment when liability issues arise.
Social Work Licensing Update
All licensed social workers are now required to complete a one-time, 6-hour supervision training mandate. This training will meet that requirement.
Embodied Supervision
Trauma-Informed Somatic & Relational Practices for Supervisors
with Dr. Bianka Hardin
Friday, May 8, 2026 | 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
COST: $200/ 6 CEU’s
Location: 5547 N Ravenswood Ave., Suite 201, Chicago, IL 60640
The schedule includes a one-hour independent lunch break and two 15-minute breaks in the morning and afternoon.
Lunch: Please note that lunch is independent and not provided on-site.
Parking & Entrance Instructions: There is a parking lot with the building, and street parking is available and free surrounding the building if the lot is full. Dial 201 from the callbox at the main entrance and be buzzed in.
Disclaimer: Counseling Solutions is licensed to provide CE’s to Illinois Social Workers, Professional Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Psychologists (LSW, LCSW, LPC, LCPC, MFT, LMFT, PsyD & PhD).
CE’s for Psychologists sponsored by Centered Therapy Chicago. // License #268.000085
Meet Your Facilitator - Dr. Bianka Hardin
Dr. Bianka Hardin
Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the owner of Centered Therapy Chicago, PLLC.
Dr. Bianka Hardin is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the owner of Centered Therapy Chicago, PLLC. Since founding her group practice in 2014, she has remained dedicated to supporting children, adolescents, adults, and families in cultivating mental and emotional well‑being. With nearly 25 years of clinical experience as a trauma therapist, Dr. Hardin brings a deep commitment to lifelong learning, self‑reflection, and continued professional growth—values that ground her work as both a practitioner and a supervisor.
Dr. Hardin’s clinical passion centers on understanding trauma through a relational, cultural, systemic, and intergenerational lens. She has extensive experience working with trauma survivors as well as professionals in the healing arts, and she is particularly dedicated to supporting therapists navigating burnout, vicarious trauma, and the complex demands of contemporary clinical practice. Her work is anchored in the belief that healing takes place within relationships that honor the body, the nervous system, and the unique lived experiences each person carries.
A dedicated educator, Dr. Hardin has served in multiple academic leadership roles, including Full-Time and Part-Time Professor and Associate Department Chair at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. She has supervised developing clinicians for more than two decades, beginning during her tenure as Assistant Director and later Director at the Village of Hoffman Estates Department of Health and Human Services. She has also supervised doctoral interns at Pillars Community Health. These experiences have shaped her supervision style, which emphasizes attunement, curiosity, embodiment, and the development of clinical intuition.
At Centered Therapy Chicago, Dr. Hardin has intentionally cultivated a culture of learning, growth, and trauma‑informed practice. Through the CTC Training Center and their pre‑doctoral training program, she provides supervision, consultation, and training on trauma, embodiment, self‑care, mindfulness, trauma stewardship, and relational approaches to healing. She frequently presents on trauma‑related topics and is known for her warm, grounded, and integrative teaching style.
Dr. Hardin is a trauma‑informed, body‑oriented therapist and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) as well as a NARM Master Therapist. She has been deeply involved in both the Somatic Experiencing,® NARM Training Institute, and The Complex Trauma Training Center Training Communities as a Training Assistant and was a member of the Complex Trauma Training Center Leadership Team. Her integrative, body‑based, relational orientation informs her supervision framework, which supports clinicians in deepening their capacity for presence, regulation, and attuned therapeutic connection.
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