In honor of Mother's Day and Mental Health Awareness Month, the mother-daughter team of Jesssica Karas Waterson, LMFT and Elaine Miller-Karas, LCSW will share how their shared interests led them to work together as trauma therapists with the Trauma Resiliency Model (TRM), a biological approach representing a paradigm shift in the treatment of trauma. Symptoms are treated as common biological responses rather than pathological or mental weaknesses. TRM helps those who suffer an opportunity to reprocess their traumatic experiences and teaches them wellness skills for self-care. TRM emphasizes that learning to read sensations of well-being is transformational not only for survivors of natural and human made disasters, but for those who suffer the consequences of developmental and cumulative trauma. Traditional talk therapies can help a person gain insight into what happened, but the multisensory body experience of traumatic events so deeply embedded in the nervous system may still plague trauma survivors. TRM suggests that physical sensations underlie emotions and its accompanying unpleasant physical sensations. TRM helps clients learn techniques to intentionally shift to pleasant or neutral sensations which lead to transforming emotional states and cognitive meanings about their lived experiences. Both therapists will address the challenges faced by parents, grandparents, and children during the pandemic and how body-based skills can help families during these challenging times.