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[Embodied Dialogues Podcast] Monthly Live Interactive Podcast | Felt Sense Polyvagal Approach to Trauma & Addiction

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Join me LIVE on Zoom each month as I interview guests who contribute to our understanding about trauma and addiction. Free to join, all welcome! On Thursday, July 24, 2025 from 12 noon – 1:00pm ET, I will be welcoming pediatric occupational therapist, Katy Dickson for an episode titled “From Trauma to Poetry”.

Katy Dickson, Author of “The Tree & Me, A Polyvagal Poem” (a finalist in the 2025 National Indie Excellence Awards, Children’s inspirational/motivational) will join Jan Winhall on July 24, 2025 on the live, interactive Embodied Dialogues Podcast. Katy will be sharing both professional and lived experience insights and reflections as an Occupational Therapist, deeply rooted embodied, trauma-informed practice. We’ll talk about her personal healing journey—how it reconnected her with a long-held love of language, wordsmithery and poetry and how that path gave life to “The Tree and Me: A Polyvagal Poem”.

Katy will share how that piece moved from a seed of an idea to publication, and the beautiful web of connection, support and synchronicity that followed. Katy will close with a reading of the poem with the talented illustrators behind “The Tree & Me,” Regan and Alexis Desautels Cruz, and reflect on what’s next—dreams, hopes, and where this path may continue to lead.

Formerly the founder of Attune, her own private practice supporting nervous system regulation through embodied approaches, Katy currently works as Principal OT at a private interdisciplinary Pediatric company, Words First Ltd., which places therapists in schools across London and beyond. Part of this role is to lead on a trauma-informed strategy in educational settings. Katy is also an Associate at Hemispheres, where she guides children and young people through Dr. Stephen Porges’ Safe & Sound Protocol.

Beyond her professional roles, Katy lives in South East London, is a mother, and someone who carries trauma in her own system.

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Previous Embodied Dialogue Series Events:

Full Playlist on Youtube

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Jan Winhall, M.S.W.  P.I.F.O.T. is an author, teacher and seasoned trauma and addiction psychotherapist. She is an Educational Partner and Course Developer with the Polyvagal Institute where she offers a training program based on her book Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, Routledge 2021. Completion of all three levels leads students to become Felt Sense Polyvagal Model Facilitators. Her new book, 20 Embodied Practices for Healing Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model, published by Norton, is available for preorder and out in March 2025. She is an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Toronto and a Certifying Co-Ordinator with the International Focusing Institute. Jan is Co-Director of the Borden Street Clinic where she supervises graduate students. She enjoys teaching all over the world.

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