Workshops & Presentations
Invite Carrie To Your Next Event
Carrie is a leading researcher and speaker exploring mental health, trauma, and well-being through the lens of interoception and nervous-system functioning.
Her workshops and presentations are tailored to each audience and explore these processes with a focus on translating current research into practical and actionable insights for clinical, educational, organizational, and use in everyday settings.
With more than three decades of clinical experience in trauma and addiction treatment, her teaching integrates neuroscience, lived experience, and real-world application. Participants are encouraged to gain a clearer understanding of how regulation, resilience, and behaviour emerge from ongoing interactions between the brain, body, and environment.
As Board Chair of Avalon Recovery Society, I've worked alongside Carrie for more than ten years. Her expertise in trauma, addiction, and nervous-system functioning has shaped how our organization thinks and operates — helping us build a trauma-informed approach grounded in current research and genuinely actionable for the women we serve.
— Eileen Kenkel, Board Chair, Avalon Recovery SocietySignature Speaking Themes
Interoception & Mental Health
Exploring how awareness of internal bodily signals shapes emotional experience, resilience, and mental well-being. These sessions introduce interoception as a practical framework for understanding regulation, self-awareness, and mental health across a wide range of human experiences.
Signature presentations include:
Interoception in Clinical Practice: Supporting Regulation and Resilience
Learning to Listen Within: Interoception, Regulation, and Emotional Health
The Nervous System in Daily Life
An accessible exploration of how nervous system processes influence stress, energy, attention, and social connection in everyday life. Participants learn to recognize patterns of activation, unhealthy disconnection, and recovery, and develop practical insights into balance and sustainable well-being.
Signature presentations include:
Rethinking Stress: Understanding the Nervous System in Everyday Life
From Awareness to Regulation: Bringing Interoception into Daily Life
Trauma, Stress & Recovery
Workshops examine how experiences of stress and trauma are often reflected in ongoing nervous-system patterns. Through a compassionate, body-informed perspective, participants deepen their understanding of regulation, safety, and the gradual rebuilding of resilience over time.
Signature presentations include:
Trauma, Safety, and the Body’s Ongoing Story
Why the Body Matters in Mental Health and Well-Being
Addiction & Regulation
A compassionate exploration of addiction as an adaptive attempt to cope with distress and restore internal balance. Presentations highlight how interoceptive awareness supports understanding of craving, emotional regulation, and more sustainable pathways toward recovery and change.
Signature presentations include:
Addiction and Regulation: A Nervous-System Perspective on Recovery
Each presentation is tailored to the audience, combining current science with practical ideas participants can take into both their professional and everyday lives.
Audiences & Formats
Carrie's workshops and speaking events are beneficial to a wide variety of audiences, and best serve:
- Mental health and healthcare professionals
- Addiction and recovery programs
- Educators and academic institutions
- Community and nonprofit organizations
- Workplace wellness initiatives
Events and learning styles vary so Carrie is happy to offer her work in a variety of formats to best suit your audience. She is available for:
- Conference keynote presentations
- Half-day or full-day workshops
- Professional training seminars
- Clinical and interdisciplinary education
- Organizational wellness presentations
- Podcasts and media conversations
Invite Carrie to your next event.
Carrie DeJong is a leader in the field of interoception and mental health, with extensive experience in trauma and addiction. She offers practical, accessible approaches to understanding and addressing the physical and emotional impacts of trauma.
Carrie combines neurobiology and contemporary psychological theory, integrating emerging perspectives on trauma, resilience, and self-compassion. Her work is grounded in current neuroscience and informed by contemplative practices—accessible, compelling, and profound.
Her seminars are a must for professionals, as well as for anyone who has experienced trauma or supports individuals struggling with mental health and addiction. With the mind of a scientist and the perspective of a clinician, Carrie translates complex research into meaningful, real-world applications.
— Tara Hall, MC, RCC, Registered Clinical CounsellorAbout Carrie
Carrie DeJong is a therapist, educator, and speaker whose work focuses on translating the science of interoception into accessible approaches to mental health and well-being. She has worked extensively in trauma and addiction treatment and has presented to professional and community audiences across clinical and educational settings.
Her upcoming book, Listening In: How Interoception Helps You Cultivate a Stronger Mind–Body Connection and Improve Your Mental and Emotional Health (North Atlantic Books, 2026), explores how internal awareness supports regulation, emotional clarity, and lasting change.
Carrie is also the speaker of the TEDx talk Interoception: Our Real-Life Superpower, introducing broader audiences to the role of internal awareness in everyday mental health.
I welcome conversations about how this work might best support your audience, organization, or event.