GSCSW 2025 Annual Conference

Somatic Practices: Embodied Healing in Social Work
March 20-21, 2025 | Atlanta, GA

Join us for the Georgia Society for Clinical Social Work (GSCSW) 2025 Annual Conference! This year’s theme, Somatic Practices: Embodied Healing in Social Work, will bring together social work professionals and mental health practitioners for two days of learning, inspiration, and connection. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just beginning your journey, this conference is designed to empower you with innovative somatic approaches that enhance healing and support clients in a new way.

Why You Can’t Miss This:

• Inspiring Presentations by Linda Thai, LMSW,  ERYT-200, CLYL and Dee Wagner LPC, BC-DMT, RSME — leading voices in somatic practices and healing. Bios below.
• Interactive Learning where you’ll experience and apply somatic techniques firsthand!
• Dynamic Networking with peers and colleagues who are passionate about embodied healing.
• Tools You Can Use that will transform your practice and deepen your connection with clients.

Who Should Attend:

This conference is ideal for social workers, counselors, therapists, and other helping professionals interested in deepening their understanding of embodied healing and incorporating somatic practices into their work.

Event Details:

• Date: March 20-21, 2025
• Location: Atlanta, GA
• Registration Fees:
  • GSCSW Early Bird Member Rate: $200 (through January 31, 2025)
  • Non-GSCSW Member Early Bird Rate: $225 (through January 31, 2025)
  • GSCSW Member Rate: $225 (after January 31, 2025)  
  • Non-GSCSW Member Rate: $265 (after January 31, 2025)
  • Student Rate: $115  

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Seats will fill up fast! Don’t miss this chance to be part of a transformative event that will leave you refreshed, inspired, and equipped with powerful new skills. Early Bird pricing ends January 31^st  — secure your spot today!

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About our presenters:

LINDA THAI, LMSW, ERYT-200, CLYL

Linda Thai, LMSW ERYT-200 is a trauma therapist and educator who specializes in brain and body-based modalities for addressing complex developmental trauma. Linda has worked with thousands of people from all over the world to promote mindfulness, recover from trauma, and tend to grief as a means of self care. Linda’s work centers on healing with a special focus on the experiences of adult children of refugees and immigrants. Her teaching is infused with empathy, storytelling, humor, research, practical tools, applied knowledge, and experiential wisdom.

She has assisted internationally renowned psychiatrist and trauma expert, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, with his private small group psychotherapy workshops aimed at healing attachment trauma. She has a Master of Social Work with an emphasis on the neurobiology of attachment and trauma.

Linda has studied Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems, Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment, Havening Touch, Flash Technique, and structural dissociation of the personality, and offers the Safe and Sound Protocol, yoga, and meditation within her practice. Linda works on the traditional lands of the Tanana Athabascan people (Fairbanks, Alaska) with those recovering from addiction, trauma, and mental illness. She is passionate about breaking the cycle of historical and intergenerational trauma at the individual and community levels.

Dee Wagner, MSME/T, BC-DMT, LPC

Will be assisted by dance/movement therapist Ingrid Lacey, and social workers Trecia Lyon, Kristin Smith and Carly Sackellares, all certified Chi for Two embodiment coaches

Dee Wagner has worked as a Master Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist, Board-certified dance/movement therapist and licensed professional counselor in the Atlanta area for over 30 years. Wagner originated the mindful embodiment method Chi for Two, which echoes her first peer-reviewed article Polyvagal theory and peek-a-boo: How the therapeutic dance heals attachment trauma. Chi for Two is a distillation of many healing modalities including those from somatic movement, attachment theory, meditative practices, psychology, and trauma healing. In 2019, Wagner and the co-developers of Chi for Two presented a CE training on The Ethical Pairing of Psychotherapy and Body-based Therapies and Practices. Wagner’s “Map” of nervous system functioning and Circles of Support drawing, tools for therapists and hand-outs at all Chi for Two presentations, have been published in the Neuroeducation Toolbox and in two articles: Stirring up health: Polyvagal theory and the dance of mismatch in multi-generational trauma healing in Body, Movement and Dance in Psychotherapy and the forthcoming Re-patterning the lover dance: Chi for Two awareness of our polyvagal anatomy, “biting/snapping,” and language in the American Journal of Dance Therapy.