Studies show that up to 20 percent of soldiers and marines who've been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan meet criteria for PTSD and 25 percent screen positive for depression, so many therapists can expect to treat these suffering men and women. In this workshop, we'll explore the Veterans Resiliency Model (VRM), a skills-based, biologically-oriented trauma therapy built on the assumption that human responses to threat are primarily instinctive and biological, and only secondarily cognitive and psychological. You'll learn how to help traumatized clients develop sensory resources--places in the body where they feel strong and alive--that promote a sense of safety and the return of self-regulation. You'll leave knowing how to use specific features of this biologically-based intervention in both an individual and group setting. (This session will continue with Workshop 306.)