NSI WORKSHOP
Becoming TBI/Concussion-Informed:
A Practical Provider Framework
In this 90-minute workshop, Certified Brain Injury Specialist Amanda Smith shows you how to recognize when brain injury history is shaping your client's symptoms — so you can adapt, refer, and treat with confidence.
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If you work with the nervous system,
a concussion-informed lens is essential
Concussion may be affecting more of your clients than you realize. The client who keeps getting overwhelmed. The client whose symptoms shift constantly. The client who is doing the work but still cannot tolerate more movement, sensory input or demand.
Post-concussion symptoms can be easy to miss. They may show up as fatigue, emotional reactivity, difficulty concentrating, sensitivity to sound or light, inconsistent progress or a reduced ability to tolerate stress.
Mini Course with recorded workshop + Q&A + framework, guide, tool sheets and slides = $125
What You’ll Learn...
- Identify patterns that may warrant asking about a history of concussion, mTBI or head/neck trauma.
- Understand how vision, balance, body awareness, neck function and stress responses can contribute to ongoing symptoms.
- Ask sharper questions that help you better understand patterns, triggers and limits.
- Use a clear framework to consider appropriate next steps.
- Adjust tools, pacing and sensory input based on how each client responds.
- Know when to modify your approach, collaborate or refer out
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Support complex clients with greater confidence, clarity and skill.
Who This Workshop Is For:
Providers who want to become more fully nervous system-informed by understanding how a history of concussion may relate to stress responses, energy, movement and recovery.
Somatic, movement, fitness and nervous system professionals who want to better understand how visual, vestibular, sensory and movement demands may affect their clients
Professionals who want to ask better questions, make more appropriate modifications and collaborate more effectively with medical and rehabilitation providers
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For all Practitioners, therapists and coaches who work with clients experiencing ongoing symptoms after concussion, mTBI or head/neck trauma
Look Beyond the Symptom List
Post-concussion symptoms often change with sensory input, cognitive demand, movement, environment, and current capacity. Looking at each symptom in isolation can obscure the larger pattern.
A concussion-informed lens asks:
- What is the client’s system processing?
- What increases or reduces symptoms?
- How should the approach be paced or modified?
You will learn to recognize and use these patterns to guide your questions, adjust your approach and identify when collaboration or referral may be appropriate.
Amanda Smith
Brain-Based Movement Coach, Certified Brain Injury Specialist, NSI-Certified Coach and Educator
Amanda Smith is a Brain-Based Movement Coach and Certified Brain Injury Specialist with more than a decade of study in applied neurology. She works in a multidisciplinary outpatient brain injury rehabilitation program, where she develops and facilitates education-centered programming for patients recovering from brain injury.
Over the last four years, Amanda has created a six-week progressive curriculum that helps patients understand their nervous systems while building practical skills in respiration, balance, visual and vestibular processing and scaled movement. Her work translates specialized rehabilitation concepts into practical, movement-based application.
As an NSI-Certified Coach and Educator, Amanda offers a clear, scope-aware approach that helps providers ask better questions, recognize when referral may be appropriate and better understand the people they serve.
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What you receive:
+ 75 min workshop + recorded Q&A and case-based discussion
+ 12 months of replay access
+ A practical provider framework with application guidance
+ Examples of tools, modifications, and assess/reassess strategies
+ A downloadable workshop guide and reference resources
+ Curated Trauma Rewired video episodes for continued learning
In this interactive workshop, Amanda will explain how vision, balance, body awareness, neck function, energy, and movement may contribute to ongoing symptoms after concussion. You will also be introduced to a practical, nervous-system-informed framework for organizing what you observe and considering appropriate next steps.
This framework will help you make clearer decisions about pacing, progression, modification, recovery, collaboration, and referral—while remaining responsive to the individual nervous system in front of you.
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A note about scope…
This workshop provides a practical foundation for becoming more TBI/concussion-informed. It is not a certification, diagnostic training or complete concussion treatment protocol.
The material does not replace medical assessment, physical therapy, vestibular rehabilitation, vision therapy, mental health care or other specialized concussion services. Participants are encouraged to work within their professional scope and refer or collaborate when additional evaluation or care is needed.
Becoming concussion-informed helps you notice patterns that may otherwise be overlooked.
You do not need to become a concussion specialist.
You do need to know when concussion may be relevant to what you are seeing.
This education helps you ask better questions, avoid overloading clients, adapt your approach and recognize when referral or collaboration may be needed. You will leave with a clearer lens for complex presentations and greater confidence in the decisions you make.
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gain confidence, clarity, trust and depth to support clients and yourself.