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KCT

Kali Connection Therapy® ignites a missing link in somatic trauma healing. Rather than simply calming symptoms, KCT helps the body engage with and transform stress. Clients learn to release energy safely, encode new patterns of safety, and integrate through embodied, relational practices. This is where regulation meets empowerment. This is where trauma transforms into resilience.

F. I. R. E.

Focus. Impact. Release. Encode.

Kali Connection Therapy®

​"In all my years as a trauma therapist, never have I witnessed a healing modality that has such power to so organically extract trauma and attachment wounds while providing the safety and attunement that is essential for its healing. It’s like EMDR except more resourced, embodied, and relational. I'm a believer." 

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Charles Roberts - Trauma Therapist & Onsite Workshop Guide

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What is KCT?

​Kali Connection Therapy® (KCT) is a powerful evolution in trauma care—designed for nervous systems under pressure. It expands co-regulation and adds somatic empowerment through accessible, movement-based practices that restore safety, connection, and agency from the inside out.

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Why it Works

Calming an activated nervous system isn’t enough. We need to move the energy through and awaken the regulated warrior within. Kali Connection Therapy® offers a full spectrum of somatic practices, grounded in current neuroscience, that help rewire stress response patterns.

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What Clients Leave With

Clients walk away with simple, powerful tools they can use at home to stay regulated, build resilience, and keep the work alive. Because the practices are playful, body-based, and feel good to do, many clients actually look forward to them—and often bring them home to share with friends, partners, or kids.

Not Your Average Nervous System Reset

Kali Connection Therapy® is rooted in Filipino martial arts—so yes, it’s a little like the trauma-informed Karate Kid. But instead of “wax on, wax off,” you’re regulating, tapping, and co-regulating in ways that rewire your nervous system while creating real safety in your body.

Here’s the magic: you’re learning real-life self-defense without even realizing it. The movements don’t just heal—they empower. They teach your body what safety feels like—and how to embody it in the moments that matter.

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Regulated. Connected. Empowered.
A direct, somatic, bottom-up and top-down antidote to the powerlessness of trauma and anxiety.

Not just recovery, but regulated, resourced, and ready to rise!

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No martial arts background? No problem.  KCT is built for wellness workers, not black belts.

Aspiring Jedi.  Play based healers. Somatic rebels. Welcome home!

“Martial arts may be one of the best treatments for traumatic stress.”
— Bessel van der Kolk

Kali Connection Therapy® Facilitator Training

Help Clients Feel Better While Getting Better

 

March 27–29 | Scarritt Bennett Center | Nashville

 

Bring your clients something rare and powerful in these rapidly changing times—embodied, in-person regulation tools that meet the moment and prepare your practice for the future of therapy.


As AI reshapes the landscape, the human nervous system still craves what only live connection can give: safety, resonance, and real-time attunement. KCT delivers exactly that—while giving your practice a competitive edge in an increasingly digital world.​

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Clients

Onsite Workshops
Integrative Life Center
Soul Full Journeys
Cumberland Heights
Apex Recovery
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