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During the Clinical Debrief, participants review their personal Dunkin NeuroMap™ results with Dr. Kimberly Dunkin. The session walks through how the assessment maps patterns across five brain systems, medulla, pons, diencephalon, limbic system, and cortex, and how those systems influence regulation, stress response, and developmental functioning.
Participants will see how their results translate into a structured treatment sequence and how nervous system mapping guides clinical decision-making.
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The Dunkin NeuroMap™ assesses nervous system functioning across five developmental brain levels and five clinical subdomains.
Brain Systems Assessed
Medulla
Pons
Diencephalon
Limbic System
Cortex
Subdomains Measured
Reflexes & Senses
Motor Skills & Proprioception
Somatosensory Processing
Autonomic Nervous System Regulation
Physical & Structural Vulnerabilities
These domains help clinicians understand where regulation breaks down and where treatment should begin.
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Most mental health assessments focus on symptoms, diagnoses, and cognitive insight.
The Dunkin NeuroMap™ focuses on nervous system function.
Instead of asking only what symptoms a client has, the NeuroMap examines how the nervous system developed, how it regulates stress, and which brain systems need support first. This allows treatment to be sequenced in a way that aligns with the nervous system’s capacity for integration.
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By the end of the Clinical Debrief, participants will:
Understand their personal NeuroMap profile
See how assessment results guide treatment sequencing
Learn how nervous system mapping informs clinical interventions
Gain insight into how the model can be integrated into their own practice
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Developmental trauma affects the nervous system long before a child has the language or cognitive capacity to process what is happening. Experiences of chronic stress, attachment disruption, or early adversity can shape how the brain organizes regulation, safety, movement, sensation, and connection.
Because of this, many clients are not simply struggling with thoughts or emotions, they are living with nervous systems that learned to survive rather than regulate.
The Dunkin NeuroMap™ helps clinicians identify where developmental disruption may have occurred across the brainstem, diencephalon, limbic system, and cortex. By mapping how the nervous system is functioning across key physiological domains, therapists can better understand which systems need support for regulation, safety, and integration.
Rather than focusing only on symptoms, the NeuroMap highlights opportunities to restore nervous system capacitythrough body-based regulation, developmental repair, and relational safety.
The goal is not simply symptom management.
The goal is helping the nervous system regain the ability to regulate, connect, and heal. -
The Dunkin NeuroMap™ Clinical Debrief is offered at no cost as part of the clinician demonstration experience.
Participants complete the Dunkin NeuroMap™ assessment and attend a guided Clinical Debrief where their results are interpreted and the Dunkin NeuroMap™ framework is demonstrated in practice.
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Developmental trauma occurs during critical periods of brain and nervous system development. When children experience chronic stress, inconsistent caregiving, neglect, or overwhelming events, the nervous system adapts in order to survive.
These adaptations can shape how the brain organizes regulation, safety, connection, and stress response. Instead of developing flexible regulation, the nervous system may remain in patterns of hyperarousal, shutdown, or instability.
Over time, these patterns can affect emotional regulation, sensory processing, attachment, attention, and the ability to recover from stress.
The Dunkin NeuroMap™ helps clinicians identify how developmental experiences may have influenced nervous system functioning across multiple brain systems. This allows treatment to focus not only on symptoms, but on supporting the nervous system’s capacity for regulation and healing.
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Traditional talk therapy primarily engages the cortical, thinking parts of the brain. While insight and reflection are valuable, many clients with developmental trauma struggle with challenges that originate in deeper brain systems responsible for regulation and survival.
When the nervous system is dysregulated, clients may understand their patterns cognitively but still feel overwhelmed by sensations, emotions, or stress responses that occur outside conscious control.
For these clients, healing often requires approaches that support bottom-up nervous system regulation, including body-based interventions, sensory integration, relational safety, and developmental repair.
The Dunkin NeuroMap™ helps clinicians identify where regulation support may be needed so treatment can address the physiological foundations of trauma, not just the cognitive experience of it.
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The Dunkin NeuroMap™ Clinical Debrief is designed for mental health professionals interested in nervous system informed trauma treatment, including:
Licensed Professional Counselors (LPC)
Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT)
Clinical Social Workers (LCSW)
Psychologists
Psychiatric providers
Therapists in training
No prior experience with neurodevelopmental models is required.