Somatic Approaches in Therapy
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DAY 1
The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing
Thursday, april 24th 2025
LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)
10:00AM EST
OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame
Featuring:
Peter A. Levine, PhD
A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing
- Experience an intimate conversation with one of the pioneers of somatic therapy as he reflects on his own deeply personal experiences which helped catalyze the creation of Somatic Experiencing
- Discover how healing trauma can become a gateway to spiritual connection, embodied presence, and genuine self-compassion
- Be inspired by a deeply human story of vulnerability, resilience, and the unseen forces that guide us toward wholeness
Pat Ogden, PhD
Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
- Discover how Sensorimotor Psychotherapy taps into the body’s innate wisdom to support healing when words fall short—bridging the gap between insight and transformation
- Explore powerful clinical tools like embodying a resource, restoring empowering actions, and cultivating dual awareness to deepen resilience and foster integration in trauma processing
- Learn how to support clients in developing somatic awareness—even those who feel disconnected from their bodies while maintaining safety, honoring pacing, and restoring choice
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW
Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation
- Learn how attachment cries, defense cascades, and shutdown states shape the nervous system’s response to trauma
- Distinguish between fawn, appease, freeze, and shutdown—and explore how each state reflects a unique survival strategy
- Help clients map their window of capacity, recognize their somatic patterns, and develop personalized practices for self and community care
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process
- Explore how dropping into “organismic time” allows the body’s innate intelligence, core beliefs, and forgotten truths to gently emerge
- Learn how to attune to subtle somatic cues—like a sigh, a tear, or a raised shoulder—as gateways to safety, integration, and inner knowing
- Discover how mindful presence, loving attunement, and honoring resistance can help clients reclaim the full complexity of who they are
Roger Kuhn, PhD
Somacultural Liberation: Reclaiming the Body Through Culture, Identity, and Compassion
- Discover how cultural experience shapes the body’s patterns of holding, hypervigilance, and belonging—and how awareness opens the door to healing
- Explore the BOLD Addressing Model and somatic practices that support clients in reclaiming agency, cultural selfhood, and embodied safety
- Learn how liberation is not just personal but collective, and how somatic therapy can become a pathway toward both individual empowerment and community love
DAY 2
The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body
Friday, April 25th, 2025
LIVE Opening Keynote (75 mins)
10:00AM EST
OPENING KEYNOTE: Self-Compassion: An Antidote to Shame
Featuring:
Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy
- Discover how the felt sense—the body’s way of knowing—can guide clients toward fresh insight, emotional healing, and meaningful next steps regardless of what kind of psychotherapy you practice
- Learn how to support Self-in-Presence, a compassionate inner state that allows clients to stay connected to emotional experience without overwhelm
- Explore how empathic prompts and presence-based language can gently invite transformation from within
Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW
Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)
- In Deb’s warm and approachable style, understand the basic principles of Polyvagal Theory and how they shape our experience (autonomic hierarchy, neuroception, and co-regulation, and dorsal, sympathetic, ventral)
- Experience practices and exercises designed to bring you and your clients into ventral regulation
- Explore how Polyvagal Theory applies to our work in the therapy room and can benefit your clients
Staci Haines
Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma
- Explore how social conditions, survival strategies, and inherited paradigms shape the nervous system—and how somatics can support transformation at both individual and collective levels
- Learn how to work with contraction, withheld emotions, and lost access in the body as intelligent responses, not resistance
- Discover practices for cultivating embodied safety, calm, and resilience—including somatic boundaries, emotional wave-riding, and everyday allyship
Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC
Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy
- Explore the central the role of embodiment in your clients’ healing and integration.
- Experience how embodied meditation can support nervous system regulation and therapeutic presence
- Clarify next steps for bringing more embodiment into your clinical work and personal development
Dan Siegel, MD
Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing
- Explore how the mind arises from both the body and relationships—and how somatic awareness is essential to integration and mental health
- Learn how practices like the Wheel of Awareness and SIFT help clients widen their window of tolerance and cultivate a compassionate presence with their internal world
- Discover how integration across body, brain, and relationships supports transformation—not only for clients, but for therapists and communities alike
DAY 3
Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience
Saturday, April 26th
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Licia Sky
Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy
- Explore how the therapist’s grounded presence and bodily rhythms can create a sense of physiological safety and connection for traumatized clients
- Learn how to support clients in feeling what’s alive in their bodies now—not just the story of the past, but the embodied experience of the present
- Reflect on your own healing and regulation as a therapist, and how embodied self-awareness supports deeper, more authentic therapeutic connection
Chinwé Williams, PhD
Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma
- Learn the core components of the Adaptive Information Processing (AIP) model of EMDR and how this applies to clinical populations experiencing trauma and anxiety
- Discover how early attachment injuries and chronic shame become embedded in the body—and how to apply 3 EMDR-related interventions for nervous system regulation
- Understand how to guide and support traumatized clients in safely connecting to their body’s sensations and expression
Shari Geller, PhD
Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP
Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion
- Explore the role of self-compassion for therapists experiencing shame, self-doubt or other blocks to therapeutic presence
- Examine the importance of present, anchored, and compassionate centering for co-regulation
- Be guided in self-compassion interventions to use with clients
Susan McConnell, MA, CHT
Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Explore how Somatic IFS integrates awareness, breath, movement, resonance, and touch to help clients access deep healing beyond words
- Learn how to work with blended parts and protective systems through embodied presence, co-regulation, and therapist self-energy
- Discover how embodiment restores connection—not only within the client’s internal system, but with the earth, others, and the sacred
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW
Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy
- Integrate somatic awareness into your existing framework with simple, accessible practices like grounding, orienting, and present-moment inquiry
- Learn strategies for building buy-in and curiosity from their clients in learning more about their bodies
- Expand your therapeutic language to include the wisdom of sensation. Explore ways to use open-ended somatic questions, playful experiments, and sensory menus to help clients connect with their inner experience in empowering ways
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What Attendees Last Year Said...
Incredibly impressed by the integration of research, practical strategies, and down to earth sharing of information. I felt as if I was receiving a one-on-one teaching session and made pages of notes to reflect on later. Thank you so much for such an uplifting and informative event.
Natalie P,
Psychotherapist
A perfect mix of research background, overview of compassion based therapy and concrete information of how to integrate it in the daily clinical practice! Exactly what I needed at this point in my therapeutic experience with compassion-based therapies.
Julian M,
Therapist
The discussions were so intimate, grounded and touching. There was a natural warmth to the interaction that was both skilled and focused, and as a result the information presented had more meaning.
Brian Q,
Clinical Services Manager
Kara C,
Psyschologist
As a clinician of color, this was such a necessary panel. What a beautiful discussion–the guided meditation felt like poetry to my soul. Thank you, thank you!
Natalia B,
Psychologist
Felt like I was bathed in a sea of compassion.
Paula C,
LMFT
Heartfelt. Learning packed.
Megan R,
Counselor
Charlotte,
Germany
Loved that each talk incorporated at least one direct practice that I can use in sessions with clients. Good mix of experiental and theoretical.
Isaac F,
Social Worker
I thought I knew quite a lot already about “therapeutic presence”, but this event helped me to gain a lot more and deeper insight. Thank you so much for this profound overview of such an important theme.
Katharina W,
Psychotherapist
Excellent speakers; light and conversational tone (not “too academic”)
Charlotte,
Jungian Analyst
I had goose bumps throughout this whole hour because I can feel how real and important this is in my bones. I am currently in grad school and have found myself feeling very down for the past year and burdened by western mental health approaches (i.e. diagnosis). This event inspired me to continue listening to my soul and doing this work in a harmonious and healing way that might not look like what they teach in school. Thank you
Jill M,
Mental Health Counselor
Such a helpful and dual-purpose Summit — teaching us things we can use and apply to both our clients and to our selves for self-care! Loved that last question about how to “recover” after a session with a client with a heavy diagnosis.
Henrietta L,
LPC
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