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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]