Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW, is an Afro-Latino clinical social worker with over twenty years of experience in community-based programs and private practice. He earned his degree from the Columbia University School of Social Work and is a family therapist with clinical interests in immigration, diversity, LGBTQAI+ empowerment, spirituality, and supporting marginalized communities. Over the past decade, he has specialized in trauma therapy, working with clients facing complex trauma, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and dissociative disorders.
Raymond is certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), with extensive training in Internal Family Systems (IFS), family systems therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy. He has held faculty positions at the Columbia School of Social Work, Smith College School of Social Work, Hostos Community College (City University of New York), the Trauma Studies Center of the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, and the Integrative Trauma Studies Program at the National Institute for Psychotherapy. He currently teaches at the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. He has served on the boards of the National Association of Puertorrican and Hispanic Social Workers and the No More Fear Foundation. He lives in Westchester, NY, with his partner, son, and dogs.
19 Responses
Thanks so much Raymond. You whole approach and tone was affirming, easy to follow and gave full permission to try things out and build confidence, for those of us new to somatic approaches.
Thank you very much for this warm session!
Thank you for this regulating and nourishing session. Your authenticity and attunement are so evident.
I really appreciate the specific ideas/examples on integrating the body into therapy.
Thank you, Raymond. Lovely gentle ways in which to work – new tools for me, thank you!
So helpful and very organizing for me. Instinctively I have cobbled a lot of these ideas from different sources with mixed participation from clients. I feel more empowered and equipped to inspire my clients’ curiosity toward the usefulness of these somatic exercises to enhance feelings of safety and change their lived experience.
I also want to add that I have been doing more tele-health to reach into rural areas where services are lacking or limited. This teaching/learning approach will translate well to this format. Please consider discussing this element in future presentations. Thank you.
Another excellent presentation- so organized clear and specific, making it easy to implement. Thank you!
Lovely and practical presentation. I appreciated the repetition of verbiage to help the “new” to Soma therapy acclimate to the process. Thank you for your systematic approach to this topic. It made many of the other presenters’ information more tangible! Thank you!
Great session for building confidence as a practitioner
Thank you so much. I really appreciate the way you embodied these interventions via your tone and pacing while describing them to us.
Gracias amigo! Beautiful work… powerful in a different way coming from a male voice! Excellent teaching in great details!
Wonderful practical, well organized and presented presentation, Raymond. For starters, I’ll be practicing all you shared w myself.
Very helpful.I will use some of these exercises. Many thanks
Your calm, gentle presentation was packed with great ideas. Just following your guidance through these exercises made me feel calmer. I joint to learn more about strategies to use with my fosterkids, but instead I’ve noticed my own body’s call for attention. I will now ask my counsel or to change our current topic and to delve into my body’s messages. I’m excited to find out what we will discover.
I loved this presentation, great for a beginner like me.
Wow this summit has been a very mindful experience for me, understanding the bottom-up approach, understanding the soma, understanding embodiment and how to integrate somatic approaches into my psychotherapy practice. Thank you so much it’s been amazing
Thank you for all the ideas and great explanations
Thank you Raymond. A lovely way to conclude the summit with your clear, calm, confidence building presentation.
Thank you Raymond for this whistle stop tour of developing somatic awareness for our therapeutic support process and in parallel working with clients, I have found the encouragement to develop practices I have in sessions and deepening appreciation for the essential body heart mind process that facilitates client s own empowerment to know themselves. Accessible and practical thank you 🙏🏽