SUMMIT SESSIONS
Day Sessions Menu
Day 1: The Role of the Body in Therapy and Healing
Peter A. Levine, PhD: A Deeply Personal Account: The Ordinary Miracle of Healing
Pat Ogden, PhD: Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Healing Power of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
Linda Thai, MSW, LMSW: Mapping the Nervous System: Understanding Survival Responses and the Path to Regulation
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT: The Whispers of the Soma: Slowing Down, Listening Deeply, and Honoring the Healing Process
Roger Kuhn, PhD: Somacultural Liberation: Reclaiming the Body Through Culture, Identity, and Compassion
Day 2: The Embodied Therapist and Listening to the Body
Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD: Focusing: Accessing the “Felt Sense” as a Powerful Catalyst of Transformation in Any Form of Psychotherapy
Deb Dana, MSW, LCSW: Integrating Polyvagal Theory into Psychotherapy for You and Your Clients (back by popular demand – replay from the 2022 Summit)
Staci Haines: Reclaiming the Soma: Embodied Healing Across Personal and Collective Trauma
Susan Aposhyan, MA, LPC: Somatic-Cognitive Approaches to Therapy
Dan Siegel, MD: Integration and the Mind: A Somatic View of Wholeness and Healing
Day 3: Somatic Tools in Action – Regulating, Resourcing, and Building Resilience
Bessel van der Kolk, MD and Licia Sky: Synchrony and Safety: Becoming an Anchor for Healing in Somatic Therapy
Chinwé Williams, PhD: Healing Attachment Wounds: A Somatic and EMDR-Informed Approach to Shame and Trauma
Shari Geller, PhD and Galia Tyano Ronen, MA, LCP: Grounding Psychotherapy in Presence and Self-Compassion
Susan McConnell, MA, CHT: Embodied Self Energy: Bringing the Wisdom of the Body Into Internal Family Systems Therapy
Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW: Begin with the Body: Cultivating Somatic Awareness in Therapy

The Wisdom of the Body: Befriending Sensation, Supporting Healing

Raymond Rodriguez, Rev., MSW, LCSW

Subtitles Available!

What you'll learn

  • Learn how to bring the body into therapy as a source of truth, regulation, and innate healing—starting with your own somatic awareness as a therapist
  • Explore somatic interventions that help clients reconnect with present-moment experience, gently approach discomfort, and integrate positive sensations
  • Discover how orientation, curiosity, and co-created safety support clients in developing a more compassionate relationship with their bodies

About the speakers

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.

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