Deepening and Expanding Somatic Techniques: The Embodiment of Trauma and Stress Part II | In-Person| Presented by Becky Carter, LCPC

SUMMARY

This training is for practitioners seeking to deepen their connection with the somatic model and the impact of stress and trauma on the nervous system. It will assist those seeking to better understand the embodied stress experience across a variety of settings and treatment scenarios. This training offers a deeper immersion into somatic therapy principles and practices utilized by the presenter. Designed for clinicians and practitioners with some knowledge of somatic approaches, this course emphasizes the refined clinical skills of embodied presence and moment-to-moment attunement to nervous system dynamics.  The presenter will demonstrate methods of titration into somatic witnessing for shame reduction.

Participants will expand their awareness of ways to support somatic inquiry and sensation awareness for those with body disconnection or dissociation, sensation fear, and body sensation overwhelm which can be features of the neurodivergence that trauma often creates. Through experiential activities, participants will gain a better understanding of the arc of a somatic session and methods of resourcing, sensing activation states and feeling awareness while supporting body capacity and wisdom. The presenter will discuss the importance of somatic self-resourcing on the part of the embodied witness, therapist, helper, teacher, and crisis supporter and explore methods for coping with vicarious somatic stress and fatigue.