Course Summary
This 3-hour experiential workshop will help therapists deepen their somatic skills through direct practice.
This advanced somatic training is designed to take you beyond theory and into the felt experience of somatic therapy so that you can bring more presence, precision, and embodied wisdom into your clinical work.
Over the course of this 3-hour live workshop, you'll engage in guided practices that explore the core principles of somatic therapy from the inside out. You'll deepen your understanding of how the body holds, processes, and releases trauma, and how to track these processes moment-to-moment, first in yourself, so that you’re better able with your clients.
Through experiential exercises, gentle movement, embodied awareness, and reflective integration, you'll gain practical tools to:
- Recognize and work with somatic cues in yourself and your clients so that you feel competent in somatic assessment and intervention
- Cultivate your own nervous system regulation practice to support co-regulation in therapy
- Use embodied presence as an intervention in itself
- Access and support your clients’ innate capacity for healing through the body
This training is ideal for therapists with some foundational knowledge of somatic principles who are ready to deepen their clinical intuition and embodiment in session. Whether you use somatic work as a primary modality or as a supportive layer within talk therapy, this workshop will help you bring somatic therapy to life, not just as a tool, but as a way of being in your sessions.
Learning Objectives
Learners will:
- Identify at least three somatic cues that signal nervous system activation in themselves and clients.
- Demonstrate at least two somatic techniques that support embodied presence in clinical sessions.
- Apply somatic tracking skills to observe and reflect body-based experiences during client interactions.
- Demonstrate the use of embodied awareness techniques to support co-regulation and therapeutic attunement during guided practice.
Your Purchase Includes
- Live 3-hour in person training
- 3 NBCC CEs
- Somatic Integration Clinician Workbook
Meagan Chevalier is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) specialized in treating complex trauma. Meagan comes to this work having served as a teacher, writer, and organizer in academic, community, and nonprofit spaces. These experiences have helped her to cultivate a therapeutic practice and curiosity that is integrative and expansive. Meagan uses her training in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Internal Family Systems, and somatic therapies to help clients reclaim their ability to fully embody their present day experience, whatever that experience may be. Meagan is also passionate about the intersections of this work and social justice and believes that healing our individual traumas better enables us to address our collective traumas. This lens is integral to both her clinical work and her work as an educator.
This training is approved by NBCC for 3 CE credits.
Students who attend live will receive a certificate of completion within 1-week of the training date.
If you need to request accommodations please email us at [email protected]
