Course Summary
This comprehensive training offers a practical and embodied introduction to integrating somatic therapy into clinical practice. Grounded in trauma theory, neuroscience, and polyvagal theory, the course explores how the body holds and communicates experience, emphasizing the shift from cognitive to sensory awareness in the healing process. Participants will learn to conceptualize cases through a somatic lens, track nervous system states, and expand clients’ windows of tolerance through titration, resourcing, and pacing. Through guided instruction and case examples, clinicians will gain concrete tools for somatic assessment and intervention including grounding, orienting, and sensation tracking, while attending to ethics, consent, and the diverse needs of clients.
Learning Objectives
- Understand the foundational principles of somatic therapy and the nervous system
- Explore somatic techniques for increasing awareness of emotion and sensation, processing emotion through movement, and regulating emotion
- Learn concrete methods to incorporate somatic techniques into your practice, inclusive of your preferred population type and therapy models
- Understand and be able to think critically about the ethics of incorporating somatic techniques into other psychotherapy models
Your Purchase Includes
- On Demand 4-hour webinar recording to complete at your convenience
- 4 NBCC CEs
- Presentation slides
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 4 CE credits.
Students who complete the course on demand will be required to complete a post training quiz to receive their certificate.
If you need to request accommodations please email us at [email protected]
