CE-Eligible Courses
CE-Eligible Courses
Integrating IFS, Somatics and Spirituality
The Embody Lab
This course offers a rich, multidimensional exploration of parts-based healing, beginning with Dr. Richard Schwartz introducing the foundational principles of Internal Family Systems therapy, including the nature of protectors and exiles, the concept of Self, and the surprising ways spiritual experience can emerge through this work.
Somatic Experiencing Tools for Shame and Collapse
The Embody Lab
This course explores the somatic roots of shame and its path toward healing, drawing on Dr. Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing framework to show how shame lives in the body as posture, breath, and nervous system shutdown, and how it can be gently unwound.
Working with Shame in the Body: Somatic Tools for Practitioners
The Embody Lab
A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame offers a deep and nuanced exploration of shame, emphasizing its embodied nature and critical role in human experience. The modules differentiate between healthy and toxic shame, revealing how the latter — often rooted in early trauma and relational ruptures — can lead to pervasive feelings of being flawed and chronic physiological dysregulation.
How to Transform Freeze, Fawning and Appeasement into Nervous System Safety
The Embody Lab
This course brings together three leading voices in somatic psychology and trauma healing to offer a rich, embodied exploration of how the nervous system shapes our inner lives and relationships. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how trauma responses such as freeze, fight-flight, and appeasement operate within both the body and the broader cultural landscape.
Tools for Anxiety and Unconscious Patterns that Keep Your Clients Stuck
The Embody Lab
This course explores somatic healing by integrating nervous system regulation, depth psychology, and trauma recovery to help individuals address the physical roots of anxiety and emotional blocks. Participants will learn how chronic worry operates as an old alarm stored in the body and how to safely reconnect with this sensation.
Working with Pain: A Somatic Approach
The Embody Lab
Working with Pain: A Somatic Approach offers a transformative perspective on chronic pain, moving beyond symptomatic treatment to address its complex psychophysiological origins. The modules emphasize that persistent pain often stems from unresolved trauma, repressed emotions, and autonomic nervous system dysregulation rather than physical injury alone.
How to Work with Resistant Clients
The Embody Lab
How to Work with Resistant Clients redefines resistance in therapy, viewing it not as an obstacle but as an intelligent, protective expression from the client. The modules emphasize the therapist's compassionate and curious attitude toward resistance — exploring its emotional, somatic, and relational forms and its roots in underlying needs and past coping.
Treating Intergenerational Trauma with IFS and Somatic Experiencing
The Embody Lab
This course explores the impact of inherited family trauma through three distinct therapeutic lenses. Participants will begin by learning to repair intergenerational wounds by correcting family role reversals and using the imaginal realm to provide compassionate resources to your predecessors.
Working with Chronic Pain When It’s A Trauma Response
The Embody Lab
This course explores the deep connection between trauma, the nervous system, and physical and emotional pain, drawing on the expertise of leading somatic practitioners and trauma specialists. Participants will learn how unresolved trauma and chronic stress become stored in the body, driving pain cycles, inflammation, and a wide range of physical symptoms that conventional medicine often fails to address.
Compassionate Grief Work: Innovative Techniques for Healing
The Embody Lab
Compassionate Grief Work: Innovative Techniques for Healing offers a nuanced exploration of grief, defining it as an innate attachment-related process often hindered by mediating factors. It distinguishes grief from mourning — noting how grief can become somatically "stuck" while mourning is the natural embodiment of loss — and addresses the complexities of grief intertwined with relational trauma.
Transforming Emotional Triggers: A Somatic Approach
The Embody Lab
Transforming Emotional Triggers: A Somatic Approach offers a deep dive into understanding and working with emotional triggers through a body-centered lens. It explains how triggers are hardwired in the nervous system and manifest as physiological and psychological events.
Somatic Therapy 101 — Core Tools for Body Based Healing
The Embody Lab
This course introduces the core principles and skills of a somatic approach to growth and transformation. Topics include sensory awareness, embodied meaning-making, nonverbal communication, and working with movement impulses.
Healing Trauma: Working with Somatic Wounds
The Embody Lab
"I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma." — Dr. Peter A.
Helping Clients Transform their Inner Critic from the Inside Out
The Embody Lab
Helping Clients Transform their Inner Critic from the Inside Out offers a multi-faceted exploration of the inner critic, defining it as a normal yet often harsh internalized voice stemming from early experiences and societal pressures. Through diverse perspectives, the modules examine its manifestations — from critical self-talk and physical sensations to protective functions and ego-driven behaviors.
Somatic Tools for Anger, Triggers, and Emotional Wellness
The Embody Lab
This course brings together somatic and psychological frameworks to support deep, lasting emotional wellness, beginning with Niyc Pidgeon's exploration of how positive psychology and body-based practices can be integrated to move beyond toxic positivity and into genuine, embodied transformation. Kai Cheng Thom then guides participants through the often-avoided territory of anger, offering somatic tools for befriending and working with this powerful emotion while honoring the sociopolitical dimensions of how anger is expressed and suppressed across different bodies and communities.
Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach
The Embody Lab
Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach offers a deep dive into addiction, moving beyond traditional views to explore its roots in trauma, unmet needs, and dysregulation. It integrates classic and contemporary theories with a strong emphasis on somatic practice, highlighting how the body holds the key to understanding and healing addictive patterns.
Transforming Trauma through Parts Work
The Embody Lab
This course offers an exploration of Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, uniquely integrating it with somatic approaches to facilitate profound healing. Through six detailed demonstration sessions, participants will witness how to identify, understand, and work with various internal "parts" that contribute to complex emotional patterns like internalized anger, social anxiety, perfectionism, fear, and chronic physical pain.
Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair
The Embody Lab
This course offers a comprehensive exploration of the "inner child" — a source of emotions, intuition, and creativity — and its healing for those who have experienced trauma. It examines how adverse childhood experiences disrupt development and leave lasting imprints on the nervous system, forming inner "parts" that carry trauma burdens.
Working with Destructive Coping Patterns
The Embody Lab
This course explores the inner landscape of compulsive and addictive patterns, beginning with Ann Weiser Cornell's Focusing-based "untangling" approach, which teaches how to develop compassionate self-presence with the conflicting parts of ourselves that keep us stuck in behaviors we wish we could stop. Dr.
Working with the roots of Self-Rejection (Treating Inner Critics & Attachment Wounds)
The Embody Lab
This course invites participants into a deep exploration of the body as a site of healing, pleasure, and self-knowledge, drawing on somatic traditions that recognize our physical experience as central to emotional and psychological wellbeing. Through Sergio Ocampo's work on somatic self-touch, you will learn how the hands can be used as a powerful tool for nervous system regulation, trauma support, and mobilizing stuck emotional energy in the body.
Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma Healing
The Embody Lab
This course, guided by Dr. Gabor Maté, offers a transformative understanding of trauma, redefining it not as an external event but as an unhealed internal wound that profoundly shapes our lives.
Clinical Strategies for Treating Attachment Wounds
The Embody Lab
This course, led by Dr. Diane Poole Heller, explores attachment theory through a powerful somatic-based methodology focused on the deeply ingrained relational blueprints formed in early caregiving environments.
Somatic Tools for Helping Clients Navigate Power, Ethics, and Complexity
The Embody Lab
This course explores the transformative power of somatic practice, drawing on Richard Strozzi-Heckler's foundational teaching that the body is not merely a physical container but a living domain of action, emotion, learning, and dignity. Nkem Ndefo expands this embodied lens into the realm of power and ethics, guiding participants to examine how their personal histories of power and powerlessness shape the way they lead, relate, and show up in the world.
Somatic Tools for Navigating Polarization and Inner Conflict
The Embody Lab
This course brings together visionary thinkers to explore how our bodies, politics, and capacity for care are deeply intertwined in an era of global crisis and transformation. Bayo Akomolafe opens with a radical reimagining of care itself, challenging us to understand the body not as a fixed object but as a living, ecological process shaped by history, technology, and the non-human world.
Healing Trauma with IFS featuring Dr. Richard Schwartz
The Embody Lab
This course introduces the core tenets of Internal Family Systems (IFS), a therapeutic model that views the human psyche as a naturally multi-part system guided by an inherent, undamaged Self. Featuring Dr.
Somatic Therapy in Action: Navigating Boundaries and Boundary Ruptures
The Embody Lab
A four-module package of real somatic healing sessions with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr.
Healing Relational Wounds
The Embody Lab
Relational wounds are formed in relationship — and healed there too. This course offers somatic, trauma-informed approaches to repairing ruptures, restoring trust, and helping clients experience safe, attuned connection.
Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma
The Embody Lab
Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma delves into the profound impact of inherited experiences across family lineages. It illuminates how unacknowledged ancestral burdens — from systemic losses to historical events — manifest in the present through epigenetic changes, psychological patterns, and a persistent felt sense of unresolved issues.
Conversations on Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate & Special Guests
The Embody Lab
This course offers a profound exploration into the multifaceted nature of trauma and its healing, integrating insights from leading experts Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr.
Assessing Readiness and Somatic Tools for Trauma Healing
The Embody Lab
This course brings together three leading voices in somatic and trauma-informed healing to offer a rich, embodied approach to personal and clinical transformation. Manuela Mischke-Reeds introduces a framework of Innate Somatic Intelligence, exploring how the body's innate wisdom can be awakened in both therapist and client to support deep, non-directive trauma healing.
Embodied Practitioner Skills: Resources, Relationships, and Emotional Processing
The Embody Lab
An integrative somatic course with Dr. Scott Lyons and Manuela Mischke-Reeds on resourcing, transference, and the body's role in shame.
Working with Trauma, Neglect & Belonging
The Embody Lab
This course offers an in-depth exploration of somatic therapy through four powerful demonstration sessions, each highlighting unique therapeutic journeys. Clients work through patterns of self-doubt, cultural trauma, childhood abandonment, and deep-seated fear using body-based techniques and mindful awareness.
Unlocking the Self — IFS Approaches to Healing The Inner Child, Triggers & Addiction
The Embody Lab
This course explores the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, which understands the human mind as naturally multiple — made up of distinct parts and an inherent, undamaged core known as the Self.
Self-Care Strategies for Healing Professionals
The Embody Lab
Self-Care Strategies for Healing Professionals equips mental health practitioners with essential tools for sustaining their well-being in demanding roles. It emphasizes self-care as an ethical and moral imperative, highlighting the connection between embodied self-awareness, personal replenishment, and effective therapeutic presence.
Cultivating Presence, Compassion and Connection
The Embody Lab
This course helps professionals develop embodied presence, compassionate engagement, and somatic attunement. Through experiential practices, participants cultivate inner awareness, deepen their capacity to resonate with others, and navigate challenging dynamics with resilience.
Introduction to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma
The Embody Lab
This course introduces Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a groundbreaking trauma treatment pioneered by Dr. Pat Ogden, which recognizes the body's central role in storing and expressing traumatic experience.
Healing Childhood Trauma
The Embody Lab
This course delves into the profound impact of childhood trauma, exploring somatic therapy demonstrations that reveal pathways to healing and resilience. It explores core concepts like shape and countershape, explains the use of psychodrama and ideal figures, and analyzes emotional responses through a somatic lens.
Expert Strategies to Unlock Post-Traumatic Growth
The Embody Lab
This comprehensive course explores post-traumatic growth (PTG) as a transformative process where individuals experience positive change following trauma. It goes beyond traditional trauma treatment to examine how practitioners can facilitate clients' movement toward growth, resilience, and meaning-making.
Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self
The Embody Lab
This course explores the journey of self-worth, featuring somatic therapy demonstrations that illuminate the path to inner acceptance and strength. It details how to establish safety for nervous system exploration, differentiate between nervous system states, and utilize resources for regulation.
The Neurobiology of Belonging
The Embody Lab
This course features Dr. Dan Siegel and his framework of Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), which defines the mind as an emergent process of energy and information flow — where integration, the linkage of differentiated parts, is essential to wellbeing.
Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance
The Embody Lab
This course offers a rich exploration of somatic therapy through four powerful demonstration sessions led by experienced expert practitioners. Each module showcases distinct approaches to working with nervous system regulation, trauma, and emotional resilience through body-based awareness, imagery, and therapeutic presence.
Enhancing Safety & Healing Attachment Wounds
The Embody Lab
This course features renowned expert Dr. Diane Poole Heller, who explores the deep connection between early attachment injuries, trauma resolution, and adult relational patterns.
