Peter Levine (Dr.)

Faculty

About

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychoth erapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. Learn more at somaticexperiencing.com.

Courses by Peter Levine (Dr.)

A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame

A Somatic Guide to Working with Shame

A five-module course offering a somatic approach to shame and shadow work. Embodied tools for distinguishing healthy from toxic shame, reclaiming disowned parts of self, and guiding clients through real transformation.

Applied Polyvagal Theory: Science of Safety

Applied Polyvagal Theory: Science of Safety

A course with Dr. Stephen Porges and guests on the neurobiology of safety. Explore how nervous system states shape perception, behavior, and our capacity for connection, healing, and higher functioning.

Conversations on Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate & Special Guests

Conversations on Trauma with Dr. Gabor Mate & Special Guests

A masterclass with Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, and Dr. Peter Levine on the multifaceted nature of trauma and healing. Insights into trauma as embodied "stuckness" and the path to recovery.

Expert Series - Healing at the Root: Rewiring Developmental Trauma with Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Frank Anderson

Expert Series - Healing at the Root: Rewiring Developmental Trauma with Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Peter A. Levine, Dr. Frank Anderson

A three-module expert series with Dr. Pat Ogden, Dr. Peter Levine, and Dr. Frank Anderson on rewiring developmental trauma. Body-based tools for preverbal trauma, attachment wounds, and the path from hauntings to wholeness.

Expert Series - Trauma in the Body: Conversations on Somatic Transformation

Expert Series - Trauma in the Body: Conversations on Somatic Transformation

A 4-hour expert series with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Gabor Maté, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, and Dr. Scott Lyons on the body's path through trauma. Somatic recovery, attachment, and the ethics of emerging therapies.

Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma

Healing Across Generations: Tools for Transforming Transgenerational Trauma

A course on healing transgenerational trauma. Family Constellations, somatic ancestral genograms, and ancestral psychotherapy as tools to disentangle inherited burdens and heal across past, present, and future generations.

Healing Childhood Trauma

Healing Childhood Trauma

A four-module course on somatic approaches to childhood trauma. Demonstrations of shape and countershape, psychodrama, and ideal figures — guiding the safe processing, release, and resourcing that support resilience.

Healing Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine

Healing Trauma with Dr. Peter Levine

A four-part, 8-hour on-demand workshop with Dr. Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing® and trauma healing. Body-based tools for nervous system regulation, memory, shame, and chronic pain.

Healing Trauma: Working with Somatic Wounds

Healing Trauma: Working with Somatic Wounds

A four-session, 10-hour on-demand Master Workshop with Dr. Peter Levine on healing complex trauma through Somatic Experiencing®. Live client demonstrations and SE™ techniques — plus 4 bonus hours of pre-recorded content.

Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance

Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance

A four-module demonstration course in somatic therapy. Watch expert practitioners work with anxiety, medical trauma, hyperarousal, and stored trauma — revealing the body's innate capacity for regulation and healing.

Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

Making the Invisible, Visible: Healing Intergenerational Trauma

A 2-day, 8-hour on-demand workshop with Dr. Peter Levine and Efu Nyaki on healing intergenerational trauma through Somatic Experiencing®. Tools to make ancestral patterns visible and reclaim authentic freedom.

Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair

Reclaiming the Inner Child: Techniques for Emotional Repair

A course on somatic inner child work. Recognize wounded child parts, understand their protective roles, and apply body-based interventions to heal childhood wounds held in the nervous system.

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate

Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate

Transform attachment wounds and trauma through a body-centered approach — for yourself and your clients. A 60-hour online certificate with world-renowned somatic attachment faculty.

Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator Certificate

Somatic Psychedelic Facilitator Certificate

A pathway to becoming a seasoned somatic psychedelic facilitator. Combine the healing power of somatics with the profound insights of psychedelics and plant medicines to release trauma at its root and guide clients into the primal body, where true liberation lives.

Somatic Therapy in Action: Navigating Boundaries and Boundary Ruptures

Somatic Therapy in Action: Navigating Boundaries and Boundary Ruptures

A four-module package of real somatic healing sessions with Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Pat Ogden, Staci K. Haines, and Jessica Montgomery. Witness master clinicians guide trauma processing, defensive completion, and embodied release.

Summit: Healing Developmental Trauma

Summit: Healing Developmental Trauma

A one-day on-demand summit with six leading somatic experts on healing developmental trauma. Body-based tools for early-life wounds, secure attachment, regulation, and the return to wholeness.

Summit: Somatic Trauma Healing

Summit: Somatic Trauma Healing

A two-day on-demand summit on somatic trauma healing with 17 world-leading experts. Explore body-based tools for working with triggers, preverbal trauma, attachment wounds, nervous system regulation, healthy aggression, parts work, and collective trauma — plus bonus sessions with Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Richard Schwartz, Arielle Schwartz, and Thomas Hübl.

Working with Pain: A Somatic Approach

Working with Pain: A Somatic Approach

A course on the mind-body connection in chronic pain. Somatic tools to understand how trauma and emotional distress manifest physically — and body-based techniques for relief and healing.

Working with Trauma, Neglect & Belonging

Working with Trauma, Neglect & Belonging

A four-session demonstration course in somatic therapy. Witness body-based work with self-doubt, cultural trauma, childhood abandonment, and fear — and the somatic tools that transform them into self-connection and empowerment.