Frank Anderson (Dr.)

Faculty

About

Frank Anderson, MD, is a world-renowned trauma expert, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and global speaker. He is the co-author of the IFS Skills Training Manual (2017), the best-selling Transcending Trauma (2021), and his memoir To Be Loved: A Story of Truth, Trauma and Transformation (2024). Dr. Anderson has a long affiliation with Bessel van der Kolk at the Trauma Research Foundation and is a former lead trainer at the IFS Institute under Richard Schwartz. He is the director and cofounder of the Trauma Institute and Trauma-Informed Media, dedicated to integrating neuroscience with cutting-edge therapy and bringing trauma healing to the world.

Courses by Frank Anderson (Dr.)

Addiction & Recovery: A Somatic Approach

A course on the somatic lens of addiction and recovery. Body-based tools to recognize protective functions, address underlying dysregulation, and support sustainable healing from addiction and compulsive patterns.

Compassionate Grief Work: Innovative Techniques for Healing

A course on compassionate, innovative grief work. Tools including therapeutic letters, psychodrama, somatic focusing, breathwork, and ritual to navigate grief intertwined with trauma — and cultivate a new ongoing relationship with what's been lost.

Helping Clients Transform their Inner Critic from the Inside Out

A course on transforming the inner critic through somatics. Recognize the critic's protective origins, understand its patterns, and apply body-based interventions to shift criticism into compassion.

Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate

Learn a holistic, body-centered framework for understanding and working with trauma — for yourself and your clients. A 3-month online certificate with world-renowned somatic trauma faculty.

Dates Sep 27 – Dec 18, 2026

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.