A free live session with three leading voices in somatic trauma healing — ahead of the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate.
A live-taught model for reading symptoms (leaves), survival patterns (trunk), and root origins of trauma — the assessment tool you'll return to throughout the session.
The framework behind the full certificate: a foundational toolkit, discernment about which tool to use when, entry points into a client's history, and ongoing assessment.
The difference between knowing a technique and knowing how to be present while using it — "the efficacy of any intervention depends on the interior state of the intervener."
How this approach applies to individuals, relationships, and organizations or communities — not just one-on-one clinical work.
Founder of The Embody Lab
Faculty
MSN, Faculty
...and more faculty from the full certificate. Reserve your seat above ↑
“This program changed my life, my perspective, my understanding of the scope and depth of somatic trauma work. I'm so incredibly grateful to have studied with some of the most skillful, kind, knowledgeable, and diverse human beings.”— Jennifer, past ISTT participant
No — this is a free, 90-minute live preview. The full Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate is a separate 60-hour program running Sept 27–Dec 18, 2026.
Register anyway — everyone who signs up receives the recording afterward.
Therapists, coaches, social workers, and anyone who works with people navigating trauma — no prior somatic training required.
This Preview Event is a first look at the Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy Certificate — a 60-hour live program running September 27–December 18, 2026, co-directed by Dr. Scott Lyons, Kai Cheng Thom, and Nkem Ndefo, alongside 20+ additional faculty. Across 23 sessions over 11 weeks, it brings together Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Polyvagal Theory, Internal Family Systems, and more into one integrated framework for working with trauma in the body.
It's designed for therapists, coaches, social workers, and anyone who wants body-based tools for supporting people through trauma. There's no obligation to enroll — this Preview Event stands on its own, and you'll have the option to go deeper afterward if it's a fit.