Expert Series - Trauma and Redefining the Self

Expert Series: Trauma & Redefining the Self

Expert Series - Trauma and Redefining the Self.
Integrate powerful embodied modalities to facilitate personal growth and healing. Explore micro-moments of regulation and reintegrate fragmented parts to restore wholeness.

Comprehensive Curriculum

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Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

This course integrates several powerful, embodied therapeutic modalities to facilitate personal growth and healing from trauma. Participants will explore how significant change is built on micro moments of regulation, such as glimmers and savoring, by gently stretching the nervous system toward increased flexibility. The program also grounds participants in the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy ethos, emphasizing an alive container for healing through tracking and shifting the internal organization of experience. Additionally, the training offers practical techniques for working with dreams as a royal road to the unconscious to reintegrate fragmented parts and restore wholeness. Finally, the course teaches Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), utilizing the EFT Tango to process, deepen, and regulate core emotions, enabling individuals to achieve secure connection with themselves and others.

Faculty

Pat Ogden (Dr.)

Pat Ogden (Dr.)

Pat Ogden, PhD is a pioneer in somatic psychology, the creator of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy method, and founder of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer and the first author of two groundbreaking books in somatic psychology: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment (2015). Her third book, The Pocket Guide to Sensorimotor Psychotherapy in Context, advocates for an anti-racist perspective in psychotherapy practice. Her current interests include couple therapy, child and family therapy, social justice, diversity, inclusion, consciousness, and the philosophical/spiritual principles that underlie her work.

Sue Johnson (Dr.)

Sue Johnson (Dr.)

Dr. Sue Johnson is a leading innovator in the fields of couple therapy and adult attachment. She is the primary developer of Emotionally Focused Couples and Family Therapy (EFT), which has demonstrated its effectiveness in over 30 years of peer-reviewed clinical research. Sue’s received numerous awards acknowledging her development of EFT, including the APA’s “Family Psychologist of the Year” in 2016 and the Order of Canada in 2017.

Albert Wong (Dr.)

Albert Wong (Dr.)

Dr. Albert Wong is the Director of the Trauma Certificate Program at Somatopia. He maintains a private counseling and consulting practice centered around somatic psychotherapy and is the founder of the online somatic education platform, Somatopia: www.somatopia.com.

Deb Dana

Deb Dana


Deb Dana, LCSW, is an author, clinician, and consultant using Polyvagal Theory to understand and resolve trauma while honoring the autonomic nervous system. She developed the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series and lectures internationally. Deb is a founding member of the Polyvagal Institute, clinical advisor to Khiron Clinics, and advisor to Unyte. Her clinical works with W.W. Norton include The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy, Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, and the Polyvagal Flip Chart. With Sounds True, she released Befriending Your Nervous System and the book Anchored.