Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate

A holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma.

A HOLISTIC BODY-CENTERED METHOD TO HEALING RELATIONAL WOUNDS AND TRAUMA

Attachment trauma is wired into the nervous system — and it can be repatterned through the body. This first-of-its-kind 60-hour certificate program brings together the world's leading somatic attachment therapy teachers into one integrated curriculum, offering a holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds. Across three phases — foundations, healing the self, and healing in relationship — you'll gain practical tools to transform early wounds into deep and sustaining connection.

Overview

Program at a Glance

Are you ready to help heal attachment wounds and trauma, and support the creation of profound and empowering relationships for yourself, clients, communities and the world?

Are you committed to holistically and compassionately transforming pain and relational challenges into growth, meaning, deep connection, and resilience?

Then we invite you to the first-of-its-kind 60-hour Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program.

This unique online certificate program is designed for individuals, practitioners and educators wanting to explore the transformative power of somatics and attachment work, one that fosters true healing in the form of compassionate and sustaining relationships.

This program brings together world renowned somatic attachment therapy teachers to offer a holistic, body-centered method to healing relational wounds and trauma. This extraordinary program offers a collection of practical tools that guides the healing process for yourself and your work with others.

Meet Your Lead Faculty

Learn from World-Leading Voices in Trauma Treatment

Internationally recognized leaders bring to life a holistic and unified curriculum.

Gabor Maté (Dr.)

Kai Cheng Thom

Peter Levine (Dr.)

Dan Siegel (Dr.)

Fanny Brewster (Dr.)

Ruella Frank (Dr.)

Gordon Neufeld (Dr.)

Diane Poole Heller (Dr.)

Karine Bell

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Ann Weiser Cornell (Dr.)

Nkem Ndefo

Jessica Montgomery

Kekuni Minton

Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen

Sheleana Aiyana

Manuela Mischke-Reeds

Lewis Mehl-Madrona (Dr.)

Jessica Fern

Curriculum

01 Foundations of Attachment and Trauma Therapy

- Program Overview — Part 1
- Program Overview — Part 2
- Shadow Work: Relationships as Mirrors
- Transgenerational Trauma and Attachment
- An Ecology of Relationship: Exploring Connection, Belonging, Dignity and Shame
- Healing Attachment Trauma
- The Developing Mind

02 Healing the Self — Forming a Secure Bond with the Self

- Mapping the Embodied Self: Yielding and Relational Reciprocity
- Mapping the Embodied Self: The Language of Sensation
- Healing the Archetypal Body: Cultural Perspectives
- Clinical Strategies for Treating Attachment Wounds — Part 1: Adult Attachment and Trauma Therapy
- Clinical Strategies for Treating Attachment Wounds — Part 2: Healing the Self: Forming a Secure Bond with Self
- Clinical Strategies for Treating Attachment Wounds — Part 3: Healing in Relationship
- Clinical Strategies for Treating Attachment Wounds — Part 4: Integration and Advanced Practices
- Emerging Patterns and Strategies of Insecure Attachment
- Understanding Inner Conflict & Attachment
- Fundamentals of Inner Relationship Focusing — Parts 1–4
- Bonding and Attachment
- Working with Non-Verbal Attachment Cues: An Exploration of Gestural Patterns
- Integration Session

03 Healing in Relationship

- Attending and Mending Boundary Ruptures
- Curiouser and Curiouser: Somatic Experiments for Attachment Healing
- Catalyzing Safety and Connection in Couples
- Reframing Attachment
- Healing the Unmet Needs
- Polysecure: Attachment and Consensual Non-monogamy
- Healing Our Alienation with Indigenous Wisdom
- Healing Ruptures in Systems
- Collective Conflict Healing
- SensoryMotor Psychotherapy and Relationship Coaching — Parts 1 & 2
- An Ecology of Relationship: Exploring Other Sources of Connection
- Integration Session

What You'll Learn

Skills you'll carry into your practice

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

Recognize and embody the key principles of somatic attachment therapy
Explore evidence-informed approaches to healing relational wounds.
Establish deeper therapeutic alliances that foster attachment repatterning
Discover techniques to offer self-regulation and co-regulation
Compassion informed assessments that illuminate how a clients attachment style has been embedded/ played out in their daily life.
Identify boundary ruptures and support the processes of boundary mending
Discover strategies for embodied conflict resolution
Tools to processes transgenerational attachment trauma
Understand unconscious dynamics that block someones capacity for intimacy
Discover the pathways for relational ruptures and repair
Understand how to help others process, metabolize, and integrate implicit and explicit memories of attachment wounding.
Understand the potency of somatic attunement and how it informs the experience of comfort, empathy, validation, and safety.

Self-Paced & On-Demand

This certificate program is fully on-demand. All seven modules are available immediately upon enrollment, allowing you to move through the curriculum at your own pace.

Lifetime Access

Once enrolled, you have lifetime access to all course recordings, supporting materials, and downloadable resources — return as often as needed throughout your clinical practice.

Completion Timeframe

Most participants complete the 60-hour curriculum over 3–6 months, though there is no required pace. The program is designed to be integrated alongside an active clinical practice.

Zoom:

The live portion will be offered using Zoom in meeting format, allowing instructors and students to interact and participate in breakout sessions.

Online Learning Platform:

Detailed schedule and reminder emails
How to access via Zoom
All recordings available within 48 hours
Supporting materials including PDFs

Accessibility:

Download video or audio to your computer
Lifetime access to the content
Live captioning and transcripts in English

Requirements to receive the Certificate:

Attend the live sessions or watch the recordings
Complete any required assignments or reflections
Participate in supervision groups (where applicable)

CE Credits:

60 hours— This program offers 60 hours of continuing education credits.

Secure your spot in this certificate program. Payment plans and member pricing available at checkout.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Questions, answered

Who is this program designed for?

This program distills an educational methodology to integrate into a variety of modalities such as: Social Workers, Mental Health & Pastoral Counselors, Yoga Therapists / Yoga Teachers, Movement Therapists, Coaches, Physicians (MD, DO, ND, DC & others) & Physician Assistants, Nurses & Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Emergency Medical Personnel, Meditation Teachers, Educators, Massage Therapists, Acupuncturists & Body Workers, Hypnotherapists, Kinesiologists, Complementary & Alternative Medicine Professionals, Clergy & Religious Leaders, other Wellness Professionals, and anyone seeking to gain a deeper understanding of human relationships and the power of Somatic Attachment Therapy.

This is an education program and not a licenser program.

What are the dates, schedule and time commitment?

The on-demand certificate program that you may watch in your own time.

What are the homework requirements?

There are no homework assignments during the program.

Do you offer refunds?

We offer a Registration Guarantee which means that if you register but decide the course isn’t right for you, we’ll refund your course fee - no questions asked - up to 48 hours before the course start date.

How can I access the online course and recordings?

ONLINE LEARNING PLATFORM: Once you register, you will receive access to our online learning platform which will include all the information about the certificate, including:

Detailed schedules
How to access the live sessions via Zoom
Recordings of all live sessions uploaded within 48 hours of the end of the live session
Supporting materials provided by your instructors

ACCESSIBILITY | Video / Audio: Within our online learning platform, you may watch the video within your online library or download the video or audio to your computer. You will have lifetime access to the content.

ACCESSIBILITY | Live Captioning / Transcripts: Captioning will be available during the live sessions. Transcripts will be offered in English.

ACCESSIBILITY | Reading Lists: The reading list will include items available at the public library or will be provided as a PDF where possible. PDFs of the instructor’s presentation will also be provided.

Is this a summit?

No, this is an integrated curriculum co-created by the faculty. The faculty are colleagues in this program. They are working together to make sure each individual module is cohesive with the entire curriculum. Every teacher is informed about what is coming before and what is coming after and integrating their curriculum based on that information.

Is this a theoretical or practical (experiential) program?

While some theory will be presented to support the learning, the primary focus of the practice is experiential, giving practical tools for the participants.

Will I receive a certificate?

You’ll receive a certificate of completion once you have completed the following:

Watched all the recordings.
Complete the Self Evaluation.
Submit full payment.

All students who complete this program will receive a certificate of completion.

Will Continuing Education hours (CEs) be offered?

CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

20hrs of CEs will be available for this program. Please note - Live attendance is required.

Below is more information on the health professionals which may be eligible for CEs through the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program.

CE hours for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE hours for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.
LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.
For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact The Embody Lab at info@theembodylab.com.
For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.
For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

FROM A DIFFERENT STATE OR COUNTRY?

Health professionals from a state or country outside of California need to check with their licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).

DIFFERENT CREDENTIAL?

If your credential is not listed, please check with your licensing board as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of Continuing Education by the American Psychological Association (APA).

The SCA and The Embody Lab are not able to determine your eligibility.

To register your interest for CE hours for this program and more detailed information, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/76mwhjgG5vnzVw9BA

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60 HOUR ONLINE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Upon registration you will receive a welcome email with details on how to access the program. You will have lifetime access to the on-demand training sessions.

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