Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self

Name: Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self
Brand: The Embody Lab
SKU: PE-C03
Price: 297.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Somatic Therapy in Action: Enhancing Self-Worth & Finding the Authentic Self

This course explores the journey of self-worth, featuring somatic therapy demonstrations that illuminate the path to inner acceptance and strength. It details how to establish safety for nervous system exploration, differentiate between nervous system states, and utilize resources for regulation. The package also emphasizes working with protective parts in therapy and understanding the therapist's attunement to the participant's experience. Ultimately, this course empowers professionals to guide participants in connecting with their authentic selves, processing core emotions somatically, and cultivating lasting self-worth.

Comprehensive Curriculum

Module 1: Polyvagal Theory in Clinical Practice (Deb Dana) — Ventral/sympathetic/dorsal vagal state differentiation, "dimming one's light" under social pressure, breathwork and somatic awareness for ventral access, facilitating return to regulation.

Module 2: Working with Protector Parts in IFS (Frances D. Booth) — Protectors-first approach, the "jailer" protective part, reflective listening, self-energy through curiosity and compassion, unblending for deeper work.

Module 3: Attending to Somatic Changes in Therapy (Jessica Montgomery) — Moment-to-moment attunement, tracking somatic changes, connecting body and emotion, differentiation between present feelings and body memories, unwinding and integration.

Module 4: Using Mindful Dialogue and Somatic Awareness to Resolve Self-Doubt (Dr. Scott Lyons) — Validation-seeking patterns, attunement and mirroring, recognizing avoidance (attending to others to escape self), building relational awareness.

Learning Outcomes & Professional Benefits

Core competencies organized across 3 areas: Clinical Presence (safety, pacing, timing, holding tender emotions); Somatic Literacy (tracking body cues, nervous system shifts, body as primary pathway); Working with Core Wounds (worthiness beliefs, somatic processing, protective patterns, authentic self-emergence).

Who This Is For

Therapists, coaches, and healing professionals who want to help clients build genuine self-worth as a lived, embodied experience.

Faculty

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.

Jessica Montgomery

Jessica Montgomery, MSW, Certified Hakomi Trainer, has been a somatic counselor and catalyst for over 30 years. Blending brain science with mindful experiential techniques, she facilitates individuals, couples, and communities toward greater wholeness. Her background spans community mental health, private practice, retreats, integrative medicine, and counselor education. A Trainer at the Hakomi Institute of the Pacific Northwest, she has served on faculty at the National University of Natural Medicine, META Institute, and as program director at Breitenbush Retreat Center. She is co-developer of the Primary Attachment model and lives in Portland, Oregon.

Scott Lyons (Dr.)

Dr. Scott Lyons (DO, PhD, MS, MFA, CHT, BMCP/T, RSMT, SME, BMCP, IDME, SEP, CST, BFA, RYT-500) is a Clinical Psychologist, Osteopath, and Mind-Body Medicine practitioner who specializes in therapies for infants, youth, and adults. Additionally, Dr. Lyons holds a BFA in Theater/Psychology, and an MFA in Dance/Choreography. Scott is the creator of The Embody Lab — a hub for embodied education, self-discovery and healing— and developer of Somatic Stress Release™ — a processes of restoring our biological adaptation system.

Fran Booth

Frances Booth, LICSW, is a Certified IFS therapist, consultant, and international trainer, colleague to Richard Schwartz (founder of IFS) and Susan McConnell (author of Somatic IFS). Her somatically focused clinical practice specializes in trauma, anxiety, depression, cancer, eating, and attachment disorders. A graduate of Cornell University and Simmons School for Social Work, she has held adjunct faculty positions at Smith College, Tufts Medical School, and William James College. Her trainings include mindfulness at Insight Meditation Center, mind/body work with Joan Borysenko, and Wavework with Dayashakti at Kripalu.