Increasing Client Emotional Tolerance

Peter A Levine, Ph.D., is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma. He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology. He is the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute for Somatic Education and the Founder and Advisor for Somatic Experiencing International. Dr. Levine is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma (published in over 29 languages). He has received Lifetime Achievement awards from Psychoth erapy Networker and from the US Association for Body-Oriented Psychotherapy. He continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally. Learn more at somaticexperiencing.com.

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.

Ruella Frank, Ph.D., is founder and director of the Center for Somatic Studies, faculty at the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Associates for Psychotherapy and Training, adjunct faculty at Gestalt Institute of Toronto, and also teaches throughout the United States, Europe, South America, Canada and Mexico. Ruella has authored chapters in various publications, as well as authored the book, Body of Awareness: A Somatic and Developmental Approach to Psychotherapy, available in four languages (GestaltPress, 2001) and co-authored The First Year of The Rest of Your Life: Movement, Development and Psychotherapeutic Change, available in three languages (Routledge Press, 2010). Her book, The Moving Self: The Bodily Roots of Experience in Psychotherapy, will be published by Routledge Press next year.

Richard has worked with thousands of individuals and hundreds of teams and organizations over the past fifty years to help them embody skillful action, grounded compassion, and pragmatic wisdom. He has a PhD in Psychology and is a seventh degree black belt Shihan in Aikido, and is the founder of Strozzi Institute and Somatic Coaching.