Learn Somatic Self Touch
How to Accelerate Healing and Stop Emotional Suffering
This class can be attended live or via the on-demand recordings. All class times are posted in Eastern Time / New York time zone.
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These Master Classes are offered exclusively for Embody Lab Members.
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ABOUT THIS MASTER CLASS
Enhance your personal and professional practice—Somatic Self Touch is a simple and highly effective way of bringing immediate relief and support to emotional and physical suffering.
Using targeted self-contact in areas where emotional and bodily tension is focused, individuals experiencing emotional overwhelm and trauma can find self-regulation and experience accelerated results in somatic and conventional therapy.
In this Master Class, participants will gain valuable skills to find significant support during challenging emotional states, such as anger, rage, fear, terror, disembodiment, and numbness. Detailed instruction on self-contact techniques, combined with a deep understanding of the embodiment of emotions, will equip participants to easily navigate the process of unwinding deeply held patterns of emotional and physical distress.
For therapists and healers, these measured interventions are a must in addressing trauma and emotional suffering with greater ease and safety. Somatic Self Touch eliminates the need for direct physical contact with clients while reaping the benefits of therapeutic touch. Moreover, for anyone experiencing stress or overwhelm, embracing supportive self-contact practices can expedite the journey toward self-regulation beyond conventional methods.
ABOUT YOUR TEACHER
Sergio Ocampo, MA, BSc, MFT, SEP
Sergio Ocampo is Board Director of the Somatic Experiencing Institute and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT # 109538), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and is EMDR trained.
Specializing in treating anxiety, depression and symptoms of trauma, Sergio provides a safe and pleasing environment to help clients heal. His work focuses around the latest tools in helping resolve difficult emotional experiences as well as relationships for his clients.
Applying Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, and other somatic approaches, Sergio helps people gently heal.
Sergio focuses on renegotiating the effects of anxiety, depression and trauma emerging from physical, sexual or emotional abuse. His work includes both somatic and cognitive interventions such as Somatic Experiencing, Narrative Therapy, Affective Neuropsychology and EMDR.
Sergio researches and writes about how early life adversity and overwhelming experiences affect the nervous system and its consequent emotional reactions. Sergio proposes that anyone can achieve happiness, not matter how difficult or traumatic their lives have been. Sergio’s moto is: Anxiety and Depression are not a life sentence, but a temporary discomfort.
Speaking four languages, Sergio brings a worldly and experienced approach to therapy. Having a varied and well-travelled cultural background, Sergio is able understand diverse points of view and lifestyles and is open to diversity, non-vanilla, LGBTQIA+ and those feeling marginalized.
Treating couples, individuals, and adolescents/ young adults, Sergio brings a caring, thoughtful and empathetic approach to his work.