The Body Can Change the Score: Exploring Somatic Interventions for Trauma (3HR)

As humans, we store memories, experiences, and emotions on a cellular level. Somatic approaches focus on body awareness and how to cultivate it in and around the body. Providing clients with interventions to address how trauma is stored and experienced in the body is essential. This training will present an overview of how trauma is experienced in the body. Specific somatic interventions such as resourcing, grounding, dual awareness, and sequencing will be presented. Learners will view the application of somatic interventions by analyzing case studies and video demonstrations. Discover methods to help your clients release trauma and negative emotions from the body through a trauma-informed care lens.

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

• Identify specific ways that trauma is experienced somatically in the body.
• Discover at least five somatic interventions for trauma and formulate interventions for clients.
• Describe two methods of fostering dual awareness in clients experiencing trauma-induced dissociation.

This course qualifies for 3 CE hours of Clinical, Trauma, Evidence-Based Practices, and General Skill Building training.