Somatic Therapy Course

Lesson 1 • Somatic Markers and Emotional Memory

Examines how emotions are encoded in bodily tissue and posture over time. Students learn to recognise somatic markers as diagnostic and therapeutic entry points.

Lesson 2 • Nervous System Basics for Practitioners

Covers autonomic nervous system function as it relates to emotional regulation and body response. Provides the physiological literacy needed to interpret client somatic signals.

Lesson 3 • Ethical and Professional Framework

Establishes professional boundaries, informed consent, and scope of practice specific to body-based work. Ensures students operate safely and ethically from the outset.

Lesson 1 • Interoception and Self-Sensing

Trains practitioners to access and articulate internal bodily sensations accurately. Builds the self-awareness baseline necessary for empathic attunement with clients.

Lesson 2 • Grounding and Centering Techniques

Introduces foundational practices that stabilise the practitioner's and client's nervous system before deeper work. Establishes safety and presence as preconditions for effective sessions.

Lesson 3 • Observing the Client's Body

Teaches systematic visual and auditory observation of posture, gesture, breath, and tone. Connects external cues to internal emotional and physiological states.

Lesson 1 • Breath in Trauma-Informed Practice

Adapts breathwork protocols for clients with trauma histories, prioritising titration and choice. Ensures breath interventions support rather than destabilise vulnerable clients.

Lesson 2 • Activating Breath for Emotional Access

Introduces breath patterns that increase arousal and facilitate access to repressed emotional material. Requires prior grounding competency to apply safely.

Lesson 3 • Regulating Breath for Calm and Focus

Teaches downregulating breath techniques to reduce hyperarousal and restore parasympathetic tone. Directly applicable to anxiety, panic, and stress-related presentations.

Lesson 4 • Designing Breathwork Session Sequences

Guides students in structuring complete breathwork sessions with clear phases and transitions. Integrates breath techniques into broader psychocorporal session design.

Lesson 1 • Expressive Movement Fundamentals

Introduces movement as a language for emotions that words cannot fully capture. Establishes the theoretical and practical basis for movement-based therapeutic work.

Lesson 2 • Rhythm, Repetition, and Regulation

Explores rhythmic movement as a regulator of the nervous system and a builder of somatic coherence. Connects repetitive movement patterns to developmental and relational themes.

Lesson 3 • Facilitating Movement Sequences

Trains students to guide clients through structured movement sequences that build toward emotional resolution. Integrates verbal processing with movement experience.

Lesson 1 • Applying Contact in Sessions

Provides hands-on protocols for grounding touch, containment holds, and supportive contact. Connects each touch intervention to specific therapeutic goals.

Lesson 2 • Therapeutic Touch Principles

Establishes the theoretical and ethical foundations of touch in psychocorporal practice. Differentiates therapeutic touch from other forms of physical contact.

Lesson 3 • Consent Protocols for Body-Based Work

Teaches multi-layered consent processes specific to touch-based interventions. Ensures clients retain agency and practitioners maintain clear professional boundaries.

Lesson 4 • Managing Touch-Related Transference

Addresses the relational dynamics that arise when touch activates attachment and trauma material. Equips students to work skillfully with transference and countertransference.

Lesson 1 • Titration and Pendulation in Practice

Applies titration and pendulation as core clinical strategies for managing trauma activation. Ensures clients move between charged and neutral states without overwhelm.

Lesson 2 • Resourcing and Stabilisation Techniques

Teaches somatic resourcing as the essential first phase of trauma work before any processing begins. Builds client capacity to tolerate and integrate difficult material.

Lesson 3 • Working with the Freeze Response

Focuses on the immobility response as a distinct trauma state requiring specialised somatic approaches. Teaches gentle mobilisation without retraumatisation.

Lesson 4 • Trauma Physiology and Somatic Imprints

Explains how traumatic experience is encoded in the body as chronic tension, posture, and autonomic dysregulation. Provides the clinical rationale for somatic trauma work.

Lesson 1 • Facilitating Group Psychocorporal Sessions

Provides a complete framework for designing and leading group psychocorporal sessions. Integrates safety, structure, and emergent group process.

Lesson 2 • Group Somatic Dynamics

Addresses the unique somatic field that emerges in group settings and its therapeutic potential. Teaches students to read and work with collective body states.

Lesson 3 • Co-Regulation and Attunement

Examines how two nervous systems interact and regulate each other in therapeutic relationships. Builds practitioner capacity for embodied attunement and resonance.

Lesson 1 • Integrating Modalities Within Sessions

Develops fluency in moving between breath, movement, touch, and verbal processing within a single session. Builds the clinical judgement to select and sequence interventions responsively.

Lesson 2 • Working with Complex Presentations

Addresses psychocorporal approaches for clients with chronic pain, dissociation, and complex trauma. Adapts core techniques for presentations requiring specialised pacing and care.

Lesson 3 • Practitioner Self-Care and Sustainability

Addresses the somatic demands of psychocorporal practice and strategies for long-term professional sustainability. Ensures students maintain their own embodied health as practitioners.

Lesson 4 • Psychocorporal Case Conceptualisation

Teaches a somatic-relational framework for understanding client presentations across multiple dimensions. Integrates body, emotion, cognition, and relational history into a unified case map.