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Somatic Therapy Training Certification
As a therapist educator, I sometimes get the question, do you certify therapists in somatic therapy? The simple answer is no.
Attachment Training for Therapists
Understanding attachment and the ways in which it forges the self, and continues to be alive in one’s internal and relational world in the present day, is an imperative for therapists….most therapists have a clear understanding that early relational dynamics with primary caregivers wire the self, the body and psyche, neurophysiologically (affect and physiological regulation capacity) and psychically (internal working models) in ways that typically remain active across the lifespan. However, understanding this and seeing it in action, or mentalizing how attachment dynamics, particularly insecure attachment patterning, actually happens in people’s early years and continues to be active across the lifespan (through clients out of awareness or unconscious relational dynamics), stretches many clinicians.
Attachment Therapy Training, Somatic Therapy Training, Psychodynamic Therapy Training: SAP Training, Beyond One Way…
As a therapist and therapist educator, I have found it necessary to continually expand my theoretical understanding and clinical approach, working beyond a silo mentality to find a bigger and bigger canvas to witness and work with trauma.
From Somatic Experiencing to Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy
As I find myself at the next crossroads in my clinical journey, I consider my clinical evolution from Somatic Experiencing to Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy, twenty years in the making, and looks to what’s next in my clinical and teaching world.
BC SPCA Wild ARC – Generous Acts of Love
Last week we spent an afternoon meeting with some staff and volunteers from the BC SPCA Wild ARC (Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre) in Metchosin. It was incredible to learn about the exquisite care the team offers to injured and orphaned wild animals, and overwhelming to put together just how many hands and hearts it takes to run the animal hospital.
Let’s Talk About Somatic Therapy and Mindfulness
If we circle back to these conversations I’m having about bringing the body into practice, it seems to me that what we are differentiating here is mindfulness and somatic therapy/processing. While there is overlap, they ultimately have different purposes.
Witnessing: The Embodied Therapist and Somatic Therapy
As therapists, we serve as witness, and in doing so, material that has been rendered unbearable, becomes tolerable enough to metabolize. What happens when current events rattle us as therapists? Lisa offers a few thoughts on the roles that embodiment, witnessing, and connection play in therapy.
The Grief of Chronic Shame
Grief has potent clinical relevance in the healing of chronic shame. At some point in the treatment, as the client comes to see and better understand the multitude of ways that the unseen hand of chronic shame has formed, guided, and limited their life, both past and present, a real grief and sadness will emerge.
Therapy, the body and culture: Therapist’s Reflections
I posed this quote for a free writing exercise one morning at a BBP writing group. What came back was potent, powerful, illuminating, expansive, opening, affirming—you get the drift. We decided to share it…here it goes, you’ll see responses from four different therapists and writers ~ enjoy!