SOMATIC SKILLS TRAINING
Somatic Skills Training I & II Certificate Program
Who This Training Is For
This training is designed for:
Licensed therapists, social workers, psychologists and counselors of all stripes who have little or no somatics training but want to get some foundational skills.
Coaches and healing practitioners interested in deepening their somatic approaches, embodied presence, and attunement skills.
Participants do not need prior somatic training, though familiarity with trauma-informed care is helpful.
16 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) will be offered.
Training Format
Two separate 3-day modules:
Somatic Skills Training I: Foundations
May 29–31, 2026
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Somatic Skills Training II: Complexities
November 13–15, 2026
Friday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Sunday: 10:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Participants may take SST1 as a standalone experience and is a prerequisite for SST2, which builds upon SST1 skills.
To support integration and continued learning, additional Practice Labs will be offered in between modules for participants who want continuity in practice and supervision.
Overview
This two-part Somatic Skills Training (SST) is an experiential, in-person training & certification for therapists and coaches who want to expand their capacity to work skillfully with the body, emotional processes, and energetic experience in therapeutic and healing contexts. This training emphasizes direct experience, clinical application, and integration into real-world therapeutic practice.
While many therapists are starting to understand the importance of the body in trauma and emotional processing, it can be difficult to know how to practically and ethically integrate body awareness and practice into sessions beyond simply asking clients “where do you feel that in your body?”.
This training, designed for providers who have little or no Somatics education but want to get some foundational skills, offers concrete skills, experiential learning, and practice labs to help participants develop greater confidence working with embodiment, nervous system regulation, and relational attunement.
Therapists and coaches will learn how to use their own embodied awareness as a clinical and relational tool, deepen their capacity for attunement (and therefore effectiveness), and support clients in accessing the intelligence of their own body. This will help clients learn to trust their body more and expand their capacity to work with activation.
Led by two long-time somatic therapists specializing in trauma, SST integrates perspectives & practices from various somatic modalities (SE, Brennan, the Realization Process, Somatic Abolitionism, relational therapies (attachment, IFS), Politicized Somatics (Stacy Haines/generative somatics, AMB, Prentis Hemphill, Kai Cheng Thom) and contemplative traditions.
Em and Lis warmly welcome you to the 2026 SST cohort! Our time together will be deeply meaningful <3