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Master Somatic Therapy. Heal your clients’ attachment styles.
Enhance your career. In just one course.

Even when wounds aren’t spoken, you can feel insecure attachment in the therapy room.

Because the moment the topic turns to closeness, boundaries, or abandonment…

Their gaze drops. Their breath shifts. Their body telling you that they’re still too unsafe for them to heal.

But when you know exactly what to do in these moments you can create breakthroughs that resonate through body, heart, and spirit…

This certification in somatic therapy gives you the tools to meet clients where words can’t – rewiring safety, trust, and connection at the nervous system level.

Join three of the most influential rising voices in trauma healing, Wanda Brothers, LMFT Somatic Experiencing™ and Dynamic Attachment Repatterning experience expert, Dr. Raja Selvam Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) developer, and Stacy Ruse, LPC veteran Somatic Therapy practitioner and Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy expert. 

Bypass the limits of talk therapy through a blend of nervous system and emotion regulation, body-based techniques, and more -- you’ll gain career-making skills to:

  • Identify your clients’ attachment style in under 2 minutes
  • Develop individualized somatic therapy treatment plans for each insecure attachment style
  • Recognize how attachment wounds live in the body and play out in your office
  • Help clients develop secure internal regulation through your presence
  • Reprocess implicit and explicit memories so clients can live in the present, not the past
  • Deepen your self-awareness for stronger connection and attunement

  • AND, there’s a FREE bonus training on the Hakomi Method, the only somatic therapy that helps people uncover unconscious beliefs, emotions and patterns.

    PLUS, become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner*, FREE!
    *Professional and clinical standards apply.

    The only course that teaches you to heal insecure attachment by replacing “insight” with in-the-moment nervous system change – and you walk away certified!

    Certification in Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma

    Repattern Insecure, Anxious, Avoidant & Disorganized Attachment Styles for Rapid Trauma Healing

    $1,029.95 Value
    $299.95 (GST Inclusive) Today
    Plus, earn up to 22.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
    Click here for course objectives and outline

    Upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to
    become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)*
    Your discounted course tuition includes the first two years of certification (a $149.95 value)!
    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Get Started with ZERO Risk — 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

    Certification Made Simple

    In just 3 easy steps, you can become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP).

    Step 1: Watch this online course.
    Step 2: Complete the CE test and instantly print your certificate of completion.
    Step 3: Submit the Certification Questionnaire included in this training, and your application is complete.*

    That’s it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Somatic Therapy Certification for Attachment Trauma Outline

    Learn the keys to doing somatic therapy, how to repair insecure attachment styles with corrective emotional experiences, and master helping clients regulate emotions to improve their relationship with themselves and others.

    Gain practical skills you can implement immediately!

    Somatic Therapy Core Skills & Interventions
    Featuring Stacy Ruse, LPC | Click here for information about Stacy Ruse

    Master the keys to doing somatic therapy sessions with almost any client. Build trauma-specific tools to help you dive deep with clients into places other modalities just don’t reach.

    Foundations of Somatic Therapy and Trauma

    • Introduction to Somatic Therapy
      • Overview, goals, and importance in trauma treatment
    • Understanding Trauma Disruption
      • Pathology of maladaptive trauma storage
      • Emotional, sensory, and belief manifestations
      • Fragmentation and dissociation
      • Neural network reinforcement in unprocessed trauma
      • Natural vs. Incomplete Stress Responses
      • Key concepts of adaptive resolution vs. frozen trauma states

    The Neuroscience of Trauma

    • Polyvagal Theory Basics
      • Ventral vagal complex and its role in safety and connection
      • Hyperarousal vs. hypoarousal in trauma
    • Head, heart, and gut “brains”
    • Psycho-neuro-endocrine-immune system interrelation
    • Neuroception: Recognize safety and danger
      • Create safety in therapy
      • Reduce hyperarousal and build trust
      • Prevent re-traumatization
    • Techniques to buffer stress and traumatic memories
    • Empower clients to take an active role in their healing journey
    • Interoceptive Awareness: Develop self-awareness through bodily sensations

    The Somatic Practices and Techniques Toolbox

    • Heart Coherence Understanding and Practice
    • Core Somatic Practices
      • Two hand techniques
      • Mind body awareness
      • Breathing exercises, body scans, and paired muscle relaxation
      • Gentle touch and heart-focused compassion practices
    • The Science of Embodiment Practices
      • Interoception, exteroception, and proprioception
      • Body awareness and empowerment through movement
      • William Reich’s body armor and belts of tension
    • Somatic Trauma Processing
      • Pendulation, titration, sequencing, and repatterning: Techniques for releasing stored trauma
      • Somatic Questions
      • Slow conscious movement and breathwork for release
      • Lack of body awareness and other issues

    Integration and Research

    • Tailor techniques to individual client needs
    • Integration in clinical practice and with other methodologies
    • Potential risks and limitations

    Somatic Techniques for Attachment Style Repatterning
    Featuring Wanda Brothers, LMFT | Click here for information about Wanda Brothers

    Take your somatic therapy healing skill set further by learning how to work with insecure attachment styles – anxious, avoidant, and disorganized.  Gain concrete skills to manage transference/countertransference, co-regulate, attune with clients, and much more.

    Getting Started with Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma

    • Fundamental principles of Somatic Therapy
    • Attachment theory simplified
    • Assess your own attachment style to improve the therapeutic alliance
    • Create a safe first impression
    • Risks, limitations and ethical issues

    Boundaries: The Often-Overlooked Foundation of Effective Therapy

    • The 4 key boundaries to know for every session
    • Using Mirror Neurons to understand the client's experience
    • Interoceptive awareness to distinguish the client's emotions from therapist's
    • Reframing “difficult” clients
    • How your own boundaries impact your work with clients

    Assessment & Treatment Planning for Somatic Shame, Implicit & Explicit Memories

    • Brain regions and their relationship to attachment styles
    • Notice subtle cues in body language, eye movements and posture
    • Map your client’s underlying attachment wiring
    • Provide co-regulation for corrective emotional experiences
    • How developmental trauma shapes somatic shame identities
    • Create targeted treatment plans for unique attachment patterns
    • Risks, limitations and ethical issues

    Anxious Attachment Style: Treating Relational Anxiety

    • Focus on deeply rooted beliefs like, “I’ll never get enough love”
    • Help clients transition from anxious toward secure attachment
    • Target memory rumination that reinforce anxious patterns
    • Redirect clients’ attention toward positive experiences
    • Help clients create internal and external boundaries
    • Simple exercises to repair the core attachment wound

    Avoidant Attachment Style: Treating Relational Avoidance

    • Focus on beliefs such as: "Relationships aren't enjoyable", "I am all I need.”
    • Support clients to notice and experience goodness in relationships
    • Target implicit/explicit memories that reinforce disconnection & withdrawal
    • Effective boundaries for avoidantly attached clients
    • Provide simple somatic exercises to repair the avoidant wound

    Disorganized Attachment Style: Treating Terror and Creating Safety

    • Focus on beliefs, such as: “I need you but relationships are dangerous.” 
    • Enhance relational safety with distance, pacing and more
    • Target implicit and explicit memories that reinforce dissociation
    • Teach effective boundaries for disorganized attached clients
    • Simple somatic exercises to treat terror responses

    Self-of-the-Therapist Work: Relational Impact and Self-awareness

    • How somatic and attachment dynamics influence session effectiveness
    • What to do when you need to work on your own attachment style
    • Avoid getting “pulled in” to clients’ attachment wounds
    • Identify your own implicit memories related to:
    • emotional intimacy
    • gender dynamics
    • power relations
    • How the therapists’ stress and anxiety affect each session
    • “Grounded, present self” as a secure attachment to accelerate healing
    • Somatic transference and countertransference on alliance building

    Somatic Techniques for Emotion Regulation & Interpersonal Effectiveness
    Featuring Dr. Raja Selvam | Click here for information about Raja Selvam

    Break through emotional blockages to help clients let go of painful emotions that keep them trapped in aloneness or living with poor interpersonal relationship skills.

    The Practice of Embodying Emotions

    • How it can help you in therapy now
    • The science behind improved outcomes
    • New research, clinical examples, and therapy implications
    • How to work with complex trauma and psychosomatic symptoms

    The Four Steps of the Practice of Embodying Emotions

    • Get to know the uniqueness of emotion-focused work
    • Detailed guidance for what to do in each step
    • Innovate strategies to help clients regulate
    • Specific methods to integrate somatic work into other modalities
    • How to customize therapy for each clients, therapy situations & other complexities
    • Video Demonstration: Working with anxiety around taping an educational video for posting online

    The Physiology of Emotions

    • Understand the somatic relationship between body and emotion
    • Compare and contrast theories on the physiology of emotions
    • The Social Engagement System from Porges’ Polyvagal Theory
    • The specialized role of the face and throat in emotion
    • Video Demonstration: The practice of embodying emotions with recurring anxiety in the workplace, a focus on the face and throat physiology

    The Seven-Step Protocol for Embodying Emotions

    • Step-by-step instructions for each of the 7 phases
    • What to do when clients have low affect tolerance
    • How to work with highly dysregulated clients
    • Video Demonstration: How to implement the 7-step protocol 

    Inter-Personal Resonance and Embodied Emotional Attunement

    • What is embodied emotional attunement?
    • Why embodied emotional attunement is important
    • What is interpersonal resonance & how to use it in therapy
    • The scientific basis of inter-personal resonance
    • How to manage counter-transference with inter-personal resonance
    • Four steps to incorporating inter-personal resonance in clinical settings
    • Working with Shame with Different Types of Emotions

    Different types of emotions

    • Sensorimotor emotions
    • Working with existential shame with different types of emotions
    • Video Demonstration: Working with existential shame
    Certification in Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma
    Repattern Insecure, Anxious, Avoidant & Disorganized Attachment Styles for Rapid Trauma Healing

    $1,029.95 Value
    $299.95 (GST Inclusive) Today

    Plus, earn up to 22.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
    Click here for course objectives and outline

    Upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to
    become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)*
    Your discounted course tuition includes the first two years of certification (a $149.95 value)!
    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Get Started with ZERO Risk — 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

    BONUS, Free training in Hakomi Method AND Free CSTFP Certification!
    $279.95 Value!

    Treating Collective Trauma with Hakomi
    Featuring Manuela Mischke-Reeds, LMFT | Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds

    The Hakomi Method is a multidimensional somatic approach to deep healing rooted in an understanding of the silent language of the body. In the moment-by-moment unfolding of their somatic awareness, clients learn to access the unconscious core beliefs that shape their response to trauma, even when it’s woven within the larger context of collective trauma. Discover how the therapist’s own somatic awareness can help clients untangle the complex area where individual and collective trauma meet, and learn techniques to stay attuned and somatically grounded to effectively work with trauma. In this recording, you’ll explore:

    • The key Hakomi concepts of applied mindfulness and somatic awareness to help clients change rigid mental models
    • Attachment- and compassion-based skills that facilitate a gentle inquiry into the body’s messages
    • How to apply gentle interventions that can yield clients’ emotional defenses and trauma identities
    • How to stay self-regulated, somatically grounded, and open-hearted when working with trauma-sensitive processes

    Certification Included!

    Become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)* now.

    Not only do you gain valuable skills when you elevate your training, you set yourself apart in the eyes of colleagues and clients.  Take your practice further by becoming a CSTFP, create a boutique practice to see exactly the types of client you are most passionate about – do real work, that really heals.

    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Certification in Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma
    Repattern Insecure, Anxious, Avoidant & Disorganized Attachment Styles for Rapid Trauma Healing

    $1,029.95 Value
    $299.95 (GST Inclusive) Today

    Plus, earn up to 22.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
    Click here for course objectives and outline

    Upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to
    become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)*
    Your discounted course tuition includes the first two years of certification (a $149.95 value)!
    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Get Started with ZERO Risk — 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

    Meet Your Somatic Therapy & Attachment Science Experts
    Wanda Brothers, MA, LMFT

    Wanda Brothers, MA, LMFT, trained under Peter Levine in Somatic Experiencing™ and Diane Poole Heller’s on Dynamic Attachment Repair experience (DARe); with over 23 years of clinical experience Wanda specializes in the integration of neuroscience, physiology, and attachment theory to help clients repattern core wounds and restore emotional regulation.  She regularly provides workshops and trainings on trauma and stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and relational healing for schools, businesses, and community organizations. Wanda also created the Educational Trauma and Resiliency program, a four-module training designed for teachers in underserved schools, equipping them with practical tools on trauma, attachment, and fostering resiliency in students.

    Click here for information about Wanda Brothers

    Stacy Ruse, LPC

    Stacy Ruse, LPC, is a trauma expert who specializes in using Somatic, IFS therapy, EMDR therapies to unravel the intricate threads of trauma and guide clients towards empowerment and resilience. Her approach, while deeply rooted in trauma-informed methodologies, is characterized by a transpersonal twist that transcends the boundaries of traditional therapy. Stacy is certified in EMDR as well as a Nationally Certified Counsellor (NCC) and Certified Yoga Instructor.

    Click here for information about Stacy Ruse

    Raja Selvam, PhD

    Raja Selvam, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist, is the developer of Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP).  Dr. Selvam is also a senior trainer in Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing (SE) Professional Trauma Training Program. He has taught for 25 years in nearly as many countries in North and South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Middle East, and the Far East. His successful 2022 book The Practice of Embodying Emotions: A Method for Improving Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes, is available in English and German, is being translated into eight additional languages.

    Click here for information about Raja Selvam

    Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT

    Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, LMFT, CHT, is a somatic psychotherapist, international teacher of Somatic Psychology, author and consultant. She is the founder of Embodywise and co-director of Hakomi California. Her trainings in the United States, Australia, Germany, China and Israel bring together 25 years in-depth clinical practice and teaching. Manuela is the author of several books, including 125 Somatic Psychotherapy tools for Trauma and Stress (PESI 2018), 8 Keys to Practicing Mindfulness: Practical Strategies for Emotional Health and Well Being (W.W. Norton 2015).

    Click here for information about Manuela Mischke-Reeds
    The Next Steps in Advancing Your Practice
    Watch your email for your order confirmation, and get instant access to the comprehensive training plus the free bonus — all designed to help you effectively integrate proven somatic therapy treatment strategies for trauma into your practice. Click here for course objectives and outline.
    Review the course materials at your own pace and at your convenience! You'll have unlimited access to all course videos and materials. Plus, use the PESI Mobile app to access the course content on-the-go, wherever and whenever you want on your mobile devices.
    Instantly collaborate with other professionals on the course materials through interactive course forums. You'll be part of a community of hundreds of practitioners all focused on mastering trauma treatment strategies, providing valuable opportunities to share insight and experiences and to build your professional network.
    Complete your online CE tests and earn up to 22.5 CPD hours! Click here for CPD details and credit details specific to your profession.
    Submit your certificate of completion and certification application to Evergreen Certifications to become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP). Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Certification in Somatic Therapy for Attachment Trauma
    Repattern Insecure, Anxious, Avoidant & Disorganized Attachment Styles for Rapid Trauma Healing

    $1,029.95 Value
    $299.95 (GST Inclusive) Today

    Plus, earn up to 22.5 CPD Hours included in the course tuition.
    Click here for course objectives and outline
    Frequently Asked Questions

    If you’re like many clinicians you already know that running a meaningful practice takes more than just a full case load – it’s about attracting the types of clients you want to work with and having the elevated skill set to truly help them.  That’s where this course sets you apart – you’ll meet the educational requirements to become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner.

    Becoming certified in somatic therapy lets clients, employers and colleagues know that your career and your impact is important to you.  You’re not messing around – you’re here to be the best therapist you can be!

    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.


    This course focuses on techniques and skills that are applicable far various types of clients, even those outside the scope of trauma.  Most clients present in therapy with more than just one issue, for example, you’ll often see co-occurring anxiety and trauma.  In this training you’ll learn how to target healing insecure attachment styles – but you’ll learn SO much more.  You’ll be fully equipped to work with the spectrum from single incident to complex trauma clients.  And, the reality is, attachment issues underlie so many disorders that this course is essential training for any mental health practitioner.


    Immediately when you register you’ll have unlimited access to all course materials – including slides, handouts, PDFs, videos and anything else!

    Upon completion of this training, you’ll be eligible to
    become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP)*
    Your discounted course tuition includes the first two years of certification (a $149.95 value)!
    *Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at au.evgcert.com/cstfp.

    Get Started with ZERO Risk — 100% Satisfaction Guarantee

    If you're not completely satisfied, email us at info@pesi.com.au.


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