Psycho-Physical Therapy

Explorations in Somatic Psychotherapy

We Currently Offer Four Extended Professional Trainings

CEs Available for MFTs, LCSWs, and Psychologists


Professional Training in Somatic Resourcing

Scheduled to start Sept. 7th, 2012
Berkeley, Calif

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8 three-day weekends (24 full days - 150 class hours)


The PPT Professional Somatic Resourcing Training is designed to give psychotherapists a practical understanding of the anatomy, biomechanics, and psychology of a client's somatic patterns and movements in a way that is clear, accessible and directly applicable to psychotherapeutic practice. The Somatic Resourcing Training is experientially based allowing therapists to both deeply experience how the body moves as well as understand how to use movement and touch as psycho-physical interventions in their work.


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Touch, Bodywork and Psychotherapy
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3 three day weekends (54 class hours)

not scheduled at this time

Being embodied is central to all living processes. Without a body there is no life, as we know it. If the body is indeed central to living experience then it surely must have significant value in the psychological healing process. This experiential course investigates the appropriate use of touch and hands-on interventions that access, deepen, and explore psychological and emotional organization. The primary focus of the course is to provide the knowledge and skills needed to successfully integrate touch and hands-on work in clinical practice.


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Somatic Approaches to Couples Therapy
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4 three-day weekends (72 class hours)

not scheduled at this time

The Professional Training in a Somatic Approach to Couples Therapy, is an in-depth, experiential and didactic course of study in the practice of somatic psychotherapy as applied to working with couples. Because physical and psychological issues are always interactive and influential, a somatic approach is a powerful tool in successfully accessing and transforming the relational issues couples bring to therapy. Understanding how to work with the body, in a relational psychotherapy practice, enhances the depth and effectiveness of the therapeutic work.


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Professional Training in Somatic Psychotherapy
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6 three day weekends (111 class hours)
Berkeley, CA

not scheduled at this time

This professional experiential training provides you with many of the models and skills necessary to create and utilize somatic interventions for working with the core issues that form the foundation of your client’s unrest and suffering. You will gain skills that will allow you to develop fluency in working seamlessly between psychological and physical issues. You will learn to build new psycho-physical resources that support your clients in becoming more flexible, creative, and healthy individuals. You will learn to build the therapeutic relationship based on collaboration and open heartedness. You will come away from the training with a practical understanding of how utilizing the body, as the central vehicle for the therapeutic process, facilitates and deepens your client’s growth, transformation, and realization.