This somatic therapy certification training offers real in-session footage with world-renowned somatic therapy leader, Dr. Abi Blakeslee. Not only does this course offer you learning for your clients, but many therapists find that experientially participating in somatic therapy live practice has added benefits for their own internal work.
Become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner!
First Live Q&A is April 2025
First Live Q&A is April 2025
Here's your invitation to train with a leading somatic healer…
I'm excited to announce enrollment is now open for my highly-anticipated online somatic therapy certification program!
After decades of practicing somatic trauma healing and studying under the distinguished developer of Somatic Experiencing™ Peter Levine, I'm bringing together the most key and effective somatic therapy techniques...
...So you can get step-by-step training in exactly how to apply somatic therapy.
This prestigious certificatoin course includes live consultation, demonstrations, and experiential exercises with me! Plus, this training meets all the educational requirements to become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner!
In just a few hours each week, you'll master non-pathologizing and empirically validated somatic techniques to easily free your clients' bodies and minds from trauma, depression, anxiety, PTSD, attachment wounds, and more.
In this prominent certification training, you'll experience:
- Step-by-step video instruction that shows you exactly what to do
- Demonstrations of specific somatic therapy exercises
- Unlimited use of PDF handouts of slides, transcripts and other resources
- 3 Live Q&As (optional) including experiential exercises to sharpen your new clinical skills
At the completion of this course, you walk away a Certified Somatic Therapy
Foundations Practitioner with a digital badge to display that
recognizes your enhanced competence and growing expertise.
*Professional standards apply.
This opportunity may not come again, enroll today — I can't wait to meet you!
Sincerely,
Dr. Abi Blakeslee, Somatic Therapy Expert
Somatic Trauma Therapy Certification with Dr. Abi Blakeslee
A 4-Month Intensive Online Training$2,105.91 Value
Yours Today for $519.99 — Incredible Savings!
Earn up to 22.25 CE Hours included in
the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
How This Course
Works
This training contains three parts that build upon each other to enhance your learning. Each part has video content broken up into easily digestible modules that you can watch in just 1-3 hours per week.
- In Part 1, you'll learn the 9 keys to somatic therapy so you can start working with clients right away.
- Then, in Part 2, you'll dive into learning how to work with more challenging problems — like targeting implicit memories and the survival response.
- In Part 3, you gain skills to work directly with attachment trauma and repair relational wounds.
Directly after each section of the program, you'll be able to sign onto your live online workshop and get real, hands-on practice doing the somatic therapy techniques you've learned about in each part of the training.
PLUS, you have access to online forums where you can post questions to colleagues and your trainers anytime.
You get full support every step of the way, so you can become a Certified
Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner!
*Professional standards apply.
Schedule
Below is your personalized schedule
beginning March 6th, 2025
PART I: Key Somatic Therapy
Techniques
9 hours on-demand CE training, 3 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
9 hours on-demand CE training, 3 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
Week 1 & 2 | Bringing the Body into Therapy with Somatic Psychology
Every trauma healer needs to know how to work with pain trapped in the body. This foundational module explores what it means to heal in the present, the neuroscience of interoception, where to begin working with the nervous system, and more.
Skill building:
- Support, Body, Relational regulation
- Biological orienting
- Orienting to Safety
- Centering
- Posture and Container
Week 3 & 4 | Explore Character Structures & Set Goals with the Autonomic Nervous System
Gain practical skills to identify and work with barriers within clients. Based on your insights, assessments, and understanding begin to set goals that incorporate an appreciation of the autonomic nervous system's role in healing trauma.
Skill building:
- Expansion
- Self-Contact
- Mirroring
- Gentle Movement
- Down-regulation & Up-regulation nervous system practices
- Setting and achieving goals
Week 5 | Reintegration to Present: Pathways to Reorganize Implicit Trauma Memories and Explicit Narratives
Healing trauma requires a connection to oneself, the therapist, and the collective world. This section explores the theoretical basis of these connections in concrete ways that you can apply with clients to create increased self-awareness and insight and facilitate healing even wounds they aren't aware of.
Skill building:
- Using metaphor for nervous system regulation
- Targeting explicit and implicit memories
- Reintegrating to the present time
WEEK 6 | Live Online Call with Dr. Blakeslee
(April 10, 2025 @ 10:00am-11:30am CST)
- Q&A
- LIVE Demonstration: Working with activation and settling cycles in the nervous system
PART II: Survival Response
and Implicit Memories
6.5 hours on-demand CE training, 4 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
6.5 hours on-demand CE training, 4 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
Week 7 | The Threat Response Cycle & Neuroanatomy of Regulation
Discover how to move your clients from survival physiology, apply polyvagal exercises, and ground clients to be ready for deep work — all with an explanation of brain science.
Skill building:
- Track the nervous system with Polyvagal exercises
- Identify "transitional states" or discharge of emotions
- Exercises for resourcing and orientating
Week 8 | Polyvagal Response in Nervous System Tracking
Enhance your understanding of the ventral vagal response, how it's impacted by trauma, and how to work with clients to gently bring forth memories to process.
Skill building:
- Identify voluntary versus involuntary movement
- Begin Preparatory Movements
- Ventral exercises that help clients speak up
Week 9 | Create Moment-to-Moment Change with Boundaries, Imagery, Animal Protectors & Defenders
Learn the skills to create and experience moment-to-moment change with clients in session. You'll help them build a stronger sense of self, understand their emotions, and develop healthy ways to express anger, aggression, and other strong emotions.
Skill building:
- Build impulses and agency toward movement
- Connect to the client's inner animal
- Hand exercises to release aggression
Week 10 | Breakthrough Dissociation & Freeze Physiology to Access Memories
Delve into the three unique presentations of dissociation, paying special attention to the role of the freeze response in surviving trauma. Gain skills to bring these clients into touch and awareness of their emotions so they can work to develop healthy boundaries with others and safe relationships.
Skill building:
- Exercises to help clients create boundaries
- Cut through dissociation and freeze physiology
- Create safety through imagery
Week 11 | Live Online Call with Dr. Blakeslee
(May 15, 2025 @ 10:00am-11:30am CST)
- Q&A
- LIVE Demonstration: Exploring Healthy Boundaries for Safety and Empowerment
PART III: Healing the
Childhood and Relational Trauma Wounds
6.75 hours on-demand CE training, 3 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
6.75 hours on-demand CE training, 3 modules, Live Video Call with Demonstrations
Week 12 | Repair Developmental Trauma, Attachment & Relational Wounds
Begin to understand implicit memories from a developmental trauma perspective that focuses on attachment theory. Gain skills to help safely explore their childhood trauma and buried memories, even beginning in infancy.
Skill building:
- Repattern developmental attachments
- Restructure implicit memories through new experiences
- Developmental String exercise
Week 13 | Healing through Archetypes & Embodied Affect
Explore the importance of archetypes and how they emerge in your clients. Understand how archetypes impact your clients' ways of relating to themselves, their trauma history, therapy, and the world around them.
Skill building:
- Hakomi interventions
- Examine essential qualities and essential sense of purpose
- Identify and use somatic archetypes to heal
- Improve affect regulation through increased emotional tolerance
- Image repair to heal developmental imprints
WEEK 14 | Relational Trauma & Ventral Vagal Repair, Resonance & Closing Sessions
Learn ventral vagal strategies around connection, containment, and interpersonal feelings in the moment to build into a sense of healing between the therapist, client, and collective. Know how to close sessions sensitively and appropriately.
Skill building:
- Therapist-to-client attachment repair exercise
- Use Resonance in therapy
- Give relational support to the parasympathetic nervous system
- Confidently close therapy sessions
Week 15 | Live Online Call with Dr. Blakeslee
(June 12, 2025 @ 10:00am-11:30am CST)
- Q&A
- LIVE Demonstration: Anchoring Developmental Statements in the Core Self
Somatic Therapy Certification
Training
with LIVE Q&A and Demonstrations
$2,105.91 Value
Yours Today for $519.99 — Incredible Savings!
with LIVE Q&A and Demonstrations
$2,105.91 Value
Yours Today for $519.99 — Incredible Savings!
Earn up to 22.25 CE Hours included in
the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Meet Somatic Therapy
Expert, Abi Blakeslee
Abi
Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD, is renowned for integrating
Somatic Experiencing (SE) with clinical research, the psychobiological principles of
attachment, psychodynamic therapy, and somatic bodywork in her practice and
teaching. She has conducted original research on the role of implicit memory in
healing trauma with a committee that included Dr. Daniel Siegel and has trained
extensively with Dr. Peter Levine. Dr. Blakeslee holds a Master of Arts in
Counseling and Depth Psychology, and a PhD in Clinical and Somatic Psychology. She
is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy and teaches Somatic Psychology programs
throughout the country and internationally and consults worldwide.
Click here for information about Abi Blakeslee
Click here for information about Abi Blakeslee
BONUS, Get Certified FREE, $194.99 Value!
Certification Made Simple
In just three easy steps, you can become a Certified Somatic Therapy
Foundations
Practitioner starting today:
- Step 1: Watch this online course.
- Step 2: Complete the CE test(s) and instantly print your certificate(s) 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 standards apply. Learn more at ca.evergreencertifications.com/cstfp
*Professional standards apply. Learn more at ca.evergreencertifications.com/cstfp
Are you ready to step into the life awaiting you as a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner?
This course fulfills the educational requirements you need to become
Certified Somatic
Therapy Foundations Practitioner.
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Frequently Asked
Questions
This somatic therapy certification training offers real in-session footage with world-renowned somatic therapy leader, Dr. Abi Blakeslee. Not only does this course offer you learning for your clients, but many therapists find that experientially participating in somatic therapy live practice has added benefits for their own internal work.
No, the live online sessions included with this training are completely optional and are not required to earn certification. However, they are highly encouraged as it's an exclusive opportunity to connect with Dr. Blakeslee, see somatic work in action, and network with like-minded colleagues.
Somatic therapy works from the premise that the body holds emotions, trauma, and other experiences — somatic therapy is a holistic approach to healing that focuses on the mind-body connection. It addresses psychological issues through bodily experiences and sensations. Also known as body-centered therapy, somatic therapy incorporates techniques like breathwork, movement, and touch to help individuals release physical tension and trauma stored in the body. This therapy is effective for treating a wide range of conditions including anxiety, depression, PTSD, and chronic pain. By promoting awareness of bodily sensations and emotions, somatic therapy aids in emotional regulation and overall well-being. There are various types of somatic therapy including Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Bioenergetics, and many more.
Yes, somatic therapy is considered evidence-based, with growing research supporting its effectiveness in treating various mental health conditions. Studies have demonstrated positive outcomes for individuals undergoing somatic therapy interventions, particularly in addressing trauma-related symptoms, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain.
Research in fields such as neuroscience, psychology, and psychiatry continues to explore the mechanisms underlying somatic therapy techniques. Additionally, many somatic therapy modalities, such as Somatic Experiencing (SE) and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, have been developed based on clinical observations, scientific principles, and empirical evidence.
While more research is still being done, what we know so far suggests that somatic therapy is a valuable tool for improving how we feel emotionally and mentally.
You'll have full access to all training content immediately when you register. You're welcome to follow along with the recommended training schedule or watch the on-demand trainings on a schedule you prefer.
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Somatic Therapy Certification
Training
$2,105.91 Value
Yours Today for $519.99 — Incredible Savings!
$2,105.91 Value
Yours Today for $519.99 — Incredible Savings!
Earn up to 22.25 CE Hours included in
the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Presented in EN, subtitles in EN and FR, handouts in EN