Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner

The Program:

You are welcome to only take one or more modules for professional or personal growth. Each module has a very different focus.

The program consists of four modules. They do not necessarily need to be taken in order, although the first one lays down much of the foundation, upon which the others expand. Modules 1 and 3 are open to everyone.

“Open to anyone” means you can invite clients, friends, partners and colleagues who are not professionals nor involved in SE, but who really want to work on safe embodiment, enhance their personal relationships, and increase awareness of all part of themselves. The workshops are all primarily experiential supporting participants to do satisfying personal work, but also to leave with numerous exercises directly applicable to clients coming to treatment to work on sexuality, relationships or sexual trauma. Part 2 and 4, because they are designed specifically for practitioners working with clients, would not be appropriate for non-professionals.

Certification

Certification as a Somatic Sexuality Healing Practitioner provides professionals with a certificate that demonstrates they have in-depth training in the field of trauma-informed, somatically-based sexual healing.  Graduates will be listed in a free practitioners' directory on my website https://www.fullembodiment.org/ and in the Netherlands on the Bodymind website if you register. This directory will grow your network, plus send you referrals.

The programs have a dual purpose—one is to provide practitioners with a variety of successful exercises and strategies to help the most challenging clients. And two, to support professionals in developing a deeper sense of ease, pleasure and comfort in their own bodies, while supplying confidence and education to discuss all things having to do with the body, with sexuality, sexual dysfunction, relationship challenges and sexual trauma.

The demand for professional guidance in the area of somatics and trauma-informed sexuality is at an all-time high…and is growing. There is a startling lack of trained professionals who are adept in the gentle, somatic-experiencing principles, combined with an understanding of the complexities inherent in the topics of sexuality..

 Although some of the modules can be attended by non-professionals, the Practitioner certificate is not a standalone. It is intended only for clinicians with existing body-oriented or mental health practices. If you are already part of the SE community and have completed at least the first year of the SE training, or other somatic-based trainings, you will likely be approved for entry into the certification program.