TWO-DAY SUMMIT
The Somatic Trauma Healing Summit:
Advanced Methods in Body-Based Therapies
with Dr. Janina Fisher, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Dr. Gabor Maté, Kai Cheng Thom, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Nkem Ndefo, Lisa Ferentz, Linda Thai, Dr. Dan Siegel, Dr. Arielle Schwartz, Dr. Scott Lyons, Licia Sky, and Zach Taylor
PRICING
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$134
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$0
FREE
FOR MEMBERS!
ABOUT THIS SUMMIT
The Premier Somatics Training Event of the Year for Clinicians!
Healing trauma isn’t just psychological – it's physical.
While cognitive therapies provide valuable insights, somatic therapies offer a paradigm shift to a deeper road to recovery.
However, if you are like most clinicians, you aren’t trained in working somatically.
The good news is that your journey starts today.
We've assembled some of the most sought-after trainers in the world for one exclusive event to teach you exactly how to improve outcomes with your clients and confidently treat trauma in this new and powerful way.
The 2025 Somatic Trauma Healing Summit presents the most up-to-date techniques and methods for therapists and other clinicians to dive into the latest methods in somatic trauma work.
This summit’s world-leading embodiment experts include:
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2-DAY SUMMIT SCHEDULE
Members of The Embody Lab automatically enjoy lifetime access to these recordings in their On-Demand Content Library.
DAY 1 SCHEDULE
Zach Taylor, MA LPC
Dr. Scott Lyons
Zach Taylor, MA, LPC and Dr. Scott Lyons
Morning welcome with your faculty and hosts
Join your hosts, Dr. Scott Lyons and Zach Taylor, to orient you to the Summit and prepare for the day.
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Licia Sky
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky
Coming to Our Senses: The Body & The Brain in Healing of Trauma
Join Dr. Bessel van der Kolk and Licia Sky in this session to learn:
What neuroscience teaches about body sensations and trauma
New psychotherapeutic treatments that help integrate traumatic memories
Body-centered approaches drawn from theater, music, yoga, and play for building attunement, restoring agency, and dealing with trauma
Essential keys to help clients overcome a traumatic past and regain the capacity to be fully alive in the present
Dr. Dan Siegel
Dr. Dan Siegel
Cross-Generational Trauma and Personality: How Overwhelming Experiences, Genetics, and Epigenetics Shape Who We Are and Who We Can Become
Join Dr. Dan Siegel in this session to learn:
Attachment vs Temperament in forming personality
Three sub-cortical networks that underly development
Three forms of “attendance” that shape our attention
Traumatic attachment in the development of personality
Nine patterns of development pathways
Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Dr. Arielle Schwartz
Traumatic Memory Reprocessing: Mind-Body Integrative Approach to Healing
Learn how to reprocess traumatic memories in a holistic way. You'll develop the steps and skills to use a mind- and body-oriented approach to address trauma. In this experiential lecture, you'll learn a model of predictive processing and somatic reappraisal to assist clients to accessing resource states while attending to the distress of traumatic memories. Learn how to incorporate somatic psychology and elements of EMDR. You will discover skills to explore reprocessing, exposure, and desensitization so you can more effectively work with traumatic memories.
Understand Predictive Processing & Somatic Reappraisal
Describe the role of Embodiment in Trauma Treatment
Discuss Reprocessing, Exposure, & Desensitization from a Body-Based approach
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, RN
Nkem Ndefo, MSN, RN
Practicing in the Polycrisis: How Do We Meet the Moment?
Join Nkem Ndefo, MSN, RN in this session to learn:
Differentiating dysregulation from adaptive responses
Resilience Toolkit guiding questions practice for stabilization
Alchemical Resilience definition and implications
Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc
Kai Cheng Thom, MSW, MSc
Resilience, Revolution, & Beyond: Somatic Trauma Healing & Social Justice
Many cutting-edge somatic modalities hold that the development of an embodied sense of safety is central to trauma recovery – but what does this mean for individuals and groups who live in the perpetual shadow of societal oppression and systemic violence?
Join professional somatic coach, Sexological Bodyworker, group process facilitator, group process worker, author, and human rights advocate Kai Cheng Thom for a powerful exploration of trauma healing work as a key element of transformative justice and the creation of a better world. Participants will leave will with both theoretical frameworks and practical techniques for working with clients experiencing minority stress, systemic violence, and other forms of trauma rooted in human systems of oppression.
Dr. Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté
When the Body Say “No”: Listening to the Wisdom of our Senses
Join Dr. Gabor Maté in this session to learn:
The three major stressors we must know about
How the early environment “programs” us physiologically and psychologically into chronically stressful patterns of feeling and behavior
Why stress remains hidden in our culture
How to somatically tune in to the body’s subtle cues of trauma and stress
DAY 2 SCHEDULE
Zach Taylor, MA, LPC
Dr. Scott Lyons
Zach Taylor, MA, LPC and Dr. Scott Lyons
Morning welcome with your faculty and hosts
Join your hosts, Scott Lyons and Zach Taylor to orient you to the Summit and prepare for the day.
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
Lisa Ferentz, LCSW-C, DAPA
When the Body Say “No”: Listening to the Wisdom of our Senses
Join Dr. Gabor Maté in this session to learn:
The role of immobilization and the risks of re-traumatization
The principles behind somatic resourcing for trauma recovery
Methods for releasing traumatic immobilization
Linda Thai, MSW
Linda Thai, MSW
Healing Disrupted Attachment Using Psychomotor Psychotherapy
Dive into the transformative practice of psychomotor psychotherapy, guided by principles from Pesso Boyden System Psychomotor (PBSP) Structures and Psychodrama, as highlighted by Bessel van der Kolk in The Body Keeps the Score.
This workshop blends didactic learning with video demonstration to explore how attachment wounds and our predictive relational templates can be healed through embodied attunement and communally-oriented group practices. Participants will engage with core PBSP concepts like the literal and symbolic needs of attachment, shape/countershape, and the creation of fostering deeper understanding and practical tools for clinical application.
Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher, PhD
Memory Without Words: Repairing the Legacy of Trauma
Rather than struggling to get clients to talk about what happened, a somatic approach emphasizes attention to the physical and emotional responses that keep the trauma ‘alive’ in our bodies for decades. Challenging their tendency to interpret nonverbal memory as a sign of defectiveness or danger, a repair model prioritizes attention to body and feeling memories rather than to the events that caused them. By addressing the legacy still held in body and mind, we can help clients repair their feelings of inadequacy, fear, or shame, leaving them with an embodied sense of “I survived—I made it—and I’m safe now.” Join Janina Fisher, PhD to learn:
What makes traumatic memory different from memories of non-traumatic distress?
Observation as an intervention for traumatic memory
Using somatic techniques to transform the relationship to implicit memory
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT
Trauma-Sensitive Movement: Somatic Techniques to Support the Nervous System
Trauma-sensitive movement is an embodied approach that integrates somatic techniques to regulate the nervous system and enhance self-awareness. This presentation will explore how trauma-sensitive movement practices can be used in psychotherapy to restore a sense of safety, connection, and self-agency within the body. We will discuss practical movement tools and key somatic techniques and how to adapt these approaches to meet each client's individual needs. Join Manuela Mischke-Reeds, MA, MFT to learn:
Types of movement used in somatic trauma therapies
How to integrate movement into trauma therapy
How to adapt trauma-sensitive movement to individual clients
All Summit Faculty
Closing Panel with Faculty and Q&A
Join us for our closing panel with the summit faculty where participants had a chance to have their questions answered!
PRICING
These deep-dive training experiences are offered with an exclusive discount for all Embody Lab Members. This means that if you attend regularly, your membership fees could well be covered!
All members will be sent their exclusive discount code via email. If you would like to take advantage of this discount, become a member here before registering for this course.
$134
NON-MEMBER
PRICING
$0
FREE
FOR MEMBERS!
JOIN US FREE FOR 14 DAYS!
BECOME A MEMBER FOR IMMEDIATE ACCESS TO OUR
ENTIRE ON-DEMAND CONTENT LIBRARY
All Embody Lab Members automatically receive access to the One-Day Summit
recordings in their Online Content Library.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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Yes! This is designed to be a crash course in introducing you to the ways therapists are incorporating somatics into their current practices and models they already use. You’ll also be given the resources to know where to go and how to dive deeper into any of these methods if you’d like to go further after this training is done.
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You will have lifetime access to the summit session recordings.
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Yes, you will be able to keep any handouts and/or manuals from the presentations.
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CEs were only available for the live event. CEs are not available for the on-demand event.