Certificate Program

Curriculum Contents

The Mind-Body Attunement Therapy® Certificate level training presents simple body-oriented interventions for tracking, naming and safely exploring trauma-related somatic activation, creating new competencies and restoring a somatic sense of self. Students will learn effective, accessible interventions for identifying and working with disruptive somatic patterns, disturbed cognitive and emotional processing, and the fragmented sense of self experienced by so many traumatized individuals. Techniques are taught within a phase-oriented treatment approach, focusing first on stabilization and symptom reduction. The length of this training is between 80 and 90 hours.

• Including the Body in Psychotherapy Practice

  How to track and name somatic experience and work with physical action.

• Trauma and the Body

  The role of the body in perpetuating PTSD symptoms.

• Developmental and Attachment Issues

  The effects of trauma, attachment failure, and developmental arrests on mind and body.

• Hierarchical Information Processing

  Somatic interventions that expand the capacity to integrate traumatic experience.

• The Use of Mindfulness

  The role of mindfulness in the treatment of trauma and how to teach mindfulness to clients.

• Self-Regulation

  How to stabilize traumatic activation and restore autonomic equilibrium.

• Somatic Resources

  Identification of missing somatic resources and interventions to help clients develop new resources.

• Boundaries

  How trauma affects boundary styles and techniques to restore healthy somatic and psychological boundaries.

• Orienting and Defensive Responses

  Interventions to reinstate effective orienting and defensive responses truncated in the wake of trauma.

• Treatment of Traumatic Memory

  Somatic approaches to overcoming the fear of traumatic memory and interventions to process and integrate memories.

• Dissociation

  Interventions to work with alterations of consciousness and structural dissociation of the personality.