Somatic Interventions for Chronic Pain & Other Syndromes
Includes 5 client demonstration-based training sessions with Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller
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Course Description
Learn how to identify the physiological manifestations of trauma—and how to apply somatic therapy strategies for recovery, relief, and healing.
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What’s included in the training?
Here is everything you get for just $297 $167!
Five On-Demand 90-Minute Demonstration-Based Sessions + Q&A, featuring client demo debriefs by Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
Each session includes core teaching, real client demos (with thorough explanations of techniques by Dr. Levine), practice exercises, corrective techniques and additional resources you can apply to your own therapeutic sessions.
- Session 1: Working With Minimization & Critical Self Judgment
- Session 2: Working With Emotional Trauma & The Inner Child
- Session 3: Utilizing Somatic Tools to Increase Flow
- Session 4: Medical Trauma & Münchausen Syndrome by Proxy
- Session 5: Therapeutic Presence & Rhythm
Includes practical exercises that reinforce concepts and help you integrate somatic skills and techniques with other modalities more easily.
Client Demos that help new and experienced practitioners become more proficient at applying somatic skills and techniques into therapeutic sessions with clients.
Private Course Portal with Lifetime Access to Course Materials including video recordings, audio, transcripts, demos, and slide handouts and additional resources for each session.
BONUS #1: Two Video Client Demonstrations with Dr. Diane Poole Heller
In 3+ hours of video training, Dr. Heller presents two additional client case examples, where she works with clients who exhibit chronic pain symptoms related to both personal and generational trauma.
BONUS #2: Expert Spotlight Training—‘Getting to the Root of Chronic Pain & Other Syndromes’ featuring Peter A. Levine, PhD and Dr. Diane Poole Heller.
In this 90-minute recording of an expert spotlight session with Dr. Levine, you’ll explore the important distinctions between syndromes and their symptoms and what happens to our bodies (and emotions) when trauma and stress manifest and combine to form syndromes, chronic pain, and autoimmune disorders.
Dr. Levine highlights some key tools and body-based interventions you can use to help clients find relief and support healing. You’ll also learn several specific strategies to help you understand exactly what the body is saying.
Why take this course?
Learn powerful and effective somatic techniques directly from Dr. Levine…
A significant part of our work involves working with complex trauma—often originating from numerous, severe adverse early childhood experiences such as neglect, abuse, violence, or chronic instability.
Complex trauma is often difficult to address because it shapes an individual’s early development, affecting our perceptions, emotional responses, and ability to cope with stress or adversity.
This often leads to lasting challenges in forming healthy relationships, regulating emotions, and a disrupted sense of basic trust.
In therapy sessions, these deep-rooted issues frequently manifest as somatic symptoms, where emotional pain and trauma are expressed physically rather than verbally….
- Like the client with unexplained physical tension or discomfort… No matter how much they try to relax, they remain visibly stiff or uneasy, which can impede progress in sessions.
- Or the client with recurring headaches, stomachaches, excessive fatigue, or other physical symptoms that don’t have a clear medical cause, which could be linked to the body’s irregular regulation of energy in response to traumatic stress.
- Maybe it’s the client with unexpected emotional outbursts (like crying or anger) with little apparent provocation, which could suggest their body is holding onto emotional trauma.
- Or, in some cases, it’s the client who seems unmotivated and disinterested… where sessions become long silences that make it hard to find a therapeutic connection.
These examples demonstrate how complex trauma can present in diverse and often non-verbal ways. And why it’s so important to use a therapeutic approach that addresses both the mental and physical aspects of trauma.
This training gives you a powerful framework and practical strategies to guide clients in completing developmental tasks compassionately, releasing pain held in their body, and healing the past in the here and now.
What you’ll learn?
In this self-paced, on-demand training, you’ll learn how to…
- Assess when a client is “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze response that keeps them from releasing trauma.
- Explore the primary attachment wound—and build a supportive, nurturing bridge between the adult self and the wounded child.
- Tackle both the psychological and physical symptoms of trauma by releasing trauma that’s stored in the body.
- Help clients move beyond “top-down” cognitive processing using “bottom-up” techniques and exercises that connect any emotion, image, behavior, movement or thought to its partner in sensation.
- Build your client’s confidence in tolerating uncomfortable feelings as they move through and dissipate them.
- Integrate clinical somatic tools and techniques with existing modalities to resolve fixated physiological states quickly and effectively.
- Deepen your client’s ability to receive contact in order to strengthen embodiment and presence.
- Transform the wounds of emotional and early developmental trauma into healing, fulfillment and connection.
- Support clients in their healing process, so they can feel a greater sense of connection, safety and bodily ease.
- Teach clients how to listen to the signals of their body (including pain, discomfort or imbalance) to calm the nervous system and access information about the ways they hold traumatic experiences in their body.
Here’s what’s in the training curriculum…
Session 1
Uncover the Trauma Behind Chronic Pain & Other Syndromes
Explore the relationship between chronic pain symptoms and syndromes, and the underlying autonomic dysregulation arising from stress and trauma conditions.
Discover how perplexing symptoms and trauma responses have a common root as a single underlying syndrome involving core dysregulation of the HPA (hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal) axis—a system that influences autonomic, endocrine and immune functions throughout the body.
Dr. Levine personally guides our exploration into the connection between trauma and the body, showing you how to regulate this axis on a detailed, specialized level unavailable in most trainings. You’ll also learn how to apply micro-movements to facilitate expansion in response to shame and collapse.
Session 2
Identify & Differentiate Symptoms Connected to Trauma
Detect unresolved trauma in the body and learn how to track autonomic nervous system shifts more precisely.
Discover how to recognize and help individuals who present with varying or non-attributable symptoms, including migraines, vertigo, rapid heart rate, heart arrhythmias, POTTS (rapid heartbeat and fainting), chronic pain, regional complex pain syndrome (RPS), fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), asthma and certain autoimmune conditions.
Through client demonstrations, Dr. Levine illustrates how syndromes affect the autonomic nervous system. He’ll show you exactly what to watch for and track in the body, so you can detect shifts in the ANS to apply safe and effective techniques that help alleviate pain and suffering.
Session 3
Decode the Body’s Messages Using Somatic Skills & Techniques
We’ll go beyond theory and operationalize information, so you can easily apply practical processes and therapeutic interventions to your clinical sessions.
Learn directly from Dr. Levine, as he shares the tools and techniques he uses to tune into nonverbal clues, engage the vagus nerve to get to the root of trauma and support healing and regulation that helps clients find relief as they reconnect with their body’s innate resilience, vitality and health.
Dr. Levine will demonstrate the “too” technique to help clients sooth and release their trauma, shined you how it’s possible to manage triggered and reactive trauma to avoid long-term bodily damage, including an example of how it’s possible to integrate various somatic techniques and work in Telehealth somatically.
Session 4
Techniques to Prevent Re-Traumatization
As therapists, it is essential to learn how to work without reactivating the clients’ trauma response, including ways to manage reactive trauma to avoid long-term bodily damage.
Watch as Dr. Levine demonstrates how to activate old wounds while still maintaining safety. He’ll share essential techniques such as titration and pendulation that allow clients to heal from the wounds of the past—while easing current systems without becoming overly activated, overwhelmed, or shut down.
Drawing from his signature Somatic Experiencing® approach, Dr. Levine will share specific strategies that help you understand exactly what the body is saying. He will also discuss perceptual skills and practical somatic techniques that allow you to create more presence, rhythm, and connection with our clients.
Session 5
Strengthen Attunement and Gain Clinical Confidence
We’ll go beyond theory and operationalize information, so you can easily apply practical processes and therapeutic interventions to clinical sessions easily and effectively.
Guided by in-depth knowledge of the body’s regulation system, you’ll develop more effective and intentional attunement—so you’re better equipped to support clients in healing not only their psychological pain but their physical symptoms as well.
Gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to help clients emerge from their protective “cage” of symptoms and syndromes as they move towards relief, growth and improved health. Whether you’re a new or seasoned Somatic ExperiencingⓇ practitioner, you’ll gain valuable insights and highly effective modalities that improve your therapeutic skills to support clients with difficult syndromes.
Meet Your Instructors
“Some things must be dealt with at the roots. Trauma is one of those things.”
Peter A. Levine, PhD is the developer of Somatic Experiencing®, a naturalistic and neurobiological approach to healing trauma, which he has developed over the past 50 years.
He is the Founder of the Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute/Foundation for Human Enrichment and the Founder and President of the Ergos Institute of Somatic Education™.
His work has been taught to over 50,000 therapists in over 45 countries.
Dr. Levine served as a stress consultant for NASA in the early space shuttle development and has served on the American Psychological Association task force for responding to the trauma of large-scale disasters and ethno-political warfare.
He holds doctorates in both Biophysics and Psychology and is the author of several best-selling books on trauma, including Waking the Tiger, which is published in over 29 languages––and his new memoir, An Autobiography of Trauma: A Healing Journey.
He is currently a Senior Fellow and consultant at The Meadows Addiction and Trauma Treatment Center in Wickenburg, Arizona as he continues to teach trauma healing workshops internationally.
“We can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past. We may never live in a word without trauma or pain… but I believe we can live in a world full of healing.”
Dr. Diane Poole Heller is an internationally recognized speaker, author, and teaching expert in the field of adult attachment theory and trauma resolution.
Her signature approach—DARe (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning experience)—provides therapists and individuals with relevant skills and practical exercises that facilitate healing from attachment and trauma wounds.
Her work with adult attachment has forged a path for adults with childhood attachment injuries to develop Secure Attachment Skills (SAS) that lead to more connected and fulfilling adult relationships.
She has authored several books, including the widely acclaimed The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships. Her expertise in trauma healing has supported survivors, helpers, and families affected by events such as 9/11, Columbine, and other school shootings.
Through various training programs, books, lectures and her own work as a clinical therapist, Dr. Heller has helped a countless number of people in their healing journey towards experiencing greater intimacy, wholeness and more fulfilling relationships.
She believes that when we heal ourselves first, we heal our families, our communities and the world as a whole.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I need to be a therapist to benefit from this training?
While most people who take this course are both new and experienced practitioners we do sometimes have non-therapists who join us.
Due to the sensitive nature of the material, however, we highly encourage non-therapists who choose to take this course to have therapeutic support in place should the material become activating. Note, the material in this course is not meant as a substitute for therapy.
How long can I access the course materials if I purchase this training today?
You’ll have lifetime access to ALL training materials, including videos, transcripts, worksheets, demos, resources and bonuses too. You may also download, print or save materials at any time to your professional reference library for personal use.
In the interest of privacy, client demo videos are not downloadable.
Are the class sessions live or recorded?
All sessions were recorded live, including the Q&A segments. This reissued training features recordings of all five 90-minute sessions, along with client demonstrations, audio recordings, written transcripts, complementary resources, and exclusive course bonuses.
All of the training is on-demand, so you can learn at your own pace, or revisit sessions more than once.
Are CE credits available for this course?
Continuing Education (CE) credits are not available for this training at this time.
Will taking this course qualify me as SE Trained?
This is a demonstration-based course suitable for both introductory students and those already trained in Somatic Experiencing® (SE).
Throughout the sessions, various common techniques are demonstrated and applied to different situations and cases. Please note that taking this program will not qualify you as ‘SE Trained,’ as it does not replace the 8-module training through Somatic Experiencing®.
However, it will ensure that you are ‘SE Informed.’
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Is there a refund policy?
We’re confident this program will be a valuable investment in your education, personal growth and clinical practice.
Because this is a re-issue of previous of previous training (at a special promotional price) and course materials are downloadable, all sales are final.
If you have further questions, do not hesitate to reach out to our Customer Support Team for help.
What Our Students Say About This Training
This course, demos and comments have been profound and transformative. So much gratitude and appreciation for you both
––Nicolee M.
Great course, very enlightening, so much more to explore!
––Carmen C.
Thank you so much for your amazing work! It has changed my life and I now have the joy of seeing the impact of SE daily in my work with clients.
––Saskia M.
So helpful! I did Voo and Smovey work with my client last week and she loved it and I saw her connect to her life force in such a beautiful way. I am so inspired.
––Jen T.
Peter and Diane! So great! As a psychologist, working bottom-up feels like magic compared to top-down. Appreciate you both so much!
Leah W.
Peter A. Levine, PhD,
Dr. Diane Poole Heller
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