What is Somatic (Body-Centered) Psychotherapy, why is it effective and how would one begin to implement this approach?
Knowing how to manage emotional dysregulation can be a challenge for both therapists and clients. Working with the body gives therapists a toolkit of practical and effective skills to help clients learn regulation and build their capacity to tolerate difficult feelings and experiences. Clients move toward self-efficacy and feel empowered through having their own toolkit of skills that they know are effective in helping them shift into calmer and more cognitively rational states.
This workshop provides a psychobiological context for including the body in the therapy process and offers body-centered approaches to self-regulation from Somatic Experiencing and Yoga-Informed Psychotherapy. These skills are effective for clients recovering from trauma as well as anyone dealing with anxiety or depression. This way of working is especially helpful for the therapist's own regulation, self-care and long-term sustainability, especially when working with clients who have experienced trauma.
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Workshop presenter:
Francine Kelley, LCPC, SEP, RYT500 is a Jamaican-born somatic psychotherapist, yoga therapist and Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor who currently runs a group psychotherapy practice in Chicago, Illinois. She presents frequently on the topic of somatic psychotherapy and has been a speaker at the Family Institute of Northwestern University, Rush University Medical Center’s CME Seminars, Rosalyn Franklin University Medical School, and most recently at the Illinois Counseling Association’s annual conference. Her presentation at the 2018 Caribbean Regional Conference on Psychology was very well received and she is very interested in sharing this transformative work with clinicians in Jamaica.