Register your interest for 2025 1 year Somatic Psychotherapy Training Program

The Institute of Somatic Psychotherapy (IOSP) offers training and professional development for qualified mental health practitioners looking to integrate embodiment into their relational 2-person psychotherapeutic/counselling practice. IOSP training began in 2021 with the Somatic Psychotherapy Training Program – a 1 year period taught by European body psychotherapist trainers. Attendants to this Program are entitled to 40 CPD points with PACFA. In 2025 we will offer a program in embodiment with US-based trainers in the American time zone.

Gain foundational knowledge and experience of Somatic Psychotherapy with IOSP.  Registration is now open for qualified mental health practitioners with at least 200 hrs of relevant training in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work or psychiatry. Applicants will require counselling experience in these modalities.

Our training and professional development courses are focused on:

• Relational Embodied Psychotherapy (theory and practice) that facilitates shifts at a deeply felt embodied level.
• Experiential learning that promotes embodied learning of course participants through interactive seminars, small syndicate groups activities and readings, project work and reflective journaling.
• Skill development within a contemporary psychotherapeutic framework.

What is Somatic Psychotherapy?

Changes occur for individuals in psychotherapy because they are having new experiences. Psychotherapy promotes these new experiences as it explores cognitive, imaginative, emotional and interactive processes within the safety of the therapeutic relationship.

Somatic Psychotherapy extends this exploration to physical sensations, motor impulses and movement. It pays attention and attends to the non-verbal and embodied dimensions of a human being. It is this scope, attention and attentiveness that makes Somatic Psychotherapy holistic. Read more.

“Our bodies are our true homes: that within which we live, the source of joy and pain, and the expression of our inner selves. They can be our sanctuaries, or our prisons.  Ultimately, we can, through our bodies, seek to find and follow the deeper purpose and direction of our lives.”

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Find out more about the Full Somatic Psychotherapy Training Program.