2-Day Somatic Therapy for Anxiety Certification
Body Based Tools to Regulate the Nervous System & Rewire Threat Responses
- Speaker:
- Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD
- Duration:
- Two Full Days
- Product Code:
- LWC150870
- Brochure Code:
- PWZ96243
- Media Type:
- Live Webinar
Description
- Treat anxiety at its source – the body
- Get the latest on nervous system regulation strategies that work
- Enhance our practice with must-know somatic tools
Your client’s anxiety isn’t just “too many thoughts.”
It’s wired into their physiology, neurology, and somatic patterning that talk therapy alone can’t reach.
Real change requires working directly with the threat-response system, implicit memory, and the dysregulated nervous states that keep anxiety looping.
In this immersive 2-day anxiety certificate training, renowned somatic psychologist Dr. Abi Blakeslee distills the latest research in neuroscience, embodied emotional inference, threat physiology, and somatic healing into a practical, highly effective framework for treating anxiety at its true source.
You’ll learn powerful bottom-up methods to retrain the nervous system, update outdated internal models, and help clients reclaim safety, agency, and connection.
Discover how to assess, intervene, and transform anxiety – quickly, sustainably, and somatically.
- Why the body “remembers” anxiety and how to transform it
- How to harness anxiety as a catalyst for change
- Gain clear, client-friendly psychoeducation tools for explaining the threat response
- Spot and treat the difference between somatic and cognitive anxiety patterns
- Address perfectionism, procrastination and help clients build protective self-talk
You’ll leave with a structured, yet flexible toolkit designed to help clients not only manage anxiety – but create resilience and lasting recovery.
This training is designed for therapists who want science-backed, body based methods that accelerate healing, reduce chronic anxiety patterns, and create change that truly lasts.
Register now and included with your registration … become a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP), completely free.ER
CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!
- No hidden fees – PESI pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
- Simply complete this live event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Clinical Anxiety Treatment Professional (CCATP) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*
Attendees will receive documentation of CCATP certification from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. View www.evergreencertifications.com/CCATP for professional requirements.
Credit
Speaker
Abi Blakeslee, SEP, CMT, MFT, PhD Related seminars and products
Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a leading voice in Somatic Psychology and an internationally acclaimed educator. She is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy and Up-Level Dream Work. Dr. Blakeslee holds a PhD in Clinical and Somatic Psychology and an MA in Counseling and Depth Psychology. She is senior faculty at Somatic Experiencing International, bringing decades worth of experience to her teaching and clinical interventions. She is featured at Psychotherapy Networker, a world premiere therapy conference, and teaches world renowned PESI Somatic Psychology Certification programs and Master Classes. Dr. Blakeslee integrates the study of implicit memory and psychophysiology in clinical research, primary and secondary trauma interventions, neuro-consulting, and the psychobiological principles of attachment and shock trauma. Dr. Blakeslee teaches and consults worldwide. She lives in Bozeman, Montana with her husband and enjoys the snow, mountains, and rivers with their three children.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee maintains a private practice and is the founder of Implicit Psychotherapy, and the co-founder of Relationship Repair, She has employment relationships with Somatic Experiencing International and Ergos Institute for Somatic Education. Dr. Blakeslee receives a speaking honorarium and product royalties from Psychotherapy Networker and PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Abi Blakeslee is a member of the American Association for Marriage Family Therapists, the United States Association for Body Psychotherapy, the Women in Neuroscience, and the Society for Neuroscience.
Additional Info
Access Period for Live WebcastYou will have access for 90 days after the program for review. For live CE credit, you must watch the live webcast in its entirety at its scheduled time and complete the CE quiz and evaluation within one week. Please note that this requirement may vary by credit type. Please see detailed credit information for specific requirements for each credit type.
Webcast Schedule
Please note: There will be a 70-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Lunch and break times will be announced by the speaker and at their discretion. A more detailed schedule is available upon request.
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Objectives
- Define anxiety using contemporary somatic and embodied emotional inference frameworks.
- Examine how interoception affects anxiety.
- Differentiate between traditional and somatic frameworks to treat anxiety.
- Examine anxiety through contextual and inferential models.
- Integrate somatic anxiety interventions ethically within clinical scope of practice.
- Apply somatic exercises to increase a wide range of embodied emotion.
- Integrate somatic relational repair to reduce anxiety connected to relational stress.
- Determine three ways memory reconsolidation targeting implicit memory enhances anxiety treatment.
- Determine how to work with dysregulated physiology underpinning excessive worry and rumination.
- Apply somatic strategies to threat response and cognitive models.
- Identify five autonomic state changes and their importance in decreasing fear.
- Use somatic strategies to create successful interception based exposure experiences.
Outline
The Neuroscience, Physiological and Somatic Basis of Anxiety
- Research on somatic models vs. embodied emotional inference frameworks
- When to harness anxiety charge toward change
- Neuroscience of the threat response model
- Psychoeducation for clients about 4 F’s
- Accessing the threat response and embodied emotions via interoception
Assessment & Diagnosis from a Somatic Perspective
- Differential diagnosis from a traditional and somatic perspective
- Co-occurrence of depression psychologically and in the nervous system
- Assessment of physical and somatic symptoms
- DSM-V-TR™ anxiety disorder overview, including rule outs
- When to refer and consider mediation
- Risks, limitations, contraindications and ethical considerations
How to Teach Clients Anxiety Management Skillsets
- Cognitive & body-based exercises within traditional frameworks
- Techniques for working with fear-based arousal
- Somatic stabilization tools to disrupt cognitive rumination
- Changing negative and catastrophic thinking bottom-up
- Updating internal model errors and erroneous beliefs
- Somatic approaches to addressing perfectionism and procrastination
- Changing self-talk through somatic sense of protection and agency
- Discharge worry circuitry—without thinking
Treating Anxious Behaviors & Attributes
- Explore avoidance as a regulation need
- Create successful exposure experiences
- How to interrupt reassurance seeking
- Somatic practice for relational repair and attachment trauma
- Implicit memory reconsolidation
- Somatic work as a vehicle toward motivation to change
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychotherapists
- Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Case Managers
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Providers
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