Whether you're new to somatic therapy or an experienced practitioner looking for a refresher, this training is for you. Join in-demand trainer Stacy Ruse, LPC, as she guides you through the core principles and techniques of somatic therapy. Stacy will explain the why behind somatic healing in clear, accessible terms — and, better still, offer practical tools you can immediately implement with your clients.
When you enroll, you'll learn:
- Key strategies for effectively assessing and understanding your clients' body awareness
- Techniques to help clients release stored tension and trauma through body-focused interventions
- How to work with emotional blocks and somatic defenses
- Practical approaches for creating safety and trust in the therapeutic relationship
- How to integrate somatic practices into your sessions for lasting transformation
Designed to be beginner-friendly, yet rich in actionable techniques and insights, this course will empower you to integrate somatic therapy into your practice with confidence.
Somatic therapy isn't a replacement for what you already do.
It's the foundation everything else has always rested on.
Somatic Trauma Therapy Crash Course
Core Skills and Interventions to Treat Trauma through the Body
90-day replay access
Learn alongside peers
90-day replay access
Learn alongside peers
The full live training, no travel
Pause and rewind as you go
Here's what other clinicians said about this training:
Clinicians fly across the country just to sit in her training.
Stacy Ruse, LPC, E-RYT-500, is an Evergreen EMDR consultant and clinician, IFS therapist, and founder of Aglow Counseling. She's a trauma expert who specializes in using IFS therapy, EMDR, and somatic therapies to unravel the intricate threads of trauma and guide clients toward empowerment and resilience. Her approach, while deeply rooted in trauma-informed methodologies, is characterized by a transpersonal twist that transcends the boundaries of traditional therapy. Stacy is certified in EMDR and is a Nationally Certified Counselor (NCC) and a certified yoga instructor.
Whatever brought you here — curiosity, a client who's plateaued, a sense that something's missing from your current approach — you're in the right place. All of it is welcome.
This isn't a training where I'll hand you a protocol and send you on your way. What we're going to do is something more fundamental. We're going to look at what actually happens inside a person when trauma doesn't get to complete itself — when the nervous system gets thwarted mid-response and learns to hold on instead of let go. And then we're going to explore, gently and practically, how to help the body finally finish what it started.
Whatever modality you work in — IFS, EMDR, DBT, attachment-based work, something else entirely — this integrates. I'm not asking you to set down what you already know. I'm inviting you to go deeper underneath it. Because the nervous system is the foundation every one of those approaches is sitting on.
Here's what I know after years of this work: slow is the new fast. Most of what we're calling transformation happens in micro-moments, not dramatic breakthroughs. And the nervous system — yours and your clients' — needs to feel safe enough before it can release anything it's been holding. That's not a philosophy. That's biology.
You'll leave with practical tools you can use in your very next session. You'll also leave with something I find just as important: a way of understanding the body's protective wisdom — including the parts that look like resistance, shutdown, or dissociation — that will change how you sit with your most complex clients.
— Stacy Ruse, LPC, E-RYT-500Somatic Trauma Therapy Crash Course
Core Skills and Interventions to Treat Trauma through the Body
90-day replay access
Learn alongside peers
90-day replay access
Learn alongside peers
The full live training, no travel
Pause and rewind as you go
Walk in curious. Walk out ready for your next session.
Backed by hundreds of evaluations from clinicians just like you.
Already using IFS, EMDR, or DBT?
This training was built to go deeper underneath all of it — not replace any of it.
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An IHG Torchbearer Award winner in the center of downtown.
Market Square is a five-minute walk away, with local restaurants and live music most evenings, and historic Gay Street is just steps from the hotel. The Great Smoky Mountains are about 45 minutes away if you want to add a day.
Connected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, with a rooftop pool and spa.
You're steps from the live music on Lower Broadway, and the Country Music Hall of Fame connects to the hotel by skybridge. The Ryman Auditorium and Johnny Cash Museum are each a few minutes' walk.
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