About this training
Your fastest track to becoming a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner.
In just three days, you'll go from knowing about somatic therapy to mastering the core principles, techniques, and applying skills with real clients.
You'll join Wanda Brothers, Somatic Experiencing™ practitioner with more than 23 years of experience in trauma healing and certified in Dynamic Attachment Repair experience (DARe). Wanda blends her unique expertise in somatic therapy, attachment, and complex trauma into practical skills you can apply immediately.
- The neurobiology of how somatic therapy works and how to address attachment wounds
- Keys to repairing insecure attachment styles with somatic techniques
- Skills for helping clients create boundaries and lasting resilience
- Strategies for working with shame, borderline symptoms, dissociative disorders, chronic pain, and more
You'll walk away with best practices and techniques from somatic therapy — and meet all educational requirements to become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner.
Learn to Do Somatic Therapy Start-to-Finish
November 11–13, 2026 | 8am–4pm CT | Choose your format
- Up to 19 CE hours included
- 90-day on-demand replay access
- Certification fee covered
- Join live with Wanda on Nov 11–13 — ask questions in real time
- Up to 19 CE hours included
- 90-day on-demand replay access included
- Certification fee covered
Can't make the live dates?
Pre-Order On-Demand RecordingWhat You'll Learn
Three intensive days — foundations through advanced application
- History & Origins of Somatic Psychology
- How somatic psychology and attachment theory converge
- Assess your own attachment style
- Sensorimotor techniques
- Somatic Experiencing® principles
- Polyvagal informed somatic regulation
- Micro-tracking interoception and proprioception
- The 4 key boundaries to know
- Developmental origins of collapsed vs rigid boundaries
- Use mirror neurons to understand the client's experience
- Reframe "difficult" clients
- Build a phased treatment plan
- Notice subtle cues in body language, eye movements and posture
- Map your client's underlying attachment wiring
- Create corrective emotional experiences
- Risks, limitations and ethical issues
- Impact of early misattunement or abuse
- Brain regions and the relationship to attachment styles
- Neurobiology of attachment styles
- Working with implicit memories and brain wiring
- Anxious attachment style: "I'll never get enough love"
- Help clients transition from anxious toward secure
- Target memory rumination
- Help clients create internal and external boundaries
- Simple exercises to repair the core attachment wound
- Avoidant attachment style: "I am all I need."
- Support clients to notice and experience goodness
- Target memories that reinforce disconnection & withdrawal
- Effective boundaries for avoidantly attached clients
- Disorganized attachment style: "I need you but relationships are dangerous"
- Enhance relational safety with distance, pacing and more
- Target memories that reinforce dissociation
- Case study "Thea, 35 y/o: C-PTSD, Early developmental Trauma"
- Key disorders commonly impacted by attachment trauma
- How relational trauma contributes to dissociation and fragmentation
- Chronic stress physiology
- When to work on trauma vs when to stabilize
- Cultural and developmental considerations
- Working with high levels of dissociation or fragmentation
- Touch and other consideration for body-based work
- Working with survivors of torture, physical, or sexual abuse
- Telehealth considerations
- Strategies for relapse prevention
- Case study "Judy, 55 y/o: Attachment trauma, PTSD, major depressive disorder"
- Self-of-the-therapist work
- Avoid getting "pulled in"
- Identify your own implicit memories
- Transference and countertransference
- Documentation, consent and ongoing permission
- Power dynamics and vulnerability
- Inclusion and bias awareness
You leave this training certified.
In just three steps, you'll become a Certified Somatic Therapy Foundations Practitioner (CSTFP). No hidden fees — first-year credentialing fee covered.
Certified Somatic
Therapy Foundations
Practitioner
*Professional and clinical experience standards apply. Learn more at Evergreen Certifications.
Meet Your Expert
Wanda Brothers is a Somatic Experiencing™ practitioner and certified in Dynamic Attachment Repair experience (DARe), somatic coach, and trauma-healing expert with over 23 years of clinical experience. For the past 18 years, she has specialized in integrating neuroscience, physiology, and attachment theory to help clients resolve deep-rooted wounds and restore emotional regulation.
In addition to her clinical practice, Wanda is a seasoned speaker, educator, and clinical supervisor. Her years as a professor at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) honed her ability to translate complex concepts into engaging, accessible language for both professional and public audiences.
Wanda also created the Educational Trauma and Resiliency program — a four-module training for teachers in underserved schools — equipping them with practical tools on trauma, attachment, and fostering resilience in students. Her work reflects her passion for creating a world with less stress, anger, and anxiety, and more capacity for love, peace, and vitality.
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DoubleTree Suites by Hilton Hotel & Conference Center Chicago/Downers Grove
2111 Butterfield Rd, Downers Grove, IL
Stay just 25 miles from downtown Chicago with easy Metra access to Michigan Avenue, Millennium Park, and world-class dining. Explore the charming shops and restaurants of downtown Downers Grove, or take a day trip into the city for deep-dish pizza and lakefront views.
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November 11–13, 2026 · Downer's Grove, IL or Live Online · Limited Seats