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EMDR and Somatic Therapy
Integrating Body-Based Interventions Across the 8 Phases
Trauma lives in the body. Your clients know this, and so do you. But knowing it and knowing what to do about it in an EMDR session are two different things.
EMDR and Somatic Therapy is a two-day on-demand training with Alison Leslie, LCSW, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and EMDRIA-approved EMDR trainer. This course teaches you how to integrate somatic therapy across all eight phases of EMDR, so you can help clients attune to their bodies, expand their window of tolerance, and move toward healing with more ease and less fear.
If you have been relying on cognitive interweaves that are not landing, struggling to help clients track their internal experience, or wondering how to work somatically without derailing the EMDR process, this training gives you the framework and the clinical tools to do it well.
Practical Skills
Practical Interventions You'll Learn
This training introduces specific somatic skills and body-based interventions that integrate directly into your existing EMDR practice across all 8 phases. Each technique is taught with clear clinical rationale and practical application.
- Pendulation and Titration: Core somatic techniques for safely navigating client activation and expanding tolerance for internal experience.
- Interoception and Somatic Awareness: How to develop client interoception as a Phase 2 Preparation tool, building the body-based foundation EMDR requires.
- Witnessing the Body as a Processing Channel: New ways of tracking and responding to somatic cues across all phases, including during Phase 4 desensitization.
- Implicit and Explicit Memory Mapping: How somatic cues and implicit memory patterns are held in the body, and how to use this understanding in EMDR case conceptualization.
- Threat Response Cycle Integration: Apply the threat response cycle to case conceptualization to identify where a client is stuck and how to support resolution.
- Somatic Interweaves for Stuck Processing: Body-based interweave techniques for Phase 4 Desensitization, including how to help the body register that it survived.
- Healthy Touch and Self-Touch Protocols: Evidence-informed strategies for self-touch with clients during preparation and processing phases.
- Working with Dissociation Somatically: Extra support for clients who override or disconnect from body experience, including somatic strategies for increased safety.
What You Get
What's Waiting for You Inside This EMDR and Somatic Training
On-demand integrative EMDR training, somatically-grounded teaching, and a supportive clinician community.
Somatic integration across 8 phases
Weave body-based interventions through every phase of the EMDR protocol with confidence.
Pendulation and titration skills
Expand your client's window of tolerance through paced, body-led reprocessing.
Implicit memory and threat response
Map how trauma is held in the body and where clients get stuck in the threat response cycle.
Q&A and Chat
Submit questions and connect with peers through the on-demand course community.
Phase 4 somatic interweaves
Observe the body during desensitization and use somatic interweaves to support completion.
Learn on your schedule
On-demand access means you go at your own pace. Lifetime access is included, so you can return whenever you need it.
Expert clinical insight
Case-grounded teaching from a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and EMDRIA-approved consultant.
Free community membership
Join TTI's shame-free community of practitioners for ongoing conversations, support, and resources. No cost, no catch.
Meet Your Trainer
About Your Trainer
Alison Leslie
LCSW
Alison Leslie is a licensed clinical social worker, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), Transforming Touch Therapist, and EMDRIA-approved therapist, consultant, and advanced trainer. She is also a Basic Training facilitator and EMDR Basic Training trainer-in-training with Trauma Therapist Institute.
Alison owns her private practice, Empower Healing, in Bloomington, IN. She approaches therapy through the lens of presence and attunement, believing that the clinician's role is to guide clients toward their own internal healing capacity. Her background includes animal-assisted services and integrating the human-animal bond and nature into the therapeutic experience.
In consultation, Alison meets consultees where they are, supporting EMDR skill development and somatic therapy integration through openness, curiosity, and compassion. She brings that same embodied, attuned presence to her teaching.
Alison owns her private practice, Empower Healing, in Bloomington, IN. She approaches therapy through the lens of presence and attunement, believing that the clinician's role is to guide clients toward their own internal healing capacity. Her background includes animal-assisted services and integrating the human-animal bond and nature into the therapeutic experience.
In consultation, Alison meets consultees where they are, supporting EMDR skill development and somatic therapy integration through openness, curiosity, and compassion. She brings that same embodied, attuned presence to her teaching.
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