ABSTRACT

Relational and Body-Centered Practices for Healing Trauma provides psychotherapists and other helping professionals with a new body-based clinical model for the treatment of trauma. This model synthesizes emerging neurobiological and attachment research with somatic, embodied healing practices. Tested with hundreds of practitioners in courses for more than a decade, the principles and practices presented here empower helping professionals to effectively treat people with trauma while experiencing a sense of mutuality and personal growth themselves.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|13 pages

Trauma and Embodied Relational Therapy

chapter 3|16 pages

Good News! The Brain Can Change!

chapter 4|15 pages

Embodiment

Coming Home to Our Bodies

chapter 6|15 pages

Somatic Awareness

The Truth of the Mind Begins in the Body

chapter 7|16 pages

Somatic Empathy

Encounters of “Feeling Felt”

chapter 8|17 pages

Somatic Inquiry

Exploring the Intersubjective World through Language

chapter 11|16 pages

Somatic Reflection

chapter 12|12 pages

The Old/New Paradigm for Healing Trauma