12 day Somatic Trauma Therapy Training with Babette Rothschild

Our next course will start in May 2025. Please note that this training will now be online and take place on Zoom, as a live event from 3.00 pm to 10.00 pm (UK time) on each day.

Part 1: May 8-11 2025

Part 2: October 9-12 2025

Part 3: May 14-17 2026

The training course will take place LIVE on Zoom. We will not record the course and participants need to be online at the set times. We can now offer subtitles (closed captions) in a range of languages other than English. The range is given by current options available on Zoom.

This training embraces three major goals: First, to make a relevant bridge between trauma theory and trauma therapy practice; Second, to make non-touch somatic tools available to the trauma practitioner; Third, to equip therapists to distinguish and help clients who 1) are not good candidates for processing trauma memories and 2) those who are good candidates for processing trauma memories. These goals underlie the principles addressed in both Volumes 1 and 2 of The Body Remembers, putting into direct practice the principles, theory and tools presented in those books as well as many others.

This training is grounded in the belief that the therapist working with trauma must become familiar with many theories, techniques and treatment models to ensure that therapy will always be tailored to the needs of the individual client. Therefore the training is designed to enhance, not replace, skills and knowledge already held by the professional participants. In the past practitioners from many disciplines – psychoanalysis, psychodynamic, EMDR, cognitive behavioral, mindfulness, hypnosis, gestalt, body psychotherapy and TA among others – have all found this training to be a complement not a conflict.

Workshop modules are conducted with a combination of lectures, discussions, film, exercises, video and live demonstrations, role-played therapy practices and client consultations. Relevant handouts supplementing the required texts will be provided as well as a Certificate of Attendance for a total of 84 hours.

A second year, for those wishing to become Certified in Somatic Trauma Therapy, is available by application.

These three 4-day workshops will review both traditional and alternative theories of PTSD including (but not limited to) those developed by: Bessel van der Kolk, Judith Herman, M.D. at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; the Bodynamic Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark; and Peter Levine, Ph.D., Ergos Institute, Boulder, Colorado, USA.

This training is open to psychotherapists, psychologists, counselors and other mental health professionals. Training modules are conducted with a combination of lectures, discussions, film, exercises, video and live demonstrations, role-played therapy practices and client consultations.

Please note that participants are encouraged NOT to work on their own material.