The world is increasingly polarized, uncertain, chaotic, and insecure—and your clients are feeling it.
You may be seeing:
- Increased stress and emotional suffering
- Mental confusion and impaired behavior
- Helplessness, an inability to act, or acting out
As a clinician, it can be frustrating when you’re unable to help your clients safely and effectively overcome their suffering and build resilience to face these challenging times. It can easily result in burnout.
The Practice of Embodying Emotions might just be the method you have been looking for.
A Proven Approach
The Practice of Embodying Emotions is a revolutionary clinical approach that expands the body’s involvement in an emotional experience to as much of the body as possible. It is a proven somatic approach to safely deepen your clinical work and achieve faster and better outcomes with all your clients.
The Science
The Practice of Embodying Emotions is grounded in contemporary neuroscience, specifically in the research paradigm of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior.
Key finding: Embodied emotion research shows that when the body is blocked from being involved in an emotional experience in a situation, the brain’s capacity to process that situation—emotionally, cognitively, and behaviorally—is significantly limited.
By expanding the emotional experience in the body, we ensure that as much of the body is involved in the emotional experience, enabling the brain to process all aspects of the situation optimally. This gives you an opportunity to reduce treatment times and improve cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes in all therapy modalities you practice.
How is it done
By ensuring that your client is consciously aware of their experience of the emotion in as much of the body as possible.
How is it implemented?
Through a number of easy-to-learn and simple-to-implement somatic techniques to access, expand, and regulate emotional experiences throughout the body.
These somatic strategies will help you to work with all levels of the body (physical, subtle, and collective), even if you do not have any prior training in a somatic approach.
What is it not
The Practice of Embodying Emotions is not the usual method of exploring sensations in the body when one is having an experience of emotion in the brain.
Why is the Practice of Embodying Emotions a revolutionary development in the fields of somatics, body psychotherapy, and somatic psychology?
Because it is proving itself as an effective complementary somatic method for improving treatment times and cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes in many therapy modalities, including body therapy modalities such as Somatic Experiencing® (SE™).
And because it is also proving itself to be an efficient method for working deeper, faster, and safer with clients to resolve and transform their symptoms, whether the therapist is working with trauma or other difficult experiences.
Learn the Practice of Embodying Emotions and Accelerate Your Practice
We teach this method in the Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) Professional Training. It is a brief 12-day program in three 4-day modules, either online or in person, with daily practice sessions with fellow participants under the supervision of experienced assistants.
Learn more about the upcoming Online ISP Professional Training in North America
Visit our Training Schedule to view all training opportunities in Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) all over the world.
Watch a Demonstration
You can see for yourself how simple, effective, and quick ISP’s interventions can be in resolving symptoms from complex trauma through the Practice of Embodying Emotions in the clinical demonstration.
Read the Book
The science and the method of the Practice of Embodying Emotions are the subjects of the bestselling book The practice of embodying emotions: A method for improving cognitive, emotional, and behavioral outcomes, now available in thirteen languages.
*Integral Somatic Psychology is neither a regulatory nor licensing organization and therefore not sanctioned to certify, license, or otherwise bestow the legal authorization to practice as a mental health professional.
