Become a More Effective Therapist Doing Deeper Transformational Work With Your Clients
The ISP™ Professional Training is a 12-day Capstone Training in three four-day modules offering a more complete and effective somatic approach for improving the effectiveness of all therapy modalities in your toolkit.
When you complete the ISP Professional Training, you will have more confidence to do deep transformational work with your clients, have more satisfaction, less burnout, better outcomes, and shorter treatment times in your practice.
ISP is not a new therapy modality; it is a new approach for improving the effectiveness of all modalities in your toolkit
Integral Somatic Psychology™ (ISP™) is based on the latest neuroscientific understanding of embodied cognition, emotion, and behavior from the West, and the most comprehensive understanding of the multiple bodies that contribute to our experiences from the East.
ISP incorporates all of our bodies: Our individual gross or physical body, our individual subtle or energy body, our changing collective body of the universe, and our unchanging collective body of pure awareness that is the basis of all of our bodies.
Therefore, it offers a more complete and effective somatic approach than other somatic modalities that are limited to just one of our four bodies, our physical body, known as the individual gross body in the East.
Learn to Overcome the One-Body Error in Therapy
All somatic psychology approaches have contributed to significant improvements in therapy. Such improvements can be predicted because modern neuroscience has established that cognition, emotion, and behavior depend not only on our brain but also on our body and the environment, not just in traumatic experiences but in every experience in every moment of our lives.
Yet, body psychotherapies err in the assumption that we have only one body: The one that gets conceived in a womb and is laid to rest in a tomb. This assumption is based on science limiting reality only to things that can be perceived or measured in the physical realm.
Eastern Psychology has long established that our body consists of four levels: Two at the individual level and two at the collective level. They are the individual gross or physical body, the individual subtle or energy body, the changing collective body of the universe, and the unchanging collective body of pure awareness, the basis of all the bodies that remains unaffected by any. Neuroscience and quantum physics are now corroborating these long-standing findings by Eastern phenomenologists.
Each of these four levels contributes to all of our experiences and to their regulation. Each of these levels is, therefore, crucial for our clients’ profound transformation in therapy.
Limiting our focus solely to the physical body undermines the effectiveness of our work, as we are dealing with only one-quarter of the deck.
This is what I call the One-Body Error: When we limit ourselves to a one-body somatic approach, we limit our clients’ and our capacity for deep transformation.
ISP Professional Training: A 12-Day Capstone Training and Experiential Program
Integral Somatic Psychology™ offers a neuroscience-backed, emotion-focused, and body-based as well as energy-based approach for improving treatment times and diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities. We accomplish this through the practice of embodying emotions.
The practice of embodying emotions is the conscious expansion of emotional experience to as much of the body as possible, to make emotional experiences more tolerable to be with, so that the brain has more time to optimally process the situation cognitively, emotionally, and behaviorally.
The practice of embodying emotions is based on a number of recent findings in cognitive and affective neuroscience including the very important finding that the more the body is blocked from being involved in emotional experience, the more difficulty the brain has in processing the situation, not only emotionally but also cognitively and behaviorally.
To access, expand and regulate emotion in the physical body, ISP uses Western Osteopathic techniques for working with the physical body as well as Eastern subtle body energy techniques for working with our multiple bodies, individual and collective.
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The 7-Step Protocol for Embodying Emotion is especially useful for clients with low affective tolerance or high physiological dysregulation, found in people with complex traumas, psychophysiological symptoms, and syndromes.
By working with all four levels of the body, ISP also helps you overcome the One-Body Error that limits the effectiveness of most, if not all, therapeutic modalities. Additionally, it integrates all approaches you have learned: somatic, energetic, psychological, and spiritual.
Each of these four levels contributes to all of our experiences and to their regulation, including emotion. Each of these levels is, therefore, crucial for our clients’ profound transformation.
The 12-day ISP Professional Training is taught in three modules with daily supervised practice sessions to ensure you know you’re doing it right.
Visit the curriculum page to view the topics covered in each module.
Therapists who have taken this capstone training say it is the crown jewel of all somatic psychology approaches.
Transform Your Clinical Practice with the ISP Professional Training
- Improve your treatment times
- Improve diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities in your toolkit, including all body psychotherapy approaches
- Develop a deep and multi-layered self-understanding of yourselves
- and your clients
- Start working with a comprehensive model of the psyche to integrate all somatic, energetic, psychological, and spiritual approaches you are trained in.
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ISP was a very helpful addition to my training in Somatic Experiencing. The emphasis on the bodily experience of emotions and how to work with them—recognize, experience deeply, and manage/regulate—was invaluable for my professional and personal growth.
How to Become a Certified ISP Practitioner
How to get your certificate: Complete the in-person or live online ISP Professional Training, 6 hours of personal sessions, and 6 hours of case consultations from approved ISP providers.
Is this for you? Let’s find out…
- Do you want to know the deeper levels of yourself as your multiple bodies?
- Do you want to learn how that can help you in facilitating quicker transformation in yourself and your clients?
- Are you interested in the scientific basis for the deeper levels of yourself beyond your physical body?
- Do you want to know why therapies that work only with the physical body are inherently limited in their effectiveness?
- Do you want to learn a science-backed, emotion-focused, and multi-body somatic method for improving treatment times and diverse outcomes in all therapy modalities?
- Do you want to learn a state-of-the-art approach for building resilience in yourself and your clients through creating a greater capacity for the ups and downs of life?
- And why such resilience is a must for physical and psychological health as well as psychological maturity and spiritual growth?
- Do you want a model of the psyche that can help you integrate all somatic, energy, psychological, and spiritual approaches you have learned so far?
- Do you desire to expedite your spiritual or religious practice?
- Do you want to help yourself and your clients to access and maintain peace within, regardless of circumstance?
If your answer is a yes to any or all of the above questions, look no further. The ISP Professional Training is the right training for you.
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Who this training is NOT for
- You never feel stuck with your clients
- You never doubt yourself
- You’re just looking for new tips and tricks
- You are averse to engaging yourself and your clients in suffering necessary for healing.
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*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.
